Verbal Compounding in English - Anglistik
... genuine verbal compounds? The idea that the existence of verbal pseudo-compounds and of a small number of genuine verbal compounds could spark the production of further genuine verbal compounds and eventually turn verbal compounding into a productive pattern was in fact mentioned prior to the emerge ...
... genuine verbal compounds? The idea that the existence of verbal pseudo-compounds and of a small number of genuine verbal compounds could spark the production of further genuine verbal compounds and eventually turn verbal compounding into a productive pattern was in fact mentioned prior to the emerge ...
Constructions and Result: English Phrasal Verbs as Analyses in
... researcher to search for changes in meaning if there are changes in the syntax, and thus, there is some difference between the ‘separated’ construction and the ‘non-separable’ construction. The reasons for the latter are not so clear, because their basic syntax does not differ from that of the separ ...
... researcher to search for changes in meaning if there are changes in the syntax, and thus, there is some difference between the ‘separated’ construction and the ‘non-separable’ construction. The reasons for the latter are not so clear, because their basic syntax does not differ from that of the separ ...
T H E I N C E P... E D T O P I C S ...
... grammaticalized use of the converbs „get up‟, „pick up‟, „grasp‟, and „take‟. The languages under investigation are Amharic, Argobba, Harari, Zay, and Selt‟i. The data collection that was analyzed consists of elicitations, audio recordings, and written texts. The analysis shows that the converbs ide ...
... grammaticalized use of the converbs „get up‟, „pick up‟, „grasp‟, and „take‟. The languages under investigation are Amharic, Argobba, Harari, Zay, and Selt‟i. The data collection that was analyzed consists of elicitations, audio recordings, and written texts. The analysis shows that the converbs ide ...
Dissertation Body
... present in the lexicon of PDE. They gathered frequency data for these verbs, and they found that the lower the frequency of a set of verbs, the higher the percentage of verbs that had been regularized. They calculated the rates at which verbs regularized relative to their frequency. Their goal was t ...
... present in the lexicon of PDE. They gathered frequency data for these verbs, and they found that the lower the frequency of a set of verbs, the higher the percentage of verbs that had been regularized. They calculated the rates at which verbs regularized relative to their frequency. Their goal was t ...
Valence Creation and the German Applicative
... in which such alternations can be found, including verbs of active perception, verbs of speech, and verbs of emotional expression. Pairs exemplifying alternations in each class are, respectively, riechen an/beriechen 'sniff [e.g. a flower]/sniff thoroughly'; sprechentiber/besprechen'talk about/ disc ...
... in which such alternations can be found, including verbs of active perception, verbs of speech, and verbs of emotional expression. Pairs exemplifying alternations in each class are, respectively, riechen an/beriechen 'sniff [e.g. a flower]/sniff thoroughly'; sprechentiber/besprechen'talk about/ disc ...
Title A Contrastive Study of Japanese Compound
... Chapter 2 reviews the literature on English phrasal verbs and introduces several syntactic criteria employed by researchers to distinguish between phrasal verbs and other superficially similar constructions. At the end of Chapter 2, I redefine the category “phrasal verb” as it will be used in this d ...
... Chapter 2 reviews the literature on English phrasal verbs and introduces several syntactic criteria employed by researchers to distinguish between phrasal verbs and other superficially similar constructions. At the end of Chapter 2, I redefine the category “phrasal verb” as it will be used in this d ...
Domains within Words and their meanings: a case study
... meaning of participles which include a verbal head, contra Marantz (2001, 2007). On the other hand, there is strong evidence from various directions that the head which delimits the domain for idiomatic interpretations of adjectival participles and verbal adjectives in Greek is Voice, the little v h ...
... meaning of participles which include a verbal head, contra Marantz (2001, 2007). On the other hand, there is strong evidence from various directions that the head which delimits the domain for idiomatic interpretations of adjectival participles and verbal adjectives in Greek is Voice, the little v h ...
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax
... In principle, anything can be memorised; nevertheless, certain lexical entries do not exist in natural language. For example, lexical entries where the agentive instigator of an action is realised as the direct object, while the passive undergoer comes out as the subject do not seem to be attested. ...
