The phraseological patterns of fun and funny: A corpus
... large-scale, balanced corpora, The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and The British National Corpus (BNC). Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are used in exploring the corpora. The findings are also compared to a dictionary and a grammar. One of the main findings is tha ...
... large-scale, balanced corpora, The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and The British National Corpus (BNC). Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are used in exploring the corpora. The findings are also compared to a dictionary and a grammar. One of the main findings is tha ...
conversations in - Lotud Dictionary
... in the Tuaran district. We would like to express appreciation to a number of Lotud people who were helpful in those days of language learning: Esin Gapayan, Justina Timbai, Lajumin Kading, and Rusiah Onggoi. We would also like to thank Jilam Arou, and Rusiah Onggoi for their patience in helping us t ...
... in the Tuaran district. We would like to express appreciation to a number of Lotud people who were helpful in those days of language learning: Esin Gapayan, Justina Timbai, Lajumin Kading, and Rusiah Onggoi. We would also like to thank Jilam Arou, and Rusiah Onggoi for their patience in helping us t ...
Lesson I
... subordinating conjunction ut and has its verb in the subjunctive. A negative result is introduced by ut and a negative adverb, pronoun or adjective (nn, nm, nihil, numquam, etc.). The sentence which introduces a result clause often contains one of the following adjectives or adverbs, which antici ...
... subordinating conjunction ut and has its verb in the subjunctive. A negative result is introduced by ut and a negative adverb, pronoun or adjective (nn, nm, nihil, numquam, etc.). The sentence which introduces a result clause often contains one of the following adjectives or adverbs, which antici ...
THE USE OF THE PARTICLE БЫЛО IN
... similar to states which can be expressed by certain verbs. When used without an infinitive, as in (33), the state indicated by готовый can sometimes be equated with the state that results from the action denoted by a verb like закончить. This resultant state can be presented as an attribute of an in ...
... similar to states which can be expressed by certain verbs. When used without an infinitive, as in (33), the state indicated by готовый can sometimes be equated with the state that results from the action denoted by a verb like закончить. This resultant state can be presented as an attribute of an in ...
Materials on Forest Enets, an Indigenous Language of Northern
... especially for the intensive working weekends in Kiel. Aitäh sulle Tiit for granting me both the necessary freedom and support to compile a monograph dissertation and for your insight behind the scenes of Soviet linguistics, which has helped me to understand “those things” behind the papers. My grat ...
... especially for the intensive working weekends in Kiel. Aitäh sulle Tiit for granting me both the necessary freedom and support to compile a monograph dissertation and for your insight behind the scenes of Soviet linguistics, which has helped me to understand “those things” behind the papers. My grat ...
gVbbVg - Fox C-6 School District
... • A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. Every sentence begins with a capital letter. • A sentence fragment does not express a complete thought. • A declarative sentence makes a statement. It ends with a period. • An interrogative sentence asks a question. It ends with a q ...
... • A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. Every sentence begins with a capital letter. • A sentence fragment does not express a complete thought. • A declarative sentence makes a statement. It ends with a period. • An interrogative sentence asks a question. It ends with a q ...
Adjectives and Adjective Phrases
... Dutch is an official language in the Netherlands, Belgium-Flanders, Surinam, Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. With about 22 million native speakers it is one of the world's greater languages. It is taught and studied at about 250 universities around the world (www.minbuza.nl/en/you-and-netherland ...
... Dutch is an official language in the Netherlands, Belgium-Flanders, Surinam, Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. With about 22 million native speakers it is one of the world's greater languages. It is taught and studied at about 250 universities around the world (www.minbuza.nl/en/you-and-netherland ...
Adjectives and Adjective Phrases
... Dutch is an official language in the Netherlands, Belgium-Flanders, Surinam, Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. With about 22 million native speakers it is one of the world's greater languages. It is taught and studied at about 250 universities around the world (www.minbuza.nl/en/you-and-netherland ...
... Dutch is an official language in the Netherlands, Belgium-Flanders, Surinam, Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. With about 22 million native speakers it is one of the world's greater languages. It is taught and studied at about 250 universities around the world (www.minbuza.nl/en/you-and-netherland ...
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
... clearly and sometimes even leap out at us. Most of us know a few of the "funny" expressions the British and the Australians use; many of us are aware of the "funny" way many Canadians say schedule. But perhaps because relative to the whole they are so few, these differences can be fiercely significa ...
