Semantics of Nouns and the Specification of
... When I started my PhD studies, I was aware of the fact that it was going to be a serious task. What I did not know was it would require much more effort, time, determination and dedication than I initially thought. After a period of five years during which I literally put my life on hold, I am so ha ...
... When I started my PhD studies, I was aware of the fact that it was going to be a serious task. What I did not know was it would require much more effort, time, determination and dedication than I initially thought. After a period of five years during which I literally put my life on hold, I am so ha ...
Alexandra Anna Spalek Verb Meaning and Combinatory Semantics: A Corpus-Based Study of
... weggenommen werden. Was du weisst, bleibt immer deins.’ (What you own can be taken away anytime. What you know stays yours for ever.) And yet, even more important than my grandfather’s wise saying was my mother packing and organising everything for me to move just in the very last months of the writ ...
... weggenommen werden. Was du weisst, bleibt immer deins.’ (What you own can be taken away anytime. What you know stays yours for ever.) And yet, even more important than my grandfather’s wise saying was my mother packing and organising everything for me to move just in the very last months of the writ ...
1. Some nouns always take a singular verb
... (A) The Indian team defeated the English by innings. (Incorrect) (B) The Indian team defeated the English by an innings. (Correct) (A) Mathematics are a difficult subject. (Incorrect) (B) Mathematics is a good / difficult subject. (Correct) Note if you have to indicate that the number of news, advic ...
... (A) The Indian team defeated the English by innings. (Incorrect) (B) The Indian team defeated the English by an innings. (Correct) (A) Mathematics are a difficult subject. (Incorrect) (B) Mathematics is a good / difficult subject. (Correct) Note if you have to indicate that the number of news, advic ...
from the proto-indo-european to the classical latin accent1
... certainly do not have any factual basis for chronologically classing the vocalic changes in, for example, the 5th, or any other century B.C., as is often proposed in handbooks. The words wherein vowel weakening occurs actually belong only to certain word-formative categories; namely, only to the adj ...
... certainly do not have any factual basis for chronologically classing the vocalic changes in, for example, the 5th, or any other century B.C., as is often proposed in handbooks. The words wherein vowel weakening occurs actually belong only to certain word-formative categories; namely, only to the adj ...
space and metaphor in verbs prefixed with od-/ot
... humans, animals, solid objects capable of motion, and certain bodies of water (e.g., tidal waves), verbs such as BCS/Blg. odjeknuti/otekna ‘echo’ and a few others at the bottom of Table 1 on the next page share a common meaning: spreading away from a source. These verbs can be understood as a transi ...
... humans, animals, solid objects capable of motion, and certain bodies of water (e.g., tidal waves), verbs such as BCS/Blg. odjeknuti/otekna ‘echo’ and a few others at the bottom of Table 1 on the next page share a common meaning: spreading away from a source. These verbs can be understood as a transi ...
THE SUBSYSTEMS OF LEXICAL ASPECTS
... cognitive features Stasis and Kinesis of the event correspond to the linguistic categories of Stative and Non-Stative lexical aspects. ...
... cognitive features Stasis and Kinesis of the event correspond to the linguistic categories of Stative and Non-Stative lexical aspects. ...
Colloquial Tamil
... The history of the language Tamil has a very long recorded history. Inscriptions in the language date back to the middle of the third century BC, and the earliest Tamil poetry – some of the finest poetry ever written – is thought to have been produced not less than two millennia ago. Good modern tran ...
... The history of the language Tamil has a very long recorded history. Inscriptions in the language date back to the middle of the third century BC, and the earliest Tamil poetry – some of the finest poetry ever written – is thought to have been produced not less than two millennia ago. Good modern tran ...
Foundational Skills and Vocabulary
... • Infers the general meaning of a noun (term not used) based on the real life/familiar context given in a short paragraph • Infers the general meaning of a noun based on the real life/familiar context given in a sentence • Infers the general meaning of a verb (term not used) based on the real life/f ...
... • Infers the general meaning of a noun (term not used) based on the real life/familiar context given in a short paragraph • Infers the general meaning of a noun based on the real life/familiar context given in a sentence • Infers the general meaning of a verb (term not used) based on the real life/f ...
