Predicative argument marking: The case of
... verb. Predicative arguments are NPs that share with canonical arguments the properties distinguishing arguments from adjuncts, but differ from them by the fact that they do not denote an entity involved in the verbal event, but a property predicated of the referent of another argument of the same ve ...
... verb. Predicative arguments are NPs that share with canonical arguments the properties distinguishing arguments from adjuncts, but differ from them by the fact that they do not denote an entity involved in the verbal event, but a property predicated of the referent of another argument of the same ve ...
Grade 8 - Carson
... 9. Mr. Thompson’s greatest pleasure is spending the afternoon reading. 10. As the students continued to misbehave, Ms. Yang’s patience was tested. 11. Imagine my delight when Grandpa Hennessy finally arrived from Ireland. 12. Never ignore the opportunity to help someone who is in trouble ...
... 9. Mr. Thompson’s greatest pleasure is spending the afternoon reading. 10. As the students continued to misbehave, Ms. Yang’s patience was tested. 11. Imagine my delight when Grandpa Hennessy finally arrived from Ireland. 12. Never ignore the opportunity to help someone who is in trouble ...
Beginnings in North Sámi* Marit Julien 1 Introduction Verbs that
... auxiliaries are located below tense, and also below obligational and permissive modals, conditional mood, negation, and the head encoding progressive aspect, while they are located above causative, passive and frequentative aspect. The position of inceptive auxiliaries in North Sámi is not in accord ...
... auxiliaries are located below tense, and also below obligational and permissive modals, conditional mood, negation, and the head encoding progressive aspect, while they are located above causative, passive and frequentative aspect. The position of inceptive auxiliaries in North Sámi is not in accord ...
Why would anyone take long? Word classes and Construction
... In this paper I consider the idiosyncratic development of the adverb long in such English idioms as I won’t be/take long. Various word classes have been proposed, including noun and preposition. I review examples from the OED and the Penn parsed corpora. Although adverb fits most of the contentious ...
... In this paper I consider the idiosyncratic development of the adverb long in such English idioms as I won’t be/take long. Various word classes have been proposed, including noun and preposition. I review examples from the OED and the Penn parsed corpora. Although adverb fits most of the contentious ...
MORPHOLOGY, DIVIDED AND CONQUERED?
... If we add to do and have the supposedly inflectional third singular and third plural suffices ‑es and ‑Ø, we can obtain from these verb roots auxiliaries that can invert in yes-no questions and can appear both before n’ t and in tag questions, i.e. which have what are widely known as the NICE prope ...
... If we add to do and have the supposedly inflectional third singular and third plural suffices ‑es and ‑Ø, we can obtain from these verb roots auxiliaries that can invert in yes-no questions and can appear both before n’ t and in tag questions, i.e. which have what are widely known as the NICE prope ...
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... integration, as suggested by Heath (1989). We should state right away that we do not deal with phonological aspects of the adaptation of borrowings, however important they may be from all points of view. In fact, we collapsed different forms of a borrowed word, including diminutives, in our data bas ...
... integration, as suggested by Heath (1989). We should state right away that we do not deal with phonological aspects of the adaptation of borrowings, however important they may be from all points of view. In fact, we collapsed different forms of a borrowed word, including diminutives, in our data bas ...
Pronouns
... A clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb. They come in two forms: independent clauses and dependent clauses. Independent clauses can stand on their own as sentences. A simple sentence is one independent clause. An independent clause has a subject, a verb, and it makes sense. A dependen ...
... A clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb. They come in two forms: independent clauses and dependent clauses. Independent clauses can stand on their own as sentences. A simple sentence is one independent clause. An independent clause has a subject, a verb, and it makes sense. A dependen ...
AT Iriskulov Theoretical Grammar of English
... language and speech but the units have different terms: morpheme for language and morph for speech. This level deals with units that are also smallest but in this case they are meaningful. So the smallest meaningful unit of language is called a morpheme and the smallest meaningful unit of speech is ...
