Prefixes and the Delimitation of Events*
... However, for an hour delimits a bounded chunk of walking in the denotation of walk for an hour, and hence it is telic: If John started walking, and made a few steps in a normal fashion and then stopped, then we can describe this situation with John walked, but not with John walked for an hour. This ...
... However, for an hour delimits a bounded chunk of walking in the denotation of walk for an hour, and hence it is telic: If John started walking, and made a few steps in a normal fashion and then stopped, then we can describe this situation with John walked, but not with John walked for an hour. This ...
GREENBERG`S ASYMMETRY IN ARABIC: A CONSEQUENCE OF
... 1. THE MAIN PROPOSAL. A primary observation at the core of the approach developed in this article is that, in languages with rich inflection (like Arabic), stems are realized in the context of paradigms. It seems reasonable to explore the extent to which stem properties, patterns in the lexicon and ...
... 1. THE MAIN PROPOSAL. A primary observation at the core of the approach developed in this article is that, in languages with rich inflection (like Arabic), stems are realized in the context of paradigms. It seems reasonable to explore the extent to which stem properties, patterns in the lexicon and ...
gradable and ungradable adjectives
... The man was carrying a small black plastic bag. 2. You usually put comparative and superlative adjectives in front of other adjectives. Some of the better English actors have gone to live in Hollywood. These are the highest monthly figures on record. ...
... The man was carrying a small black plastic bag. 2. You usually put comparative and superlative adjectives in front of other adjectives. Some of the better English actors have gone to live in Hollywood. These are the highest monthly figures on record. ...
Inanimate nouns as subjects in Mi`gmaq
... In order to test environments involving different combinations of animate and inanimate arguments I used 29 short (<4 seconds) videos depicting various events with two participants. These videos were originally used in a study on animacy, topicality and agentivity in Yucatec Maya (Butler et al. 2012 ...
... In order to test environments involving different combinations of animate and inanimate arguments I used 29 short (<4 seconds) videos depicting various events with two participants. These videos were originally used in a study on animacy, topicality and agentivity in Yucatec Maya (Butler et al. 2012 ...
Clause processing in complex sentences
... clauses. In example (5), the clause who refused the flowers could not be accounted for by the finite-state model. In spite of Chomsky’s criticism, finite-state grammars have provided the theoretical background for many different approaches, both in NLP models, including the Augmented Transition Netw ...
... clauses. In example (5), the clause who refused the flowers could not be accounted for by the finite-state model. In spite of Chomsky’s criticism, finite-state grammars have provided the theoretical background for many different approaches, both in NLP models, including the Augmented Transition Netw ...
Read each group of words. If the group is a sentence, write sentence
... 1. Ricky likes his mother’s eyes. 2. He also likes his father’s mustache. 3. The second grade classes’ plays were on Thursday night. 4. The girls’ costumes were fancy. 5. The boys’ costumes were army uniforms. 6. Ricky just wanted to wear Mr. Cortez’s big bushy mustache. ...
... 1. Ricky likes his mother’s eyes. 2. He also likes his father’s mustache. 3. The second grade classes’ plays were on Thursday night. 4. The girls’ costumes were fancy. 5. The boys’ costumes were army uniforms. 6. Ricky just wanted to wear Mr. Cortez’s big bushy mustache. ...
Grammar for reading and writing
... mainly be in the reflexive pronouns. You could then discuss when each is appropriate. Any such activity builds pupils’ awareness and ability to choose. If pupils can learn to substitute his/her or his/hers for its and see that there is no apostrophe, it may help overcome the confusion between its in ...
... mainly be in the reflexive pronouns. You could then discuss when each is appropriate. Any such activity builds pupils’ awareness and ability to choose. If pupils can learn to substitute his/her or his/hers for its and see that there is no apostrophe, it may help overcome the confusion between its in ...
Year 8 to 12 moderated evidence - Department for Education and
... The Language and Literacy Levels were developed by the South Australian Department for Education and Child Development to replace the SACSA ESL Scales, in line with the move from a state-based curriculum to a national one. The Language and Literacy Levels are intended to be used to: • assess, monito ...
