The Verbal System of the Cape Verdean Creole of Tarrafal
... In order to understand the genesis of Cape Verdean Creole (CVC), one needs a clear understanding of the colonization and settlement of the Cape Verde Islands. Settlement patterns had lasting consequences on the formation of CVC. Santiago Island was initially populated with slaves from the western co ...
... In order to understand the genesis of Cape Verdean Creole (CVC), one needs a clear understanding of the colonization and settlement of the Cape Verde Islands. Settlement patterns had lasting consequences on the formation of CVC. Santiago Island was initially populated with slaves from the western co ...
Constructional idioms as products of linguistic change: the aan het +
... These observations show that the occurrence of aan in present-day standard Dutch is bound to PPs with specific types of NPs, such as NPs of the type het + infinitive. This use of aan is a reflex of an earlier stage of Dutch in which the preposition aan had a more elaborated use as locative prepositi ...
... These observations show that the occurrence of aan in present-day standard Dutch is bound to PPs with specific types of NPs, such as NPs of the type het + infinitive. This use of aan is a reflex of an earlier stage of Dutch in which the preposition aan had a more elaborated use as locative prepositi ...
The Top 250 Most Difficult SAT Words
... The Top 250 Most Difficult SAT Words◦ Week 10 Starting Monday, ___/___/______ Instructions: By the last day of the week, study the list of vocabulary words for that week and prepare for a quiz. In order to prepare, be sure to look up and study denotations, connotations, and uses of the terms. You m ...
... The Top 250 Most Difficult SAT Words◦ Week 10 Starting Monday, ___/___/______ Instructions: By the last day of the week, study the list of vocabulary words for that week and prepare for a quiz. In order to prepare, be sure to look up and study denotations, connotations, and uses of the terms. You m ...
What is Syntax? - Columbia University
... • At birth of formal language theory (comp sci) and formal linguistics • Major contribution: syntax is cognitive reality • Humans able to learn languages quickly, but not all languages universal grammar is biological • Goal of syntactic study: find universal principles and languagespecific paramet ...
... • At birth of formal language theory (comp sci) and formal linguistics • Major contribution: syntax is cognitive reality • Humans able to learn languages quickly, but not all languages universal grammar is biological • Goal of syntactic study: find universal principles and languagespecific paramet ...
the syntax of lexical reciprocal constructions
... What is needed for Swahili and the other Bantu languages is an account of the monadic and dyadic reciprocal constructions that explains their productive formation from a transitive base. I argue that the dyadic reciprocal construction is formed by the reanalysis of a comitative phrase in a monadic c ...
... What is needed for Swahili and the other Bantu languages is an account of the monadic and dyadic reciprocal constructions that explains their productive formation from a transitive base. I argue that the dyadic reciprocal construction is formed by the reanalysis of a comitative phrase in a monadic c ...
Strategies for Scaffolding Narrative and Expository Writing
... Pronouns take the place of nouns ...
... Pronouns take the place of nouns ...
The pronominal clitic of quantified noun phrases in Slovenian
... adjectival agreement with the noun they quantify. Both, the numeral 'one' and the noun 'girl' in the subject phrase in (8a) are in the morphological nominative case; they also agree in number (singular ) and gender (feminine). Agreement in case, number and gender obtains also in the object numeral n ...
... adjectival agreement with the noun they quantify. Both, the numeral 'one' and the noun 'girl' in the subject phrase in (8a) are in the morphological nominative case; they also agree in number (singular ) and gender (feminine). Agreement in case, number and gender obtains also in the object numeral n ...
PowerPoint
... The cloth seems torn. The torn cloth (is useless). Torn though the cloth was, John used it anyway. ...
... The cloth seems torn. The torn cloth (is useless). Torn though the cloth was, John used it anyway. ...
Aspects of the Syntactic Problems of Esan Learners
... (4) Okhuo n’ọmaman mọse = Woman who is very beautiful = A woman who is very beautiful. ...
... (4) Okhuo n’ọmaman mọse = Woman who is very beautiful = A woman who is very beautiful. ...
Semi-Compositional Noun + Verb Constructions
... 12.2.2 A possible solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
... 12.2.2 A possible solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Chaucer`s Impact on the English Language: A Detailed Study
... satirises the romance genre in general. To give an example, the knight Sir Thopas meets a violent giant but cannot fight him because he has left his armour at home (Cooper 1989). The tale is full of ludicrous scenes like this and there is no convincing or exciting story line. It is based on a whole ...
... satirises the romance genre in general. To give an example, the knight Sir Thopas meets a violent giant but cannot fight him because he has left his armour at home (Cooper 1989). The tale is full of ludicrous scenes like this and there is no convincing or exciting story line. It is based on a whole ...
THE LUNYALA `K` SIMPLE SENTENCE
... This study was aimed at analyzing the Lunyala 'K' simple sentence using a Role and Reference Grammar theoretical framework, purposely to ascertain how the RRG’s layered structure of the clause can account for the simple sentences in this Language. The syntactic, semantic and focus structures of the ...
... This study was aimed at analyzing the Lunyala 'K' simple sentence using a Role and Reference Grammar theoretical framework, purposely to ascertain how the RRG’s layered structure of the clause can account for the simple sentences in this Language. The syntactic, semantic and focus structures of the ...
COMMON NOUNS, CLASSIFIERS, AND QUANTIFICATION IN
... contexts is derived from a type-lifting operation that is available for determinerless languages including Chinese. The apparent lack of an indefinite reading on a preverbal ...
