Chapter 2: Pluractionality in Hausa
... The verb sàyaa ‘buy’ exhibits a distinct morphological form in each of these four syntactic environments. This is not the case for all verbs. The number of distinct forms and their exact shape depend on the morphological class the particular verb belongs to. These morphological classes are called ‘g ...
... The verb sàyaa ‘buy’ exhibits a distinct morphological form in each of these four syntactic environments. This is not the case for all verbs. The number of distinct forms and their exact shape depend on the morphological class the particular verb belongs to. These morphological classes are called ‘g ...
Understanding English Grammar - Assets
... The grammar of a language is a dynamic, constantly changing set of habit patterns that allows people to communicate with one another. For some reason, many in academia and language teaching seem to have lost sight of this common sense truth, preferring to treat grammar as though it were an object, o ...
... The grammar of a language is a dynamic, constantly changing set of habit patterns that allows people to communicate with one another. For some reason, many in academia and language teaching seem to have lost sight of this common sense truth, preferring to treat grammar as though it were an object, o ...
Chapter 23: Participles Chapter 23 covers the following: the
... time value is +0, which will be present-tense if the main verb is present-tense. For instance, “He is happy (now), seeing you there.” That is, he’s seeing you right at this moment and because of that he’s happy now. Both the main verb and the participle are present-tense. But make the main verb pas ...
... time value is +0, which will be present-tense if the main verb is present-tense. For instance, “He is happy (now), seeing you there.” That is, he’s seeing you right at this moment and because of that he’s happy now. Both the main verb and the participle are present-tense. But make the main verb pas ...
09 Joachim Mugdan - Hermes
... Danish-German dictionaries, one of law (Gubba 1984) and one of economics (Poulsen 1987), are among those that indicate gender only on the target language side. This is, of course, what the Danish user needs, but speakers of German who are not sure about the gender of a Danish term cannot find the an ...
... Danish-German dictionaries, one of law (Gubba 1984) and one of economics (Poulsen 1987), are among those that indicate gender only on the target language side. This is, of course, what the Danish user needs, but speakers of German who are not sure about the gender of a Danish term cannot find the an ...
Theoretical course
... same language. Knowledge of a language enables you to combine words to form phrases, and phrases to form sentences. But not every string of words constitutes a well-formed sentence in a language. Therefore, in addition to knowing the words of the language, linguistic knowledge includes rules for the ...
... same language. Knowledge of a language enables you to combine words to form phrases, and phrases to form sentences. But not every string of words constitutes a well-formed sentence in a language. Therefore, in addition to knowing the words of the language, linguistic knowledge includes rules for the ...
Horace & Morris
... Adding the suffix –est to quick to make quickest changes its meaning to the “most fast.” Think of other words you can add the suffix –est. ...
... Adding the suffix –est to quick to make quickest changes its meaning to the “most fast.” Think of other words you can add the suffix –est. ...
Horace & Morris-1Lewis
... Adding the suffix –est to quick to make quickest changes its meaning to the “most fast.” Think of other words you can add the suffix –est. ...
... Adding the suffix –est to quick to make quickest changes its meaning to the “most fast.” Think of other words you can add the suffix –est. ...
RELC Journal
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
linking in fluid construction grammars
... aspects of syntactic and semantic structure that link these individual meanings into a larger whole. For example in the phrase “Jill walks” the word “Jill” introduces a variable ?x which will be bound to an object that is named Jill: ‘jill(?x)’. The word “walks” introduces two other variables, ?ev a ...
... aspects of syntactic and semantic structure that link these individual meanings into a larger whole. For example in the phrase “Jill walks” the word “Jill” introduces a variable ?x which will be bound to an object that is named Jill: ‘jill(?x)’. The word “walks” introduces two other variables, ?ev a ...
ADJECTIVES
... 9. Purpose/Qualifier hat box, sleeping bag, computer table,safe island, football field. (The words in green are the purpose/qualifer words.) 10. Examples: The big black dog ate my food. I like that pretty green sofa. I want to go to a big, quit, safe. We sleep in a small, pink and green room. ...
... 9. Purpose/Qualifier hat box, sleeping bag, computer table,safe island, football field. (The words in green are the purpose/qualifer words.) 10. Examples: The big black dog ate my food. I like that pretty green sofa. I want to go to a big, quit, safe. We sleep in a small, pink and green room. ...
n dbook - La Trobe University
... to maintain its ground against its more warlike neighbours, W e m b a and Ngoni, backed as they were till recently by Swahili slave-raiders from the East Coast. N o w that peace is established in the country, the Wisa villages spread from Lake Bangweolo and the river Luapula on the west, across the ...
... to maintain its ground against its more warlike neighbours, W e m b a and Ngoni, backed as they were till recently by Swahili slave-raiders from the East Coast. N o w that peace is established in the country, the Wisa villages spread from Lake Bangweolo and the river Luapula on the west, across the ...
Subjects and verbs
... A Underline the subject and circle the verb in each sentence. Nicole Hello, I am Nicole. Paul Hi, my name is Paul. Are you the new student? Nicole Yes, I am from Belgium. Paul Who is your English teacher? Nicole Mrs. Paterson is my teacher. I like her a lot. She is very funny. Paul Yes, she makes En ...
... A Underline the subject and circle the verb in each sentence. Nicole Hello, I am Nicole. Paul Hi, my name is Paul. Are you the new student? Nicole Yes, I am from Belgium. Paul Who is your English teacher? Nicole Mrs. Paterson is my teacher. I like her a lot. She is very funny. Paul Yes, she makes En ...
first language - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
... Twenty-four German-speaking children (mean age 34 months, range 32–37 months) participated in the study, 12 boys and 12 girls. Two additional children did not speak much and did not use verbs at all in the test phase of the experiment and so were excluded. The children were recruited and tested at s ...
