Electronic Dictionaries viewed from South Africa - Hermes
... needs and status quo for English and Afrikaans will be followed by a more detailed discussion of the unique nature and consequent electronic dictionary requirements of the Bantu languages. In the latter category the focus will be on problematic aspects of lemmatisation which can only be solved in th ...
... needs and status quo for English and Afrikaans will be followed by a more detailed discussion of the unique nature and consequent electronic dictionary requirements of the Bantu languages. In the latter category the focus will be on problematic aspects of lemmatisation which can only be solved in th ...
Keys to the Exercises
... P. Umintë merë hlaritas. The word order is certainly somewhat flexible; the adverbs in M, N, and O could probably also follow the verb (e.g. hostanentë lintavë for "they swiftly gathered"). Cf. my own key to I. But when an object or an infinitive is to follow, I find it slightly awkward to separate ...
... P. Umintë merë hlaritas. The word order is certainly somewhat flexible; the adverbs in M, N, and O could probably also follow the verb (e.g. hostanentë lintavë for "they swiftly gathered"). Cf. my own key to I. But when an object or an infinitive is to follow, I find it slightly awkward to separate ...
Topics and Participants in Jamamadí Narrative
... term but by its replacement. In all the stories where the villain, victim and hero are present, it is the second person introduced that is the victim. Participants may also be introduced by a pronoun. It does not seem strange that first and second person should be introduced by pronouns as their ref ...
... term but by its replacement. In all the stories where the villain, victim and hero are present, it is the second person introduced that is the victim. Participants may also be introduced by a pronoun. It does not seem strange that first and second person should be introduced by pronouns as their ref ...
fulltext - LOT Publications
... Internal plurative ............................................................... 183 ...
... Internal plurative ............................................................... 183 ...
Sentences - TeacherLINK
... • A sentence tells a complete thought. Every sentence begins with a capital letter. • A statement tells something. It ends with a period. I like big cities . • A question asks something. It ends with a question mark. Have you been to New York City ? • A command tells or asks someone to do something. ...
... • A sentence tells a complete thought. Every sentence begins with a capital letter. • A statement tells something. It ends with a period. I like big cities . • A question asks something. It ends with a question mark. Have you been to New York City ? • A command tells or asks someone to do something. ...
P W S
... would help the audience grasp the message quicker and easier; however, make sure the visual aid does not make the audience work harder to get the information. Label all of your columns and units clearly, and identify all elements. Be sure to include a title that gives the audience a clear idea of wh ...
... would help the audience grasp the message quicker and easier; however, make sure the visual aid does not make the audience work harder to get the information. Label all of your columns and units clearly, and identify all elements. Be sure to include a title that gives the audience a clear idea of wh ...
how to speak and write correctly
... discourse or correspondence. The Persons are First, Second and Third and they represent respectively the speaker, the person addressed and the person or thing mentioned or under consideration. Number is the distinction of one from more than one. There are two numbers, singular and plural; the singul ...
... discourse or correspondence. The Persons are First, Second and Third and they represent respectively the speaker, the person addressed and the person or thing mentioned or under consideration. Number is the distinction of one from more than one. There are two numbers, singular and plural; the singul ...
http://www.bktit.org BKTIT `s What ? - Tài Nguyên Số
... apostrophes, a college student said rather angrily, ‘Why wasn’t I told ...
... apostrophes, a college student said rather angrily, ‘Why wasn’t I told ...
Verbal stem space and verb to noun conversion in French - Hal-SHS
... ‘precise’ > PRÉCISER ‘to clarify’ (b) BAVE ‘drool’ > BAVER ‘to drool’ DRAP ‘sheet’ > DRAPER ‘to drape’ ...
... ‘precise’ > PRÉCISER ‘to clarify’ (b) BAVE ‘drool’ > BAVER ‘to drool’ DRAP ‘sheet’ > DRAPER ‘to drape’ ...
+++Notes on Editing:2009
... Raw copy can seem forbidding. Editors must have a system for reading the copy. Such a system allows editors to break the editing process down into smaller, manageable areas. When editors look at a mark of punctuation, a word or a construction they can check what the copy says against what the editor ...
