Lexical Resources for Noun Compounds in Czech, English and Zulu
... follows. Noun compounds are head-final and thus leftbranching. English has very few compounds like attorney general, where the phrasal head is not the rightmost member. In most compounds, the phrasal head is also the semantic head, i.e., the constituent that expresses the basic meaning of the compou ...
... follows. Noun compounds are head-final and thus leftbranching. English has very few compounds like attorney general, where the phrasal head is not the rightmost member. In most compounds, the phrasal head is also the semantic head, i.e., the constituent that expresses the basic meaning of the compou ...
The morphology and syntax of Scottish English
... weighs eight stone, two year old. In Macaulay’s data (1991: 110) forty one out of ninety measure nouns are plural. Minute, day, week, shilling, inch and yard are always plural after numerals greater than 1. The percentage of inflected plurals for other nouns is pound - 89%, month - 86%, year 68%, to ...
... weighs eight stone, two year old. In Macaulay’s data (1991: 110) forty one out of ninety measure nouns are plural. Minute, day, week, shilling, inch and yard are always plural after numerals greater than 1. The percentage of inflected plurals for other nouns is pound - 89%, month - 86%, year 68%, to ...
2005 - Dr. Lukas Pietsch
... The present chapter reports on a new corpus-based study (Pietsch 2003, 2005) which attempts to complement this existing research in two ways. With respect to empirical description, a mostly diatopic-comparative perspective was chosen. Being based on dialectal speech recordings sampled over relativel ...
... The present chapter reports on a new corpus-based study (Pietsch 2003, 2005) which attempts to complement this existing research in two ways. With respect to empirical description, a mostly diatopic-comparative perspective was chosen. Being based on dialectal speech recordings sampled over relativel ...
Tense, Time, Aspect and the Ancient Greek Verb
... mood that it uses either the present or aorist tense; it is rather that in the subjunctive mood these tenses indicate something other than time, viz. aspect. The Greek verb is used in four moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive, optative) and two ‘non-finite’ (as some people like to think of the ...
... mood that it uses either the present or aorist tense; it is rather that in the subjunctive mood these tenses indicate something other than time, viz. aspect. The Greek verb is used in four moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive, optative) and two ‘non-finite’ (as some people like to think of the ...
Tense, Time, Aspect and the Ancient Greek Verb
... mood that it uses either the present or aorist tense; it is rather that in the subjunctive mood these tenses indicate something other than time, viz. aspect. The Greek verb is used in four moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive, optative) and two ‘non-finite’ (as some people like to think of the ...
... mood that it uses either the present or aorist tense; it is rather that in the subjunctive mood these tenses indicate something other than time, viz. aspect. The Greek verb is used in four moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive, optative) and two ‘non-finite’ (as some people like to think of the ...
A Brief Syntactic Typology of Philippine Languages
... also the case relation of a genitively marked NP in construction with a noun head, commonly referred to as “possessive construction”; MEANS is the case relation defined by Starosta (1988:126) as “the perceived immediate affector or effector of the Patient… the means by which the action, state, or ev ...
... also the case relation of a genitively marked NP in construction with a noun head, commonly referred to as “possessive construction”; MEANS is the case relation defined by Starosta (1988:126) as “the perceived immediate affector or effector of the Patient… the means by which the action, state, or ev ...
Automatic approaches 1: frequency
... • Fix: pass the candidate phrases through a part ofspeech filter which only lets through those patterns that are likely to be “phrases”. (Justesen and Katz, 1995) ...
... • Fix: pass the candidate phrases through a part ofspeech filter which only lets through those patterns that are likely to be “phrases”. (Justesen and Katz, 1995) ...
Adverb Clause - jeffrey scott longstaff
... John needs to get to work on time since he wants to keep that job. We have to get up early because we want to get to work on time. Because I have earned a lot of money this week, I will take you out for dinner. ...
... John needs to get to work on time since he wants to keep that job. We have to get up early because we want to get to work on time. Because I have earned a lot of money this week, I will take you out for dinner. ...
The Latin Alphabet
... was in turn derived from the archaic Greek alphabet, which came from the Phoenician. The letters J, U, and W of the modern alphabet were added in medieval times, and did not appear in the classical alphabet, except that J and U could be alternative forms for I and V. A comparison of the Greek and La ...
... was in turn derived from the archaic Greek alphabet, which came from the Phoenician. The letters J, U, and W of the modern alphabet were added in medieval times, and did not appear in the classical alphabet, except that J and U could be alternative forms for I and V. A comparison of the Greek and La ...
