Contents of the Reference Section
... people will come to this book because they are learning English and trying to master the structure of the language. As soon as they have enough practical English to master the text, they will find this grammar helpful to them although it has been written primarily for students of advanced level. Th ...
... people will come to this book because they are learning English and trying to master the structure of the language. As soon as they have enough practical English to master the text, they will find this grammar helpful to them although it has been written primarily for students of advanced level. Th ...
Morphological Processing of Compounds for Statistical Machine
... experience. I am very thankful to the phonetics group at IMS for integrating me into their Mittagessensrunde and thereby distracting me from Bleu scores for an hour each day to discuss topics that really matter. Thereof thanks Nadja for selecting unforgetable topics, Kati for constantly extending my ...
... experience. I am very thankful to the phonetics group at IMS for integrating me into their Mittagessensrunde and thereby distracting me from Bleu scores for an hour each day to discuss topics that really matter. Thereof thanks Nadja for selecting unforgetable topics, Kati for constantly extending my ...
Inshallah: Extensive Flouting of Grice`s Maxim of Quality
... maxims, said that men flout the maxims more than women; a finding which proves the opposite of what the common people believe. Brumark (2006) studied cases of non-observance (flouting and violating) to maxims in family dinner table conversations. She discovered that the ages of children may not affe ...
... maxims, said that men flout the maxims more than women; a finding which proves the opposite of what the common people believe. Brumark (2006) studied cases of non-observance (flouting and violating) to maxims in family dinner table conversations. She discovered that the ages of children may not affe ...
Contextually-Dependent Lexical Semantics
... valid conclusions; it might depend on a particular person’s model of the world, the context in which that inference takes place, or on his knowledge. The interpretation of the intransitive John drinks, for example, can depend on the discourse or situational context in which it is uttered, or might b ...
... valid conclusions; it might depend on a particular person’s model of the world, the context in which that inference takes place, or on his knowledge. The interpretation of the intransitive John drinks, for example, can depend on the discourse or situational context in which it is uttered, or might b ...
Speech levels, social predicates and pragmatic structure in Balinese
... conservative dialects of Mountain Balinese, such as the Sembiran dialect in northern central Bali. The earliest known Old Balinese texts, dated 882 CE, 2 already show the influence of Old Javanese (Kawi) and Sanskrit. This suggests that there was cultural contact between the Javanese and Balinese so ...
... conservative dialects of Mountain Balinese, such as the Sembiran dialect in northern central Bali. The earliest known Old Balinese texts, dated 882 CE, 2 already show the influence of Old Javanese (Kawi) and Sanskrit. This suggests that there was cultural contact between the Javanese and Balinese so ...
Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study
... text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the ‘Brown family’ of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and sp ...
... text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the ‘Brown family’ of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and sp ...
An introduction to ecclesiastical latin
... The genius of t h e old Latin language, like t h a t of t h e old Roman people, expressed itself in action and was rich only in verbs and in concrete terms. Abstract ideas were quite foreign t o native Latin thought, and, when the introduction of Greek philosophy rendered it necessary t o express su ...
... The genius of t h e old Latin language, like t h a t of t h e old Roman people, expressed itself in action and was rich only in verbs and in concrete terms. Abstract ideas were quite foreign t o native Latin thought, and, when the introduction of Greek philosophy rendered it necessary t o express su ...
Introducing Arguments - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
... Kamoga-Bombokka and Hassan Sekabira for the Luganda data, Mulalo Doyoyo for the Venda data, Mirel Sharxhi and Dalina Kallulli for the Albanian data, Youngjoo Lee for the Korean data, and Danny Fox and Maya Arad for the Hebrew data. This thesis is purely theoretical but it could have just as well bee ...
... Kamoga-Bombokka and Hassan Sekabira for the Luganda data, Mulalo Doyoyo for the Venda data, Mirel Sharxhi and Dalina Kallulli for the Albanian data, Youngjoo Lee for the Korean data, and Danny Fox and Maya Arad for the Hebrew data. This thesis is purely theoretical but it could have just as well bee ...
320 pages - Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori
... supporting children in their text production and grammar emerged from a study on how primary school children write by hand in comparison to when they use a computer. Special thanks to my colleague Torbjörn Lager, who inspired me to do this study and whose children attended the school where I gather ...
... supporting children in their text production and grammar emerged from a study on how primary school children write by hand in comparison to when they use a computer. Special thanks to my colleague Torbjörn Lager, who inspired me to do this study and whose children attended the school where I gather ...
Open Access version via Utrecht University Repository
... emphasis, although he does not use the same terminology used in this thesis. He finds half of his cleft examples to have a contrastive function, as it would be called in this thesis.7 It is shown in this thesis that the contrastive function may even be more ...
... emphasis, although he does not use the same terminology used in this thesis. He finds half of his cleft examples to have a contrastive function, as it would be called in this thesis.7 It is shown in this thesis that the contrastive function may even be more ...
English suffixes: Stress-assignment properties, productivity
... the reliability criteria prescribed in lexicography. References have however been made to these online databases, notably to measure the potential productivity of some highly specialised or strictly scientific families of words, since Wikipedia and Wiktionary have obtained such items from scientific ...
... the reliability criteria prescribed in lexicography. References have however been made to these online databases, notably to measure the potential productivity of some highly specialised or strictly scientific families of words, since Wikipedia and Wiktionary have obtained such items from scientific ...