... language and speech but the units have different terms: morpheme for language and morph for speech. This level deals with units that are also smallest but in this case they are meaningful. So the smallest meaningful unit of language is called a morpheme and the smallest meaningful unit of speech is ...
the subject preference in the processing of locally ambiguous wh
... They were asked to carry out the task as fast as possible. The questionnaire was given to the subjects at the end of their class time, so that 40 minutes were left for work on the questionnaire. There were 40 distractor items and 40 experimental items with the structural properties described above, ...
... They were asked to carry out the task as fast as possible. The questionnaire was given to the subjects at the end of their class time, so that 40 minutes were left for work on the questionnaire. There were 40 distractor items and 40 experimental items with the structural properties described above, ...
Word - BJU Press
... Determine whether an action verb is in the present or past tense Change present-tense action verbs to past tense by adding the suffix -ed Locate the suffix -ed in a past-tense verb Use a past-tense action verb to tell about something Jesus did ...
... Determine whether an action verb is in the present or past tense Change present-tense action verbs to past tense by adding the suffix -ed Locate the suffix -ed in a past-tense verb Use a past-tense action verb to tell about something Jesus did ...
Accepted for publication in the Journal of Semantics, pre
... raised by these observations is how the cross-linguistically uniform semantics is derived from the rather different morphosyntactic realizations, a question first raised in the formal literature by Dalrymple et al. (1994). The CQ data is interesting in this respect because its reciprocal constructio ...
... raised by these observations is how the cross-linguistically uniform semantics is derived from the rather different morphosyntactic realizations, a question first raised in the formal literature by Dalrymple et al. (1994). The CQ data is interesting in this respect because its reciprocal constructio ...
Lecture 02 PP
... • One way to restrict the system is to assume that all categories are defined by binary features • This would also account for similarities between different categories – Distinct categories can share one or more features ...
... • One way to restrict the system is to assume that all categories are defined by binary features • This would also account for similarities between different categories – Distinct categories can share one or more features ...
Curriculum Map
... of previously assessed topics ▪ is there correct application of conjugation, verbs, vocabulary, agreement, and syntax? ▪ can students make inferences about cultural traditions and activities based on discussion, reading selections, and prior ...
... of previously assessed topics ▪ is there correct application of conjugation, verbs, vocabulary, agreement, and syntax? ▪ can students make inferences about cultural traditions and activities based on discussion, reading selections, and prior ...
Module 1 Topic 1 - Ryerson University
... Here, “You” and “I” are pronouns, because “You” is used here to refer to Ron’s dog, Baxter. Baxter is a noun...and Ron uses “I” to refer to himself. LISA: An adjective is a word that describes a noun — it tells us more about the noun. Here, the word “whole” is an adjective that tells us just how muc ...
... Here, “You” and “I” are pronouns, because “You” is used here to refer to Ron’s dog, Baxter. Baxter is a noun...and Ron uses “I” to refer to himself. LISA: An adjective is a word that describes a noun — it tells us more about the noun. Here, the word “whole” is an adjective that tells us just how muc ...
turkish mimetic word formation
... Noticeable is that the consonants k, t, and p are all voiceless plosives. The bilabial, alveolar, and velar voiceless plosives share the same characters in terms of manner of articulation and voicedness. The phonetic characteristics k, t, and p have in common are apparently associated with the sema ...
... Noticeable is that the consonants k, t, and p are all voiceless plosives. The bilabial, alveolar, and velar voiceless plosives share the same characters in terms of manner of articulation and voicedness. The phonetic characteristics k, t, and p have in common are apparently associated with the sema ...
F. Plank, Morphology 1: 7. Boundaries 1
... (unconstrained), while morphological rules of construction are more or less productive (= more constrained in terms of form and/or meaning), and sometimes in morphology there are no construction rules at all. Example from syntax: The rule for combining attributive adjectives with nouns in German is ...
... (unconstrained), while morphological rules of construction are more or less productive (= more constrained in terms of form and/or meaning), and sometimes in morphology there are no construction rules at all. Example from syntax: The rule for combining attributive adjectives with nouns in German is ...
Exceptional Binding with Psych Verbs
... hierarchy, which is based on facts related to argument promotion. It is exactly the prominent thematic role that determines the selection of the subject argument, and, as many languages attest, the causer NP is the preferred candidate for this position, in the absence of an agent.8 Also, this hypoth ...
