a descriptive analysis of argument alternations
... depth each and every alternation we found: for most of them, we also attempt a first and necessarily partial semantic classification of Italian verbs, mainly following Levin’s (1993), but also pro ...
... depth each and every alternation we found: for most of them, we also attempt a first and necessarily partial semantic classification of Italian verbs, mainly following Levin’s (1993), but also pro ...
1. avem volantem
... Thus it is the endings which tell us the role the word will play in the sentence. If you are not familiar with grammatical terminology, generally speaking the subject is the first noun in an English sentence and the verb “agrees” with it. All sentences have subjects (either expressed or implied). Ag ...
... Thus it is the endings which tell us the role the word will play in the sentence. If you are not familiar with grammatical terminology, generally speaking the subject is the first noun in an English sentence and the verb “agrees” with it. All sentences have subjects (either expressed or implied). Ag ...
Semantic peculiarities of homonyms in English and Uzbek
... Homonyms are generally defined as words different in meaning but either identical both in sound and spelling or identical only in sound or spelling. Words identical in sound-form but different in meaning are traditionally termed homonymous. Modern English is exceptionally rich in homonymous words an ...
... Homonyms are generally defined as words different in meaning but either identical both in sound and spelling or identical only in sound or spelling. Words identical in sound-form but different in meaning are traditionally termed homonymous. Modern English is exceptionally rich in homonymous words an ...
a lexical semantic study of four-character sino
... can be defined as a word that consists of more than one noun, expressing a concept that is related to the nouns it consists of, but different in the sense that it is often a subcategory of the head of the compound Head is, as will be defined in Chapter 2, the element that determines the properties o ...
... can be defined as a word that consists of more than one noun, expressing a concept that is related to the nouns it consists of, but different in the sense that it is often a subcategory of the head of the compound Head is, as will be defined in Chapter 2, the element that determines the properties o ...
The Gerund and the to-Infinitive as Subject
... the -ing “tends to be used primarily in complements of implicative verbs.” Wierzbicka (1988, 164-65) analyzes the to- infinitive as involving speaker subjectivity (“a personal, subjective, first-person mode: ‘I want’, ‘I think’, or ‘I know’ ”) and “future orientation.” On the other hand, -ing comple ...
... the -ing “tends to be used primarily in complements of implicative verbs.” Wierzbicka (1988, 164-65) analyzes the to- infinitive as involving speaker subjectivity (“a personal, subjective, first-person mode: ‘I want’, ‘I think’, or ‘I know’ ”) and “future orientation.” On the other hand, -ing comple ...
Reading Handbook Reading for Different Purposes Having a clear
... Forms: newspapers, magazines, reference works, on-line information, textbooks Purpose for reading: to be informed Strategies for Reading Look for text organizers such as titles, subheads, graphics, and other ...
... Forms: newspapers, magazines, reference works, on-line information, textbooks Purpose for reading: to be informed Strategies for Reading Look for text organizers such as titles, subheads, graphics, and other ...
uniwersytet miko łaja kopernika
... expression in the standard literary language. It shall also be acknowledged that we will not discuss structural and morphosyntactical properties of the construction such as, for instance, intransitivity and its relation to transitive forms (for a detailed analysis of the phenomenon of valency, and t ...
... expression in the standard literary language. It shall also be acknowledged that we will not discuss structural and morphosyntactical properties of the construction such as, for instance, intransitivity and its relation to transitive forms (for a detailed analysis of the phenomenon of valency, and t ...
FrameNet II: Extended Theory and Practice
... scalar attribute as events that happen by themselves, whereas examples (2) and (4) present them as caused by a Cause or an Agent. We have separated the two types of sentences into two different frames, an inchoative frame called Change position on a scale for examples (1) and (3) and a causative one ...
... scalar attribute as events that happen by themselves, whereas examples (2) and (4) present them as caused by a Cause or an Agent. We have separated the two types of sentences into two different frames, an inchoative frame called Change position on a scale for examples (1) and (3) and a causative one ...
6 A-movement
... nouns generally have the morphological property that they have two different forms: a singular form (like horse in one horse) used to denote a single entity, and a plural form (like horses in two horses) used to denote more than one entity. Common nouns have the syntactic property that only (an appr ...
... nouns generally have the morphological property that they have two different forms: a singular form (like horse in one horse) used to denote a single entity, and a plural form (like horses in two horses) used to denote more than one entity. Common nouns have the syntactic property that only (an appr ...