Nominal Roots as Event Predicates in English Denominal
... a constraint on possible interpretations is identified: intransitive denominal conversion 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 ...
... a constraint on possible interpretations is identified: intransitive denominal conversion 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 ...
Full text - Universiteit Leiden
... The process leading to this thesis began when, during my MA studies in Zurich, my then supervisor Dr. Philippe Maurer introduced me to a Timorese student, Eduardo da Costa Guterres. His native tongue, Makasae, ended up being the topic of my MA thesis. Eduardo’s commitment and enthusiasm convinced me ...
... The process leading to this thesis began when, during my MA studies in Zurich, my then supervisor Dr. Philippe Maurer introduced me to a Timorese student, Eduardo da Costa Guterres. His native tongue, Makasae, ended up being the topic of my MA thesis. Eduardo’s commitment and enthusiasm convinced me ...
Colloquial Catalan: The Complete Course for
... Catalan is a Romance language with many similarities to other languages in this group, such as Portuguese, Italian or Spanish. Catalan also shares many features with English, which helps make it easy to learn. If you look at some of the texts you should be able to identify quite a few words, even be ...
... Catalan is a Romance language with many similarities to other languages in this group, such as Portuguese, Italian or Spanish. Catalan also shares many features with English, which helps make it easy to learn. If you look at some of the texts you should be able to identify quite a few words, even be ...
NGỮ PHÁP THỰC HÀNH NÂNG CAO
... The book will probably be most useful for more advanced level students for reference an practice. Students at these levels will have covered many of the grammar points before, aim some of the explanations and practice exercises will provide revision material. However, all unit: are likely to contain ...
... The book will probably be most useful for more advanced level students for reference an practice. Students at these levels will have covered many of the grammar points before, aim some of the explanations and practice exercises will provide revision material. However, all unit: are likely to contain ...
A Study of Word Order Variation in German, with Special Reference
... deal with word order variation in Machine Translation. It specially refers to modifier placement, as modifiers are generally neglected in linguistic (word order) description. The order of phrases in free word order languages is not entirely free, as some variations can be ungrammatical, and further ...
... deal with word order variation in Machine Translation. It specially refers to modifier placement, as modifiers are generally neglected in linguistic (word order) description. The order of phrases in free word order languages is not entirely free, as some variations can be ungrammatical, and further ...
Grammar Practice Book
... 7. You hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon? Terrific! 8. Whoa! Turn left at the second traffic light. 9. Hey, what time do you leave? 10. Gosh, it is hot! ...
... 7. You hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon? Terrific! 8. Whoa! Turn left at the second traffic light. 9. Hey, what time do you leave? 10. Gosh, it is hot! ...
Contents NICE style guide
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... Alternate ............................................................................................................................. 24 Alternative .......................................................................................................................... 25 Although .............. ...
Interlingua based English-Hindi Machine
... because of the fact that such a representation allows surface syntactic distinctions to be represented at a level that is independent of the underlying meanings of the source and target sentences. Factoring out these distinctions allows cross linguistic generalizations to be captured at the level of ...
... because of the fact that such a representation allows surface syntactic distinctions to be represented at a level that is independent of the underlying meanings of the source and target sentences. Factoring out these distinctions allows cross linguistic generalizations to be captured at the level of ...
fulltext - LOT Publications
... village or back. I would also like to thank them for the meals that they prepared and that we used at their pleasant lodging at the side of the river Wardo. I would like to thank the members of the reading comittee: Marian Klamer, Geert Booij, Pieter Muysken, Bernard Comrie and Piet van Reenen for r ...
... village or back. I would also like to thank them for the meals that they prepared and that we used at their pleasant lodging at the side of the river Wardo. I would like to thank the members of the reading comittee: Marian Klamer, Geert Booij, Pieter Muysken, Bernard Comrie and Piet van Reenen for r ...
Collins CoBUILD Grammar
... influence their friends and colleagues and create a rich social life for themselves. They are only interested in the grammatical structure of the language as a means to getting things done. A grammar which puts together the patterns of the language and the things you can do with them is called a fun ...
... influence their friends and colleagues and create a rich social life for themselves. They are only interested in the grammatical structure of the language as a means to getting things done. A grammar which puts together the patterns of the language and the things you can do with them is called a fun ...
a lexical semantic study of four-character sino
... senior supervisor, for her helpful academic and technical advice, thorough proofreading of my work, and continuous encouragement throughout my MA. I cannot imagine how the state of my mind would have been without her support. I cannot thank her enough for being an attentive listener, reading my draf ...
... senior supervisor, for her helpful academic and technical advice, thorough proofreading of my work, and continuous encouragement throughout my MA. I cannot imagine how the state of my mind would have been without her support. I cannot thank her enough for being an attentive listener, reading my draf ...
Essay writing from the English for Uni website
... Scope – (only 4 aspects are covered here to keep the example short) Positive: Can positively impact on mood Positive: Possible health benefits for cardiovascular system Negative: Chocolate can be seen as a drug rather than a food Negative: Potential correlation between over-consumption of chocolate ...
... Scope – (only 4 aspects are covered here to keep the example short) Positive: Can positively impact on mood Positive: Possible health benefits for cardiovascular system Negative: Chocolate can be seen as a drug rather than a food Negative: Potential correlation between over-consumption of chocolate ...