... hierarchy, which is based on facts related to argument promotion. It is exactly the prominent thematic role that determines the selection of the subject argument, and, as many languages attest, the causer NP is the preferred candidate for this position, in the absence of an agent.8 Also, this hypoth ...
Intensive pronouns
... gender, case and number. The categories of person and gender (in the third person singular) exist only in personal and possessive pronouns.2 Pronouns as well as nouns have two cases but whereas some pronouns (e.g. personal and the relative and interrogative, who) have the nominative and objective ca ...
... gender, case and number. The categories of person and gender (in the third person singular) exist only in personal and possessive pronouns.2 Pronouns as well as nouns have two cases but whereas some pronouns (e.g. personal and the relative and interrogative, who) have the nominative and objective ca ...
Now!
... Grammar in any sense, but a guide, a silent signal-post pointing the way in the right direction. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN A NUTSHELL All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Ver ...
... Grammar in any sense, but a guide, a silent signal-post pointing the way in the right direction. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN A NUTSHELL All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Ver ...
STRESS IN RAUSA - Studies in African Linguistics
... the values for fundamental frequency and duration showed the same trends, although the difference in pitch between V1 and V2 was not significant due to a small data sample. Thus, although there is evidence that the pitch of LH words is affected by the initial tone of the following word, the absence ...
... the values for fundamental frequency and duration showed the same trends, although the difference in pitch between V1 and V2 was not significant due to a small data sample. Thus, although there is evidence that the pitch of LH words is affected by the initial tone of the following word, the absence ...
Grammar of the Bórnu or Kanuri language
... zation of Africa one of their chief objects, have long ago felt the necessity of bringing to light, and rendering available ...
... zation of Africa one of their chief objects, have long ago felt the necessity of bringing to light, and rendering available ...
Lisa filled water into the cup: The roles of
... Goldberg 2011, Goldberg 2011) have found evidence for this effect. The third mechanism that learners seem to use to acquire verbs’ argument structure restrictions is fit between verb and construction semantics. There exist both class-based and more probabilistic versions of this account (e.g. Pinker ...
... Goldberg 2011, Goldberg 2011) have found evidence for this effect. The third mechanism that learners seem to use to acquire verbs’ argument structure restrictions is fit between verb and construction semantics. There exist both class-based and more probabilistic versions of this account (e.g. Pinker ...
Deconstructing the non-episodic readings of Spanish deverbal
... These adjectives are built over an eventive verb and compositionally keep the meaning of its base. However, they do not express an event, but a propensity or disposition towards participating in that event. In a phrase like (3b), what we say is that a particular floor, by virtue of its current state ...
... These adjectives are built over an eventive verb and compositionally keep the meaning of its base. However, they do not express an event, but a propensity or disposition towards participating in that event. In a phrase like (3b), what we say is that a particular floor, by virtue of its current state ...
The Akan Phrasal Verb as a Syntactic Manifestation
... of the placement of the adposition in relation to the noun to which it expresses relationship. It is possible to distinguish between adposition elements such as ‘so’ (on); ‘anim’ (in front of/before) and ‘nkyεn’ (beside/at the side of) which are ingressives (Christaller 1876) from others such as ‘ko ...
... of the placement of the adposition in relation to the noun to which it expresses relationship. It is possible to distinguish between adposition elements such as ‘so’ (on); ‘anim’ (in front of/before) and ‘nkyεn’ (beside/at the side of) which are ingressives (Christaller 1876) from others such as ‘ko ...
Formal Commands
... By now, you are well acquainted with the fact that Spanish has both a formal and an informal style of speech (tú / Ud.). This distinction applies to commands. Commands are used when ordering, or telling someone to do something. This is often referred to as the "imperative" form of the verb. Compre U ...
... By now, you are well acquainted with the fact that Spanish has both a formal and an informal style of speech (tú / Ud.). This distinction applies to commands. Commands are used when ordering, or telling someone to do something. This is often referred to as the "imperative" form of the verb. Compre U ...