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... intransitive sentences as well as the object of transitive sentences will be unmarked, but the subject of transitive sentences remains marked. Thus an ergative system has arisen. While this explanation is admittedly elegant, it is not grounded in reality. First of all, it is questionable whether the ...
... intransitive sentences as well as the object of transitive sentences will be unmarked, but the subject of transitive sentences remains marked. Thus an ergative system has arisen. While this explanation is admittedly elegant, it is not grounded in reality. First of all, it is questionable whether the ...
On the Linguistic Notion of Transitivity:
... not totally arbitrary. On the other hand, languages differ as to how to categorize predicates like resemble in (7) and dread in (8). English formally identifies them with the transitive usage of break, so that nuances in meaning are not reflected at surface. However, this is where many languages sho ...
... not totally arbitrary. On the other hand, languages differ as to how to categorize predicates like resemble in (7) and dread in (8). English formally identifies them with the transitive usage of break, so that nuances in meaning are not reflected at surface. However, this is where many languages sho ...
Serial Verbs in Ibibio - KU ScholarWorks
... ‘Ekpe cooked and ate rice.’ Notice that there are two verbs in the constructions above. The first two verbs combine to form complex verb which means ‘arrive’ in English. The second example forms a complex predicate meaning ‘cook and eat’. Both verbs share the same subject and same object. The constr ...
... ‘Ekpe cooked and ate rice.’ Notice that there are two verbs in the constructions above. The first two verbs combine to form complex verb which means ‘arrive’ in English. The second example forms a complex predicate meaning ‘cook and eat’. Both verbs share the same subject and same object. The constr ...
Grammaticization of reflexive pronoun into a marker of passive
... „Only the harshest words were used (*by me).‟ The 1st pers. pronoun in (6b) is not possible and in the absence of any other NP, the only interpretation available then is „by someone‟ (some ...
... „Only the harshest words were used (*by me).‟ The 1st pers. pronoun in (6b) is not possible and in the absence of any other NP, the only interpretation available then is „by someone‟ (some ...
Book Seven 1 Review of Elements: Prefixes, Bases, and Suffixes 2
... when they are added to certain stems. The consonants change their sound and spelling to be more like, or similar to, the first sound and letter in the stem. When sounds and letters change this way to be more similar to a sound or letter near them, the process is called assimilation. For instance, th ...
... when they are added to certain stems. The consonants change their sound and spelling to be more like, or similar to, the first sound and letter in the stem. When sounds and letters change this way to be more similar to a sound or letter near them, the process is called assimilation. For instance, th ...
9. - Universität Erfurt
... got out of stock immediately, but has been in high demand since. A slightly revised version was released in January 1985, but only in form of a number of xerocopies. The original plan was, of course, to get back to work on grammaticalization as soon as possible, to write up volume II and then publis ...
... got out of stock immediately, but has been in high demand since. A slightly revised version was released in January 1985, but only in form of a number of xerocopies. The original plan was, of course, to get back to work on grammaticalization as soon as possible, to write up volume II and then publis ...
The Origin of the Latin Gerund and Gerundive
... Italic *-dn- to Lat. -nd- is dubious at best. Meiser’s claim (1998: 121 f.) that *-dhnand *-dn- both yielded -nd- — unlike *-tn-, which yielded -nn- — is supported by a single unconvincing example for each cluster. For *-dhn- he cites fundus ‘bottom’ < *bhudh-(m)n-o- — certainly a case of metathesis ...
... Italic *-dn- to Lat. -nd- is dubious at best. Meiser’s claim (1998: 121 f.) that *-dhnand *-dn- both yielded -nd- — unlike *-tn-, which yielded -nn- — is supported by a single unconvincing example for each cluster. For *-dhn- he cites fundus ‘bottom’ < *bhudh-(m)n-o- — certainly a case of metathesis ...
Discovering Light Verb Constructions and their Translations from
... to other language pairs and MWE categories, specially those MWE translated as single words. In this case, we are still investigating solutions but one of them consists in using monolingual word embeddings and similarity measures in order to define if the translation should be an MWE or a single word ...
... to other language pairs and MWE categories, specially those MWE translated as single words. In this case, we are still investigating solutions but one of them consists in using monolingual word embeddings and similarity measures in order to define if the translation should be an MWE or a single word ...
