The Tale of a Dragon
... The entrance to Chinatown is guarded by a fabulous dragon in the Chinatown Gateway. As you enter from Bush Street, you’ll walk under the dragon’s coiled body and beautiful, decorated head. From the gateway, you stroll down Grant Street past the shops, restaurants, and gift stores on both sides of th ...
... The entrance to Chinatown is guarded by a fabulous dragon in the Chinatown Gateway. As you enter from Bush Street, you’ll walk under the dragon’s coiled body and beautiful, decorated head. From the gateway, you stroll down Grant Street past the shops, restaurants, and gift stores on both sides of th ...
Clause processing in complex sentences
... The basic criterion for deciding whether or not a given segment of language constitutes a clause is the presence of a verb phrase, either finite (was, goes) or non-finite (be, gone, going). A verb phrase can obviously have more than one verb. This happens, for example, when the main verb is preceded ...
... The basic criterion for deciding whether or not a given segment of language constitutes a clause is the presence of a verb phrase, either finite (was, goes) or non-finite (be, gone, going). A verb phrase can obviously have more than one verb. This happens, for example, when the main verb is preceded ...
COMPASS Placement Test Review Packet
... Giving your best during the test can save you several terms of math, reading, and writing classes, and therefore a lot of time and money. What you don’t know, you don’t know. That’s fine. But if you know something, make sure you show it on the test so that you are placed into the appropriate class f ...
... Giving your best during the test can save you several terms of math, reading, and writing classes, and therefore a lot of time and money. What you don’t know, you don’t know. That’s fine. But if you know something, make sure you show it on the test so that you are placed into the appropriate class f ...
Pronunciation - Chinook Jargon
... “Unfortunately, all these languages, — the Nootka, Nasquale, Tshinuk, Tsihailish, &c, — were alike harsh in pronunciation, complex in structure, and spoken over a limited space. The foreigners, therefore, took no pains to become acquainted with any of them.” — Horatio Hale (1846, “Ethnology Report”) ...
... “Unfortunately, all these languages, — the Nootka, Nasquale, Tshinuk, Tsihailish, &c, — were alike harsh in pronunciation, complex in structure, and spoken over a limited space. The foreigners, therefore, took no pains to become acquainted with any of them.” — Horatio Hale (1846, “Ethnology Report”) ...
A construction based analysis of child directed speech Thea Cameron-Faulkner
... are many imperatives (24%) accords with results from the studies cited above. In addition the high proportion of single words and fragments (‘grammatically incomplete sentences’ = 30%, p. 29) is interesting. Other, relatively large-scale studies—for example, Newport et al. (1977), Cross (1977), Well ...
... are many imperatives (24%) accords with results from the studies cited above. In addition the high proportion of single words and fragments (‘grammatically incomplete sentences’ = 30%, p. 29) is interesting. Other, relatively large-scale studies—for example, Newport et al. (1977), Cross (1977), Well ...
Behavioral profiles - UCSB Linguistics
... in terms of the number of distinctions made and in terms how little the two kinds of information are combined. For example, when it comes to collocations, previous work often either just includes all collocates in a user-defined window around the search word or collocates in a particular syntactical ...
... in terms of the number of distinctions made and in terms how little the two kinds of information are combined. For example, when it comes to collocations, previous work often either just includes all collocates in a user-defined window around the search word or collocates in a particular syntactical ...
Topics and Participants in Jamamadí Narrative
... Devices for introduction A participant who is undergoer and topic of the episode is introduced by a noun standing alone as a complete sentence at the beginning of the episode. Although the participant thus identified may be actor in much of the episode, his downfall is expected. If there is a villai ...
... Devices for introduction A participant who is undergoer and topic of the episode is introduced by a noun standing alone as a complete sentence at the beginning of the episode. Although the participant thus identified may be actor in much of the episode, his downfall is expected. If there is a villai ...
1 The Distribution of Negative NPs and Some Typological
... corresponding to nobody, nothing, nowhere, not a single book, etc., can occur in the position of a topic, a subject, or a preverbal adjunct; they cannot occur as a postverbal object of the verb, the object of a preposition, a postverbal complement, or as a possessive determiner. This descriptive gen ...
... corresponding to nobody, nothing, nowhere, not a single book, etc., can occur in the position of a topic, a subject, or a preverbal adjunct; they cannot occur as a postverbal object of the verb, the object of a preposition, a postverbal complement, or as a possessive determiner. This descriptive gen ...
Understanding Relative Clauses
... is used only in clauses that make a noun more specific is sometimes used to refer to a person or people (usually only in informal writing or in speaking) The lessons that we have learned are no more important than the lessons that we have yet to learn. ...
... is used only in clauses that make a noun more specific is sometimes used to refer to a person or people (usually only in informal writing or in speaking) The lessons that we have learned are no more important than the lessons that we have yet to learn. ...
Declarative Definition of Performance Grammar
... from the subordinate clause and 'moved' into the main clause? Movement of phrases between clauses is due to lateral topology sharing. If a sentence contains more than one verb, each of the verb frames concerned instantiates its own topology. This applies to verbs of any type, whether main, auxiliary ...
... from the subordinate clause and 'moved' into the main clause? Movement of phrases between clauses is due to lateral topology sharing. If a sentence contains more than one verb, each of the verb frames concerned instantiates its own topology. This applies to verbs of any type, whether main, auxiliary ...
Context-Free Grammars for English
... single NP arg within the VP as an argument, and a single NP arg as the subject. ...
... single NP arg within the VP as an argument, and a single NP arg as the subject. ...
