AGU Grammar and Style Guide
... around, before, and after nonrestrictive clauses and phrases. A nonrestrictive clause or phrases is one that could be omitted without changing the meaning of the sentence. Because of the technical nature of the material in AGU journals, it is sometimes difficult to be sure if a phrase or clause is n ...
... around, before, and after nonrestrictive clauses and phrases. A nonrestrictive clause or phrases is one that could be omitted without changing the meaning of the sentence. Because of the technical nature of the material in AGU journals, it is sometimes difficult to be sure if a phrase or clause is n ...
Feature Mismatches: Consequences for Syntax, Morphology and
... Towards a theory of split features this simple conclusion, we will see that recognizing that features are made up in this way allows us to take a new look at various phenomena in a new light. In the remainder of this section, I will show motivations for such a view of features from a range of misma ...
... Towards a theory of split features this simple conclusion, we will see that recognizing that features are made up in this way allows us to take a new look at various phenomena in a new light. In the remainder of this section, I will show motivations for such a view of features from a range of misma ...
mandarin compound verbs - Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
... ambisyllabic: A segment (vowel or consonant) which forms the coda of the first and onset of the second of two adjacent syllables, e.g. the /l/ in English melon is ambisyllabic. analytic: In this study, analytic is used to describe a construction in which individual elements are in a syntactic rather ...
... ambisyllabic: A segment (vowel or consonant) which forms the coda of the first and onset of the second of two adjacent syllables, e.g. the /l/ in English melon is ambisyllabic. analytic: In this study, analytic is used to describe a construction in which individual elements are in a syntactic rather ...
Quenya Course
... authorship, and Quenya was – at least in the somewhat biased opinion of the Noldor – “the chief Elvish tongue, the noblest, and the one most nearly preserving the ancient character of Elvish speech” (The War of the Jewels p. 374). But one may grope towards “Elvishness” in a deeper sense than just tr ...
... authorship, and Quenya was – at least in the somewhat biased opinion of the Noldor – “the chief Elvish tongue, the noblest, and the one most nearly preserving the ancient character of Elvish speech” (The War of the Jewels p. 374). But one may grope towards “Elvishness” in a deeper sense than just tr ...
1 The cycle without containment: Latin perfect stems Donca Steriade
... proposed by Chomsky, Halle and Lukoff (1956). This architecture can be maintained in the OT context (Kenstowicz 1996, Kiparsky 2002): bases are subconstituents of their derivatives, and the phonology evaluates constituents, working from the innermost one outwards, forcing later evaluations to inheri ...
... proposed by Chomsky, Halle and Lukoff (1956). This architecture can be maintained in the OT context (Kenstowicz 1996, Kiparsky 2002): bases are subconstituents of their derivatives, and the phonology evaluates constituents, working from the innermost one outwards, forcing later evaluations to inheri ...
French Verbs Made Simple(r)
... generally passes unnoticed, since subjunctive and indicative verb forms in Modern English are almost always the same. But a sentence like I insist that he be punished ...
... generally passes unnoticed, since subjunctive and indicative verb forms in Modern English are almost always the same. But a sentence like I insist that he be punished ...
Constructions with and without articles Henriëtte de Swart
... configurations, such as the bare prepositional phrase in (5b), their status as a weakly referential construction is not well established. The strategy adopted in this paper is to list examples of bare nominals in languages that otherwise have a well developed system of articles to get a descriptive ...
... configurations, such as the bare prepositional phrase in (5b), their status as a weakly referential construction is not well established. The strategy adopted in this paper is to list examples of bare nominals in languages that otherwise have a well developed system of articles to get a descriptive ...
View/Open - Minerva Access
... accompanying CD for many of the examples scattered throughout the thesis, as well as for all the texts in the appendices. The most interesting and important grammatical subsystem in Oksapmin is the evidential one, which permeates various areas of the grammar. Without proper knowledge of this system, ...