... Raw copy can seem forbidding. Editors must have a system for reading the copy. Such a system allows editors to break the editing process down into smaller, manageable areas. When editors look at a mark of punctuation, a word or a construction they can check what the copy says against what the editor ...
Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining
... by our system (the descriptions themselves are underlined, the rest is canned text). The biographies contain descriptions of the salient attributes and activities of people in the corpus, along with lists of their associates. These short summaries illustrate the extent of compression provided. The f ...
... by our system (the descriptions themselves are underlined, the rest is canned text). The biographies contain descriptions of the salient attributes and activities of people in the corpus, along with lists of their associates. These short summaries illustrate the extent of compression provided. The f ...
SOME NOTES ON ENGLISH AND SLOVAK PERSONAL
... Not all languages have the same system of personal pronouns. In Hungarian, for example, gender is not distinguished, and there are special pronouns corresponding to the Slovak VY when used to show respect (distinguishing number as well); special pronouns of respect exist in Spanish and in other lang ...
... Not all languages have the same system of personal pronouns. In Hungarian, for example, gender is not distinguished, and there are special pronouns corresponding to the Slovak VY when used to show respect (distinguishing number as well); special pronouns of respect exist in Spanish and in other lang ...
Old Irish pronouns: agreement affixes vs. clitic arguments.
... The Old Irish verbal complex is made up of a several parts. Mandatory are the verb stem and ending. The former indicates tense and mood, while the latter indicates person and number. In addition, there may also be a conjunct particle, one or more preverbs, and an object marker. Conjunct particles in ...
... The Old Irish verbal complex is made up of a several parts. Mandatory are the verb stem and ending. The former indicates tense and mood, while the latter indicates person and number. In addition, there may also be a conjunct particle, one or more preverbs, and an object marker. Conjunct particles in ...
French Regular
... Verbs that end in -ger, like manger, have a spelling change before endings that begin with the hard vowels a or o. Because g followed by a or o would make a hard g sound (like in gold), e has to be added after g to keep the g soft (as in gel). In the present tense and the imperative, this g > ge spe ...
... Verbs that end in -ger, like manger, have a spelling change before endings that begin with the hard vowels a or o. Because g followed by a or o would make a hard g sound (like in gold), e has to be added after g to keep the g soft (as in gel). In the present tense and the imperative, this g > ge spe ...
Resulting States in Niuean
... In neither case is a patient promoted, nor is the agent demoted to an oblique status, as would be the case with passive. Ma- can also be prefixed to active intransitives (16) and even to nominals as in (17). This shows that the addition of ma- need not change transitivity or suppress an agent, the t ...
... In neither case is a patient promoted, nor is the agent demoted to an oblique status, as would be the case with passive. Ma- can also be prefixed to active intransitives (16) and even to nominals as in (17). This shows that the addition of ma- need not change transitivity or suppress an agent, the t ...
Verb Resource Book
... The imperfect tense is one of the three past tenses used in Latin. This tense features an action that started in the past, and could still be happening. In other words, the imperfect tense does not tell us if the action has been completed. ...
... The imperfect tense is one of the three past tenses used in Latin. This tense features an action that started in the past, and could still be happening. In other words, the imperfect tense does not tell us if the action has been completed. ...
PARADIGMATIC DERIVATION By James P. Blevins University of
... This conundrum has led some, notably Lieber (1980) and Di Sciullo and Williams (1987), to conclude that the traditional distinction between inflection and derivation is misconceived or unilluminating. More conservative approaches introduce a finergrained distinction between types of inflection. Ande ...
... This conundrum has led some, notably Lieber (1980) and Di Sciullo and Williams (1987), to conclude that the traditional distinction between inflection and derivation is misconceived or unilluminating. More conservative approaches introduce a finergrained distinction between types of inflection. Ande ...
a contrastive study of igbo and english affixation
... This research work hinges on the contrastive analysis of Igbo and English affixation. The Igbo and English languages are of different linguistic backgrounds and as such are characterized by differences in the affixation processes. Such differences create problem in second language learning especiall ...
