Some Observations on English Deverbal and Gerundial Nouns
... examples from English corpora (BNC, ukWaC, enTenTen13), the paper examines the similarities and differences between the two types of nominalisations with special focus on their syntactic and semantic properties. The paper discusses deverbal/gerundial nouns in relation to the s.c. gerundial cline, wh ...
... examples from English corpora (BNC, ukWaC, enTenTen13), the paper examines the similarities and differences between the two types of nominalisations with special focus on their syntactic and semantic properties. The paper discusses deverbal/gerundial nouns in relation to the s.c. gerundial cline, wh ...
Noongar Waangkiny - Noongar Language Centre
... The order of the words in a Noongar sentence is very different from that in English. It is one of the few Aboriginal languages in Australia that has a ‘fixed word’ order in most cases but can vary in the case of transitive verb sentences. See 4.4.4 and 4.5.2a. By repeating sentence patterns it is ve ...
... The order of the words in a Noongar sentence is very different from that in English. It is one of the few Aboriginal languages in Australia that has a ‘fixed word’ order in most cases but can vary in the case of transitive verb sentences. See 4.4.4 and 4.5.2a. By repeating sentence patterns it is ve ...
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
... (Indo-Uralic allative) as a general oblique case form, I refer to my earlier treatment (2005a, cf. also Kloekhorst 2008: 111-116). The creation of genitive, dative and oblique plural endings belongs to the separate histories of Anatolian and the other branches of Indo-European. After the rise of th ...
... (Indo-Uralic allative) as a general oblique case form, I refer to my earlier treatment (2005a, cf. also Kloekhorst 2008: 111-116). The creation of genitive, dative and oblique plural endings belongs to the separate histories of Anatolian and the other branches of Indo-European. After the rise of th ...
PUNCTUATION MATTERS apostrophes
... letters and when English printers adopted it , this was still its only function. ...
... letters and when English printers adopted it , this was still its only function. ...
Grammaticalization of the Masculine and Non
... also occur in the old active past participles of the second type, analytic components of personal verb forms, but the ending of all non-masculine forms becomes the plural feminine nominative ending -y of the simple adjective and of participle declension. The gender paradigm of personal verb forms is ...
... also occur in the old active past participles of the second type, analytic components of personal verb forms, but the ending of all non-masculine forms becomes the plural feminine nominative ending -y of the simple adjective and of participle declension. The gender paradigm of personal verb forms is ...
Questionnaire for property verbs in African languages
... Note: Quality verbs in Western Kabyle distinguish neither person nor gender in the plural. Quality verbs in Eastern Kabyle take subject markers that are formally identical to object markers (Allaoua 1992). 1.3.5. Is it possible for a verb form defined under A.1 to occur in all tense/aspect/mood form ...
... Note: Quality verbs in Western Kabyle distinguish neither person nor gender in the plural. Quality verbs in Eastern Kabyle take subject markers that are formally identical to object markers (Allaoua 1992). 1.3.5. Is it possible for a verb form defined under A.1 to occur in all tense/aspect/mood form ...
A constructional approach to mimetic verbs
... definitions of mimetic words. It is interesting to note that despite lack of consensus on what constitutes the meaning of a given mimetic word, mimetics in Japanese are extremely productive and ubiquitous. Speakers can easily create one with a normally agreed-upon sense of what it symbolizes althoug ...
... definitions of mimetic words. It is interesting to note that despite lack of consensus on what constitutes the meaning of a given mimetic word, mimetics in Japanese are extremely productive and ubiquitous. Speakers can easily create one with a normally agreed-upon sense of what it symbolizes althoug ...
Pronouns - Napa Valley College
... A TV program on dental health started making she and I rethink our habits. …started making she rethink ...
... A TV program on dental health started making she and I rethink our habits. …started making she rethink ...
Lexical, Morphological, and Syntactic Aspects of Verb Production in
... these made us decide to elaborate on the studies mentioned above. In the current article, two studies are presented: one on the spontaneous speech of agrammatic Broca’s aphasics and one experiment. Both studies focus on the production of finite verbs. The question with regard to the first study (Bas ...
