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... • Things have been working out well so far, but there are a couple of things that are still unexplained… – If in the passive, movement of the object into subject position is done in order to satisfy the EPP, why couldn’t we instead insert it in SpecTP like we do in it rains or it is likely that…? – ...
... • Things have been working out well so far, but there are a couple of things that are still unexplained… – If in the passive, movement of the object into subject position is done in order to satisfy the EPP, why couldn’t we instead insert it in SpecTP like we do in it rains or it is likely that…? – ...
big grammar test
... abilities were recognized by his art teacher. 4Carver liked painting a great deal he wanted to become an artist. Which sentence in the paragraph above is a run-on? A. sentence 1 B. sentence 2 C. sentence 3 D. sentence 4 ...
... abilities were recognized by his art teacher. 4Carver liked painting a great deal he wanted to become an artist. Which sentence in the paragraph above is a run-on? A. sentence 1 B. sentence 2 C. sentence 3 D. sentence 4 ...
Lesson 7
... changed American life (b) in many ways. 7. a ___________ phrase 8. b ___________ phrase ...
... changed American life (b) in many ways. 7. a ___________ phrase 8. b ___________ phrase ...
Arabic Loanwords in Tatar and Swahili: Morphological Assimilation
... The formation of both Tatar and Swahili was influenced by Arabic, which had profoundly influenced them in religious, scientific, cultural and economic aspects. Both languages used the Arabic script. The change from Arabic script to the Russian alphabet in the Tatar language and to the Latin alphabet ...
... The formation of both Tatar and Swahili was influenced by Arabic, which had profoundly influenced them in religious, scientific, cultural and economic aspects. Both languages used the Arabic script. The change from Arabic script to the Russian alphabet in the Tatar language and to the Latin alphabet ...
Grammar progress test - St. John`s Community Primary School
... Which sentence below is written in Standard English? Tick one. The swimmers done the race in under two minutes. In first place was a swimmer who always does well. There was medals for the first three competitors. It were exciting to see those great swimmers in action. 1 mark ...
... Which sentence below is written in Standard English? Tick one. The swimmers done the race in under two minutes. In first place was a swimmer who always does well. There was medals for the first three competitors. It were exciting to see those great swimmers in action. 1 mark ...
2004 Larson, R.K. and F. Marusic. Indefinite pronoun structures with
... The general N-movement analysis establishes an attractive connection between the special DⳭN form of indefinite pronouns and the obligatory postnominal position of adjectives occurring with them. It does so by claiming that the latter is actually an illusion: postnominal adjectives with indefinite p ...
... The general N-movement analysis establishes an attractive connection between the special DⳭN form of indefinite pronouns and the obligatory postnominal position of adjectives occurring with them. It does so by claiming that the latter is actually an illusion: postnominal adjectives with indefinite p ...
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... thing for etymological purposes and another in syntax, one thing in respect to changes within itself, another in its relations to other words. ...
... thing for etymological purposes and another in syntax, one thing in respect to changes within itself, another in its relations to other words. ...
The No-Nonsense Guide to Learning Chitumbuka: Volume 1
... ignore most of the rules associated with this noun class stuff and still manage to say most of what you want to say. This is not a great practice of course, but, if you just want to get on your feet in Chitumbuka, taking this approach is a good way to begin. When making nouns plural in Chitumbuka, y ...
... ignore most of the rules associated with this noun class stuff and still manage to say most of what you want to say. This is not a great practice of course, but, if you just want to get on your feet in Chitumbuka, taking this approach is a good way to begin. When making nouns plural in Chitumbuka, y ...
Faculty of Language Studies EL120: Introduction to English
... phonetics: which sounds make up a language and how these sounds are produced. You will know more about phonetics in chapters2-4 2. We also know that some sound combinations are possible in one language but not in another. For example Arabic words can end with the sound [h] , can English words do the ...
