Introduction to Tocharian - Ústav srovnávací jazykovědy
... 1.1.2. Who were the Tocharians? The speakers of Tocharian played an important role in the Buddhist civilization of preIslamic eastern Central Asia, but their exact identity remains unknown. The name “Tocharian” rests mainly on the form twɣry in an Old Uyghur colophon, but both the reading and the i ...
... 1.1.2. Who were the Tocharians? The speakers of Tocharian played an important role in the Buddhist civilization of preIslamic eastern Central Asia, but their exact identity remains unknown. The name “Tocharian” rests mainly on the form twɣry in an Old Uyghur colophon, but both the reading and the i ...
18 The Instrumental Case Feminine declension nouns Masculine
... peripheral attachment for something else. The peripheral accessory named by the instrumental can be associated either with an activity or with an item. When an item in the instrumental case is associated with an activity, we have INSTRUMENTAL: A MEANS, and the instrumental item is a conduit for the ...
... peripheral attachment for something else. The peripheral accessory named by the instrumental can be associated either with an activity or with an item. When an item in the instrumental case is associated with an activity, we have INSTRUMENTAL: A MEANS, and the instrumental item is a conduit for the ...
Challenging Discrete Approaches to Secondary
... intending to subscribe to any particular theory at the moment, I will apply the widely-used term 'secondary predicate' to the predicative phrase XP and will call syntactic patterns including such a phrase 'secondary-predicate constructions'. ...
... intending to subscribe to any particular theory at the moment, I will apply the widely-used term 'secondary predicate' to the predicative phrase XP and will call syntactic patterns including such a phrase 'secondary-predicate constructions'. ...
Towards a null theory of the passive
... typology, the treatment of the preposition by as a Voice head is problematic because it dissociates it from its non-passive adnominal functions, as in They insisted on collaboration by all members. This analysis, therefore, leaves generalization (2j) in limbo. In languages that allow no agent phrase ...
... typology, the treatment of the preposition by as a Voice head is problematic because it dissociates it from its non-passive adnominal functions, as in They insisted on collaboration by all members. This analysis, therefore, leaves generalization (2j) in limbo. In languages that allow no agent phrase ...
Part 9 English Idioms The English language abounds in idioms like
... native cultures and ideas. Therefore, idioms are colourful, forcible and thought?provoking. Strictly speaking, idioms are expressions that are not readily understandable from their literal meanings of individual elements, for example, fly off the handle (become exc ...
... native cultures and ideas. Therefore, idioms are colourful, forcible and thought?provoking. Strictly speaking, idioms are expressions that are not readily understandable from their literal meanings of individual elements, for example, fly off the handle (become exc ...
Untitled - Shadows Government
... the Indo-European language families. The fall of Euro-Communism was marked most dramatically by the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent dissolution of the USSR, the Warsaw Pact, COMECON and the structures and infrastructures of what US President Ronald Reagan called the ‘‘evil ...
... the Indo-European language families. The fall of Euro-Communism was marked most dramatically by the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent dissolution of the USSR, the Warsaw Pact, COMECON and the structures and infrastructures of what US President Ronald Reagan called the ‘‘evil ...
Adverbs
... Adverbs Adverbs—Modify Adjectives Place the adverb immediately before the adjective. The courtesy of greeting others within your own firm is universally acceptable in the United States. In some countries, greetings are very expressive and elaborate. Downsizing is becoming an increasingly popular wa ...
... Adverbs Adverbs—Modify Adjectives Place the adverb immediately before the adjective. The courtesy of greeting others within your own firm is universally acceptable in the United States. In some countries, greetings are very expressive and elaborate. Downsizing is becoming an increasingly popular wa ...
Deep properties of surface pronouns: pronominal predicate
... Norwegian and German both have constructions that are parallel to the English do it, as in the following (b) examples, but they also possess an alternative that is not attested in English, namely the use of a neuter pronoun with an auxiliary directly, as in the (a) examples: (2) Norwegian: a. Jan ka ...
