Тема 6 THE PASSIVE VOICE The voice is one of the categories of
... Bicycles are widely used in the city instead of public transport. 6 Impersonality (the passive is a way of avoiding the naming of a specific person): It has been decided to reduce all salaries by 10%. Test papers are not to be taken outside the examination room. 7 In descriptions of processes, there ...
... Bicycles are widely used in the city instead of public transport. 6 Impersonality (the passive is a way of avoiding the naming of a specific person): It has been decided to reduce all salaries by 10%. Test papers are not to be taken outside the examination room. 7 In descriptions of processes, there ...
role shift, anaphora and discourse polyphony in sign language of
... person to whom the actual sender is signing. The fact that, within a model which claims that there is no second person value, the notion of “second person pronominal reference” is nevertheless being used, seems to allude to the real and physical properties of the canonical encounter in conversations ...
... person to whom the actual sender is signing. The fact that, within a model which claims that there is no second person value, the notion of “second person pronominal reference” is nevertheless being used, seems to allude to the real and physical properties of the canonical encounter in conversations ...
Imperfect Aspect in English and Indonesian Verbs
... In narrative, one of the uses of the imperfective is to set the background scene (“It was midnight. The room was dark. The rain was beating down. Water was streaming in through a broken window. A gun lay on the table."), with the perfective describing foregrounded actions within that scene ("Suddenl ...
... In narrative, one of the uses of the imperfective is to set the background scene (“It was midnight. The room was dark. The rain was beating down. Water was streaming in through a broken window. A gun lay on the table."), with the perfective describing foregrounded actions within that scene ("Suddenl ...
Introducing PersPred, a syntactic and semantic database - Hal-SHS
... instance čâqu zadan ‘to stab’ (Lit. ‘knife hit’) is not only to hit somebody with a knife; dast dâdan ‘to shake hands’ (Lit. ‘hand give’) does not only imply that you give your hand to somebody; âb dâdan, ‘to water’ (Lit. ‘water give’) is not just pouring water on something; šir dâdan ‘to bre ...
... instance čâqu zadan ‘to stab’ (Lit. ‘knife hit’) is not only to hit somebody with a knife; dast dâdan ‘to shake hands’ (Lit. ‘hand give’) does not only imply that you give your hand to somebody; âb dâdan, ‘to water’ (Lit. ‘water give’) is not just pouring water on something; šir dâdan ‘to bre ...
Aspect Marking and Modality in Child Vietnamese
... 2. ADULT VIETNAMESE Vietnamese is an SVO and isolating language, thus has no inflectional morphology. Verbs are not inflected, i.e. they never have a stem change, but there are various markers (separate morphemes) that accompany the verb to express Tense and Aspect. There are two types of expression ...
... 2. ADULT VIETNAMESE Vietnamese is an SVO and isolating language, thus has no inflectional morphology. Verbs are not inflected, i.e. they never have a stem change, but there are various markers (separate morphemes) that accompany the verb to express Tense and Aspect. There are two types of expression ...
Auxiliaries in spoken Sinhala
... verbs over time develop into grammatical markers. This development happens gradually, so that main verbs shed some of their lexical meaning and acquire the grammatical meanings of tense, modality, or aspect, and thus change into auxiliaries. Auxiliaries may grammaticalize even further, reduce in for ...
... verbs over time develop into grammatical markers. This development happens gradually, so that main verbs shed some of their lexical meaning and acquire the grammatical meanings of tense, modality, or aspect, and thus change into auxiliaries. Auxiliaries may grammaticalize even further, reduce in for ...
English labile verbs and their equivalents in Swedish
... The term causative can be defined as referring to a situation where there is a causal relation between two events, one of which is believed to be caused by the other (Kulikov, 2001). This definition involves that the two-participant construction of a labile verb can be paraphrased as ‘cause to V’ (w ...
... The term causative can be defined as referring to a situation where there is a causal relation between two events, one of which is believed to be caused by the other (Kulikov, 2001). This definition involves that the two-participant construction of a labile verb can be paraphrased as ‘cause to V’ (w ...
Spanish Learning Resources
... In the previous three lessons you learned the fundamental difference between ser and estar -essence or condition, as well as some common uses for each verb. This lesson presents the two verbs side by side, with the emphasis on contrasting their uses. In the process, much -- but not all -- of the pre ...