... This research work hinges on the contrastive analysis of Igbo and English affixation. The Igbo and English languages are of different linguistic backgrounds and as such are characterized by differences in the affixation processes. Such differences create problem in second language learning especiall ...
Chapter 8 The verb complex
... 8.4 Adverbial-like functions of verb serialisation The verb core often consists of a single verb. However, verbs may also combine in serial constructions. The causative and mutual markers discussed in 8.3 modify individual verbs, regardless of whether the verb occurs in a serial construction, or whe ...
... 8.4 Adverbial-like functions of verb serialisation The verb core often consists of a single verb. However, verbs may also combine in serial constructions. The causative and mutual markers discussed in 8.3 modify individual verbs, regardless of whether the verb occurs in a serial construction, or whe ...
noun
... Notice that nouns often make their plurals by adding an s, but verbs don’t. Why is this important? Because each sentence must be either about one thing or about more than one thing, and if the noun is singular but the verb is plural, then we can not tell! The number must show. Future verb tenses, ho ...
... Notice that nouns often make their plurals by adding an s, but verbs don’t. Why is this important? Because each sentence must be either about one thing or about more than one thing, and if the noun is singular but the verb is plural, then we can not tell! The number must show. Future verb tenses, ho ...
Manual for Morphological Annotation
... for nouns, the same plus masculine positive for adjectives, similarly for pronouns and numerals. Verbs are represented by their infinitive forms. The Number in LemmaProper helps to distinguish several senses of a homonymous base form. It should neither be zero nor start with zero. The used numbers n ...
... for nouns, the same plus masculine positive for adjectives, similarly for pronouns and numerals. Verbs are represented by their infinitive forms. The Number in LemmaProper helps to distinguish several senses of a homonymous base form. It should neither be zero nor start with zero. The used numbers n ...
Resolving polysemy in verbs - Laboratorio di Linguistica
... ‘selectors’, i.e. the words with which it forms syntactic dependencies 2. Our goal is also to show how the use of insight about the data can help design a targeted distributional approach to this problem. The idea that semantic similarity between words must be reflected in the similarity of habitual ...
... ‘selectors’, i.e. the words with which it forms syntactic dependencies 2. Our goal is also to show how the use of insight about the data can help design a targeted distributional approach to this problem. The idea that semantic similarity between words must be reflected in the similarity of habitual ...
e-Version
... There are three periods in time: present (now), past (yesterday), and future (tomorrow). Now is used with the present tense, yesterday with the past tense (the simple past), and tomorrow with the future tense (the simple future). These are basic tenses for any beginning language learner. These tense ...
... There are three periods in time: present (now), past (yesterday), and future (tomorrow). Now is used with the present tense, yesterday with the past tense (the simple past), and tomorrow with the future tense (the simple future). These are basic tenses for any beginning language learner. These tense ...
1 CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Being a mere
... ungrammatical and does not have any syntactical features. Instead, according to Holmes (2008: 137), she stated that ‘dialects are simply linguistic varieties which are distinguishable by their vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation’. Thus, it is not only a mere random rambling of some groups of ethn ...
... ungrammatical and does not have any syntactical features. Instead, according to Holmes (2008: 137), she stated that ‘dialects are simply linguistic varieties which are distinguishable by their vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation’. Thus, it is not only a mere random rambling of some groups of ethn ...
Limitations on metonymic uses of –ion nominalizations
... around in space, make contact with one another, and participate in energetic interactions.” (Langacker 1991: 283). Discrete objects are expressed by nouns, and energetic interactions by verbs. An event is an action chain, like in billiard. The head of the chain is the source of energy. In the course ...
... around in space, make contact with one another, and participate in energetic interactions.” (Langacker 1991: 283). Discrete objects are expressed by nouns, and energetic interactions by verbs. An event is an action chain, like in billiard. The head of the chain is the source of energy. In the course ...