Applied verbs in Bantu languages have often been analysed as
... As the structure in (4) shows, applicative constructions have an underlying prepositional object with an empty preposition as head, which is incorporated into (or, adjoined to) the verb. The abstract preposition FOR in (4) indicates that the object is thematically restricted in a way which, in langu ...
... As the structure in (4) shows, applicative constructions have an underlying prepositional object with an empty preposition as head, which is incorporated into (or, adjoined to) the verb. The abstract preposition FOR in (4) indicates that the object is thematically restricted in a way which, in langu ...
Teaching Phrasal Verbs to Lower Learners
... the stress-timed nature of the English language, which may be a very difficult skill for learners with a syllable-timed L1 (Spanish, for example). It also encourages learners to notice the recurring stress patterns of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs. An example is as follows: ...
... the stress-timed nature of the English language, which may be a very difficult skill for learners with a syllable-timed L1 (Spanish, for example). It also encourages learners to notice the recurring stress patterns of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs. An example is as follows: ...
Thinking About What We Are Asking Speakers to Do
... game seem to have changed: apparently we must now deduce some other justification for breaking words down, which applies when the previous two fail, if we are to match the judgements provided in the instructions. I do not know what range of possible justifications participants might entertain, but o ...
... game seem to have changed: apparently we must now deduce some other justification for breaking words down, which applies when the previous two fail, if we are to match the judgements provided in the instructions. I do not know what range of possible justifications participants might entertain, but o ...
+ adjective
... 3. Some irregular forms are fast, well and hard. These can only be placed after the main verb or object of the verb. He is a fast swimmer. He swims fast. I am a good singer. I sing popular songs well, but I can’t sing opera. Physics is a hard subject to understand. Shelley studied hard for the test. ...
... 3. Some irregular forms are fast, well and hard. These can only be placed after the main verb or object of the verb. He is a fast swimmer. He swims fast. I am a good singer. I sing popular songs well, but I can’t sing opera. Physics is a hard subject to understand. Shelley studied hard for the test. ...
Are there adjectives in Hocank (Winnebago)?
... and modification is the basis for this strategy. Unfortunately, these two types of languages that lack adjectives are described only very briefly in Schachter's article. It might be expected that it is not always clear how to categorize a specific language according to the two types. It will be show ...
... and modification is the basis for this strategy. Unfortunately, these two types of languages that lack adjectives are described only very briefly in Schachter's article. It might be expected that it is not always clear how to categorize a specific language according to the two types. It will be show ...
Head Words and Phrases Heads and their Dependents
... – Direct object complements of verb can be passivized » All our friends admired Mel. Mel was admired by all our friends. » The magician disappeared the next day. *the next day was disappeared by the magician. – NPs can be passivized out of complement PPs: » Jack laughed at the clown. The clown was l ...
... – Direct object complements of verb can be passivized » All our friends admired Mel. Mel was admired by all our friends. » The magician disappeared the next day. *the next day was disappeared by the magician. – NPs can be passivized out of complement PPs: » Jack laughed at the clown. The clown was l ...
The Phrase Prepositional Phrases
... Taking care of your bicycle is one way to make it last. – adjective We used machine oil to lubricate the chain. – adverb I learned to place a small drop of oil on each link. – noun Then Aunt Elsie showed me the valve that is needed to fill the inner tube. – adverb My aunt said not to twist the wrenc ...
... Taking care of your bicycle is one way to make it last. – adjective We used machine oil to lubricate the chain. – adverb I learned to place a small drop of oil on each link. – noun Then Aunt Elsie showed me the valve that is needed to fill the inner tube. – adverb My aunt said not to twist the wrenc ...
Grammar Made Easy Concepts
... Concept Six: Participles and Participial Phrases Participle Phrases: eating the meal, sleeping all night, dreaming the impossible dream, pondering life’s magnificence. Participle phrases look just like gerunds, but they function as adjectives and not nouns. Participle phrases begin with words that l ...