... contexts is derived from a type-lifting operation that is available for determinerless languages including Chinese. The apparent lack of an indefinite reading on a preverbal ...
A. Niccacci--Marked Syntactical Structures in Biblical
... pronoun is the predicative complement (or simply “complement” as he calls it). This analysis, however, does not take into consideration the fact that the copula can be omitted, and still the sentence has the same syntactical function while being different grammatically. 15. On the affinity between t ...
... pronoun is the predicative complement (or simply “complement” as he calls it). This analysis, however, does not take into consideration the fact that the copula can be omitted, and still the sentence has the same syntactical function while being different grammatically. 15. On the affinity between t ...
English Answer Key
... contrast between being “sparsely furnished” and displaying “just as true” period details. Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because each communicates an illogical relationship between the phrases that precede and follow the underlined portion. ...
... contrast between being “sparsely furnished” and displaying “just as true” period details. Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because each communicates an illogical relationship between the phrases that precede and follow the underlined portion. ...
German Reflexives as Proper and Improper Arguments
... determined by Universal Grammar and shared by all languages that use reflexives as part of their grammatical structure. In addition to these general conditions, there are language particular properties, which different languages can exhibit on the basis of different regulations. One variation of thi ...
... determined by Universal Grammar and shared by all languages that use reflexives as part of their grammatical structure. In addition to these general conditions, there are language particular properties, which different languages can exhibit on the basis of different regulations. One variation of thi ...
Feature Mismatches: Consequences for Syntax, Morphology and
... way. Further confusion is added because whether a mismatch is allowed or not patterns exactly as to what one would expect if Corbett’s Agreement Hierarchy were a sentence level constraint. However, given that it is a corpus-level generalization, it is surprising to see the observed patterns. I will ...
... way. Further confusion is added because whether a mismatch is allowed or not patterns exactly as to what one would expect if Corbett’s Agreement Hierarchy were a sentence level constraint. However, given that it is a corpus-level generalization, it is surprising to see the observed patterns. I will ...
Adjectival participles, event kind modification and
... not follow straightforwardly from any of the previous approaches.5 In these papers, I propose that the restrictions on event-related modification with adjectival passives derive from general restrictions on kind modification. The current paper builds on my previous proposal that adjectival passives ...
... not follow straightforwardly from any of the previous approaches.5 In these papers, I propose that the restrictions on event-related modification with adjectival passives derive from general restrictions on kind modification. The current paper builds on my previous proposal that adjectival passives ...
3. @ The Clause
... (172b,d) may appear to be of a phrasal classification, their substitution counterparts show a potential subject slot within the constituency--promoting its status from a single constituent phrase to a multi-constituent clause. (Recall, that two phrases create a clause: in this sense below, an empty ...
... (172b,d) may appear to be of a phrasal classification, their substitution counterparts show a potential subject slot within the constituency--promoting its status from a single constituent phrase to a multi-constituent clause. (Recall, that two phrases create a clause: in this sense below, an empty ...
The meaning of the English present participle
... to draw categorial divisions. Especially for participles, this problem is compounded by the fact that, even though participles historically derive from adjectives (Swan 2003), the syntactic correspondence to adjective phrases is sometimes disputable in Present-day English (see further Section 3 belo ...
... to draw categorial divisions. Especially for participles, this problem is compounded by the fact that, even though participles historically derive from adjectives (Swan 2003), the syntactic correspondence to adjective phrases is sometimes disputable in Present-day English (see further Section 3 belo ...
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Irregular Verbs Up Close
... a small one labeled infinitive, you will see one form and derive from it the person and number of that verb in one of the three tenses derived directly from the infi nitive. Likewise, in the third box, even though it is a large one, you will see one word, from which you will be able to derive the p ...
... a small one labeled infinitive, you will see one form and derive from it the person and number of that verb in one of the three tenses derived directly from the infi nitive. Likewise, in the third box, even though it is a large one, you will see one word, from which you will be able to derive the p ...
A Large-Scale Japanese CFG Derived from a Syntactically
... morphological analyzer based on the POS system used in this corpus. Thus we evaluated on the RWC corpus, a tagged corpus whose POS system is based on the Japanese morphological analyzer, ChaSen [12]. We extracted 16,421 sentences (on ...
... morphological analyzer based on the POS system used in this corpus. Thus we evaluated on the RWC corpus, a tagged corpus whose POS system is based on the Japanese morphological analyzer, ChaSen [12]. We extracted 16,421 sentences (on ...
A Survey of Coordination Strategies in the World`s
... This thesis is a research project on coordination strategies in the world’s languages. It was inspired by the observation that Japanese does not have a single, general-purpose word for and. Instead, in situations where an English sentence would have and, Japanese has a number of different structures ...
... This thesis is a research project on coordination strategies in the world’s languages. It was inspired by the observation that Japanese does not have a single, general-purpose word for and. Instead, in situations where an English sentence would have and, Japanese has a number of different structures ...
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... formalism, the interested reader may refer to [23]. Turkish is a classical example of an agglutinative morphologically rich language incorporating a large number of productive derivational suffixes. For example, the suffix ‘ydı’ (‘[s/he] was’) in Fig. 1 is a third-person singular past copula attache ...
... formalism, the interested reader may refer to [23]. Turkish is a classical example of an agglutinative morphologically rich language incorporating a large number of productive derivational suffixes. For example, the suffix ‘ydı’ (‘[s/he] was’) in Fig. 1 is a third-person singular past copula attache ...
Scottish Gaelic grammar
This article describes the grammar of the Scottish Gaelic language.