... phonetics: which sounds make up a language and how these sounds are produced. You will know more about phonetics in chapters2-4 2. We also know that some sound combinations are possible in one language but not in another. For example Arabic words can end with the sound [h] , can English words do the ...
Negation in Mauwake, a Papuan language
... negation strategy in the largest group of Papuan languages, the Trans-New Guinea Phylum. Sentani both adds a prefix to the verb and changes the verb inflection as well (Hartzler 1994). Some Papuan languages use a combination of various strategies. Amele has two particles, qee for statements and cain ...
... negation strategy in the largest group of Papuan languages, the Trans-New Guinea Phylum. Sentani both adds a prefix to the verb and changes the verb inflection as well (Hartzler 1994). Some Papuan languages use a combination of various strategies. Amele has two particles, qee for statements and cain ...
Using the Simple and Complex Directional Complements in
... certain that my personal translations accurately conveyed the complements' meanings. By the end of the semester, I had hammered out what I felt was a basic understanding of the complement, enough that I was able to explain it to other classmates and feel confident that I was not leading them astray ...
... certain that my personal translations accurately conveyed the complements' meanings. By the end of the semester, I had hammered out what I felt was a basic understanding of the complement, enough that I was able to explain it to other classmates and feel confident that I was not leading them astray ...
The linguistic string parser*
... tactic categories (noun, tensed verb, etc.) a set of elementary strings and rules for combining the elementary strings to form sentence strings. The simplest sentences consist of just one elementary string, called a center string. Examples of center strings are noun tensed-verb, such as "Tapes stret ...
... tactic categories (noun, tensed verb, etc.) a set of elementary strings and rules for combining the elementary strings to form sentence strings. The simplest sentences consist of just one elementary string, called a center string. Examples of center strings are noun tensed-verb, such as "Tapes stret ...
Tagset Manual
... The words daer and toe together form a pronominal adverb daartoe. In the tag tier this is indicated by tagging toe with PronAdv(prep), indicating that it is part of a separated PronAdv. In the fifth tier, it is shown which tokens should be linked together. The tag ba4 in the second line indicates th ...
... The words daer and toe together form a pronominal adverb daartoe. In the tag tier this is indicated by tagging toe with PronAdv(prep), indicating that it is part of a separated PronAdv. In the fifth tier, it is shown which tokens should be linked together. The tag ba4 in the second line indicates th ...
Carnets de Grammaire - CLLE-ERSS - Université Toulouse
... it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.” (Sapir 1921: 38). Sapir understood that a perfect language, a grammar that didn’t leak, would never change. Not b ...
... it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.” (Sapir 1921: 38). Sapir understood that a perfect language, a grammar that didn’t leak, would never change. Not b ...
Lesson 5 Verbs--Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles
... An infinitive is a verbal in its basic form with or without the word to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives. When the word to is absent, the infinitive is said to be a bare infinitive; when it is present, it is generally considered to be a part of the infinitive, known ...
... An infinitive is a verbal in its basic form with or without the word to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives. When the word to is absent, the infinitive is said to be a bare infinitive; when it is present, it is generally considered to be a part of the infinitive, known ...
INTRANSITIVE PREDICATES
... Perlmutter (1978) was the first to distinguish between two types of one-argument verbs, unaccusatives and unergatives. He claimed that these two classes are semantically and syntactically different and that the class to which an intransitive verb belongs is predictable from the semantics of the clau ...
... Perlmutter (1978) was the first to distinguish between two types of one-argument verbs, unaccusatives and unergatives. He claimed that these two classes are semantically and syntactically different and that the class to which an intransitive verb belongs is predictable from the semantics of the clau ...
Fundamentals of Classical Arabic VOLUME ONE
... My fear in compiling this work is that I have soiled a pure chain. My teachers sacrificed their lives, wealth, and families to achieve perfection in their respective fields. I was permitted to sit in, and eat from, their vast gardens despite my obvious deficiencies and lack of commitment. This is th ...