... In the previous three lessons you learned the fundamental difference between ser and estar -essence or condition, as well as some common uses for each verb. This lesson presents the two verbs side by side, with the emphasis on contrasting their uses. In the process, much -- but not all -- of the pre ...
Español 1: REPASO DE SEMESTRE 2
... Translate to Spanish: Where are you going? ______________________________________________________ What are you going to do? _________________________________________________________________________________ ‘al or a la” p126 What is the difference? __________________________________________________ ...
... Translate to Spanish: Where are you going? ______________________________________________________ What are you going to do? _________________________________________________________________________________ ‘al or a la” p126 What is the difference? __________________________________________________ ...
Locative Invenion, Definiteness, and Free Word Order in Russian
... b. (?)Na stol byla postavlena tarelka. on table was put plate-Nam. 'On the table was put a plate' c.?? Na stol byla postavlena tarelka Mariei. on table was put plate-Nam. Maria-Instr. 'On the table was placed a plate by Maria' ...
... b. (?)Na stol byla postavlena tarelka. on table was put plate-Nam. 'On the table was put a plate' c.?? Na stol byla postavlena tarelka Mariei. on table was put plate-Nam. Maria-Instr. 'On the table was placed a plate by Maria' ...
How do I talk about the past
... were like / what you used to do : (I was watching TV – I was happy – I used to watch TV every day) 3. The Pluperfect Tense - Le plus-que-parfait = What you had done: (I had watched TV; she said that I had watched TV). 4. The Past Historic- Le Passé Simple = a tense only used in novels ...
... were like / what you used to do : (I was watching TV – I was happy – I used to watch TV every day) 3. The Pluperfect Tense - Le plus-que-parfait = What you had done: (I had watched TV; she said that I had watched TV). 4. The Past Historic- Le Passé Simple = a tense only used in novels ...
Gustar - Arlington Spanish
... All the prepositional forms can be used to emphasize the object pronoun form. Juan doesn’t like beans but I do. A Juan no le gustan los frijoles, pero a mí sí me gustan. Notice that because Juan and I were stressed in the above sentence in English, we added the prepositional forms a Juan and a mí i ...
... All the prepositional forms can be used to emphasize the object pronoun form. Juan doesn’t like beans but I do. A Juan no le gustan los frijoles, pero a mí sí me gustan. Notice that because Juan and I were stressed in the above sentence in English, we added the prepositional forms a Juan and a mí i ...
Gustar and similar verbs
... All the prepositional forms can be used to emphasize the object pronoun form. Juan doesn’t like beans but I do. A Juan no le gustan los frijoles, pero a mí sí me gustan. Notice that because Juan and I were stressed in the above sentence in English, we added the prepositional forms a Juan and a mí i ...
... All the prepositional forms can be used to emphasize the object pronoun form. Juan doesn’t like beans but I do. A Juan no le gustan los frijoles, pero a mí sí me gustan. Notice that because Juan and I were stressed in the above sentence in English, we added the prepositional forms a Juan and a mí i ...
Case and Event Structure
... This, however, leads to a peculiar state of affairs, in that the other formal features postulated to account for grammatical processes generally have some semantic content. The system of feature checking developed by Chomsky (Chomsky 1998 inter alia) postulates, in core cases, pairs of features in w ...
... This, however, leads to a peculiar state of affairs, in that the other formal features postulated to account for grammatical processes generally have some semantic content. The system of feature checking developed by Chomsky (Chomsky 1998 inter alia) postulates, in core cases, pairs of features in w ...
Dative verbs: A crosslinguistic perspective
... schema because events of imparting force may cause the force recipient to move to a goal. This association is available because, as A. Goldberg (1997:393) proposes, verb roots may be associated with event schemas when they bear a force-dynamic relation (W. Croft 1991, L. Talmy 1988) to it; these ver ...
... schema because events of imparting force may cause the force recipient to move to a goal. This association is available because, as A. Goldberg (1997:393) proposes, verb roots may be associated with event schemas when they bear a force-dynamic relation (W. Croft 1991, L. Talmy 1988) to it; these ver ...
view - Association for Computational Linguistics
... instance čâqu zadan ‘to stab’ (Lit. ‘knife hit’) is not only to hit somebody with a knife; dast dâdan ‘to shake hands’ (Lit. ‘hand give’) does not only imply that you give your hand to somebody; âb dâdan, ‘to water’ (Lit. ‘water give’) is not just pouring water on something; šir dâdan ‘to bre ...