ADJECTIVE + PARTICIPLE
... percentage points. Decimalization should not exceed two places in most text material. An exception: blood alcohol content, expressed in three decimals, as in 0.056. For amounts less than 1, precede the decimal with a zero: The cost of living rose 0.03 percent. When the decimal is 1 or less, the type ...
... percentage points. Decimalization should not exceed two places in most text material. An exception: blood alcohol content, expressed in three decimals, as in 0.056. For amounts less than 1, precede the decimal with a zero: The cost of living rose 0.03 percent. When the decimal is 1 or less, the type ...
The dialect of the Mitrovica Roma
... In spite of the similarities with Gurbet dialects documented elsewhere in former Yugoslavia, none of my informants indicated this term as their ethnonym. Older informants who were born and raised in the early 1970s generally favour the religious designation Xoraxane Roma ‘Muslim Roma’, also in use ...
... In spite of the similarities with Gurbet dialects documented elsewhere in former Yugoslavia, none of my informants indicated this term as their ethnonym. Older informants who were born and raised in the early 1970s generally favour the religious designation Xoraxane Roma ‘Muslim Roma’, also in use ...
Choices for Writers: Grammar and Style
... In this lab, we will study and apply rules of Standard American English because that is the main language of communication in college. English 100L students already speak and write—and now text—in multiple languages. In addition to coming from diverse cultural backgrounds, English 100L students ofte ...
... In this lab, we will study and apply rules of Standard American English because that is the main language of communication in college. English 100L students already speak and write—and now text—in multiple languages. In addition to coming from diverse cultural backgrounds, English 100L students ofte ...
FRE 122 - National Open University of Nigeria
... IMPORTANCE OF VERBS IN FRENCH GRAMMAR Verbs in French language, just like in any other languages of the world, are the most important linguistic elements. There is no other part of speech that could exist alone as a sentence and have meaning without a verb in it. Whereas a sentence can be formed by ...
... IMPORTANCE OF VERBS IN FRENCH GRAMMAR Verbs in French language, just like in any other languages of the world, are the most important linguistic elements. There is no other part of speech that could exist alone as a sentence and have meaning without a verb in it. Whereas a sentence can be formed by ...
Valence Creation and the German Applicative
... 'sniff [e.g. a flower]/sniff thoroughly'; sprechentiber/besprechen'talk about/ discuss'; and weinen um/beweinen 'cry about/mourn [e.g. a death]'. However, the broader alternation-based model would not, for example, extend to bivalent applicative verbs with monovalent base forms (e.g. bedudeln). The ...
... 'sniff [e.g. a flower]/sniff thoroughly'; sprechentiber/besprechen'talk about/ discuss'; and weinen um/beweinen 'cry about/mourn [e.g. a death]'. However, the broader alternation-based model would not, for example, extend to bivalent applicative verbs with monovalent base forms (e.g. bedudeln). The ...
8. ADJECTIVES The adjective system includes all the words and
... 1. Attributive Adj. are the words that come between a determiner and the noun in a NP. They can only modify N. my favourite book 2. Predicative Adj. are Adj. that occur without a N in a predicate of a sentence (usually after the verb to be, look, seem, etc. Most Adj. can be used either attributively ...
... 1. Attributive Adj. are the words that come between a determiner and the noun in a NP. They can only modify N. my favourite book 2. Predicative Adj. are Adj. that occur without a N in a predicate of a sentence (usually after the verb to be, look, seem, etc. Most Adj. can be used either attributively ...
Georgi Kapchits Sentence particles in the Somali language and their
... hoos-ta – bottom, si-da – mode, mean. Cardinal numerals, demonstrative and personal (emphatic) pronouns and some others are subclasses of nouns. All of them, in particular, can adjoin a definite article. Particles, including sentence particles, make a special class of words. 0.3.3. In Somali, as in ...
... hoos-ta – bottom, si-da – mode, mean. Cardinal numerals, demonstrative and personal (emphatic) pronouns and some others are subclasses of nouns. All of them, in particular, can adjoin a definite article. Particles, including sentence particles, make a special class of words. 0.3.3. In Somali, as in ...
