An Introduction of New Syntactic Elements: A
... incomplete intransitive verb, and a subject complement. It is a type 2 sentence. The same is true of sentences (8b), (8c), (8d), (8f), and (8g), which are each comprised of a nominative case subject, a tensed verb, a subject complement, and a modifier. This is a problematic analysis for two reasons. ...
... incomplete intransitive verb, and a subject complement. It is a type 2 sentence. The same is true of sentences (8b), (8c), (8d), (8f), and (8g), which are each comprised of a nominative case subject, a tensed verb, a subject complement, and a modifier. This is a problematic analysis for two reasons. ...
Filling Gaps: Decision principles and structure in sentence
... strategy of assigning the most recent potential filler to a gap. Hence, 'recent filler' sentences where this assignment proves to be correct takes less time to comprehend than 'distant filler' sentences where this decision turns out to be incorrect. Second, the recent filler strategy is itself just ...
... strategy of assigning the most recent potential filler to a gap. Hence, 'recent filler' sentences where this assignment proves to be correct takes less time to comprehend than 'distant filler' sentences where this decision turns out to be incorrect. Second, the recent filler strategy is itself just ...
10 Conclusions - General Guide To Personal and Societies Web
... of study. We shall not pursue the philosophical arguments and counter-arguments concerning E-Language and I-Language (but see for example [DUMM86], [CHOM96]), but shall use the notions of E-Language and I-Language to differentiate between the natural language text to be processed, which can be uniqu ...
... of study. We shall not pursue the philosophical arguments and counter-arguments concerning E-Language and I-Language (but see for example [DUMM86], [CHOM96]), but shall use the notions of E-Language and I-Language to differentiate between the natural language text to be processed, which can be uniqu ...
Adverbs
... • Adverbs of manner tell “how much?” or “to what degree?” something occurs. • Adverbs of manner are often the ones that describe adjectives or other adverbs. Example: I am very tired. (To what degree am I tired? Very. “Very” is an adverb of manner.) Example: We were too sleepy to continue the activi ...
... • Adverbs of manner tell “how much?” or “to what degree?” something occurs. • Adverbs of manner are often the ones that describe adjectives or other adverbs. Example: I am very tired. (To what degree am I tired? Very. “Very” is an adverb of manner.) Example: We were too sleepy to continue the activi ...
Planning at the Phonological Level during Sentence Production
... 1992). With regard to planning, slips of the tongue may arise precisely because too many words are computed at the same time. They thus erroneously suggest more planning than normally occurs. Although error evidence has provided insight into planning in spontaneous speech for the reasons mentioned a ...
... 1992). With regard to planning, slips of the tongue may arise precisely because too many words are computed at the same time. They thus erroneously suggest more planning than normally occurs. Although error evidence has provided insight into planning in spontaneous speech for the reasons mentioned a ...
Reflexive and Reciprocal Constructions in Modern Irish
... The notion of c-command depends crucially on tree structural requirements for its operation. It is usually defined in terms similar to the following, adapted from Borsley (1999: 96ff): December 2000 ...
... The notion of c-command depends crucially on tree structural requirements for its operation. It is usually defined in terms similar to the following, adapted from Borsley (1999: 96ff): December 2000 ...
specificational
... Groenendijk / Stokhof (1982) actually distinguish between extensional and intensional questions: extensional questions are functions from possible worlds to the one true answer, intensional questions are functions from possible worlds to possible answers. I will later argue that questions in an inte ...
... Groenendijk / Stokhof (1982) actually distinguish between extensional and intensional questions: extensional questions are functions from possible worlds to the one true answer, intensional questions are functions from possible worlds to possible answers. I will later argue that questions in an inte ...
The Interpretation of English Sentences Containing Quantification
... Various linguistic phenomena have been examined under such proposals, and recent developments have continued this line of inquiry in interface domains that have proved particularly problematic in L2 acquisition. Competence vs. performance discrepancies in which L2 learners exhibit difficulty despite ...