... accompanying CD for many of the examples scattered throughout the thesis, as well as for all the texts in the appendices. The most interesting and important grammatical subsystem in Oksapmin is the evidential one, which permeates various areas of the grammar. Without proper knowledge of this system, ...
The Uzbek tense aspect modality system
... - evidentiality (source of knowledge), - epistemic modality (degree of certainty), - deontic modality (degree of obligation, desire or commitment). The Uzbek language is no exception to that. Its tense system is basically ground on a combination of time and aspect, which is then expanded to take int ...
... - evidentiality (source of knowledge), - epistemic modality (degree of certainty), - deontic modality (degree of obligation, desire or commitment). The Uzbek language is no exception to that. Its tense system is basically ground on a combination of time and aspect, which is then expanded to take int ...
A Reference Grammar of Dena Michelle Elizabeth Morrison Doctor
... in Bena is its tense aspect system-Bena distinguishes four separate past tenses and three distinct futures; these interact with five aspects. The second major focus of Chapter 5 is the use of a series of suffixes in verbal derivation. The sixth chapter of the grammar describes adverbs and other inva ...
... in Bena is its tense aspect system-Bena distinguishes four separate past tenses and three distinct futures; these interact with five aspects. The second major focus of Chapter 5 is the use of a series of suffixes in verbal derivation. The sixth chapter of the grammar describes adverbs and other inva ...
A typology of split conjunction
... In this paper, I study instances of noun phrase conjunction where the conjoined noun phrase is subject and the referents of the conjuncts are human, of the type ‘John and Mary are having lunch’. More specifically, I study different, possible splits that occur in such structures, which involve the di ...
... In this paper, I study instances of noun phrase conjunction where the conjoined noun phrase is subject and the referents of the conjuncts are human, of the type ‘John and Mary are having lunch’. More specifically, I study different, possible splits that occur in such structures, which involve the di ...
the distribution and role of relative clauses in different text types
... etc. The non-subject position [15] is strongly preferred across all the texts since it does not interrupt the connection between the subject and the verb in the main clause. [15] The balance is higher in proportion to the prices of goods –to the work that money has to perform. [R-APe-31] “That” occu ...
... etc. The non-subject position [15] is strongly preferred across all the texts since it does not interrupt the connection between the subject and the verb in the main clause. [15] The balance is higher in proportion to the prices of goods –to the work that money has to perform. [R-APe-31] “That” occu ...
Teach Yourself Unity 45
... Sentence Practice with Animal Names Fill in the blanks with your choice of animal names. 1. My favorite animal is a _______________________. 2. The kind of animal that I don't like is a ________________. 3. I have never seen a _____________________. 4. I hope I never see a ____________________. 5. I ...
... Sentence Practice with Animal Names Fill in the blanks with your choice of animal names. 1. My favorite animal is a _______________________. 2. The kind of animal that I don't like is a ________________. 3. I have never seen a _____________________. 4. I hope I never see a ____________________. 5. I ...
Kim, Kyumin - University of Toronto
... The reflexive morpheme is not a detransitivizing morpheme: Evidence In this section, I show that while both reflexives and inchoatives are intransitive, the Esan reflexive morpheme is not a detransitivizing morpheme. The dichotomy between transitives and intransitives has less syntactic motivation i ...
... The reflexive morpheme is not a detransitivizing morpheme: Evidence In this section, I show that while both reflexives and inchoatives are intransitive, the Esan reflexive morpheme is not a detransitivizing morpheme. The dichotomy between transitives and intransitives has less syntactic motivation i ...
The evolution of differential object marking in Spanish Klaus von
... In Spanish, the direct object can be marked or not by the marker a. The marker a is obligatory, optional or ungrammatical, depending on a variety of parameters. These parameters are the object of controversial discussions and of an immense descriptive and functional literature, often under the headi ...
... In Spanish, the direct object can be marked or not by the marker a. The marker a is obligatory, optional or ungrammatical, depending on a variety of parameters. These parameters are the object of controversial discussions and of an immense descriptive and functional literature, often under the headi ...