English II
... • The function of the chorus in Greek drama is to comment on the dramatic action and set the action in the overall context of Greek life and religion and it may occasionally advise the characters or express sympathy with the tragic hero. • Ship of State – Lines 768-772 – It is particularly appropria ...
... • The function of the chorus in Greek drama is to comment on the dramatic action and set the action in the overall context of Greek life and religion and it may occasionally advise the characters or express sympathy with the tragic hero. • Ship of State – Lines 768-772 – It is particularly appropria ...
Chapter 4 Prosody
... 18.3.3.1 -këx ‘O > S, previous event’ and -këx=bi ‘O > S, simultaneous event’ 18.3.3.2 -këxun ‘O >A, previous event’ and -këxun=bi ‘O >A, simultaneous event’ 18.3.4 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS(/OBJECTS) 18.3.4.1 -këbë(tan) ‘different subjects/objects, simultaneous event’ 18.3.4.2 -mainun ‘different subjects/ ...
... 18.3.3.1 -këx ‘O > S, previous event’ and -këx=bi ‘O > S, simultaneous event’ 18.3.3.2 -këxun ‘O >A, previous event’ and -këxun=bi ‘O >A, simultaneous event’ 18.3.4 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS(/OBJECTS) 18.3.4.1 -këbë(tan) ‘different subjects/objects, simultaneous event’ 18.3.4.2 -mainun ‘different subjects/ ...
mandarin compound verbs - Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
... ambisyllabic: A segment (vowel or consonant) which forms the coda of the first and onset of the second of two adjacent syllables, e.g. the /l/ in English melon is ambisyllabic. analytic: In this study, analytic is used to describe a construction in which individual elements are in a syntactic rather ...
... ambisyllabic: A segment (vowel or consonant) which forms the coda of the first and onset of the second of two adjacent syllables, e.g. the /l/ in English melon is ambisyllabic. analytic: In this study, analytic is used to describe a construction in which individual elements are in a syntactic rather ...
A Short Descriptive Grammar of the Svan Language
... There is, however, some difference of opinion as to how one draws the Lower Svan dialect map, since the Svan spoken in the village of Saq’dar and the neighboring Cholur community is in many respects intermediate between the Lent’ex and Lashx speech varieties, and even considered to represent a third ...
... There is, however, some difference of opinion as to how one draws the Lower Svan dialect map, since the Svan spoken in the village of Saq’dar and the neighboring Cholur community is in many respects intermediate between the Lent’ex and Lashx speech varieties, and even considered to represent a third ...
Minimalist Syntax Revisited
... have the property that they have four distinct forms: e.g. alongside the bare (i.e. uninflected) form cry we find the present tense form cries, the past tense/perfect participle/passive participle form cried and the progressive participle form crying. (See the glossary of terminology at the end of t ...
... have the property that they have four distinct forms: e.g. alongside the bare (i.e. uninflected) form cry we find the present tense form cries, the past tense/perfect participle/passive participle form cried and the progressive participle form crying. (See the glossary of terminology at the end of t ...
LARYNGEAL TIMING AND CORRESPONDENCE IN HUPA
... In prefixes, laryngeal features associated with obstruents which are preconsonantal overlap with the latter portion of an immediately preceding long vowe. For example, the latter portion of the vowel preceding the /s/ is voiceless in the form na…9sta/a/ ‘We carried it about' (root -ta/-; Golla 1970: ...
... In prefixes, laryngeal features associated with obstruents which are preconsonantal overlap with the latter portion of an immediately preceding long vowe. For example, the latter portion of the vowel preceding the /s/ is voiceless in the form na…9sta/a/ ‘We carried it about' (root -ta/-; Golla 1970: ...
An Unmediated Analysis of Relative Clauses
... Crucially, IHRCs provide no evidence for a relative pronoun, or for a mediated analysis of the relative clause construction. It is instructive to consider what an in-situ mediated structure would look like. Consider (8e). Under the non-mediated analysis, ‘dog’ is both the head of the construction an ...
... Crucially, IHRCs provide no evidence for a relative pronoun, or for a mediated analysis of the relative clause construction. It is instructive to consider what an in-situ mediated structure would look like. Consider (8e). Under the non-mediated analysis, ‘dog’ is both the head of the construction an ...
Nominal Roots as Event Predicates in English Denominal
... verbs are infelicitous where the source nominal is intended to be an incremental theme (#apple ‘eat apple’), a patient (#shirt ‘wear shirt’), or the holder of a result state (#window ‘open window’). This little-studied constraint is compared to a well-known constraint on denominal conversion verbs i ...