... Norwegian and German both have constructions that are parallel to the English do it, as in the following (b) examples, but they also possess an alternative that is not attested in English, namely the use of a neuter pronoun with an auxiliary directly, as in the (a) examples: (2) Norwegian: a. Jan ka ...
Part-of-Speech Tagging and Partial Parsing for Irish using Finite-State Transducers and Constraint Grammar
... assign at least one morphological analysis to all tokens in unrestricted texts. Following this, we describe our POS tagger for Irish, implemented using Constraint Grammar Disambiguation Rules, and vislcg2 software. The POS tagger currently achieves an f-score of 95% on development data and 94.35% on ...
... assign at least one morphological analysis to all tokens in unrestricted texts. Following this, we describe our POS tagger for Irish, implemented using Constraint Grammar Disambiguation Rules, and vislcg2 software. The POS tagger currently achieves an f-score of 95% on development data and 94.35% on ...
VOCABULARY ACQUISITION AND USE
... • Chooses among alternate meanings for common homographs (term not used) in a sentence based on the context given in the sentence (e.g., sea, club, hand) • Uses context to determine the meaning of a prefix (in-) • Selects the correct word based on context and definition of prefix • Selects the corre ...
... • Chooses among alternate meanings for common homographs (term not used) in a sentence based on the context given in the sentence (e.g., sea, club, hand) • Uses context to determine the meaning of a prefix (in-) • Selects the correct word based on context and definition of prefix • Selects the corre ...
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
... • Chooses among alternate meanings for common homographs (term not used) in a sentence based on the context given in the sentence (e.g., sea, club, hand) • Uses context to determine the meaning of a prefix (in-) • Selects the correct word based on context and definition of prefix • Selects the corre ...
... • Chooses among alternate meanings for common homographs (term not used) in a sentence based on the context given in the sentence (e.g., sea, club, hand) • Uses context to determine the meaning of a prefix (in-) • Selects the correct word based on context and definition of prefix • Selects the corre ...
Structure Section
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Nathaniel Dorgbetor
... Per the asymmetric relationship between the internal arguments in the DOC; variants of the shell structure, originally proposed by Larson (1988), has been assumed nowadays in the analyses of the structure of the English DOC. The standard view on the English DOC has been that it can only have the V-G ...
... Per the asymmetric relationship between the internal arguments in the DOC; variants of the shell structure, originally proposed by Larson (1988), has been assumed nowadays in the analyses of the structure of the English DOC. The standard view on the English DOC has been that it can only have the V-G ...
Intermediate Spanish for Dummies
... Person, Place, or Thing for $200: Using Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns .........45 Dealing with demonstrative adjectives .......................................................................45 Forming sentences with demonstrative pronouns .................................................... ...
... Person, Place, or Thing for $200: Using Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns .........45 Dealing with demonstrative adjectives .......................................................................45 Forming sentences with demonstrative pronouns .................................................... ...
Part II: Writing in the Present
... Person, Place, or Thing for $200: Using Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns .........45 Dealing with demonstrative adjectives .......................................................................45 Forming sentences with demonstrative pronouns .................................................... ...
... Person, Place, or Thing for $200: Using Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns .........45 Dealing with demonstrative adjectives .......................................................................45 Forming sentences with demonstrative pronouns .................................................... ...
Insubordination and its ·uses • --
... these include· both types of nonfinite construction, such as infinitives, and those that are not normally considered to manifest nonfiniteness, such as subordinating conjunction, as well as categories that are intermediate or disputed. • To establish the range of functions that are served by insubor ...
... these include· both types of nonfinite construction, such as infinitives, and those that are not normally considered to manifest nonfiniteness, such as subordinating conjunction, as well as categories that are intermediate or disputed. • To establish the range of functions that are served by insubor ...
