Noun incorporation and transitivity in Soninke (West Mande)
... choice of the intransitive variant of the predicative markers that have distinct forms in transitive and intransitive clauses. In other words, Soninke has morphologically unmarked passive constructions. We will return to this question in Section 4.4. 3. Morphologically coded valency alternations 3.1 ...
... choice of the intransitive variant of the predicative markers that have distinct forms in transitive and intransitive clauses. In other words, Soninke has morphologically unmarked passive constructions. We will return to this question in Section 4.4. 3. Morphologically coded valency alternations 3.1 ...
Developing language resources for English
... using the tagset. Combining these, tagged texts with their corresponding English texts, we developed the POS-tagged parallel corpora. To serve as examples, we have included two sets of extracts from the parallel corpora. The first set includes the English sentence “Rupali is now undergoing treatment ...
... using the tagset. Combining these, tagged texts with their corresponding English texts, we developed the POS-tagged parallel corpora. To serve as examples, we have included two sets of extracts from the parallel corpora. The first set includes the English sentence “Rupali is now undergoing treatment ...
Basic Language Skills
... say the the third person singular is usually taken to be the most basic form in a given verbal category and as such, according to markedness theory, should have the simplest of forms in its paradigm. This is clearly not the case with English where the other persons exhibit the bare root and nothing ...
... say the the third person singular is usually taken to be the most basic form in a given verbal category and as such, according to markedness theory, should have the simplest of forms in its paradigm. This is clearly not the case with English where the other persons exhibit the bare root and nothing ...
The Relevance of Syncretisms in the Context of Null Subject Licensing
... Problem with (30): The verb possibly contains a clitic-like/(silent) incorporated dpronoun that represents a shortened version of du (= the 2nd person singular (nominative) subject pronoun) whose +/-presence in data as (30) is hard to detect because the 2nd person singular verb ending in German is – ...
... Problem with (30): The verb possibly contains a clitic-like/(silent) incorporated dpronoun that represents a shortened version of du (= the 2nd person singular (nominative) subject pronoun) whose +/-presence in data as (30) is hard to detect because the 2nd person singular verb ending in German is – ...
Style Guide
... Antecedent ............................................................................................. 24 Anticipate ............................................................................................... 25 Any way, shape, or form........................................................... ...
... Antecedent ............................................................................................. 24 Anticipate ............................................................................................... 25 Any way, shape, or form........................................................... ...
Canonical Types and Noun Phrase Configuration in Fijian
... The requirement in (4a) restricts the set of elements bound to the verb to pronouns (or potentially proper names), effectively excluding common nouns and quantifiers from acting as arguments of the verb. This fact may now be interpreted on a par with the observation that objects are restricted to el ...
... The requirement in (4a) restricts the set of elements bound to the verb to pronouns (or potentially proper names), effectively excluding common nouns and quantifiers from acting as arguments of the verb. This fact may now be interpreted on a par with the observation that objects are restricted to el ...
Redefining part-of-speech classes with distributional semantic models
... In terms of positioning this study relative to previous work, it falls somewhere in between the distinctions made above. It is perhaps closest to disambiguation approaches, but it is not unsupervised given that we make use of existing tag annotations when training our embeddings and predictors. The ...
... In terms of positioning this study relative to previous work, it falls somewhere in between the distinctions made above. It is perhaps closest to disambiguation approaches, but it is not unsupervised given that we make use of existing tag annotations when training our embeddings and predictors. The ...
as a PDF
... bothered at some time or other by the problem of learning where to change an e into an ie or an i in verbs of the -ir conjugation. This vowel alternation is one of the striking features of this conjugation, and takes two forms: the alternation between e and ie or i, and similarly between o and ue or ...
... bothered at some time or other by the problem of learning where to change an e into an ie or an i in verbs of the -ir conjugation. This vowel alternation is one of the striking features of this conjugation, and takes two forms: the alternation between e and ie or i, and similarly between o and ue or ...
Elisa Di Domenico - Italian Journal of Linguistics
... guages has the function of placing and displacing what is said with respect to the speech event. I propose a characterisation of the Inflectional (Placement) Layer, organised in a hierarchy of Displaced Reference- oriented projections. Similarly grounded is a typology of pronominal and non-pronomina ...
... guages has the function of placing and displacing what is said with respect to the speech event. I propose a characterisation of the Inflectional (Placement) Layer, organised in a hierarchy of Displaced Reference- oriented projections. Similarly grounded is a typology of pronominal and non-pronomina ...
Creole Genesis and Universality: Case, Word Order, and Agreement
... linguistic universality. It has been said in various ways that creoles provide a special, perhaps unique, window on the human language faculty (Veenstra 2008). Derek Bickerton (1981:42) made the following statement in his landmark book, Roots of Language: …if all creoles could be shown to exhibit an ...
... linguistic universality. It has been said in various ways that creoles provide a special, perhaps unique, window on the human language faculty (Veenstra 2008). Derek Bickerton (1981:42) made the following statement in his landmark book, Roots of Language: …if all creoles could be shown to exhibit an ...
Horace & Morris
... Word Ending -est This ending can be added to words to change their meanings. For example, the word quick means “very fast.” Adding the suffix –est to quick to make quickest changes its meaning to the “most fast.” Think of other words you can add the suffix –est. ...
... Word Ending -est This ending can be added to words to change their meanings. For example, the word quick means “very fast.” Adding the suffix –est to quick to make quickest changes its meaning to the “most fast.” Think of other words you can add the suffix –est. ...
Horace & Morris-1Lewis
... Word Ending -est This ending can be added to words to change their meanings. For example, the word quick means “very fast.” Adding the suffix –est to quick to make quickest changes its meaning to the “most fast.” Think of other words you can add the suffix –est. ...