... In principle, anything can be memorised; nevertheless, certain lexical entries do not exist in natural language. For example, lexical entries where the agentive instigator of an action is realised as the direct object, while the passive undergoer comes out as the subject do not seem to be attested. ...
Features, Syntax, and Categories in the Latin Perfect
... In terms of its interpretation, the forms called ‘‘perfect’’ in Latin are either perfect or perfective. This is a result of the fact that the Latin perfect represents the collapse of two distinct Indo-European categories, the perfect and the aorist, on both morphological and semantic levels. The amb ...
... In terms of its interpretation, the forms called ‘‘perfect’’ in Latin are either perfect or perfective. This is a result of the fact that the Latin perfect represents the collapse of two distinct Indo-European categories, the perfect and the aorist, on both morphological and semantic levels. The amb ...
towards a theory of denominals in english and romanian
... *eated, through the Phrasal Spell-Out Principle and the Biggest Wins Principle (Starke 2009), according to which the lexical item corresponding to the biggest subtree wins. Also, it can account for idioms, since an item such as kick the bucket can be stored in the lexicon on its own, and it can be a ...
... *eated, through the Phrasal Spell-Out Principle and the Biggest Wins Principle (Starke 2009), according to which the lexical item corresponding to the biggest subtree wins. Also, it can account for idioms, since an item such as kick the bucket can be stored in the lexicon on its own, and it can be a ...
Translating linguistic time
... languages. I like it myself; I like its immediacy. But I feel it needs to be approached with caution in translating children’s fiction. Bell’s opinion on the historical present tense (which also seems to conflate in it the narrative present tense mentioned earlier) has broader implications. It sugge ...
... languages. I like it myself; I like its immediacy. But I feel it needs to be approached with caution in translating children’s fiction. Bell’s opinion on the historical present tense (which also seems to conflate in it the narrative present tense mentioned earlier) has broader implications. It sugge ...
... The FGD has adopted a 'middle course' – both syntactic and semantic criteria are used: the first and the second participant is based on syntax behavior of complementations, other inner participants as well as free modifications are detected in accordance with semantic considerations (see below). The ...
Spanish Essentials For Dummies
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... Sons, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries, and may not be used without written permission. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. ...
Nominal Roots as Event Predicates in English Denominal
... is made that English denominal conversion verbs should exhibit the same argument and event structure possibilities as verbs built from verbal roots, which is confirmed by a corpus study of 250 verbs from each class. Nominal roots, however, have a significantly higher likelihood of being lexicalized ...
... is made that English denominal conversion verbs should exhibit the same argument and event structure possibilities as verbs built from verbal roots, which is confirmed by a corpus study of 250 verbs from each class. Nominal roots, however, have a significantly higher likelihood of being lexicalized ...
uniwersytet miko łaja kopernika
... interest among the scientific literature, which is moreover almost invariably restricted to the standard language. The formation has been defined in different manners, for instance, as an aorist of neuter – i.e. intransitive – verbs (Macbrair 1842: 16), as a completive aspect and past tense (Gamble ...
... interest among the scientific literature, which is moreover almost invariably restricted to the standard language. The formation has been defined in different manners, for instance, as an aorist of neuter – i.e. intransitive – verbs (Macbrair 1842: 16), as a completive aspect and past tense (Gamble ...
Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction
... Athematic active primary endings: PIE ‘to be’ Athematic active secondary endings: PIE ‘to be’ Table for exercise 5.1 Table for exercise 5.2 Table for exercise 5.3 Reconstructed thematic primary and secondary endings Tables for exercise 5.4 The reconstructed perfect: PIE ‘know’ Exact matches between ...
... Athematic active primary endings: PIE ‘to be’ Athematic active secondary endings: PIE ‘to be’ Table for exercise 5.1 Table for exercise 5.2 Table for exercise 5.3 Reconstructed thematic primary and secondary endings Tables for exercise 5.4 The reconstructed perfect: PIE ‘know’ Exact matches between ...
Syntax of Dutch. Verbs and Verb Phrases, Volume 1-3
... classification not only the number but also the type of arguments should be taken into account: we have to distinguish between what have become known as UNERGATIVE and UNACCUSATIVE verbs, which exhibit systematic differences in syntactic behavior. Because the distinction is relatively new (it was fi ...
