Collocation
... correlated with the other, grammatically non-agreed forms. C.f.: he went – he goes, I went – I go. But apart from the grammatical forms of agreement, the predicative person is directly reflected upon the verb-predicate as such; the very semantics of the person determines the subject reference of the ...
... correlated with the other, grammatically non-agreed forms. C.f.: he went – he goes, I went – I go. But apart from the grammatical forms of agreement, the predicative person is directly reflected upon the verb-predicate as such; the very semantics of the person determines the subject reference of the ...
A Degree Account of Exclamatives
... However, the distribution of P is clearly somewhat restricted, judging from the inability of e.g. (9b) to have this degree reading if some is not stressed (or replaced by another indefinite, like a). 2.1.3. The individual reading The two scenarios above demonstrate two different readings of a single ...
... However, the distribution of P is clearly somewhat restricted, judging from the inability of e.g. (9b) to have this degree reading if some is not stressed (or replaced by another indefinite, like a). 2.1.3. The individual reading The two scenarios above demonstrate two different readings of a single ...
Syntactic Relations - Cornell University
... are no labels associated with constituents, as there are in the standard minimalist framework. In the present framework, of course, this follows from the more fundamental fact that there are simply no constituents in syntax with which labels could be associated. For the moment, I will distinguish th ...
... are no labels associated with constituents, as there are in the standard minimalist framework. In the present framework, of course, this follows from the more fundamental fact that there are simply no constituents in syntax with which labels could be associated. For the moment, I will distinguish th ...
draft - University of Delaware
... cool; and so on. Non-selected elements, like adjectives and possessors, can appear in between pieces of idioms, because they do not disrupt this selection. Adjectives and adverbs may be part of an idiom, as in beat a dead horse or bite the big one, because they select for the projections they adjoin ...
... cool; and so on. Non-selected elements, like adjectives and possessors, can appear in between pieces of idioms, because they do not disrupt this selection. Adjectives and adverbs may be part of an idiom, as in beat a dead horse or bite the big one, because they select for the projections they adjoin ...
Adjectives and Adverbs
... The quality of the broadcasts was not good. Two important inventions came after 1930. Philo T. Farnsworth patented a scanning cathode ray tube in 1930. Kate Smith sang on one of the first scheduled broadcasts. By the early 1940s, twenty-three TV stations were operating. TV grew after the lifting of ...
... The quality of the broadcasts was not good. Two important inventions came after 1930. Philo T. Farnsworth patented a scanning cathode ray tube in 1930. Kate Smith sang on one of the first scheduled broadcasts. By the early 1940s, twenty-three TV stations were operating. TV grew after the lifting of ...
ABSTRACT MEASURING PREDICATES Alexis Wellwood, Doctor of
... syntactic properties of a language with an eye to the notional categories that the various pieces of form express. In this dissertation, I investigate the morphosyntactic devices that English speakers (and speakers of other languages) can use to talk about comparisons between things: comparative sen ...
... syntactic properties of a language with an eye to the notional categories that the various pieces of form express. In this dissertation, I investigate the morphosyntactic devices that English speakers (and speakers of other languages) can use to talk about comparisons between things: comparative sen ...
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax
... processes,I will still seek to encode some notion of selectional information that constrains the way lexical items can be associated with syntactic structure (so in this sense I will consider myself responsible for at least some of the data cited by the lexicalist camp e.g. Levin and Rappaport 1998, ...
... processes,I will still seek to encode some notion of selectional information that constrains the way lexical items can be associated with syntactic structure (so in this sense I will consider myself responsible for at least some of the data cited by the lexicalist camp e.g. Levin and Rappaport 1998, ...
Experiences with the GTU grammar development environment
... Identical variables within a rule stand for shared values. Hence, the feature structures for NP and VP in rule (1) are declared to be identical. In addition the feature structure equation behind the vertical bar | speci es that X must be uni ed with the feature structure [kas=nom]. Rule (2) says tha ...
... Identical variables within a rule stand for shared values. Hence, the feature structures for NP and VP in rule (1) are declared to be identical. In addition the feature structure equation behind the vertical bar | speci es that X must be uni ed with the feature structure [kas=nom]. Rule (2) says tha ...
adverb_test - Bharat School Of Banking
... Rule: When there are two or more adverbs after a verb (and its object), the normal order is; adverb of manner, adverb of place, adverb of time. 14. Incorrect: she did not despise(hate) none of her lovers. Correct: She did not despise any of her lovers. Rule : Two negatives should not be used in the ...