Gerunds
... Gerunds – special notes on cases (1) Nominative: subject [infinitive in form] (2) Genitive: whenever you need “of” or “for” (objective genitive); often shows purpose with causā or gratiā “for the sake of” (3) Dative: rare; only with verbs that take a dative (4) Accusative:* the –ndum form is NOT for ...
... Gerunds – special notes on cases (1) Nominative: subject [infinitive in form] (2) Genitive: whenever you need “of” or “for” (objective genitive); often shows purpose with causā or gratiā “for the sake of” (3) Dative: rare; only with verbs that take a dative (4) Accusative:* the –ndum form is NOT for ...
Sophomore Grammar
... An appositive phrase contains an appositive noun that provides information about the preceding noun. They do not begin with a definite type of word like the other phrases (prepositions, infinitives, participles, and gerunds). Appositive phrases are useful in sentence combining. It allows the writer ...
... An appositive phrase contains an appositive noun that provides information about the preceding noun. They do not begin with a definite type of word like the other phrases (prepositions, infinitives, participles, and gerunds). Appositive phrases are useful in sentence combining. It allows the writer ...
Kalasha Dictionary —with English and Urdu
... Kalasha, being Indo-Aryan, is descended from a form of Sanskrit, probably the north-west Prakrit, and therefore the old forms from which current Kalasha words originated can, in many cases, be established with some degree of certainty. Sir Ralph Turner produced an impressive volume, A Comparative Di ...
... Kalasha, being Indo-Aryan, is descended from a form of Sanskrit, probably the north-west Prakrit, and therefore the old forms from which current Kalasha words originated can, in many cases, be established with some degree of certainty. Sir Ralph Turner produced an impressive volume, A Comparative Di ...
Arabic Loanwords in Tatar and Swahili: Morphological Assimilation
... Swahili, a Bantu family language, and Tatar, an Altai family language, are both agglutinative languages. Therefore, there should be a general tendency toward Arabic word assimilation. While analyzing loanwords in Swahili Th. C. Schaderberg asserts that throughout its history, Swahili has been a cont ...
... Swahili, a Bantu family language, and Tatar, an Altai family language, are both agglutinative languages. Therefore, there should be a general tendency toward Arabic word assimilation. While analyzing loanwords in Swahili Th. C. Schaderberg asserts that throughout its history, Swahili has been a cont ...
PIG`s
... Directions: How many P.I.G.s can you find? In each sentence, locate the participles, gerunds, and infinitives by writing P (participle), I (infinitive), or G (gerund) on the line provided. After you label the sentence, underline the word(s) that make it a participle, infinitive, or gerund. Some se ...
... Directions: How many P.I.G.s can you find? In each sentence, locate the participles, gerunds, and infinitives by writing P (participle), I (infinitive), or G (gerund) on the line provided. After you label the sentence, underline the word(s) that make it a participle, infinitive, or gerund. Some se ...
The GRAMMAR Teacher`s Activity-a-Day
... I applaud and thank Diane Turso, my proofreader, for her meticulous work and careful review of this and other books that I have written. Thanks to all my students, past and present, for making my teaching experiences both memorable and fulfilling. As always, thanks to my wife, Chris, and my two daug ...
... I applaud and thank Diane Turso, my proofreader, for her meticulous work and careful review of this and other books that I have written. Thanks to all my students, past and present, for making my teaching experiences both memorable and fulfilling. As always, thanks to my wife, Chris, and my two daug ...
Chapter 23 - Participles
... Chapter 23 - Participles Future passive participle (gerundive): subsequent action, passive voice. Librös legendös in mënsä posuit. He placed having-to-be-read books on the table. He placed books to be read on the table He placed books which should be read on the table. ...
... Chapter 23 - Participles Future passive participle (gerundive): subsequent action, passive voice. Librös legendös in mënsä posuit. He placed having-to-be-read books on the table. He placed books to be read on the table He placed books which should be read on the table. ...
Activity - alpvols
... I applaud and thank Diane Turso, my proofreader, for her meticulous work and careful review of this and other books that I have written. Thanks to all my students, past and present, for making my teaching experiences both memorable and fulfilling. As always, thanks to my wife, Chris, and my two daug ...
... I applaud and thank Diane Turso, my proofreader, for her meticulous work and careful review of this and other books that I have written. Thanks to all my students, past and present, for making my teaching experiences both memorable and fulfilling. As always, thanks to my wife, Chris, and my two daug ...