... instance čâqu zadan ‘to stab’ (Lit. ‘knife hit’) is not only to hit somebody with a knife; dast dâdan ‘to shake hands’ (Lit. ‘hand give’) does not only imply that you give your hand to somebody; âb dâdan, ‘to water’ (Lit. ‘water give’) is not just pouring water on something; šir dâdan ‘to bre ...
Transitivity from a Cognitive Perspective
... as a linguistic category that encompasses several constructions, making it possible to determine which syntactic elements play more or less important roles in expressing transitivity. Thus we can see both the “parts” of the transitivity “whole”, as well as how those “parts” interact, rather than see ...
... as a linguistic category that encompasses several constructions, making it possible to determine which syntactic elements play more or less important roles in expressing transitivity. Thus we can see both the “parts” of the transitivity “whole”, as well as how those “parts” interact, rather than see ...
Detransitivisation in Irish Sign Language ESF Intersign Workshop on
... referents may control agreement when these referents receive roles more typically associated with animate referents: the roles of agent, experiencer and recipient. However, the role of patient can be assigned to either animate or inanimate referents although only animate referents with the role of p ...
... referents may control agreement when these referents receive roles more typically associated with animate referents: the roles of agent, experiencer and recipient. However, the role of patient can be assigned to either animate or inanimate referents although only animate referents with the role of p ...
Explaining the (A)telicity Property of English Verb Phrases
... c. The doctor examined an enormous number of patients in 3 hours this morning It seems that any expression of quantity, rather than a precise expression of quantity, is sufficient for a predicate to qualify as telic. This makes it implausible that a VP is telic if and only if there is a homomorphism ...
... c. The doctor examined an enormous number of patients in 3 hours this morning It seems that any expression of quantity, rather than a precise expression of quantity, is sufficient for a predicate to qualify as telic. This makes it implausible that a VP is telic if and only if there is a homomorphism ...
Post-syntactic movement and the Old Irish Verb
... [V P in spirut [V 0 hbeoigidiri in corp]] in fecht so] vivifies-[3s.pres] the spirit the body now ...
... [V P in spirut [V 0 hbeoigidiri in corp]] in fecht so] vivifies-[3s.pres] the spirit the body now ...
Active/agentive Case Marking and Its Motivations
... 1. INTRODUCTION.It has been known for some time that languages can differ substantially in their marking of case. For centuries, descriptions have been available of languages whose core (direct) case categories differ fundamentally from the subjects and direct objects of more familiar European langu ...
... 1. INTRODUCTION.It has been known for some time that languages can differ substantially in their marking of case. For centuries, descriptions have been available of languages whose core (direct) case categories differ fundamentally from the subjects and direct objects of more familiar European langu ...
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... To reiterate, quantifiers are used to say something about individuals in a set. Most students like syntax. The set (sometimes, restriction) is the set of students. This says that, if you check all of the students individually to see if each likes syntax, you’ll find that most (more than half) of the ...
... To reiterate, quantifiers are used to say something about individuals in a set. Most students like syntax. The set (sometimes, restriction) is the set of students. This says that, if you check all of the students individually to see if each likes syntax, you’ll find that most (more than half) of the ...
Chapter six - UNT Department of English
... examination of the English past, here we spend a good deal of time looking at what would otherwise appear to be very simple English sentences. A short word to the wise before we embark. The style of syntax we will be learning in this chapter is a simplified and very reduced form of the view on synta ...
... examination of the English past, here we spend a good deal of time looking at what would otherwise appear to be very simple English sentences. A short word to the wise before we embark. The style of syntax we will be learning in this chapter is a simplified and very reduced form of the view on synta ...
Cognate objects in Vietnamese transitive verbs
... second group da (kick), i.e. the class of verbs for which the CO can occur either as a single argument or as a second object (as in 3.2.1.2). The only difference between (11) and (12) is that the object is non countable in the former, but countable in the latter (a piece of fire wood). When the CO o ...
... second group da (kick), i.e. the class of verbs for which the CO can occur either as a single argument or as a second object (as in 3.2.1.2). The only difference between (11) and (12) is that the object is non countable in the former, but countable in the latter (a piece of fire wood). When the CO o ...