1 Present participles
... current study therefore complements the vast ongoing study of passive participles and argues for a minimally different analysis of these and present participles. The study also contributes to the debate over the nature of participles in general, namely whether they should be viewed as a "mixed cate ...
... current study therefore complements the vast ongoing study of passive participles and argues for a minimally different analysis of these and present participles. The study also contributes to the debate over the nature of participles in general, namely whether they should be viewed as a "mixed cate ...
Phrase particles in the Somali language
... hoos-ta – bottom, si-da – mode, mean. Cardinal numerals, demonstrative and personal (emphatic) pronouns and some others are subclasses of nouns. All of them, in particular, can adjoin a definite article. Particles, including sentence particles, make a special class of words. 0.3.3. In Somali, as in ...
... hoos-ta – bottom, si-da – mode, mean. Cardinal numerals, demonstrative and personal (emphatic) pronouns and some others are subclasses of nouns. All of them, in particular, can adjoin a definite article. Particles, including sentence particles, make a special class of words. 0.3.3. In Somali, as in ...
Present participles: Categorial classification and derivation Aya
... current study therefore complements the vast ongoing study of passive participles and argues for a minimally different analysis of these and present participles. The study also contributes to the debate over the nature of participles in general, namely whether they should be viewed as a "mixed cate ...
... current study therefore complements the vast ongoing study of passive participles and argues for a minimally different analysis of these and present participles. The study also contributes to the debate over the nature of participles in general, namely whether they should be viewed as a "mixed cate ...
Financial support Basic data Outline of the talk BNs in object position
... BNs in languages with determiners have to denote properties anyway. We argue that BNs are not semantic arguments of the verbs they appear with. So no reason (of the sort advanced in Chierchia 1984) to say that they denote kinds or other entities. Kind terms are not restricted in their distribution i ...
... BNs in languages with determiners have to denote properties anyway. We argue that BNs are not semantic arguments of the verbs they appear with. So no reason (of the sort advanced in Chierchia 1984) to say that they denote kinds or other entities. Kind terms are not restricted in their distribution i ...
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax
... be considered ‘lexical’ or ‘syntactic’ (see Chomsky 1970 for foundational early discussion, as well as later debates staged in Baker 1988 and Belletti and Rizzi 1988 vs. Alsina 1992 and Bresnan and Moshi 1990). Importantly, claiming that there are generalisations that can only be stated at the level ...
... be considered ‘lexical’ or ‘syntactic’ (see Chomsky 1970 for foundational early discussion, as well as later debates staged in Baker 1988 and Belletti and Rizzi 1988 vs. Alsina 1992 and Bresnan and Moshi 1990). Importantly, claiming that there are generalisations that can only be stated at the level ...
Abkhaz Viacheslav A. Chirikba
... Abkhaz is one of the three languages comprising the AbkhazoAdyghean, or West Caucasian branch of North Caucasian linguistic family (the other branch being Nakh-Daghestanian, or East Caucasian). Abkhaz is spoken by approximately 100,000 people in the former Soviet Union (mainly in the Republic of Abk ...
... Abkhaz is one of the three languages comprising the AbkhazoAdyghean, or West Caucasian branch of North Caucasian linguistic family (the other branch being Nakh-Daghestanian, or East Caucasian). Abkhaz is spoken by approximately 100,000 people in the former Soviet Union (mainly in the Republic of Abk ...
Conversion in English - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... sections 8.2.1-6), may also have to do with the fact that new or innovative verbs in English arise predominantly from conversion of nouns to verbs. Without questioning the dominance of noun to verb conversion, I shall claim in this book that it is not only the easy conversion of verbs from nouns, bu ...
... sections 8.2.1-6), may also have to do with the fact that new or innovative verbs in English arise predominantly from conversion of nouns to verbs. Without questioning the dominance of noun to verb conversion, I shall claim in this book that it is not only the easy conversion of verbs from nouns, bu ...
... 3.1. Theory of valency in Functional Generative Description: valency of verbs Valency theory is a substantial part of the Functional Generative Description (Sgall et al., 1986), a dependency oriented description that serves as our theoretical framework. Valency of verbs has been intensively studied ...