MMM6 Proceedings - mediterranean morphology meetings
... dialects of various languages are left without any consideration, and thus overlooked in morphological studies. As Anderwald and Kortmann (2002: 160) point out, the limitation to standard varieties is problematic, especially in languages with a long literary tradition, where the setting of norms has ...
... dialects of various languages are left without any consideration, and thus overlooked in morphological studies. As Anderwald and Kortmann (2002: 160) point out, the limitation to standard varieties is problematic, especially in languages with a long literary tradition, where the setting of norms has ...
C02-1034 - Association for Computational Linguistics
... from the subordinate clause and 'moved' into the main clause? Movement of phrases between clauses is due to lateral topology sharing. If a sentence contains more than one verb, each of the verb frames concerned instantiates its own topology. This applies to verbs of any type, whether main, auxiliary ...
... from the subordinate clause and 'moved' into the main clause? Movement of phrases between clauses is due to lateral topology sharing. If a sentence contains more than one verb, each of the verb frames concerned instantiates its own topology. This applies to verbs of any type, whether main, auxiliary ...
Raymond Hickey, A Promise is a Promise: On speech acts of
... When looking at acts of commitment one sees that the consent of the hearer, which is an integral part of them, is important so that the speaker may achieve his purpose. One might imagine that the speaker can best achieve his purpose if he is independent of the hearer but this is not necessarily so. ...
... When looking at acts of commitment one sees that the consent of the hearer, which is an integral part of them, is important so that the speaker may achieve his purpose. One might imagine that the speaker can best achieve his purpose if he is independent of the hearer but this is not necessarily so. ...
a subtitling analysis of verbs and verb phrases in divergent movie by
... words are the parts of speech called adjectives and adverbs; the words that show a ...
... words are the parts of speech called adjectives and adverbs; the words that show a ...
Elimination of lexical ambiguities by grammars - Accueil HAL-ENPC
... the CONJC tag will be correctly removed because it violates the constraint, but the ADV tag will correctly remain unchanged because it is not concerned by the rule. The "if- then" structure of ELAG disambiguation rules is borrowed from M. Silberztein (1993), because it is a very natural way of formu ...
... the CONJC tag will be correctly removed because it violates the constraint, but the ADV tag will correctly remain unchanged because it is not concerned by the rule. The "if- then" structure of ELAG disambiguation rules is borrowed from M. Silberztein (1993), because it is a very natural way of formu ...
Yamba - MPG.PuRe
... Our study is concentrated on the dialects from which we II~IVC found willing informants. However, since our study is a morphosyntactic study, there is likely to be veiy little difference, if any, when one moves from one dialect to ...
... Our study is concentrated on the dialects from which we II~IVC found willing informants. However, since our study is a morphosyntactic study, there is likely to be veiy little difference, if any, when one moves from one dialect to ...
Language Arts Curriculum Guide Template
... Group Activity: Students cooperate to make a subject -verb mobile using S and ES. For example He plays and They play. Make a game using singular and plural verbs. Have students notice how the verb changes when the subject changes from singular to plural. An example. Shyann plays soccer at the park. ...
... Group Activity: Students cooperate to make a subject -verb mobile using S and ES. For example He plays and They play. Make a game using singular and plural verbs. Have students notice how the verb changes when the subject changes from singular to plural. An example. Shyann plays soccer at the park. ...
LANGUAGE ARTS 300
... Identify what expressions are poetic in comparison to those that are not Find words which begin with the same letter or which rhyme with other words Write your own rhyming couplet Synonyms and Antonyms Match synonym and antonym pairs of words Identify whether or not words are synonyms Find antonym p ...
... Identify what expressions are poetic in comparison to those that are not Find words which begin with the same letter or which rhyme with other words Write your own rhyming couplet Synonyms and Antonyms Match synonym and antonym pairs of words Identify whether or not words are synonyms Find antonym p ...
Development of tag sets for part-of-speech tagging
... We start by reviewing tag sets developed for English corpora in section 1, since English was the first language studied by corpus linguists. Pioneering corpus linguists thought that their English corpora could be more useful research resources if each word was annotated with a part-of-speech label o ...
... We start by reviewing tag sets developed for English corpora in section 1, since English was the first language studied by corpus linguists. Pioneering corpus linguists thought that their English corpora could be more useful research resources if each word was annotated with a part-of-speech label o ...
Development of tag sets for part-of-speech tagging
... We start by reviewing tag sets developed for English corpora in section 1, since English was the first language studied by corpus linguists. Pioneering corpus linguists thought that their English corpora could be more useful research resources if each word was annotated with a part-of-speech label o ...
... We start by reviewing tag sets developed for English corpora in section 1, since English was the first language studied by corpus linguists. Pioneering corpus linguists thought that their English corpora could be more useful research resources if each word was annotated with a part-of-speech label o ...
the error analysis of students` descriptive writing
... Writing English for a foreign learner is difficult because English is different from Indonesian language in its stucture, spelling and lexical meaning. In this case, students who learn English may produce many errors. Such as in structure, there is no tenses in Indonesian language so many students ...
... Writing English for a foreign learner is difficult because English is different from Indonesian language in its stucture, spelling and lexical meaning. In this case, students who learn English may produce many errors. Such as in structure, there is no tenses in Indonesian language so many students ...
the global and the local: modern trends in english studies and
... neighbours, they invite each other, welcome each other, judge each other‘s actions, help or get cross at each other. Two or more states at some moment unite against another „bad‖ state, and decide to help „the poor‖ state at another moment. They have certain kind of relationships. A state sometimes ...
... neighbours, they invite each other, welcome each other, judge each other‘s actions, help or get cross at each other. Two or more states at some moment unite against another „bad‖ state, and decide to help „the poor‖ state at another moment. They have certain kind of relationships. A state sometimes ...