Thesis - Archive ouverte UNIGE
... a) by observing the typological distribution of causative vs. anticausative morphological marking across a wide range of languages and b) by the frequency distribution of transitive vs. intransitive uses of the alternating verbs in a corpus of a single language. Our study shows that these two measur ...
... a) by observing the typological distribution of causative vs. anticausative morphological marking across a wide range of languages and b) by the frequency distribution of transitive vs. intransitive uses of the alternating verbs in a corpus of a single language. Our study shows that these two measur ...
Dynamics, causation, duration in the predicate
... a) by observing the typological distribution of causative vs. anticausative morphological marking across a wide range of languages and b) by the frequency distribution of transitive vs. intransitive uses of the alternating verbs in a corpus of a single language. Our study shows that these two measur ...
... a) by observing the typological distribution of causative vs. anticausative morphological marking across a wide range of languages and b) by the frequency distribution of transitive vs. intransitive uses of the alternating verbs in a corpus of a single language. Our study shows that these two measur ...
A grammar of Lha`alua, an Austronesian language of Taiwan
... bound pronoun is a core argument either in S function or in A function, whereas the independent pronoun is either a core argument in S (when topicalized), E, A or O function or a peripheral argument. Prefixation is productive, whereas other affixations are not. Reduplication is widely deployed. The ...
... bound pronoun is a core argument either in S function or in A function, whereas the independent pronoun is either a core argument in S (when topicalized), E, A or O function or a peripheral argument. Prefixation is productive, whereas other affixations are not. Reduplication is widely deployed. The ...
Palikur and the Typology of Classifiers
... 1. One set of morphemes is used in different classifier functions. Systems of this kind are attested for South American, Papuan, and Austronesian languages (see Aikhenvald 1994a; Senft 1996; and Onishi 1994). 2. Several different sets of morphemes are used in different classifier functions (as outli ...
... 1. One set of morphemes is used in different classifier functions. Systems of this kind are attested for South American, Papuan, and Austronesian languages (see Aikhenvald 1994a; Senft 1996; and Onishi 1994). 2. Several different sets of morphemes are used in different classifier functions (as outli ...
Class Breakdown by Goal: DesCartes
... • Classifies sentences as questions based on word order • Classifies sentences as questions when ending punctuation is present • Classifies sentences as telling you what to do (imperative sentences, term not used) based on word order and content • Combines sentences to improve clarity by using a com ...
... • Classifies sentences as questions based on word order • Classifies sentences as questions when ending punctuation is present • Classifies sentences as telling you what to do (imperative sentences, term not used) based on word order and content • Combines sentences to improve clarity by using a com ...
The Domari Language of Aleppo - Dartmouth College Library
... Apart from the variety spoken in Palestine, which is on the verge of extinction, and the few sources dating back to the 19th century, virtually nothing is known about other varieties of Domari. The present work aims at filling this gap by documenting some structures of an undescribed dialect of Doma ...
... Apart from the variety spoken in Palestine, which is on the verge of extinction, and the few sources dating back to the 19th century, virtually nothing is known about other varieties of Domari. The present work aims at filling this gap by documenting some structures of an undescribed dialect of Doma ...
Synonym, Vocabulary/Grammar Warm-up
... This is the story of a battle of the sexes, of two love affairs, fraught with obstacles, and of chicanery. Grammar/punctuation highlights: • Paragraph – beginning of story • Comma – series of prepositional phrases • Plural rule – if a word ends in “s”, “x”, “ch”, or “sh”, add “es” to make it plural ...
... This is the story of a battle of the sexes, of two love affairs, fraught with obstacles, and of chicanery. Grammar/punctuation highlights: • Paragraph – beginning of story • Comma – series of prepositional phrases • Plural rule – if a word ends in “s”, “x”, “ch”, or “sh”, add “es” to make it plural ...