1 Paper accepted for publication in Language Sciences Explaining
... the use of null forms and the rule that the case of the subject of the infinitive is dative cannot be rejected. This opinion is clearly expressed by Perlmutter (2007, p. 304), when he states that ‘[w]hile readers are certainly entitled to their opinions about what is desirable or undesirable, it is ...
... the use of null forms and the rule that the case of the subject of the infinitive is dative cannot be rejected. This opinion is clearly expressed by Perlmutter (2007, p. 304), when he states that ‘[w]hile readers are certainly entitled to their opinions about what is desirable or undesirable, it is ...
is used as a conjunction to show contrast. The original
... 82. A – ‘who’ with a comma is used because ‘Lee Kin Wo’ is a person that doesn’t need to be defined (non-defining clause) 83. C – ‘get used to’ means ‘be accustomed to’. A present participle should be used after the verb ‘be’. 84. D – ‘himself’ refers to the same subject ‘he’, referring to ‘Bush’. 8 ...
... 82. A – ‘who’ with a comma is used because ‘Lee Kin Wo’ is a person that doesn’t need to be defined (non-defining clause) 83. C – ‘get used to’ means ‘be accustomed to’. A present participle should be used after the verb ‘be’. 84. D – ‘himself’ refers to the same subject ‘he’, referring to ‘Bush’. 8 ...
University of Groningen Time reference decoupled from tense
... syntactic operations and access to information structure; however, agrammatic individuals lack sufficient resources to apply these operations (Avrutin, 2000; 2006). They fail to perform multiple syntactic operations simultaneously due to limited working memory capacities according to processing acco ...
... syntactic operations and access to information structure; however, agrammatic individuals lack sufficient resources to apply these operations (Avrutin, 2000; 2006). They fail to perform multiple syntactic operations simultaneously due to limited working memory capacities according to processing acco ...
Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Independent Verbal Morphology Independent
... actualized, as having occurred or actually occurring, knowable through direct perception. The irrealis portrays situations as purely within the realm of thought, knowable only through imagination’. In addition to realis status and irrealis status, there is also an in-between status category called ‘ ...
... actualized, as having occurred or actually occurring, knowable through direct perception. The irrealis portrays situations as purely within the realm of thought, knowable only through imagination’. In addition to realis status and irrealis status, there is also an in-between status category called ‘ ...
dholuo grammar - UoN Repository
... consider it a duty to express my gratitude to all who have cooperated in this work. Dholuo Grammar has been neglected for so long by many authors. I think that now is the right moment for the Luo people to study their language and to give it its true scientific meaning. Here I thank Rev. Jacob Ndong ...
... consider it a duty to express my gratitude to all who have cooperated in this work. Dholuo Grammar has been neglected for so long by many authors. I think that now is the right moment for the Luo people to study their language and to give it its true scientific meaning. Here I thank Rev. Jacob Ndong ...
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... got out of stock immediately, but has been in high demand since. A slightly revised version was released in January 1985, but only in form of a number of xerocopies. The original plan was, of course, to get back to work on grammaticalization as soon as possible, to write up volume II and then publis ...
... got out of stock immediately, but has been in high demand since. A slightly revised version was released in January 1985, but only in form of a number of xerocopies. The original plan was, of course, to get back to work on grammaticalization as soon as possible, to write up volume II and then publis ...
Portuguese Syntax
... At a given level of analysis, we define as constituents of a syntactic unit those words or groups of words that function as immediate ”children” of this syntactic unit. Every syntactic unit must itself be a constituent, the highest node being the sentence. In the sentence O governo Cardoso crescia c ...
... At a given level of analysis, we define as constituents of a syntactic unit those words or groups of words that function as immediate ”children” of this syntactic unit. Every syntactic unit must itself be a constituent, the highest node being the sentence. In the sentence O governo Cardoso crescia c ...
Portuguese Syntax
... At a given level of analysis, we define as constituents of a syntactic unit those words or groups of words that function as immediate ”children” of this syntactic unit. Every syntactic unit must itself be a constituent, the highest node being the sentence. In the sentence O governo Cardoso crescia c ...
... At a given level of analysis, we define as constituents of a syntactic unit those words or groups of words that function as immediate ”children” of this syntactic unit. Every syntactic unit must itself be a constituent, the highest node being the sentence. In the sentence O governo Cardoso crescia c ...