... The Language and Literacy Levels were developed by the South Australian Department for Education and Child Development to replace the SACSA ESL Scales, in line with the move from a state-based curriculum to a national one. The Language and Literacy Levels are intended to be used to: • assess, monito ...
Appositives - KISS Grammar
... Although the instructional materials for KISS workbooks will generally be provided in separate books, those books are not ready as this one is prepared, so I have included the current instructional materials on appositives. The KISS site also has a "Code and Color Key" for the analysis key notations ...
... Although the instructional materials for KISS workbooks will generally be provided in separate books, those books are not ready as this one is prepared, so I have included the current instructional materials on appositives. The KISS site also has a "Code and Color Key" for the analysis key notations ...
A Grammar and Glossary of the Manange Language Kristine A. Hildebrandt
... can be seen from their names, their caste system, and many other customs. They thus consider their language to be Newar, and it is referred to as a dialect. In contrast to this situation, are the Tamangic ‘languages’. Speakers of these languages are in distinct ethnic groups, and when they come toge ...
... can be seen from their names, their caste system, and many other customs. They thus consider their language to be Newar, and it is referred to as a dialect. In contrast to this situation, are the Tamangic ‘languages’. Speakers of these languages are in distinct ethnic groups, and when they come toge ...
Topics and Participants in Jamamadí Narrative
... person referred to by the term is never topic. They may become a paragraph topic at a later point in the story but cannot then be referred to by a kinship term. The ego of the kinship term is always the topic of the paragraph in which the kinship term is used unless the topic is an event. In the lat ...
... person referred to by the term is never topic. They may become a paragraph topic at a later point in the story but cannot then be referred to by a kinship term. The ego of the kinship term is always the topic of the paragraph in which the kinship term is used unless the topic is an event. In the lat ...
Cognate objects in Vietnamese transitive verbs
... Section 4 explores some implications of the claim that COs can occur as IOs. The conclusion is in section 5. ...
... Section 4 explores some implications of the claim that COs can occur as IOs. The conclusion is in section 5. ...
On the superficiality of Welsh agreement
... Agreement is a complex phenomenon, which has been discussed quite extensively; see e.g. Corbett (2006). Among the questions that arise about it is: What level of representation is relevant? It is widely assumed that agreement normally involves abstract levels. For Minimalism, it is one manifestation ...
... Agreement is a complex phenomenon, which has been discussed quite extensively; see e.g. Corbett (2006). Among the questions that arise about it is: What level of representation is relevant? It is widely assumed that agreement normally involves abstract levels. For Minimalism, it is one manifestation ...
Old Irish pronouns: agreement affixes vs. clitic arguments.
... More specifically, infixed pronouns are placed after a conjunct particle or preverb, if one is present (10). This means that the infixed pronouns appear before the accent (shown in bold). In non-relative verbs, Class A pronouns are found after preverbs ending underlyingly in a vowel, while Class B p ...
... More specifically, infixed pronouns are placed after a conjunct particle or preverb, if one is present (10). This means that the infixed pronouns appear before the accent (shown in bold). In non-relative verbs, Class A pronouns are found after preverbs ending underlyingly in a vowel, while Class B p ...
Prose Passages for Level 2
... this type of exercise, it is remarkable that third graders who have been studying grammar for just one year will probably be able to explain every one of the 71 words in it. The table below reflects the functions of the words within the sentences. Because some words can be explained in more than one ...
... this type of exercise, it is remarkable that third graders who have been studying grammar for just one year will probably be able to explain every one of the 71 words in it. The table below reflects the functions of the words within the sentences. Because some words can be explained in more than one ...
Grammar - mdudde.net
... This tense indicates that the action is actually happening at the moment of speaking. It describes the action when it is in progress. Moreover, the action is incomplete or continuous, that is, it is still going on. The form of the sentence with present Continuous Tense is: Subject + auxiliary verb + ...
... This tense indicates that the action is actually happening at the moment of speaking. It describes the action when it is in progress. Moreover, the action is incomplete or continuous, that is, it is still going on. The form of the sentence with present Continuous Tense is: Subject + auxiliary verb + ...