... My fear in compiling this work is that I have soiled a pure chain. My teachers sacrificed their lives, wealth, and families to achieve perfection in their respective fields. I was permitted to sit in, and eat from, their vast gardens despite my obvious deficiencies and lack of commitment. This is th ...
Kenstowicz-Kissebert..
... This sound change has produced morphophonemic alternations in cases where various morphological rules insert a vowel between two consonants. If the first consonant in a cluster was weakened (historically) as a result of Klingenheben's law, the original form of the consonant will often appear in morp ...
... This sound change has produced morphophonemic alternations in cases where various morphological rules insert a vowel between two consonants. If the first consonant in a cluster was weakened (historically) as a result of Klingenheben's law, the original form of the consonant will often appear in morp ...
- Nottingham ePrints
... Kripke states his modal argument against the description theory of names at a number of places (1980: 53, 57, 61, and 74). A full statement in the original text of Naming and Necessity on page 61 is as follows: The [description theorist] would say that the name is simply defined synonymously, as the ...
... Kripke states his modal argument against the description theory of names at a number of places (1980: 53, 57, 61, and 74). A full statement in the original text of Naming and Necessity on page 61 is as follows: The [description theorist] would say that the name is simply defined synonymously, as the ...
Thursday Session_Sentence Level Work
... should provide) a vocabulary card with term on front, definition and examples on back; explain the term and its definition; and have them explain it back to you or, in the case of large group instruction, to each other. Students can illustrate their cards as well. ...
... should provide) a vocabulary card with term on front, definition and examples on back; explain the term and its definition; and have them explain it back to you or, in the case of large group instruction, to each other. Students can illustrate their cards as well. ...
Some Types of Russian and Polish Interrogative Sentences
... In the analysis of Polish 'subjectless' sentences one has to take into consideration the fact that they are functionally equivalent to those containing an appropriate personal pronoun. It would be inadequate to describe the 'subjectless' constructions as consisting of a verb and a-verb defective sen ...
... In the analysis of Polish 'subjectless' sentences one has to take into consideration the fact that they are functionally equivalent to those containing an appropriate personal pronoun. It would be inadequate to describe the 'subjectless' constructions as consisting of a verb and a-verb defective sen ...
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... Example of Grammar Rule My cousin enjoys her job. She is a counselor at a summer camp. She teaches crafts during the day. She sleeps in a cabin with the ten-year-olds. She says that some of them are homesick at first. They usually get over it after a couple of days. CHANGE TO: My cousin enjoys her j ...
... Example of Grammar Rule My cousin enjoys her job. She is a counselor at a summer camp. She teaches crafts during the day. She sleeps in a cabin with the ten-year-olds. She says that some of them are homesick at first. They usually get over it after a couple of days. CHANGE TO: My cousin enjoys her j ...
On Indefinite Subject NPs in Chinese
... sound as bad as the singular QP subject with a ‘one’ numeral when the marker ‘有’ does not appear. This is because ‘one’ in Chinese acts very differently from other numerals. Except for the context where ‘one’ really means the number of ‘one,’ in Chinese ‘one’ often is a polarity item with empty sema ...
... sound as bad as the singular QP subject with a ‘one’ numeral when the marker ‘有’ does not appear. This is because ‘one’ in Chinese acts very differently from other numerals. Except for the context where ‘one’ really means the number of ‘one,’ in Chinese ‘one’ often is a polarity item with empty sema ...
Resultatives and Depictives in Finnish 1
... with particular focus on their distribution in resultative and depictive predications. These cases are traditionally grouped with the class of Finnish semantic cases because they are associated with specific meanings (Holmberg and Nikanne 1993a), as opposed to the structural cases, nominative, genit ...
... with particular focus on their distribution in resultative and depictive predications. These cases are traditionally grouped with the class of Finnish semantic cases because they are associated with specific meanings (Holmberg and Nikanne 1993a), as opposed to the structural cases, nominative, genit ...
Scottish Gaelic grammar
This article describes the grammar of the Scottish Gaelic language.