... Concept Six: Participles and Participial Phrases Participle Phrases: eating the meal, sleeping all night, dreaming the impossible dream, pondering life’s magnificence. Participle phrases look just like gerunds, but they function as adjectives and not nouns. Participle phrases begin with words that l ...
Grammar Made Easy Concepts
... Concept Six: Participles and Participial Phrases Participle Phrases: eating the meal, sleeping all night, dreaming the impossible dream, pondering life’s magnificence. Participle phrases look just like gerunds, but they function as adjectives and not nouns. Participle phrases begin with words that l ...
... Concept Six: Participles and Participial Phrases Participle Phrases: eating the meal, sleeping all night, dreaming the impossible dream, pondering life’s magnificence. Participle phrases look just like gerunds, but they function as adjectives and not nouns. Participle phrases begin with words that l ...
What`s the Subjunctive, Again?
... age. What agreement means is two different parts of a sentence match one another. The reason this is so difficult for English speakers to pick up on is that in our system, fewer things have to agree. In English, agreement happens between subjects and their verbs, and the things that need to match ar ...
... age. What agreement means is two different parts of a sentence match one another. The reason this is so difficult for English speakers to pick up on is that in our system, fewer things have to agree. In English, agreement happens between subjects and their verbs, and the things that need to match ar ...
Pie Corbett Progression
... Simple Connectives: and or but so because so that then that while when where Also as openers: While… When… Where… -‘ly’ openers Fortunately,…Unfortunately, Sadly,… Simple sentences e.g. I went to the park. The castle is haunted. Embellished simple sentences ...
... Simple Connectives: and or but so because so that then that while when where Also as openers: While… When… Where… -‘ly’ openers Fortunately,…Unfortunately, Sadly,… Simple sentences e.g. I went to the park. The castle is haunted. Embellished simple sentences ...
From rules of grammar to laws of nature
... Originally, grammar was meant to denote the art of reading and writing; but, in medieval Western Europe, it was restricted to the study of Latin, a necessary prerequisite to intellectual advancement. Not surprisingly therefore, knowledge of grammar was seen to provide a person with magical power, to ...
... Originally, grammar was meant to denote the art of reading and writing; but, in medieval Western Europe, it was restricted to the study of Latin, a necessary prerequisite to intellectual advancement. Not surprisingly therefore, knowledge of grammar was seen to provide a person with magical power, to ...
The Sketch Engine
... The first age of corpus lexicography was pre-computer. Dictionary compilers such as Samuel Johnson and James Murray worked from vast sets of index cards, their ‘corpus’. The second age commenced with the COBUILD project, in the late 1970s (Sinclair 1987). Sinclair and Atkins, its devisers, saw the p ...
... The first age of corpus lexicography was pre-computer. Dictionary compilers such as Samuel Johnson and James Murray worked from vast sets of index cards, their ‘corpus’. The second age commenced with the COBUILD project, in the late 1970s (Sinclair 1987). Sinclair and Atkins, its devisers, saw the p ...
1.Verbs and nominalisations.
... contained in the previously mentioned corpus. Native speaker intuitions (European and Peruvian Spanish) have been used as well. ...
... contained in the previously mentioned corpus. Native speaker intuitions (European and Peruvian Spanish) have been used as well. ...
Parts of Speech
... The words a, an, and the are the most frequently used adjectives. Although they are sometimes referred to as articles or noun markers, they are really adjectives, plain and simple. Use a before words that start with a consonant sound (a joking man or a lucky lottery player) and an before words that ...
... The words a, an, and the are the most frequently used adjectives. Although they are sometimes referred to as articles or noun markers, they are really adjectives, plain and simple. Use a before words that start with a consonant sound (a joking man or a lucky lottery player) and an before words that ...
communicative constructions in written texts: verba dicendi
... sender, message, and receiver, which is fraught with a context and a code shared by both, sender and receiver. The elements of communication are: 1. An information source, which produces a message. 2. A transmitter, which encodes the message into signals 3. A channel, to which signals are adapted fo ...