... Rule: When there are two or more adverbs after a verb (and its object), the normal order is; adverb of manner, adverb of place, adverb of time. 14. Incorrect: she did not despise(hate) none of her lovers. Correct: She did not despise any of her lovers. Rule : Two negatives should not be used in the ...
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax
... deployed to create selectional generalisations. One approach to the problem is to deny that such selectional generalisations exist. This is the view most recently taken by Marantz 1997b, Borer 1998 and Borer 2005, whereby lexical items possess no syntactically relevant information that could constit ...
... deployed to create selectional generalisations. One approach to the problem is to deny that such selectional generalisations exist. This is the view most recently taken by Marantz 1997b, Borer 1998 and Borer 2005, whereby lexical items possess no syntactically relevant information that could constit ...
Domain Independent Sentence Generation from RDF
... must be fully and explicitly represented using “tree”structures and descriptive constraints are often attached to the structures to provide control information. The advantage of using tree-like notations as inputs is that rich linguistic information and control information in the input enable NLG sy ...
... must be fully and explicitly represented using “tree”structures and descriptive constraints are often attached to the structures to provide control information. The advantage of using tree-like notations as inputs is that rich linguistic information and control information in the input enable NLG sy ...
Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles
... Defining semantic roles at this intermediate frame level helps avoid some of the well-known difficulties of defining a unique small set of universal, abstract thematic roles, while also allowing some generalization across the roles of different verbs, nouns, and adjectives, each of which adds additi ...
... Defining semantic roles at this intermediate frame level helps avoid some of the well-known difficulties of defining a unique small set of universal, abstract thematic roles, while also allowing some generalization across the roles of different verbs, nouns, and adjectives, each of which adds additi ...
Planning at the Phonological Level during Sentence Production
... errors can thus reveal how much of an utterance is phonologically available at one time. Patterns in phonological errors suggest that phonological encoding is less extensive than grammatical encoding, in that phonological encoding occurs within phrases (involving adjacent words), as opposed to acros ...
... errors can thus reveal how much of an utterance is phonologically available at one time. Patterns in phonological errors suggest that phonological encoding is less extensive than grammatical encoding, in that phonological encoding occurs within phrases (involving adjacent words), as opposed to acros ...
NOUN-NOUN COMBINATIONS IN TECHNICAL ENGLISH Nguyen
... being a good reader. In L1 reading, three kinds of relationship have been discussed: Instrumentalist hypothesis, aptitude hypothesis, and knowledge hypothesis (Anderson & Freebody, 1981; Hiebert & Kamil, 2005). Instrumentalist view can be explained in a very straightforward way: if learners has a go ...
... being a good reader. In L1 reading, three kinds of relationship have been discussed: Instrumentalist hypothesis, aptitude hypothesis, and knowledge hypothesis (Anderson & Freebody, 1981; Hiebert & Kamil, 2005). Instrumentalist view can be explained in a very straightforward way: if learners has a go ...
The syntax and semantics of internally headed relative clauses in
... (Osage), and Graczyk 1991, 2007 (Crow), among others), relative clauses in Hidatsa are internally headed. This means that the noun that is modified by the relative clause is positioned within the relative clause and is not external to it, as happens in languages like English. In §2, I will provide d ...
... (Osage), and Graczyk 1991, 2007 (Crow), among others), relative clauses in Hidatsa are internally headed. This means that the noun that is modified by the relative clause is positioned within the relative clause and is not external to it, as happens in languages like English. In §2, I will provide d ...
The Morphology of Adverbial Clauses in Sheko
... concerned with clauses marked by -n ta, which are mainly conditional clauses. Section 3 covers clauses marked with -b, i.e. the relative clause marker. Adverbial clauses using the relative clause comprise locational, temporal and reason clauses. These clauses are further marked by several morphemes ...
... concerned with clauses marked by -n ta, which are mainly conditional clauses. Section 3 covers clauses marked with -b, i.e. the relative clause marker. Adverbial clauses using the relative clause comprise locational, temporal and reason clauses. These clauses are further marked by several morphemes ...
