The evolution of number in Otomi
... In Old Otomi, the number system in pronominals was based on a singular-dual-plural opposition, but the dual became an unstable value in the breaking up of the old dialectal continuum. The instability is witnessed in that some of the modern languages stray considerably from the original situation, w ...
... In Old Otomi, the number system in pronominals was based on a singular-dual-plural opposition, but the dual became an unstable value in the breaking up of the old dialectal continuum. The instability is witnessed in that some of the modern languages stray considerably from the original situation, w ...
Distributional semantics in linguistic and cognitive research
... It may be presumed that any two morphemes A and B having different meanings, also differ somewhere in distribution: there are some environments in which one occurs and the other does not (Ibidem). ...
... It may be presumed that any two morphemes A and B having different meanings, also differ somewhere in distribution: there are some environments in which one occurs and the other does not (Ibidem). ...
complete issue - FRITT
... and American Studies). Since then, other projects have followed, notably Språk i kontrast (directed by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Stig Johansson), the RussianNorwegian (RuN) corpus project (directed by Atle Grønn), and the Information Structure and Word Order Change in Germanic and Romance Langua ...
... and American Studies). Since then, other projects have followed, notably Språk i kontrast (directed by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Stig Johansson), the RussianNorwegian (RuN) corpus project (directed by Atle Grønn), and the Information Structure and Word Order Change in Germanic and Romance Langua ...
bardi verb morphology in historical perspective
... results presented here are a significant contribution to a topic in linguistics that it has only recently become possible to research. My analysis of Nyulnyulan verbal morphology and predicate formation is both synchronic and diachronic. I give an analysis of the structure of verbal predicates in th ...
... results presented here are a significant contribution to a topic in linguistics that it has only recently become possible to research. My analysis of Nyulnyulan verbal morphology and predicate formation is both synchronic and diachronic. I give an analysis of the structure of verbal predicates in th ...
Document
... disciplines such as theory of information, literature, psychology, logic and to some extent statistics must be touched upon. This is indispensable; for nowadays no science is entirely isolated from other domains of human knowledge; and linguistics, particularly its branch stylistics, cannot avoid re ...
... disciplines such as theory of information, literature, psychology, logic and to some extent statistics must be touched upon. This is indispensable; for nowadays no science is entirely isolated from other domains of human knowledge; and linguistics, particularly its branch stylistics, cannot avoid re ...
ABSTRACT - NEHU Institutional Repository
... call it Mande Kusik 'the language of men'.'* The term 'Garo' was given to them by other communities who came across them, but the people themselves use the terms Achik or Mande. Garo is predominantly a verb final language, so that the order of words in Garo is generally SOV, namely. Subject Object V ...
... call it Mande Kusik 'the language of men'.'* The term 'Garo' was given to them by other communities who came across them, but the people themselves use the terms Achik or Mande. Garo is predominantly a verb final language, so that the order of words in Garo is generally SOV, namely. Subject Object V ...
2_7 Luraghi_Clitics
... spite of displaying various morphosyntactic features typical of free rather than bound morphemes. This characteristic is puzzling only inasmuch as one’s theoretical orientation forces one to work with discrete, rather than fuzzy categories, and if one fails to consider the type of information convey ...
... spite of displaying various morphosyntactic features typical of free rather than bound morphemes. This characteristic is puzzling only inasmuch as one’s theoretical orientation forces one to work with discrete, rather than fuzzy categories, and if one fails to consider the type of information convey ...
Collocation
... expresses some abstract relation, such combinations, as a rule, are quite obviously non-self-dependent; they are as it was, stamped as artificially isolated from the context. Cf.: in a low voice; with difficulty; must finish; but a moment; and Jimmy; too cold; so unexpectedly. We call these combinat ...
... expresses some abstract relation, such combinations, as a rule, are quite obviously non-self-dependent; they are as it was, stamped as artificially isolated from the context. Cf.: in a low voice; with difficulty; must finish; but a moment; and Jimmy; too cold; so unexpectedly. We call these combinat ...
A Typology of Verbal Borrowings
... The present volume is the revised version of my dissertation which was submitted to the Faculty of Philology of Leipzig University in January 2008 and defended in July 2008. This thesis took shape during the four years of the XXVIIIth Olympiad which I spent at the Department of Linguistics of the M ...
... The present volume is the revised version of my dissertation which was submitted to the Faculty of Philology of Leipzig University in January 2008 and defended in July 2008. This thesis took shape during the four years of the XXVIIIth Olympiad which I spent at the Department of Linguistics of the M ...