... Word Ending -est This ending can be added to words to change their meanings. For example, the word quick means “very fast.” Adding the suffix –est to quick to make quickest changes its meaning to the “most fast.” Think of other words you can add the suffix –est. ...
On the processing of regular and irregular forms of verbs and nouns
... past tenses. Aphasic patients with posterior lesions and word-finding problems along with a group of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease performed worse with irregularly inflected verbs. A contrasting pattern was reported for one aphasic patient with an anterior lesion and for a group of pat ...
... past tenses. Aphasic patients with posterior lesions and word-finding problems along with a group of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease performed worse with irregularly inflected verbs. A contrasting pattern was reported for one aphasic patient with an anterior lesion and for a group of pat ...
The structure of the do/make construction in
... and the other structure employs two separate languages. I propose that the Chichewa verbs -chit- ‘do’ and -pang- ‘make’ serve as light verbs that contain little or no semantic information, which may precede a nominalized English bare verb. The nominalized English verb allows the semantic construal o ...
... and the other structure employs two separate languages. I propose that the Chichewa verbs -chit- ‘do’ and -pang- ‘make’ serve as light verbs that contain little or no semantic information, which may precede a nominalized English bare verb. The nominalized English verb allows the semantic construal o ...
WRITING DETAILS
... F. Mark every sentence in one of your essays in which you vary from usual word order. Then revise these sentences to the actor-action pattern and judge whether or not the change improves the essay. C. Select a brief incident in the current news or something you recently witnessed. Tell it as a narra ...
... F. Mark every sentence in one of your essays in which you vary from usual word order. Then revise these sentences to the actor-action pattern and judge whether or not the change improves the essay. C. Select a brief incident in the current news or something you recently witnessed. Tell it as a narra ...
English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style
... range of disciplines. What I discovered confirmed that each discipline (and indeed subdiscipline) tends to use English in very specific ways that are not consistent across disciplines. An obvious example is the use of we. In some disciplines, we (and even I) are used freely; in other disciplines, th ...
... range of disciplines. What I discovered confirmed that each discipline (and indeed subdiscipline) tends to use English in very specific ways that are not consistent across disciplines. An obvious example is the use of we. In some disciplines, we (and even I) are used freely; in other disciplines, th ...
Pronouns - Ms. Jordan Pre
... You are looking for a subject pronoun. Reread the sentence carefully. ...
... You are looking for a subject pronoun. Reread the sentence carefully. ...
Greek 1001 Elementary Greek
... • The indicative mood conveys a command for someone to perform the action of the verb. • The imperative mood occurs in only two tenses: – present – aorist but exists in both voices (active and middle, and it can have passive meaning). ...
... • The indicative mood conveys a command for someone to perform the action of the verb. • The imperative mood occurs in only two tenses: – present – aorist but exists in both voices (active and middle, and it can have passive meaning). ...
Noun and verb in the mind. An interdisciplinary approach
... categories are language-particular and he bases his reasoning on the observation that crosslinguistic evidence is not converging even on the smallest number of universal categories and similar categories in languages are never identical. Haspelmath advocates the view that we should adopt a non-aprio ...
... categories are language-particular and he bases his reasoning on the observation that crosslinguistic evidence is not converging even on the smallest number of universal categories and similar categories in languages are never identical. Haspelmath advocates the view that we should adopt a non-aprio ...
A dynamic model
... nomen (noun): the property of the noun is to indicate a substance and a quality, and it assigns a common or a particular quality to every body or thing. verbum (verb): the property of a verb is to indicate an action or a being acted on; it has tense and mood forms, but is not case inflected. partici ...
... nomen (noun): the property of the noun is to indicate a substance and a quality, and it assigns a common or a particular quality to every body or thing. verbum (verb): the property of a verb is to indicate an action or a being acted on; it has tense and mood forms, but is not case inflected. partici ...
File - Northgate High School World Languages
... 1. Use and understand learned expressions, sentences, and strings of sentences, questions, and polite commands when speaking and listening; ...
... 1. Use and understand learned expressions, sentences, and strings of sentences, questions, and polite commands when speaking and listening; ...
Template form in prosodic morphology
... as in so-soblak. For the same reason, gemination is impossible in stressed syllables; hence the continuous aspect of ánap ‘look for’ is a-ánap, not *a-ánnap. According to Shetler (1976: 33), stress is characterized by “an added mora of vowel length on non-final CV syllables”; therefore a stress ...
... as in so-soblak. For the same reason, gemination is impossible in stressed syllables; hence the continuous aspect of ánap ‘look for’ is a-ánap, not *a-ánnap. According to Shetler (1976: 33), stress is characterized by “an added mora of vowel length on non-final CV syllables”; therefore a stress ...
1 THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL
... general lexicology and the latter forms a part of general linguistics. The evolution of any vocabulary, as well as of its single elements, forms the object of Historical Lexicology. This branch of linguistics discusses the origin of various words, their change and development and investigates the li ...
... general lexicology and the latter forms a part of general linguistics. The evolution of any vocabulary, as well as of its single elements, forms the object of Historical Lexicology. This branch of linguistics discusses the origin of various words, their change and development and investigates the li ...
Studies in African Linguistics Volume 17, Number 3, December
... bearing but segmentally non-specified vowel (a postulation that may have some historical justification). One should note that with verbs in grade 7, the ufinal grade, the L of the suffix does not result in a falling tone, e.g. dafuwaa 'being well cooked' « dafu) ,not *dafuwaa. There are two very dif ...
... bearing but segmentally non-specified vowel (a postulation that may have some historical justification). One should note that with verbs in grade 7, the ufinal grade, the L of the suffix does not result in a falling tone, e.g. dafuwaa 'being well cooked' « dafu) ,not *dafuwaa. There are two very dif ...