... sender, message, and receiver, which is fraught with a context and a code shared by both, sender and receiver. The elements of communication are: 1. An information source, which produces a message. 2. A transmitter, which encodes the message into signals 3. A channel, to which signals are adapted fo ...
Locality Constraints on the Interpretation of Roots: The Case of
... from one another, and are by no means predictable from the combination of the root and the word-creating head. This property is language specific, occurring in some languages but not in others. 2. The ability to be assigned multiple interpretations is strictly reserved for roots. Once the root has m ...
... from one another, and are by no means predictable from the combination of the root and the word-creating head. This property is language specific, occurring in some languages but not in others. 2. The ability to be assigned multiple interpretations is strictly reserved for roots. Once the root has m ...
Part of Speech Tagging and Local Word Grouping Techniques for
... Splitting up a Hindi sentence into constituent fixed order word groups has been dealt with earlier [Bharati et al, 1995]. The basic motivation for such group formation was to act as input to a computational Paninian parser, but part of speech (POS) tagging disambiguation, word grouping ambiguity res ...
... Splitting up a Hindi sentence into constituent fixed order word groups has been dealt with earlier [Bharati et al, 1995]. The basic motivation for such group formation was to act as input to a computational Paninian parser, but part of speech (POS) tagging disambiguation, word grouping ambiguity res ...
An Intermediate Guide to Greek Diagramming
... An infinitive can function either in an adverbial fashion or as a substantive. Those that function adverbially (ExSyn, 590-599; Basics, 256-260) are diagrammed like adverbial participles, under the verb they modify and connected by a vertical line. However, before the infinitive, two vertical lines ...
... An infinitive can function either in an adverbial fashion or as a substantive. Those that function adverbially (ExSyn, 590-599; Basics, 256-260) are diagrammed like adverbial participles, under the verb they modify and connected by a vertical line. However, before the infinitive, two vertical lines ...
6.3: Preterite Tense of Regular Verbs
... ■ As you learned in Lección 2, the construction a + [pronoun] (a mí, a ti, a usted, a él, etc.) is used to clarify or to emphasize who is pleased, bored, etc. The construction a + [noun] can also be used before the indirect object pronoun to clarify or to emphasize who is pleased. ...
... ■ As you learned in Lección 2, the construction a + [pronoun] (a mí, a ti, a usted, a él, etc.) is used to clarify or to emphasize who is pleased, bored, etc. The construction a + [noun] can also be used before the indirect object pronoun to clarify or to emphasize who is pleased. ...
1 - WhippleHill
... 1. Participles are most common 2. The perfect passive participle is the most common of all participles used this way 3. the verb “to be” is understood when the abl. absolute consists of a noun and an adj. or noun b. Other words are okay too, and they don’t have to be ablative if they need to be thei ...
... 1. Participles are most common 2. The perfect passive participle is the most common of all participles used this way 3. the verb “to be” is understood when the abl. absolute consists of a noun and an adj. or noun b. Other words are okay too, and they don’t have to be ablative if they need to be thei ...
Grammar - 400 Bad Request
... eyes of some descriptivists, perhaps prescriptivists are seen to proscribe — to condemn or outlaw, rather than just prescribe. In this book, we will try and steer a middle course between the two schools of thought (see online chapter 2). It’s only grammar, but we might get to like it — especially if ...
... eyes of some descriptivists, perhaps prescriptivists are seen to proscribe — to condemn or outlaw, rather than just prescribe. In this book, we will try and steer a middle course between the two schools of thought (see online chapter 2). It’s only grammar, but we might get to like it — especially if ...
Paper Title (use style: paper title)
... (Here any, act, game, instrument, phone, institution, and childgame are classes found in the Concept hierarchy.) For example, the declarations say that the verb to play, translated as soittaa, has one subject of class any and one object of class instrument or phone. In the following subsections, we ...
... (Here any, act, game, instrument, phone, institution, and childgame are classes found in the Concept hierarchy.) For example, the declarations say that the verb to play, translated as soittaa, has one subject of class any and one object of class instrument or phone. In the following subsections, we ...