Constraining XP Sequences
... for constraining the number, type and order of functional projections that human language allows. In general, this obviates the need for postulating a variety of types of functional projection and constructions in which they occur. Instead, the Basic Projection Sequence constitutes an elemental ling ...
... for constraining the number, type and order of functional projections that human language allows. In general, this obviates the need for postulating a variety of types of functional projection and constructions in which they occur. Instead, the Basic Projection Sequence constitutes an elemental ling ...
Español IV/V
... When the governing verb is in a past tense and the subjunctive is required for the situation (A WEDDING + U) 1) Noun clauses require subjunctive after verbs of influence, emotion, doubt, and denial (i.e. Quería que ellas lo hicieran.) (I wanted them to do it.) 2) Adverbial clauses (time, purpose, et ...
... When the governing verb is in a past tense and the subjunctive is required for the situation (A WEDDING + U) 1) Noun clauses require subjunctive after verbs of influence, emotion, doubt, and denial (i.e. Quería que ellas lo hicieran.) (I wanted them to do it.) 2) Adverbial clauses (time, purpose, et ...
A Classification of Imperatives: A Statistical Study
... universal, habitual; action that characterizes the doer. "Love one another" means, not "do something," but "always be doing things for one another." On the other hand, the aorist imperative is used to command or request an action that is specific and occasional, dealing with everyday procedural deci ...
... universal, habitual; action that characterizes the doer. "Love one another" means, not "do something," but "always be doing things for one another." On the other hand, the aorist imperative is used to command or request an action that is specific and occasional, dealing with everyday procedural deci ...
Grace Theological Journal 8
... universal, habitual; action that characterizes the doer. "Love one another" means, not "do something," but "always be doing things for one another." On the other hand, the aorist imperative is used to command or request an action that is specific and occasional, dealing with everyday procedural deci ...
... universal, habitual; action that characterizes the doer. "Love one another" means, not "do something," but "always be doing things for one another." On the other hand, the aorist imperative is used to command or request an action that is specific and occasional, dealing with everyday procedural deci ...
New Observations on Ancient Greek Voice
... Greek would have thought these verbs were formed or function in any irregular manner. I believe that the problem of “deponent verbs” shows that our description of grammatical voice is in one or more respects not adequately descriptive of the way it really functions. Some standard reference grammars ...
... Greek would have thought these verbs were formed or function in any irregular manner. I believe that the problem of “deponent verbs” shows that our description of grammatical voice is in one or more respects not adequately descriptive of the way it really functions. Some standard reference grammars ...
1 Present participles
... others) claim that all present participles are adjectival in addition to being verbal; In contrast, Chomsky (1957), Fabb (1984), Brekke (1988), Bennis & Wehrmann (1990) and others claim that only some present participles are adjectival, Brekke (1988) being the only study trying to characterize this ...
... others) claim that all present participles are adjectival in addition to being verbal; In contrast, Chomsky (1957), Fabb (1984), Brekke (1988), Bennis & Wehrmann (1990) and others claim that only some present participles are adjectival, Brekke (1988) being the only study trying to characterize this ...
Present participles: Categorial classification and derivation Aya
... others) claim that all present participles are adjectival in addition to being verbal; In contrast, Chomsky (1957), Fabb (1984), Brekke (1988), Bennis & Wehrmann (1990) and others claim that only some present participles are adjectival, Brekke (1988) being the only study trying to characterize this ...
... others) claim that all present participles are adjectival in addition to being verbal; In contrast, Chomsky (1957), Fabb (1984), Brekke (1988), Bennis & Wehrmann (1990) and others claim that only some present participles are adjectival, Brekke (1988) being the only study trying to characterize this ...
Chapter 2
... aspect as it relates to an activity that is presented as not yet perfected (i.e. completed). The verb eating is thus referred to as the progressive form of the verb, also known as the progressive / present participle (see Borik, 2002 for a discussion of Aspect). The simplex tenses of Dutch (present ...
... aspect as it relates to an activity that is presented as not yet perfected (i.e. completed). The verb eating is thus referred to as the progressive form of the verb, also known as the progressive / present participle (see Borik, 2002 for a discussion of Aspect). The simplex tenses of Dutch (present ...