... clearly and sometimes even leap out at us. Most of us know a few of the "funny" expressions the British and the Australians use; many of us are aware of the "funny" way many Canadians say schedule. But perhaps because relative to the whole they are so few, these differences can be fiercely significa ...
Kokama-Kokamilla - Scholars` Bank
... exemplification. This study is based on significant fieldwork since 1997, allowing the analysis to be grounded in text data. One of KK’s most salient typological features is a morphological distinction between male and female speech in several grammatical categories. Major grammatical categories lik ...
... exemplification. This study is based on significant fieldwork since 1997, allowing the analysis to be grounded in text data. One of KK’s most salient typological features is a morphological distinction between male and female speech in several grammatical categories. Major grammatical categories lik ...
1 Chapter 1. Introduction: status and definition of compounding
... always make a clean distinction between compound words on the one hand and derived words or phrases on the other. We might term these the ‗micro question‘ and the ‗macro question‘. Let us look at the ‗micro question‘ first. In the 1960 edition of his magnum opus, Marchand, for example, assumes that ...
... always make a clean distinction between compound words on the one hand and derived words or phrases on the other. We might term these the ‗micro question‘ and the ‗macro question‘. Let us look at the ‗micro question‘ first. In the 1960 edition of his magnum opus, Marchand, for example, assumes that ...
The Grammar of English Grammars
... the manner of its use. I have hoped to facilitate the study of the English language, not by abridging our grammatical code, or by rejecting the common phraseolgy [sic--KTH] of its doctrines, but by extending the former, improving the latter, and establishing both;--but still more, by furnishing new ...
... the manner of its use. I have hoped to facilitate the study of the English language, not by abridging our grammatical code, or by rejecting the common phraseolgy [sic--KTH] of its doctrines, but by extending the former, improving the latter, and establishing both;--but still more, by furnishing new ...
Case Selection for the Direct Object in Russian Negative Clauses. Part
... As stylistic factors seem to have an influence on case usage, it is important that the material should contain typologically different texts. We selected texts representing four styles (cf. Zasorina 1977): plays, prose fiction, journalistic texts, and scholarly texts (for further details, see 1.4. b ...
... As stylistic factors seem to have an influence on case usage, it is important that the material should contain typologically different texts. We selected texts representing four styles (cf. Zasorina 1977): plays, prose fiction, journalistic texts, and scholarly texts (for further details, see 1.4. b ...
On Participial Imperatives
... there is danced/talked/fidgeted/hung around/honked by those people4 ‘Those people dance/talk/fidget/hang around/honk.’ In the remainder of this article, we will compare the negative nominal and participial imperatives in (21) and (23) with the non-negated participial imperatives in (5)-(6). The ques ...
... there is danced/talked/fidgeted/hung around/honked by those people4 ‘Those people dance/talk/fidget/hang around/honk.’ In the remainder of this article, we will compare the negative nominal and participial imperatives in (21) and (23) with the non-negated participial imperatives in (5)-(6). The ques ...
Lesson IV
... 1st + 2nd person subjects 1st pl. verb Ego et puer sumus amc. The boy and I (=we) are friends. 1st + 3rd person subjects 1st pl. verb T et Caesar estis amc. You and Caesar (=you) are friends. 2nd + 3rd person subjects 2nd pl. verb In English compound subjects, the first person comes last: ...
... 1st + 2nd person subjects 1st pl. verb Ego et puer sumus amc. The boy and I (=we) are friends. 1st + 3rd person subjects 1st pl. verb T et Caesar estis amc. You and Caesar (=you) are friends. 2nd + 3rd person subjects 2nd pl. verb In English compound subjects, the first person comes last: ...
On the notion of subject for subject-oriented adverbs
... adverbs, being a lexical category, also need to be supported by such a head to be associated with DPs. This article is organized as follows. A brief look at how the conception of ‘subject’ has shifted in the history of generative grammar is followed by a look at some previous studies of subject-orie ...
... adverbs, being a lexical category, also need to be supported by such a head to be associated with DPs. This article is organized as follows. A brief look at how the conception of ‘subject’ has shifted in the history of generative grammar is followed by a look at some previous studies of subject-orie ...
ON THE SYNTAX OF PARTICIPIAL MODIFIERS*
... 2.2.1. THE PARTICIPIAL (PTCP) NODE. We propose that the N-features of the participle are introduced in the syntax, via embedding of the verbal head under a nominalizing participial node (PTCP). The endowment of the PTCP node with N-features underlies the nominal distribution of participles. The verb ...