... these made us decide to elaborate on the studies mentioned above. In the current article, two studies are presented: one on the spontaneous speech of agrammatic Broca’s aphasics and one experiment. Both studies focus on the production of finite verbs. The question with regard to the first study (Bas ...
Innu and English Structures - Innu
... set of words that speakers combine in different ways to build sentences, or to understand other people’s sentences. It is thus not surprising that the grammars of Innu and English are alike in many ways, and we highlight these similarities in this booklet. For example, one answer to the question, “H ...
... set of words that speakers combine in different ways to build sentences, or to understand other people’s sentences. It is thus not surprising that the grammars of Innu and English are alike in many ways, and we highlight these similarities in this booklet. For example, one answer to the question, “H ...
On problems of address in an automatic dictionary of
... It is the words of eight nine and ten letters which must be given most attention. These three lists show certain groupings which comprise two, three and even five words. These groups are resolved, for the most part, by the initial trigram, and even by two letters only, these being letters I and II, ...
... It is the words of eight nine and ten letters which must be given most attention. These three lists show certain groupings which comprise two, three and even five words. These groups are resolved, for the most part, by the initial trigram, and even by two letters only, these being letters I and II, ...
Agree in the Functional Domain: Evidence from the Morphosyntax of
... the negation marker used. Depending on which negation marker is used, the verb appears with a particular temporal case marker. Since such sentences do not differ along any semantic mood or modality notions, it is better to avoid using the term “mood” when referring to morphological endings of verbs ...
... the negation marker used. Depending on which negation marker is used, the verb appears with a particular temporal case marker. Since such sentences do not differ along any semantic mood or modality notions, it is better to avoid using the term “mood” when referring to morphological endings of verbs ...
3 `Derivational verbs` and other multiple
... which has been transcribed (see Awetí Documentation in the references). A major part of the transcribed texts has also been translated. In the transcribed texts, I found more than 900 occurrences of gerund forms (and more than 200 of semantically similar purposive forms). For this study I analyzed a ...
... which has been transcribed (see Awetí Documentation in the references). A major part of the transcribed texts has also been translated. In the transcribed texts, I found more than 900 occurrences of gerund forms (and more than 200 of semantically similar purposive forms). For this study I analyzed a ...
Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database (Revised
... about the information a lexicon must contain in order for the phonological, syntactic, and lexical components to work together in the everyday production and comprehension of linguistic messages, and those proposals have been incorporated into the work of psycholinguists. Beginning with word associa ...
... about the information a lexicon must contain in order for the phonological, syntactic, and lexical components to work together in the everyday production and comprehension of linguistic messages, and those proposals have been incorporated into the work of psycholinguists. Beginning with word associa ...
Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database
... about the information a lexicon must contain in order for the phonological, syntactic, and lexical components to work together in the everyday production and comprehension of linguistic messages, and those proposals have been incorporated into the work of psycholinguists. Beginning with word associa ...
... about the information a lexicon must contain in order for the phonological, syntactic, and lexical components to work together in the everyday production and comprehension of linguistic messages, and those proposals have been incorporated into the work of psycholinguists. Beginning with word associa ...
Polysemous agent nominals in Kambaata (Cushitic) - Hal-SHS
... K’abeena and Alaaba, Kambaata’s closest relatives, have slightly different plural forms: -aan-ú in K’abeena (CRASS 2005: 73) and -aan-ú-ta in Alaaba (SCHNEIDER-BLUM 2007: 147). The accusative case form is also the citation form. Consult SCHNEIDER-BLUM (2007: 147, ex. 411) for an Alaaba example in wh ...
... K’abeena and Alaaba, Kambaata’s closest relatives, have slightly different plural forms: -aan-ú in K’abeena (CRASS 2005: 73) and -aan-ú-ta in Alaaba (SCHNEIDER-BLUM 2007: 147). The accusative case form is also the citation form. Consult SCHNEIDER-BLUM (2007: 147, ex. 411) for an Alaaba example in wh ...