Full Text - Journal of Foreign Languages, Cultures
... Agbor s.m fut eat food while áyong s.m sleep sleep “Agbor will be eating food while áyong will be sleeping” As in the preceding cases of verb phrase and clausal coordination, only the first conjunct is marked for tense on the subject pronoun. 1.2.4 The Coordinator Nεò The coordinator [ná] means “and ...
... Agbor s.m fut eat food while áyong s.m sleep sleep “Agbor will be eating food while áyong will be sleeping” As in the preceding cases of verb phrase and clausal coordination, only the first conjunct is marked for tense on the subject pronoun. 1.2.4 The Coordinator Nεò The coordinator [ná] means “and ...
Introduction to Syntax Level 1 Course
... Patterns, the sentence formula is arranged in the unmarked word order. • If we look at all the word order alternations of a sentence as a set of options (=a category), one of the members of this set is unmarked. • Unmarked word order is the word order which is most widely used, and which ...
... Patterns, the sentence formula is arranged in the unmarked word order. • If we look at all the word order alternations of a sentence as a set of options (=a category), one of the members of this set is unmarked. • Unmarked word order is the word order which is most widely used, and which ...
An Introduction to Clauses - Johnson County Community College
... An adverb clause can answer any of the following questions: When? Where? How? To what degree? and Under what condition(s)? Examples of adverb clauses answering a question: Cinderella lost her shoe after the clock struck twelve. (when did she lose her shoe?) (after...twelve) Mary hid the key where no ...
... An adverb clause can answer any of the following questions: When? Where? How? To what degree? and Under what condition(s)? Examples of adverb clauses answering a question: Cinderella lost her shoe after the clock struck twelve. (when did she lose her shoe?) (after...twelve) Mary hid the key where no ...
Pedin Edhellen
... Some of the persons and locations appearing in texts are loosely based on persons and places described in Tolkiens works. This is supposed to create some atmosphere only — none of the texts is intended as a reinterpretation of Tolkiens works but only as an illustration of the language at work. Simil ...
... Some of the persons and locations appearing in texts are loosely based on persons and places described in Tolkiens works. This is supposed to create some atmosphere only — none of the texts is intended as a reinterpretation of Tolkiens works but only as an illustration of the language at work. Simil ...
on finiteness - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
... this will be discussed in section 2. There are also many ‘fully-fledged’ languages without verb inflection, such as Chinese or Vietnamese. What is ‘finiteness’ in these languages? The same question may be asked for languages with a very rich inflection, such as all polysynthetic languages. The forme ...
... this will be discussed in section 2. There are also many ‘fully-fledged’ languages without verb inflection, such as Chinese or Vietnamese. What is ‘finiteness’ in these languages? The same question may be asked for languages with a very rich inflection, such as all polysynthetic languages. The forme ...
Persian
... A concrete noun (not a predicative one) : mesvâk ‘tooth brush’ + zadan ‘to brush one’s teeth’ šâne ‘comb’ + zadan ‘to comb one’s hair lif ‘face-cloth’ + zadan ‘to wash with a face-cloth’ jâru ‘broom’ + zadan ‘to sweep up’ rang ‘painting’ + zadan ‘to paint’ dast ‘hand’ + zadan ‘to touch’ vâks ‘polish ...
... A concrete noun (not a predicative one) : mesvâk ‘tooth brush’ + zadan ‘to brush one’s teeth’ šâne ‘comb’ + zadan ‘to comb one’s hair lif ‘face-cloth’ + zadan ‘to wash with a face-cloth’ jâru ‘broom’ + zadan ‘to sweep up’ rang ‘painting’ + zadan ‘to paint’ dast ‘hand’ + zadan ‘to touch’ vâks ‘polish ...
Mapping the Terrain of Language Acquisition.
... most widely known of these phenomena. But they are worth reviewing, both because they are still not as well known as they could be, and because they present a clear example of a general way one might think about language. The major constituents of a simple transitive sentence are (by definition) the ...
... most widely known of these phenomena. But they are worth reviewing, both because they are still not as well known as they could be, and because they present a clear example of a general way one might think about language. The major constituents of a simple transitive sentence are (by definition) the ...
MORPHOLOGY, DIVIDED AND CONQUERED?
... (10) a. *The owning of a house seems like a full time job. ...
... (10) a. *The owning of a house seems like a full time job. ...