... 2.2.1. THE PARTICIPIAL (PTCP) NODE. We propose that the N-features of the participle are introduced in the syntax, via embedding of the verbal head under a nominalizing participial node (PTCP). The endowment of the PTCP node with N-features underlies the nominal distribution of participles. The verb ...
- Catalyst
... A combination of reference grammar and practical usage manual, Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar is the ideal source for learners of Brazilian Portuguese at all levels, from beginner to advanced. John Whitlam is a freelance writer, university lecturer and lexicographer based in Rio de Janeiro. He ...
... A combination of reference grammar and practical usage manual, Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar is the ideal source for learners of Brazilian Portuguese at all levels, from beginner to advanced. John Whitlam is a freelance writer, university lecturer and lexicographer based in Rio de Janeiro. He ...
Copyright by Ulf Hermjakob 1997 - Information Sciences Institute
... and semantic clues point in opposite directions (sentence 9), while in other cases the ambiguity is more subtle and possibly irrelevant (sentence 10). Even when there seems to be little ambiguity for words like \to know", other languages often make distinctions, depending on how exactly a word is us ...
... and semantic clues point in opposite directions (sentence 9), while in other cases the ambiguity is more subtle and possibly irrelevant (sentence 10). Even when there seems to be little ambiguity for words like \to know", other languages often make distinctions, depending on how exactly a word is us ...
table of contents - Università degli Studi di Verona
... (T)he lexicon is the information storage of everything needed for speakers to actually use language to describe the world. In some sense, everything comes from the lexicon. This view entails also that lexicon information is largely universal (except, of course, for the sound coding), has minimum i ...
... (T)he lexicon is the information storage of everything needed for speakers to actually use language to describe the world. In some sense, everything comes from the lexicon. This view entails also that lexicon information is largely universal (except, of course, for the sound coding), has minimum i ...
University of Pardubice Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
... 1. Personal pronouns ...........................................................................................................6 2. Demonstrative pronouns ..................................................................................................7 3. Relative pronouns ....................... ...
... 1. Personal pronouns ...........................................................................................................6 2. Demonstrative pronouns ..................................................................................................7 3. Relative pronouns ....................... ...
PPT_week_8
... How would you form a noun from these adjectives meaning ‘the state of being X’ (where X refers to the quality expressed in the adjective) choosing between one of the suffixes -th, -ness, and -ity. Did you use one of the three far more or far less often than the other(s)? Can you come up with an expl ...
... How would you form a noun from these adjectives meaning ‘the state of being X’ (where X refers to the quality expressed in the adjective) choosing between one of the suffixes -th, -ness, and -ity. Did you use one of the three far more or far less often than the other(s)? Can you come up with an expl ...
Contents of the Reference Section
... people will come to this book because they are learning English and trying to master the structure of the language. As soon as they have enough practical English to master the text, they will find this grammar helpful to them although it has been written primarily for students of advanced level. Th ...
... people will come to this book because they are learning English and trying to master the structure of the language. As soon as they have enough practical English to master the text, they will find this grammar helpful to them although it has been written primarily for students of advanced level. Th ...
an analysis of lexical phrases in business letters: an online business
... They are often connected with the functions of language. They have been called various names, including lexical phrases (Nattinger & DeCarrico, 1989; Schmitt & Carter, 2000), multi-word chunks/expressions (Moon, 1997; Zimmerman, 1997), ready made units/chunks (Cowie, 1992), and collocations (Lewis, ...
... They are often connected with the functions of language. They have been called various names, including lexical phrases (Nattinger & DeCarrico, 1989; Schmitt & Carter, 2000), multi-word chunks/expressions (Moon, 1997; Zimmerman, 1997), ready made units/chunks (Cowie, 1992), and collocations (Lewis, ...
Reduplication In Kimeru: A Case Study Of Kimeru Parts Of Speech
... reduplicated words in the language. The study uses common Kimeru words particulary in the open categories of speech. These words were taken from the Imenti dialect of Kimeru language. The study aims were to identify reduplication in Kimeru; to investigate full and partial reduplication in Kimeru; to ...
... reduplicated words in the language. The study uses common Kimeru words particulary in the open categories of speech. These words were taken from the Imenti dialect of Kimeru language. The study aims were to identify reduplication in Kimeru; to investigate full and partial reduplication in Kimeru; to ...