The Origin and Development of Nonconcatenative Morphology by
... and perhaps most important is the morphologization of previously phonological alternations. This includes alternations related to the long-distance influence of a vowel or consonant and those occasioned by the prosodic structure of a word, particularly stress placement. The other two processes are a ...
... and perhaps most important is the morphologization of previously phonological alternations. This includes alternations related to the long-distance influence of a vowel or consonant and those occasioned by the prosodic structure of a word, particularly stress placement. The other two processes are a ...
Vanderbilt University STYLE GUIDE
... capitalization) is acceptable on subsequent references. alumnus — Alumnus refers to a man; plural is alumni. Alumna refers to a woman; plural is alumnae. Use alumni when referring to a group of men and women. Note that individuals who attended Vanderbilt but did not complete a degree should not be r ...
... capitalization) is acceptable on subsequent references. alumnus — Alumnus refers to a man; plural is alumni. Alumna refers to a woman; plural is alumnae. Use alumni when referring to a group of men and women. Note that individuals who attended Vanderbilt but did not complete a degree should not be r ...
Making Dictionaries
... 8.4 Handling ritual speech and other special registers ............................................................154 9. Special considerations for parts of speech (\ps) ..................................................................157 9.1 Common principles behind determining parts of speech .. ...
... 8.4 Handling ritual speech and other special registers ............................................................154 9. Special considerations for parts of speech (\ps) ..................................................................157 9.1 Common principles behind determining parts of speech .. ...
v. nominalization as a cohesive device in
... Halliday and Hasan (2005: 1) specify that a text is a semantic unit of meaning and is realised by sentences. When the speaker of English comes across a passage which consists of more than one sentence, he/she can easily decide whether it makes a unified whole or is just an incoherent sequence of sen ...
... Halliday and Hasan (2005: 1) specify that a text is a semantic unit of meaning and is realised by sentences. When the speaker of English comes across a passage which consists of more than one sentence, he/she can easily decide whether it makes a unified whole or is just an incoherent sequence of sen ...
StudMon 9_title.indd
... Goldwasser 2006a. The most thorough analysis of the “determinative” phenomenon in the Egyptological literature before this decade was done by Champollion 1836; however, this part of his legacy is often forgotten in Egyptology. This argument can even be found in the latest discussions on the Egyptian ...
... Goldwasser 2006a. The most thorough analysis of the “determinative” phenomenon in the Egyptological literature before this decade was done by Champollion 1836; however, this part of his legacy is often forgotten in Egyptology. This argument can even be found in the latest discussions on the Egyptian ...
Pronunciation - Chinook Jargon
... The goal of this book is to let English speakers acquire an intelligible pronunciation of Chinook Jargon in as short of time period as possible and to have fun doing it. In the spelling system used in this book, each letter or letter combination has a single pronunciation and there are no silent let ...
... The goal of this book is to let English speakers acquire an intelligible pronunciation of Chinook Jargon in as short of time period as possible and to have fun doing it. In the spelling system used in this book, each letter or letter combination has a single pronunciation and there are no silent let ...
Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach
... interactions between theory, analysis and data, and how developments in any one of these areas affects the others. The second way in which the material of the book could be considered ‘core’ is that I have tried to cover a broad range of phenomena which form a (somewhat nebulous) area of empirical i ...
... interactions between theory, analysis and data, and how developments in any one of these areas affects the others. The second way in which the material of the book could be considered ‘core’ is that I have tried to cover a broad range of phenomena which form a (somewhat nebulous) area of empirical i ...
Document
... increases understanding of the songs. The Kick Dance and Flower Dance are two important ceremonies of the Hupa, and there are three other ceremonial dances that are important today, the Brush Dance, the White Deerskin Dance, and the Jump Dance. Knowledge about the ceremonies provides listeners with ...
... increases understanding of the songs. The Kick Dance and Flower Dance are two important ceremonies of the Hupa, and there are three other ceremonial dances that are important today, the Brush Dance, the White Deerskin Dance, and the Jump Dance. Knowledge about the ceremonies provides listeners with ...
Sub-English 2 nd Paper
... Participle Preposition-If a participle acts as a preposition , that is called participle preposition. * Participle-Whenever a word acts as a verb and adjective that is called Participle. Likewise ,I have seen a written document.Here the word ‘written’ is a participle and It has been acting as a pre ...
... Participle Preposition-If a participle acts as a preposition , that is called participle preposition. * Participle-Whenever a word acts as a verb and adjective that is called Participle. Likewise ,I have seen a written document.Here the word ‘written’ is a participle and It has been acting as a pre ...