Grammar of the Bórnu or Kanuri language
... c Hausa), Bode, Kareiharei, Gezere on the south by Ptka and Kodna on the south-east and east by BIdndara, Ngdla, Mudzugu, Gdmargu, Mdrgl and Bdb§r. The province of Gdzir is so large, that the saying has ...
... c Hausa), Bode, Kareiharei, Gezere on the south by Ptka and Kodna on the south-east and east by BIdndara, Ngdla, Mudzugu, Gdmargu, Mdrgl and Bdb§r. The province of Gdzir is so large, that the saying has ...
Temporal Anteriority of the Arabic Perfect in Relative Clauses
... Dahlgren‘s (2005:155) grammar include a paragraph on the Imperfect in relative clauses (‖Användning av imperfect i ...
... Dahlgren‘s (2005:155) grammar include a paragraph on the Imperfect in relative clauses (‖Användning av imperfect i ...
Statives and Reciprocal Morphology in Swahili
... foreign origin), but in subjunctives, plural imperatives, and present tense negation a different final vowel is used. (3) a. Ni lazima u-som-e. is necessary SM-read-Subjunc ‘It’s necessary that you study.’ b. Sem-e-ni! speak-VH-Plur ‘Speak (pl)!’ c. Ha-on-i kitu. Neg.SM-see-NegFV thing ‘He didn’t se ...
... foreign origin), but in subjunctives, plural imperatives, and present tense negation a different final vowel is used. (3) a. Ni lazima u-som-e. is necessary SM-read-Subjunc ‘It’s necessary that you study.’ b. Sem-e-ni! speak-VH-Plur ‘Speak (pl)!’ c. Ha-on-i kitu. Neg.SM-see-NegFV thing ‘He didn’t se ...
Nouns and verbs in Tagalog: a reply to Foley
... 45a). Thus we seem to have neither distributional nor morphological criteria for distinguishing between nouns and verbs. Foley proposes that, while it may be possible to assign fully inflected forms to one category or another, Tagalog roots are “pre-categorial”. That is, there is no distinction in t ...
... 45a). Thus we seem to have neither distributional nor morphological criteria for distinguishing between nouns and verbs. Foley proposes that, while it may be possible to assign fully inflected forms to one category or another, Tagalog roots are “pre-categorial”. That is, there is no distinction in t ...
Deriving Greenberg`s Asymmetry in Arabic
... Linguists have posited a dichotomy in languages according to the way they form words. On the one hand, in languages like Latin or English words are formed by joining or concatenating sequences of recombinable phonological strings. So the word ‘speaking’ [spiki_], for instance, is formed by joining t ...
... Linguists have posited a dichotomy in languages according to the way they form words. On the one hand, in languages like Latin or English words are formed by joining or concatenating sequences of recombinable phonological strings. So the word ‘speaking’ [spiki_], for instance, is formed by joining t ...
Noun and verb in the mind. An interdisciplinary approach
... verbs have a different morphological and syntactic distribution and even such obviously nominal lexical items as door can in some syntactic contexts become verbal, e.g., What happened to you? I was riding down the hill and some yuppie got out of his Porsche and doored me. It seems then that even th ...
... verbs have a different morphological and syntactic distribution and even such obviously nominal lexical items as door can in some syntactic contexts become verbal, e.g., What happened to you? I was riding down the hill and some yuppie got out of his Porsche and doored me. It seems then that even th ...
Derivational morphology in Distributed Morphology
... among linguists (Harley, 1995, 1996, Levin and Rappaport Hovav, 1995, Pinker, 1989, among many), that a lexical causative cannot be derived from a verb which has an agentive subject. Using observations of Matsumoto (1996) and data from idioms in Japanese I argue that no such semantic criterion appli ...
... among linguists (Harley, 1995, 1996, Levin and Rappaport Hovav, 1995, Pinker, 1989, among many), that a lexical causative cannot be derived from a verb which has an agentive subject. Using observations of Matsumoto (1996) and data from idioms in Japanese I argue that no such semantic criterion appli ...
Student`s Translation Quality in Translating English Phrasal Verbs
... translation is one of the subjects learned by the students in English Department of FKIP-UNIB. The objective of this course is to improve the students’ comprehension in translating English into Indonesian and vice versa. In attempts to acquire the target language, the students of English Department ...
... translation is one of the subjects learned by the students in English Department of FKIP-UNIB. The objective of this course is to improve the students’ comprehension in translating English into Indonesian and vice versa. In attempts to acquire the target language, the students of English Department ...