... classification not only the number but also the type of arguments should be taken into account: we have to distinguish between what have become known as UNERGATIVE and UNACCUSATIVE verbs, which exhibit systematic differences in syntactic behavior. Because the distinction is relatively new (it was fi ...
chapter 11 the preterit tense
... Different Yo Forms in the Preterit Tense In Chapter 1, I discuss the spelling and pronunciation rules of Spanish. These rules are extremely consistent, and some times a conjugated form of the verb must change its spelling to maintain the correct pronunciation. This happens in the yo form of specific ...
... Different Yo Forms in the Preterit Tense In Chapter 1, I discuss the spelling and pronunciation rules of Spanish. These rules are extremely consistent, and some times a conjugated form of the verb must change its spelling to maintain the correct pronunciation. This happens in the yo form of specific ...
Two sources of scalarity within the verb phrase
... measure out the event by measuring the quantity of the theme involved in the event. However, the use of halfway in (10b) imposes a path-like structure on the theme, such that (10b) seems to make a stronger claim than (10a). Whereas (10a) can be true if Keelin read any half of the pages in the book i ...
... measure out the event by measuring the quantity of the theme involved in the event. However, the use of halfway in (10b) imposes a path-like structure on the theme, such that (10b) seems to make a stronger claim than (10a). Whereas (10a) can be true if Keelin read any half of the pages in the book i ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Linguistics Journal
... verb-framed and satellite-framed languages based on the incorporation of path and points out that both English and Chinese are satellite-framed languages. However, scholars such as Slobin (2006) argue that Chinese, as a serial verb language, falls into the third category: equipollently-framed langua ...
... verb-framed and satellite-framed languages based on the incorporation of path and points out that both English and Chinese are satellite-framed languages. However, scholars such as Slobin (2006) argue that Chinese, as a serial verb language, falls into the third category: equipollently-framed langua ...
Linking syntactic and semantic arguments in a dependency
... (Davis, 1998) has recently proposed a linking theory in the formal framework of HPSG. He separates syntax and semantics by postulating thematic roles under the CONTENT feature of his HPSG architecture (Pollard and Sag, 1994), and syntactic characterizations of the arguments under CATEGORY | ARG - ST ...
... (Davis, 1998) has recently proposed a linking theory in the formal framework of HPSG. He separates syntax and semantics by postulating thematic roles under the CONTENT feature of his HPSG architecture (Pollard and Sag, 1994), and syntactic characterizations of the arguments under CATEGORY | ARG - ST ...
ER.July29infl JASuggestions2
... obligatory presence of tense morphology in indicative clauses of most Indo-European languages. Thus, if the main object of investigation for generative grammarians had been languages where verbs are not obligatorily inflected for tense (such as Halkomelem and Blackfoot) INFL would not have been anal ...
... obligatory presence of tense morphology in indicative clauses of most Indo-European languages. Thus, if the main object of investigation for generative grammarians had been languages where verbs are not obligatorily inflected for tense (such as Halkomelem and Blackfoot) INFL would not have been anal ...
4. Two sample classes encoded: motion verbs and `know verbs`
... the criteria to establish them, or the verbs to be selected are concerned.1 Within WordNet 1.5 (henceforth WN 1.5) English nouns, verbs and adjectives are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Each ‘synset’ is then linked to others by means of a number of rel ...
... the criteria to establish them, or the verbs to be selected are concerned.1 Within WordNet 1.5 (henceforth WN 1.5) English nouns, verbs and adjectives are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Each ‘synset’ is then linked to others by means of a number of rel ...
linguistics
... Greek, are usually considered to be characterized by a high degree of lability. According to the communis opinio, they had a considerable number of labile verbs or verbal forms that could be labile, cf. rudra � r̥tásya sádaneṣu vāvr̥dhuḥ ‘Rudras have grown [intransitive] in the residences of the tru ...
... Greek, are usually considered to be characterized by a high degree of lability. According to the communis opinio, they had a considerable number of labile verbs or verbal forms that could be labile, cf. rudra � r̥tásya sádaneṣu vāvr̥dhuḥ ‘Rudras have grown [intransitive] in the residences of the tru ...