The Uzbek tense aspect modality system
... Factual conditional .................................................................................................................67 Counterfactual conditional .....................................................................................................69 ...
... Factual conditional .................................................................................................................67 Counterfactual conditional .....................................................................................................69 ...
Difference between gerund and participle worksheet
... State whether the –ing forms given in the following sentences are participles or gerunds. In the case of participles, name the noun or pronoun they qualify. In.Aug 22, 2013 . It's tough to know the difference between gerunds and present participles in English just by looking because they both consis ...
... State whether the –ing forms given in the following sentences are participles or gerunds. In the case of participles, name the noun or pronoun they qualify. In.Aug 22, 2013 . It's tough to know the difference between gerunds and present participles in English just by looking because they both consis ...
User`s Guide
... * Note: If the Dictionary View is unresponsive, check to see if there are any Lexical Analysis dialogs or Test Translation sub-dialogs open. If any of the Lexical Analysis dialogs or Test Translation sub-dialogs are open, the ...
... * Note: If the Dictionary View is unresponsive, check to see if there are any Lexical Analysis dialogs or Test Translation sub-dialogs open. If any of the Lexical Analysis dialogs or Test Translation sub-dialogs are open, the ...
ABSTRACT - NEHU Institutional Repository
... is, 'the Achik language' which means 'the language of hill men'. They also call it Mande Kusik 'the language of men'.'* The term 'Garo' was given to them by other communities who came across them, but the people themselves use the terms Achik or Mande. Garo is predominantly a verb final language, so ...
... is, 'the Achik language' which means 'the language of hill men'. They also call it Mande Kusik 'the language of men'.'* The term 'Garo' was given to them by other communities who came across them, but the people themselves use the terms Achik or Mande. Garo is predominantly a verb final language, so ...
Grammatical structure of the English Language
... present participle. It must be said that this is one of the questions which do not admit a definite solution. The solution largely depends on what view we take. The traditional view is, that we have here two homonymous forms: the Gerund and the present participle. More recent view put forward by the ...
... present participle. It must be said that this is one of the questions which do not admit a definite solution. The solution largely depends on what view we take. The traditional view is, that we have here two homonymous forms: the Gerund and the present participle. More recent view put forward by the ...
Introducing Arguments - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
... Bantu noun class markers aspect benefactive complementizer causative morpheme clitic conditional dative depictive head desiderative elative feminine focus future tense final vowel genitive inessive infinitive locative masculine nominative object marker partitive passive past tense plural plain (leve ...
... Bantu noun class markers aspect benefactive complementizer causative morpheme clitic conditional dative depictive head desiderative elative feminine focus future tense final vowel genitive inessive infinitive locative masculine nominative object marker partitive passive past tense plural plain (leve ...
COMPLEX SENTENCES AN ANALYTICAL GRAMMAR
... has the pattern S V O. (Little Bo Peep is the subject; lost is the verb and her sheep is the object.) •There are seven simple sentence patterns. An example of each is given below. In these examples we use the system of marking sentence parts that will be followed throughout the notes. Square bracket ...
... has the pattern S V O. (Little Bo Peep is the subject; lost is the verb and her sheep is the object.) •There are seven simple sentence patterns. An example of each is given below. In these examples we use the system of marking sentence parts that will be followed throughout the notes. Square bracket ...
- White Rose eTheses Online
... versions) rules out the effect of the L1and claims that the L1 is not a factor in the acquisition process but the properties of language are inborn (Demirezen 1989). Other studies have fluctuated in accepting or rejecting L1 influence. For example, Clahsen and Muysken (1989) studied Turkish learners ...
... versions) rules out the effect of the L1and claims that the L1 is not a factor in the acquisition process but the properties of language are inborn (Demirezen 1989). Other studies have fluctuated in accepting or rejecting L1 influence. For example, Clahsen and Muysken (1989) studied Turkish learners ...
Scottish Gaelic grammar
This article describes the grammar of the Scottish Gaelic language.