... Various linguistic phenomena have been examined under such proposals, and recent developments have continued this line of inquiry in interface domains that have proved particularly problematic in L2 acquisition. Competence vs. performance discrepancies in which L2 learners exhibit difficulty despite ...
DESIGNING SYNTACTIC REPRESENTATIONS FOR NLP: AN
... The results and analyses presented in this work show that the main (and perhaps only) reason to use a lexical-head design is to support crosslinguistic parallelism. However, that is only possible if function words are defined uniformly across languages, and doing so satisfactorily requires the use o ...
... The results and analyses presented in this work show that the main (and perhaps only) reason to use a lexical-head design is to support crosslinguistic parallelism. However, that is only possible if function words are defined uniformly across languages, and doing so satisfactorily requires the use o ...
Clause patterns in Modern British English: A corpus
... 1971; Ellegård, 1978; De Haan, 1989a) Table 1.1: Some quantitative corpus-based studies (cf. de Haan, 1989a: 50) object of study: ...
... 1971; Ellegård, 1978; De Haan, 1989a) Table 1.1: Some quantitative corpus-based studies (cf. de Haan, 1989a: 50) object of study: ...
Bonus questions to accompany The Official ACT Prep Guide
... which are sometimes supported financially by local businesses. 5 About halfway through the school year, I learned that the exchange program was looking for a new home for Ligia. After a severe storm, the basement of her hosts 6 house had flooded, leaving two bedrooms unusable. The two "little brothe ...
... which are sometimes supported financially by local businesses. 5 About halfway through the school year, I learned that the exchange program was looking for a new home for Ligia. After a severe storm, the basement of her hosts 6 house had flooded, leaving two bedrooms unusable. The two "little brothe ...
2. I - Bakersfield College
... one point per entry if it is too short or one week late. I will not grade your feelings or opinions. I will make comments if you’d like. For two entries per week, you will write on an assigned topic. It may be from America Now. You must argue a point or give your opinion on the assigned topic. Back ...
... one point per entry if it is too short or one week late. I will not grade your feelings or opinions. I will make comments if you’d like. For two entries per week, you will write on an assigned topic. It may be from America Now. You must argue a point or give your opinion on the assigned topic. Back ...
Document
... above examples, the form that follows is a traditional pattern. By traditional, we mean that it is handed down from one generation to the next. It is possible for an individual to originate a song, even in a traditional culture. In Hupa culture, many songs are expressions of living things in natur ...
... above examples, the form that follows is a traditional pattern. By traditional, we mean that it is handed down from one generation to the next. It is possible for an individual to originate a song, even in a traditional culture. In Hupa culture, many songs are expressions of living things in natur ...
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 ...
Compromising transitivity: the problem of reciprocals
... creating a binding relation between the NP in surface subject position and the trace remaining in object position. Reflexive/reciprocal constructions also require the ‘be’ auxiliary since a (different type of) binding relation exists between the antecedent subject and the reflexive/reciprocal object ...
... creating a binding relation between the NP in surface subject position and the trace remaining in object position. Reflexive/reciprocal constructions also require the ‘be’ auxiliary since a (different type of) binding relation exists between the antecedent subject and the reflexive/reciprocal object ...
3-Main_contentl - Tài Nguyên Số
... forms that are used to signal modality. It is distinct from grammatical tense or grammatical aspect, although these concepts are conflated to some degree in many languages, including English. To some extent, the same word patterns are used to express more than one of these concepts at the same time, ...
... forms that are used to signal modality. It is distinct from grammatical tense or grammatical aspect, although these concepts are conflated to some degree in many languages, including English. To some extent, the same word patterns are used to express more than one of these concepts at the same time, ...
Lessons, Exercises, and Readings in the Writer`s
... Grammar focuses on how a language is organized, or coded. For the purposes of this class, grammar includes punctuation and style. The rules of grammar, punctuation, and style vary from language to language; these ―rules‖ (also called ―conventions‖) create choices for writers while maintaining a gene ...