... verbs are infelicitous where the source nominal is intended to be an incremental theme (#apple ‘eat apple’), a patient (#shirt ‘wear shirt’), or the holder of a result state (#window ‘open window’). This little-studied constraint is compared to a well-known constraint on denominal conversion verbs i ...
FreDist : Automatic construction of distributional thesauri for
... hypernymy/hyponymy), while bag-of-words approaches capture broader semantic relatedness (particularly shared topic). We use syntactic dependencies and linear bigrams, since we are interested in semantic similarity. If a relation r is bigram, it can take values of either −1 or +1, indicating that w′ ...
... hypernymy/hyponymy), while bag-of-words approaches capture broader semantic relatedness (particularly shared topic). We use syntactic dependencies and linear bigrams, since we are interested in semantic similarity. If a relation r is bigram, it can take values of either −1 or +1, indicating that w′ ...
DESIGNING SYNTACTIC REPRESENTATIONS FOR NLP: AN
... of that structure can be emphasized or represented differently to be more suitable for particular applications. It shows how different ways of packaging syntactic information have consequences for goals such as representing linguistic properties, training statistical parsers, and sourcing features f ...
... of that structure can be emphasized or represented differently to be more suitable for particular applications. It shows how different ways of packaging syntactic information have consequences for goals such as representing linguistic properties, training statistical parsers, and sourcing features f ...
Chapter 4: Syntactic Relations and Case Marking
... really comparable to the traditional notion that is its closest analog, subject. Third, RRG does not assume that grammatical relations are universal, in two senses. On the one hand, it does not claim that all languages must have grammatical relations in addition to semantic roles, which are universa ...
... really comparable to the traditional notion that is its closest analog, subject. Third, RRG does not assume that grammatical relations are universal, in two senses. On the one hand, it does not claim that all languages must have grammatical relations in addition to semantic roles, which are universa ...
azu_td_9032531_sip1_
... the Fulbright Foundation for full financial support from 1985 to 1987, the P.E.O. Foundation for partial financial support during the years 1987-1990, the Department of Linguistics, U. of Arizona for teaching assistantships from 1987 to 1990, and Chiang Mai University, Thailand, for permission of my ...
... the Fulbright Foundation for full financial support from 1985 to 1987, the P.E.O. Foundation for partial financial support during the years 1987-1990, the Department of Linguistics, U. of Arizona for teaching assistantships from 1987 to 1990, and Chiang Mai University, Thailand, for permission of my ...
Understanding the Tlingit Verb
... Dzéiwshʼs Tlingit Verbal Structure Handbook and Tlingitology Seminar Notes: Background and Morphology were invaluable in helping understand grammatical functions in Tlingit, and many of the tables and concepts are pulled directly from those works with the intention of creating text to help students ...
... Dzéiwshʼs Tlingit Verbal Structure Handbook and Tlingitology Seminar Notes: Background and Morphology were invaluable in helping understand grammatical functions in Tlingit, and many of the tables and concepts are pulled directly from those works with the intention of creating text to help students ...
FrameNet II: Extended Theory and Practice
... an Agent. We have separated the two types of sentences into two different frames, an inchoative frame called Change position on a scale for examples (1) and (3) and a causative one called Cause change of position on a scale for examples (2) and (4). There may be a legitimate objection about the pres ...
... an Agent. We have separated the two types of sentences into two different frames, an inchoative frame called Change position on a scale for examples (1) and (3) and a causative one called Cause change of position on a scale for examples (2) and (4). There may be a legitimate objection about the pres ...
Characteristics of Mandarin Imperatives Joan Chen-Main
... imperatives have special characteristics. For example, in Italian, non cannot appear with verbal forms which are unique to imperatives (Zanuttini 1997). In English, don’t is required with be and have in negative imperatives, even though they usually do not require do-support (Henry 1995). After an i ...
... imperatives have special characteristics. For example, in Italian, non cannot appear with verbal forms which are unique to imperatives (Zanuttini 1997). In English, don’t is required with be and have in negative imperatives, even though they usually do not require do-support (Henry 1995). After an i ...
ENG421 - National Open University of Nigeria
... NEW TRENDS IN SYNTAX DERIVATIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS IN THE ...
... NEW TRENDS IN SYNTAX DERIVATIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS IN THE ...
Scottish Gaelic grammar
This article describes the grammar of the Scottish Gaelic language.