Orf, Amy - Ohio State University Knowledge Bank
... were either sitting or lying down. Furthermore, estar is not used to express spatial location in these examples. Instead, it adds gran1matical meaning, that of progressive aspect. In (3), the adverb luengamente 'for a long time' seems to emphasize the aspectual meaning of estar. In addition to a rel ...
... were either sitting or lying down. Furthermore, estar is not used to express spatial location in these examples. Instead, it adds gran1matical meaning, that of progressive aspect. In (3), the adverb luengamente 'for a long time' seems to emphasize the aspectual meaning of estar. In addition to a rel ...
THE SUBSYSTEMS OF LEXICAL ASPECTS
... In this thesis a system of lexical aspects, or Aktionsarten, is considered fiom the point of view of GuillaumjanPsychomechanics, which is a form of cognitive linguistics. Guillaume proposes that verbal systems have developmental stages, the total system of stages being cded the chronogenesis, that i ...
... In this thesis a system of lexical aspects, or Aktionsarten, is considered fiom the point of view of GuillaumjanPsychomechanics, which is a form of cognitive linguistics. Guillaume proposes that verbal systems have developmental stages, the total system of stages being cded the chronogenesis, that i ...
Argument Realization: the role of constructions and discourse factors
... to corresponding nominal forms (spit, piss). However, the felicity of other examples (e.g. 2,3) undermines such an account since the verbs sneeze and blow do not have nominal morphological counterparts corresponding to their respective emissions. A proponent of a syntactic incorporation account migh ...
... to corresponding nominal forms (spit, piss). However, the felicity of other examples (e.g. 2,3) undermines such an account since the verbs sneeze and blow do not have nominal morphological counterparts corresponding to their respective emissions. A proponent of a syntactic incorporation account migh ...
Chapter The Many Facets of the Cause-Effect Relation
... another phenomenon A varies in some particular way, then A is a cause or an effect of B. Perhaps the most influential of these ideas is the method of difference. According to this method, we can conclude that event A causes event B if we find two instances which are similar in every respect except t ...
... another phenomenon A varies in some particular way, then A is a cause or an effect of B. Perhaps the most influential of these ideas is the method of difference. According to this method, we can conclude that event A causes event B if we find two instances which are similar in every respect except t ...
Definiteness and Perfectivity in Telic Incremental Theme Predications
... the same function, namely expressing ’totality’6 , as held by Leiss (2000). Similar views are expressed by Borer (2005) and Kabakčiev (1984a, 2000), who state that the function of both is the same and only differ with regard to their overt realization. If totality is expressed via perfective aspect, ...
... the same function, namely expressing ’totality’6 , as held by Leiss (2000). Similar views are expressed by Borer (2005) and Kabakčiev (1984a, 2000), who state that the function of both is the same and only differ with regard to their overt realization. If totality is expressed via perfective aspect, ...
WRL3410.tmp - Princeton University
... is, the theory commits itself to a criterion of descriptive adequacy. Constructions are posited whenever there is evidence that speakers cannot predict some aspect of their form, function, or use from other knowledge of language (i.e., from other constructions already posited to exist). At the same ...
... is, the theory commits itself to a criterion of descriptive adequacy. Constructions are posited whenever there is evidence that speakers cannot predict some aspect of their form, function, or use from other knowledge of language (i.e., from other constructions already posited to exist). At the same ...
- Goldsmiths Research Online
... in contrast to each other. As a shorthand for this situation and because it helps build economical descriptions, we say that these English nouns are associated with a feature NUMBER, which can have two values: plural (the meaning ‘more than one’, associated with the presence of an /s/, /z/ or /iz/ a ...
... in contrast to each other. As a shorthand for this situation and because it helps build economical descriptions, we say that these English nouns are associated with a feature NUMBER, which can have two values: plural (the meaning ‘more than one’, associated with the presence of an /s/, /z/ or /iz/ a ...
English labile verbs and their equivalents in Swedish
... through the medium of which of which the process comes into existence” (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004: 288) is centralized, instead of the Agent which causes the process. As it has been pointed out by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004) and others, the ergative alternation is gaining ground in English, e ...
... through the medium of which of which the process comes into existence” (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004: 288) is centralized, instead of the Agent which causes the process. As it has been pointed out by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004) and others, the ergative alternation is gaining ground in English, e ...