Hmong Elaborate Expressions are Coordinate Compounds
... some mechanism is required for capturing an apparent bracketing paradox in which simple coordinate compounds occur as discontinuous constituents within an elaborate expression. I argue that the problem of representing two overlapping structures (on “syntactic” and one lexical/morphological) can be l ...
... some mechanism is required for capturing an apparent bracketing paradox in which simple coordinate compounds occur as discontinuous constituents within an elaborate expression. I argue that the problem of representing two overlapping structures (on “syntactic” and one lexical/morphological) can be l ...
Acquisition of Swedish Grammar
... Although the Scandinavian languages have played an important role as research object in the development of generative grammar during the last twenty years, they have not been a prominent subject for studies of language acquisition within this research paradigm. Swedish is no exception. There are a h ...
... Although the Scandinavian languages have played an important role as research object in the development of generative grammar during the last twenty years, they have not been a prominent subject for studies of language acquisition within this research paradigm. Swedish is no exception. There are a h ...
Logical and typological arguments for Radical
... The first typological problem with the application of the distributional method is that the construction used as a diagnostic for a syntactic category in one language may be absent in another language. For example, many theories of parts of speech use morphological inflections to divide words into t ...
... The first typological problem with the application of the distributional method is that the construction used as a diagnostic for a syntactic category in one language may be absent in another language. For example, many theories of parts of speech use morphological inflections to divide words into t ...
Uppsala University
... iconic origin to some or all occurrences of reduplication, i.e. whether or not there is any ‘obvious’ function of it that is conventional in most or all languages that use it. As we will see, the process of reduplication will result in seemingly different semantic modifications when used on differen ...
... iconic origin to some or all occurrences of reduplication, i.e. whether or not there is any ‘obvious’ function of it that is conventional in most or all languages that use it. As we will see, the process of reduplication will result in seemingly different semantic modifications when used on differen ...
1 The grammar of knowledge: a cross-linguistic
... into the category of 'gender'. Along similar lines, 'evidentiality' is a linguistic category whose real-life counterpart is information source. Information source can be expressed in a variety of ways. These may include lexical means, including verbs of perception ('see', 'hear', 'smell') and cognit ...
... into the category of 'gender'. Along similar lines, 'evidentiality' is a linguistic category whose real-life counterpart is information source. Information source can be expressed in a variety of ways. These may include lexical means, including verbs of perception ('see', 'hear', 'smell') and cognit ...
the definition of the grammatical category in a syntactically oriented
... that lack some particular characteristics, with the result that they have an atypical syntactic behaviour. We propose that there are two main ways to generate a compound: to have a structure that lacks inflectional features and to have a structure that has satisfied each one of its syntactic operati ...
... that lack some particular characteristics, with the result that they have an atypical syntactic behaviour. We propose that there are two main ways to generate a compound: to have a structure that lacks inflectional features and to have a structure that has satisfied each one of its syntactic operati ...
Aspects of the Syntactic Problems of Esan Learners
... So, the ni or ọni (that), like the na or ọna (this) lexemes are demonstrative pronouns used to indicate objects of far or close proximities respectively. This suggests that this ...
... So, the ni or ọni (that), like the na or ọna (this) lexemes are demonstrative pronouns used to indicate objects of far or close proximities respectively. This suggests that this ...
Agglutination
Agglutination is a process in linguistic morphology derivation in which complex words are formed by stringing together morphemes without changing them in spelling or phonetics. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages. An example of such a language is Turkish, where for example, the word evlerinizden, or ""from your houses,"" consists of the morphemes, ev-ler-iniz-den with the meanings house-plural-your-from.Agglutinative languages are often contrasted both with languages in which syntactic structure is expressed solely by means of word order and auxiliary words (isolating languages) and with languages in which a single affix typically expresses several syntactic categories and a single category may be expressed by several different affixes (as is the case in inflectional (fusional) languages). However, both fusional and isolating languages may use agglutination in the most-often-used constructs, and use agglutination heavily in certain contexts, such as word derivation. This is the case in English, which has an agglutinated plural marker -(e)s and derived words such as shame·less·ness.Agglutinative suffixes are often inserted irrespective of syllabic boundaries, for example, by adding a consonant to the syllable coda as in English tie – ties. Agglutinative languages also have large inventories of enclitics, which can be and are separated from the word root by native speakers in daily usage.Note that the term agglutination is sometimes used more generally to refer to the morphological process of adding suffixes or other morphemes to the base of a word. This is treated in more detail in the section on other uses of the term.