C98-1061 - Association for Computational Linguistics
... At the same time that we are searching for antecedents, we will also search for anaphors and whenever we found an anaphor this algorithm will be applied. The kind of anaphors we are going to search are the following: pronouns (he, she . . . . ), pronominal noun phrases formed by: ...
... At the same time that we are searching for antecedents, we will also search for anaphors and whenever we found an anaphor this algorithm will be applied. The kind of anaphors we are going to search are the following: pronouns (he, she . . . . ), pronominal noun phrases formed by: ...
Introducing the CEFR for English
... However, although the CEFR is an intuitively helpful descriptive scheme for researchers, curriculum designers, teachers,teachertrainers,andlanguagetesters,inmanycasestheexistingscalesandrelateddescriptorshavenot provedtobeoperationallyadequateastheystand.Thed ...
... However, although the CEFR is an intuitively helpful descriptive scheme for researchers, curriculum designers, teachers,teachertrainers,andlanguagetesters,inmanycasestheexistingscalesandrelateddescriptorshavenot provedtobeoperationallyadequateastheystand.Thed ...
Pseudo-Ergativity in Chukotko-Kamchatkan
... A second anomaly in (4) is the third person plural subject prefix in the realis mood, which varies for transitivity (n- transitive, Ø intransitive). Note that the n-prefix is also used for the (realis) impersonal construction (3a) and in the Southern dialect n- is used in place of [1PL.REAL] nt-. Ca ...
... A second anomaly in (4) is the third person plural subject prefix in the realis mood, which varies for transitivity (n- transitive, Ø intransitive). Note that the n-prefix is also used for the (realis) impersonal construction (3a) and in the Southern dialect n- is used in place of [1PL.REAL] nt-. Ca ...
Chapter 2 - Center for Spoken Language Understanding
... information and the kinds of information encodedmorphologically; acor oilary of this is that the difficulty of constructing a morphological model will also vary widely across languages. More specifically, what kinds of information can be encodedmorphologically? As a first cut at an answerto this que ...
... information and the kinds of information encodedmorphologically; acor oilary of this is that the difficulty of constructing a morphological model will also vary widely across languages. More specifically, what kinds of information can be encodedmorphologically? As a first cut at an answerto this que ...
An Introduction to Clauses - Johnson County Community College
... Examples: Compare the meaning of the following two sentences with and without the clause after the noun people: People who can speak more than one language are multilingual. People are multilingual. Using the that clause versus taking the that clause out: Please repair all the windows that are broke ...
... Examples: Compare the meaning of the following two sentences with and without the clause after the noun people: People who can speak more than one language are multilingual. People are multilingual. Using the that clause versus taking the that clause out: Please repair all the windows that are broke ...
Participles
... Predicative Use of the Participle When a participle takes a direct or indirect object or is modified by an adverb or adverbial phrase, or in other words, when a participle’s verbal characteristics are emphasized, it is used predicatively. The participle together with its object(s) and its adverb(s) ...
... Predicative Use of the Participle When a participle takes a direct or indirect object or is modified by an adverb or adverbial phrase, or in other words, when a participle’s verbal characteristics are emphasized, it is used predicatively. The participle together with its object(s) and its adverb(s) ...
Inheritance and Complementation: A Case Study of Easy Adjectives
... (where hip abbreviates a substantial feature structure.) Applied to adjectival VP complementation, this treatment of subcategorization leads naturally to the postulation of adjectives that subcategorize for VPs, etc. (details follow). The significance of subcategorization information is that it repr ...
... (where hip abbreviates a substantial feature structure.) Applied to adjectival VP complementation, this treatment of subcategorization leads naturally to the postulation of adjectives that subcategorize for VPs, etc. (details follow). The significance of subcategorization information is that it repr ...
Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction
... In situations where this is not a factor, those chapters could be taught earlier, though some of the exercises assume material taught in previous chapters. Chapters 3–5 are a tightly knit unit and should be taught in that order; with the other chapters, the ordering is probably less crucial. Chapter ...
... In situations where this is not a factor, those chapters could be taught earlier, though some of the exercises assume material taught in previous chapters. Chapters 3–5 are a tightly knit unit and should be taught in that order; with the other chapters, the ordering is probably less crucial. Chapter ...