PW-E300 Operation
... Data contained in the PW-E300 The dictionary data contained in this unit is based on the following dictionaries: • Oxford Dictionary of English 2e © Oxford University Press 2003 • New Oxford Thesaurus of English © Oxford University Press 2000 * All rights reserved. No part of this publication may b ...
... Data contained in the PW-E300 The dictionary data contained in this unit is based on the following dictionaries: • Oxford Dictionary of English 2e © Oxford University Press 2003 • New Oxford Thesaurus of English © Oxford University Press 2000 * All rights reserved. No part of this publication may b ...
Serbo-Croatian Word Order - coli.uni
... represent phenogrammar, tectogrammar and semantics. Each linguistic expres- ...
... represent phenogrammar, tectogrammar and semantics. Each linguistic expres- ...
Resulting States in Niuean
... participle. We argue that this is not the right characterization of ma-. In addition, we demonstrate that ma- is not a stativizer either, nor a detransitivizer. Once we have ruled out so many possible functions, the true character of ma- is puzzling, but we hypothesize that verbs with ma- can be und ...
... participle. We argue that this is not the right characterization of ma-. In addition, we demonstrate that ma- is not a stativizer either, nor a detransitivizer. Once we have ruled out so many possible functions, the true character of ma- is puzzling, but we hypothesize that verbs with ma- can be und ...
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Grammar of the Classical Newari [SCANN]
... killed the tiger” ; “the king w ent'’.— T here are no personal endings; th e different persons, how ever, as subject or agent in som e degree prefer different verbal form s; the 1st and 2nd persons, singular and plural, as opposed to the 3rd person prefer the 1st form in -o and the 6th form .—There ...
... killed the tiger” ; “the king w ent'’.— T here are no personal endings; th e different persons, how ever, as subject or agent in som e degree prefer different verbal form s; the 1st and 2nd persons, singular and plural, as opposed to the 3rd person prefer the 1st form in -o and the 6th form .—There ...
resultative predicative adjunct constructions in the gothic bible
... resultative proper constructions, one should search for any participial expression that conveyed the resultative proper meaning when analyzing the birth of the perfect in Gothic. Furthermore, because the HAVE resultative proper (ancestor of the HAVE perfect) is built on the predicative adjunct patte ...
... resultative proper constructions, one should search for any participial expression that conveyed the resultative proper meaning when analyzing the birth of the perfect in Gothic. Furthermore, because the HAVE resultative proper (ancestor of the HAVE perfect) is built on the predicative adjunct patte ...
Paradigmatic uniformity and markedness
... “kill”, quak “quake”, and wach “watch” show only regular weak preterites duelled, queld, quaked, and wachit, not the historically expected *dwald, *cwald, *quahte, and *wahte. Some other Rückumlaut verbs (e.g. reche “reach”, teche “teach”, tell “tell”) vary between regular weak forms (reched, teched ...
... “kill”, quak “quake”, and wach “watch” show only regular weak preterites duelled, queld, quaked, and wachit, not the historically expected *dwald, *cwald, *quahte, and *wahte. Some other Rückumlaut verbs (e.g. reche “reach”, teche “teach”, tell “tell”) vary between regular weak forms (reched, teched ...
FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE NOUN PHRASE
... (cf. (7)), and other more or less circumstantial relations (cf. (8)). As they are basically closed-system expansions of the central items, they constitute part of transition proper. (11) He stood by his girl. The prepositional phrase by his girl in (11) is a nominal distributional field which functi ...
... (cf. (7)), and other more or less circumstantial relations (cf. (8)). As they are basically closed-system expansions of the central items, they constitute part of transition proper. (11) He stood by his girl. The prepositional phrase by his girl in (11) is a nominal distributional field which functi ...
world language curriculum - Immaculateheartacademy.org
... 2. Demonstrate how to greet each other in a friendly manner. 3. Cordially introduce people and respond to an introduction in an informal setting. 4. State their age and ask that of their classmates. 5. Express where they are from; discover the origin of classmates through expression and writing. 6. ...
... 2. Demonstrate how to greet each other in a friendly manner. 3. Cordially introduce people and respond to an introduction in an informal setting. 4. State their age and ask that of their classmates. 5. Express where they are from; discover the origin of classmates through expression and writing. 6. ...
Scottish Gaelic grammar
This article describes the grammar of the Scottish Gaelic language.