Rhythm`s role in the genitive construction choice in spoken
... on English datives, Anttila et al. (2010) focus primarily on prosody, mentioning only in passing that other constraints—syntactic, semantic, informational—may also take part in determining syntactic word order. But, it is truly impossible to judge the actual effect of rhythm on syntax if it is exami ...
... on English datives, Anttila et al. (2010) focus primarily on prosody, mentioning only in passing that other constraints—syntactic, semantic, informational—may also take part in determining syntactic word order. But, it is truly impossible to judge the actual effect of rhythm on syntax if it is exami ...
University of Groningen Data-driven identification of fixed
... a more common concept in the literature (Fernando and Flavell, 1981; Nunberg et al., 1994). A non-transparent meaning is the manifestation of opacity. Thus, the more opaque the meaning of a fixed expression is, the more unpredictable it is. Fernando and Flavell (1981) compared the semantic unpredict ...
... a more common concept in the literature (Fernando and Flavell, 1981; Nunberg et al., 1994). A non-transparent meaning is the manifestation of opacity. Thus, the more opaque the meaning of a fixed expression is, the more unpredictable it is. Fernando and Flavell (1981) compared the semantic unpredict ...
12:00 pm Fall 2004
... Furnas: The Vocabulary Problem • People use different words to describe the same things – “If one person assigns the name of an item, other untutored people will fail to access it on 80 to 90 percent of their attempts.” – “Simply stated, the data tell us there is no one good access term for most ob ...
... Furnas: The Vocabulary Problem • People use different words to describe the same things – “If one person assigns the name of an item, other untutored people will fail to access it on 80 to 90 percent of their attempts.” – “Simply stated, the data tell us there is no one good access term for most ob ...
Indexed Stems and Russian Word Formation
... provides for greater generalization in the Russian morphological system. One area of Russian derivation that particularly lends itself to an indexed-stem approach is the highly productive system of personal-noun formation. We present a declarative account of Russian personal nouns that assumes index ...
... provides for greater generalization in the Russian morphological system. One area of Russian derivation that particularly lends itself to an indexed-stem approach is the highly productive system of personal-noun formation. We present a declarative account of Russian personal nouns that assumes index ...
The Bantu-Romance-Greek connection revisited
... vein, researchers have observed similarities in Bantu and Romance languages with regards to weak object pronominals (Labelle 2008; Marten et al. 2008), the structure of the DP (Carstens 2008; Zamparelli 2008), as well as information structure (Costa & Kula 2008; Frascarelli 2008). This paper continu ...
... vein, researchers have observed similarities in Bantu and Romance languages with regards to weak object pronominals (Labelle 2008; Marten et al. 2008), the structure of the DP (Carstens 2008; Zamparelli 2008), as well as information structure (Costa & Kula 2008; Frascarelli 2008). This paper continu ...
The Syntax of Meteorology: The Linguistic Status of Variadic Functions
... be triggered without an actual property of the linguistic material requiring a valuation it lacks as a standing item of linguistic information. This applies to would-be variables of the kind Stanley imagines and also to thematically construed argument positions whether syntactically projected or no ...
... be triggered without an actual property of the linguistic material requiring a valuation it lacks as a standing item of linguistic information. This applies to would-be variables of the kind Stanley imagines and also to thematically construed argument positions whether syntactically projected or no ...
Non-Constituent Coordination: Prosody, Not Movement Benjamin
... Such instances of coordination are obviously problematic for the common hypothesis that coordination can only target constituents. Current approaches to non-constituent coordination all assume that they actually involve coordination of larger categories plus ellipsis.1 There are basically two analys ...
... Such instances of coordination are obviously problematic for the common hypothesis that coordination can only target constituents. Current approaches to non-constituent coordination all assume that they actually involve coordination of larger categories plus ellipsis.1 There are basically two analys ...
Inheritance and Complementation: A Case Study of Easy Adjectives
... in a relationship of inheritance to one another, in which case the properties of the bequeathing class accrue automatically to the inheriting class. Once we allow that a single class may be heir to more than one bequeathing class, we allow, in principle, that no word class property ever need be exam ...
... in a relationship of inheritance to one another, in which case the properties of the bequeathing class accrue automatically to the inheriting class. Once we allow that a single class may be heir to more than one bequeathing class, we allow, in principle, that no word class property ever need be exam ...