... Grammar focuses on how a language is organized, or coded. For the purposes of this class, grammar includes punctuation and style. The rules of grammar, punctuation, and style vary from language to language; these ―rules‖ (also called ―conventions‖) create choices for writers while maintaining a gene ...
Discourse, grammar, discourse
... horse kind of helps you out).3 Such grammatical and conceptual equivalents are not necessarily discoursally equivalent, however. Some variants better serve the speaker’s current discourse needs or goals than others. Section 2 presents three examples for how, when and why speakers strategically selec ...
... horse kind of helps you out).3 Such grammatical and conceptual equivalents are not necessarily discoursally equivalent, however. Some variants better serve the speaker’s current discourse needs or goals than others. Section 2 presents three examples for how, when and why speakers strategically selec ...
Cross-linguistic priming of syntactic hierarchical
... (non-)selectivity in lexical processing, researchers interested in the syntactic level of language processing have been less active in investigating bilinguals’ organization of linguistic knowledge. The same theoretical question can be asked about syntactic processing. On the one hand, bilinguals ma ...
... (non-)selectivity in lexical processing, researchers interested in the syntactic level of language processing have been less active in investigating bilinguals’ organization of linguistic knowledge. The same theoretical question can be asked about syntactic processing. On the one hand, bilinguals ma ...
Oxford English Dictionary
... The OED has had many homes, from James Murray’s first ‘scriptorium’ in the grounds of Mill Hill School in London to its present offices in OUP’s main Oxford site. This issue of OED News features a report by Jesse Sheidlower – the first, I hope, of many – from the Dictionary’s newest and most signifi ...
... The OED has had many homes, from James Murray’s first ‘scriptorium’ in the grounds of Mill Hill School in London to its present offices in OUP’s main Oxford site. This issue of OED News features a report by Jesse Sheidlower – the first, I hope, of many – from the Dictionary’s newest and most signifi ...
Syntax in Functional Grammar: An Introduction to
... awareness of how it is structured. Likewise we can use it in very different circumstances without being at all conscious of the important role played by the particular situation on our choice of language wording. Yet a change, for example, in the social role we are playing or in who we are talking t ...
... awareness of how it is structured. Likewise we can use it in very different circumstances without being at all conscious of the important role played by the particular situation on our choice of language wording. Yet a change, for example, in the social role we are playing or in who we are talking t ...
Grammar in Newspaper Headlines
... As it was already mentioned above, block language often consists of lexical items lower than sentences, for example of just one dependent clause or a noun phrase, each functioning independently as in How coal is the future (T) or When boys and girls come out to play (G) or New raps for Mr & Mrs Can ...
... As it was already mentioned above, block language often consists of lexical items lower than sentences, for example of just one dependent clause or a noun phrase, each functioning independently as in How coal is the future (T) or When boys and girls come out to play (G) or New raps for Mr & Mrs Can ...
PP #8—Complex Sentences - Romeo Community Schools
... When composing a compound sentence, you have a choice between a same-subject and a different-subject sentence. Example A is a same-subject sentence: Cortez, the subject of the first sentence, and he, the subject of the second sentence, refer to the same person. (In most samesubject sentences, the su ...
... When composing a compound sentence, you have a choice between a same-subject and a different-subject sentence. Example A is a same-subject sentence: Cortez, the subject of the first sentence, and he, the subject of the second sentence, refer to the same person. (In most samesubject sentences, the su ...
lexical and structural ambiguity in humorous headlines
... context" (Giora, 2003: 44). However, the way these lexical meanings are activated and the time at which they are accessed during sentence processing are subjects of debate and have engendered a series of opposing or sometimes partially overlapping theories. For example, one of the first distinctions ...
... context" (Giora, 2003: 44). However, the way these lexical meanings are activated and the time at which they are accessed during sentence processing are subjects of debate and have engendered a series of opposing or sometimes partially overlapping theories. For example, one of the first distinctions ...