... Twenty-four German-speaking children (mean age 34 months, range 32–37 months) participated in the study, 12 boys and 12 girls. Two additional children did not speak much and did not use verbs at all in the test phase of the experiment and so were excluded. The children were recruited and tested at s ...
An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language
... masculine neuter nominative (case) passive (voice) plural singular vocative (case) indicates a verb which has no passive perfective forms around letters or groups of letters indicates underlying sounds around letters or groups of letters indicates actual pronunciation, using an adapted version of th ...
... masculine neuter nominative (case) passive (voice) plural singular vocative (case) indicates a verb which has no passive perfective forms around letters or groups of letters indicates underlying sounds around letters or groups of letters indicates actual pronunciation, using an adapted version of th ...
This opposition reveals a special category, the category
... Sound interchange may be of two types: vowel- and consonant-interchange. It is often accompanied by affixation: bring — brought. Sound interchange is not productive in Modern English. It is used to build the forms of irregular verbs. Forms of one word may be derived from different roots: go — went, ...
... Sound interchange may be of two types: vowel- and consonant-interchange. It is often accompanied by affixation: bring — brought. Sound interchange is not productive in Modern English. It is used to build the forms of irregular verbs. Forms of one word may be derived from different roots: go — went, ...
10 Things You Should Know About ASL
... after the noun 2. There are several ways for form negative sentences in ASL 3. The verb “to be” is signed differently in ASL and is not represented by English signs 4. Fingerspelling plays a role in ASL ...
... after the noun 2. There are several ways for form negative sentences in ASL 3. The verb “to be” is signed differently in ASL and is not represented by English signs 4. Fingerspelling plays a role in ASL ...
Grammar Exercises
... It is the rule of "Id> Id>a\fa (annexation) that nothing must interpose between the noun and its following genitive. Consequently, if the noun is qualified by an adjective, demonstrated by a demonstrative, or numbered by a number, the latter, i.e. the adjective, the demonstrative and the number must ...
... It is the rule of "Id> Id>a\fa (annexation) that nothing must interpose between the noun and its following genitive. Consequently, if the noun is qualified by an adjective, demonstrated by a demonstrative, or numbered by a number, the latter, i.e. the adjective, the demonstrative and the number must ...
CONTENTS - Memoria Press
... 1Use Exercise 242, p. 228, to practice finding main and subordinate clauses. You do not need to translate. This exercise should be used for practice finding clauses, not homework. ...
... 1Use Exercise 242, p. 228, to practice finding main and subordinate clauses. You do not need to translate. This exercise should be used for practice finding clauses, not homework. ...
PPT 03 - McCorduck
... Note also that the so-called “by-phrase” which indicates the active agent is in parentheses. As we have seen before (e.g., slide 8 of the “Verbs and Verb Phrases” lecture), this convention indicates that the prepositional phrase headed by by is actually not required to be in (most) passive sentences ...
... Note also that the so-called “by-phrase” which indicates the active agent is in parentheses. As we have seen before (e.g., slide 8 of the “Verbs and Verb Phrases” lecture), this convention indicates that the prepositional phrase headed by by is actually not required to be in (most) passive sentences ...
A Proposal for a Part-of-Speech Tagset for the Albanian Language
... verb participles can have a preposed article, e. g. the noun i pasuri, engl. the rich, which is derived from the adjective i pasur, engl. the rich, which is in turn derived from the participle form pasur of the verb kam, engl. have. Similarly, the participle form pyetur of the verb pyes, engl. ask, ...
... verb participles can have a preposed article, e. g. the noun i pasuri, engl. the rich, which is derived from the adjective i pasur, engl. the rich, which is in turn derived from the participle form pasur of the verb kam, engl. have. Similarly, the participle form pyetur of the verb pyes, engl. ask, ...
The Adjective Clause
... marathon. [The relative pronoun who relates the adjective clause to Luís. Who also functions as the subject of the adjective clause.] The students questioned the data on which the theory was based. [The relative pronoun which relates the adjective clause to data and functions as the object of the pr ...
... marathon. [The relative pronoun who relates the adjective clause to Luís. Who also functions as the subject of the adjective clause.] The students questioned the data on which the theory was based. [The relative pronoun which relates the adjective clause to data and functions as the object of the pr ...
TEN FOR TEN - Maine Prep
... Here, “they” could refer to “consultants,” “tactics,” “psychologists,” “political scientists,” or even “studies.” So, let’s eliminate any answer choice that includes “they.” Similarly, all relevant nouns in this sentence are plural, so we can eliminate choices (c) and (d), since “this” refers to a s ...
... Here, “they” could refer to “consultants,” “tactics,” “psychologists,” “political scientists,” or even “studies.” So, let’s eliminate any answer choice that includes “they.” Similarly, all relevant nouns in this sentence are plural, so we can eliminate choices (c) and (d), since “this” refers to a s ...
Reflexivization in Referent Grammar
... pronouns allow different interpretations in Swedish and English. In Russian there is also a distinction between possessive and non-possessive reflexive pronouns. The possessive reflexive pronoun svoj can be used for all grammatical persons - in 1st and 2nd person alternatively with possessive pronou ...
... pronouns allow different interpretations in Swedish and English. In Russian there is also a distinction between possessive and non-possessive reflexive pronouns. The possessive reflexive pronoun svoj can be used for all grammatical persons - in 1st and 2nd person alternatively with possessive pronou ...