The rise of the periphrastic perfect tense in the continental West
... and Van der Horst (1998:104) that the perfect tense of non-mutative intransitives is formed in analogy to that of transitive verbs. Since my proposal depends on a number of assumptions concerning the status of the verbs hebben ‘to have’ and zijn ‘to be’ that may not be familiar to all readers, I wil ...
... and Van der Horst (1998:104) that the perfect tense of non-mutative intransitives is formed in analogy to that of transitive verbs. Since my proposal depends on a number of assumptions concerning the status of the verbs hebben ‘to have’ and zijn ‘to be’ that may not be familiar to all readers, I wil ...
An equivalent of the standard of comparison relativization in Ainu
... Ainu allows to relativize on all the positions on Keenan and Comrie’s (1977) accessibility hierarchy except for the alienable possessor and standard of comparison 1 proper. Ainu is generally famous for its ability of stranding postpositions (7b), (8), which is particularly conspicuous in relativizat ...
... Ainu allows to relativize on all the positions on Keenan and Comrie’s (1977) accessibility hierarchy except for the alienable possessor and standard of comparison 1 proper. Ainu is generally famous for its ability of stranding postpositions (7b), (8), which is particularly conspicuous in relativizat ...
Constraints on the formal structure of Russian verb clusters
... while’ > щипнутьp ‘pinch/pluck once’ • дутьi ‘blow’ + подутьp ‘blow a while’ > дунутьp ‘blow once’ • скрипетьi ‘squeak’ + поскрипетьp ‘squeak a while’ > скрипнутьp ‘squeak once’ • работатьi ‘work’ + поработатьp ‘work a while’ > *работнутьp ‘work once’ [NB: Some are formed ...
... while’ > щипнутьp ‘pinch/pluck once’ • дутьi ‘blow’ + подутьp ‘blow a while’ > дунутьp ‘blow once’ • скрипетьi ‘squeak’ + поскрипетьp ‘squeak a while’ > скрипнутьp ‘squeak once’ • работатьi ‘work’ + поработатьp ‘work a while’ > *работнутьp ‘work once’ [NB: Some are formed ...
A Classification of Imperatives: A Statistical Study
... The list of uses proposed here is more detailed than is usually found in the grammars. Many speak of commands and entreaties, or requests; some add permission and condition. This study would add a few that are small in number but interesting enough to merit separate treatment. They will be listed in ...
... The list of uses proposed here is more detailed than is usually found in the grammars. Many speak of commands and entreaties, or requests; some add permission and condition. This study would add a few that are small in number but interesting enough to merit separate treatment. They will be listed in ...
Grace Theological Journal 8
... The list of uses proposed here is more detailed than is usually found in the grammars. Many speak of commands and entreaties, or requests; some add permission and condition. This study would add a few that are small in number but interesting enough to merit separate treatment. They will be listed in ...
... The list of uses proposed here is more detailed than is usually found in the grammars. Many speak of commands and entreaties, or requests; some add permission and condition. This study would add a few that are small in number but interesting enough to merit separate treatment. They will be listed in ...
INTRANSITIVE PREDICATES
... Perlmutter (1978) was the first to distinguish between two types of one-argument verbs, unaccusatives and unergatives. He claimed that these two classes are semantically and syntactically different and that the class to which an intransitive verb belongs is predictable from the semantics of the clau ...
... Perlmutter (1978) was the first to distinguish between two types of one-argument verbs, unaccusatives and unergatives. He claimed that these two classes are semantically and syntactically different and that the class to which an intransitive verb belongs is predictable from the semantics of the clau ...
1. THE ARTICLE - Universitatea din Craiova
... The definite article is also used before titles containing the preposition OF, e.g. the Duke of York, the Earl of Southampton, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Marquis of Bath etc. 12) The definite article is used: ● before geographical (/or other) proper names of seas, rivers, groups of islands, chains o ...
... The definite article is also used before titles containing the preposition OF, e.g. the Duke of York, the Earl of Southampton, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Marquis of Bath etc. 12) The definite article is used: ● before geographical (/or other) proper names of seas, rivers, groups of islands, chains o ...