Chapter 2: Aspects of Matter and Time
... perfective vs. imperfective (about one-third of languages are of this type); 2) languages that do have perfective vs. imperfective (about two-thirds of languages are of this type, including French, Arabic, and Chinese); and 3) the Slavic languages (which includes Russian). Apparently the Slavic lang ...
... perfective vs. imperfective (about one-third of languages are of this type); 2) languages that do have perfective vs. imperfective (about two-thirds of languages are of this type, including French, Arabic, and Chinese); and 3) the Slavic languages (which includes Russian). Apparently the Slavic lang ...
Spanish Essentials For Dummies
... • Way back when — get guidance on working with the past tense, including hints about when to use the preterit and when to use the imperfect • What lies ahead — discover the different ways to express the future, whether you need to form the future tense of a regular verb or just want to predict what ...
... • Way back when — get guidance on working with the past tense, including hints about when to use the preterit and when to use the imperfect • What lies ahead — discover the different ways to express the future, whether you need to form the future tense of a regular verb or just want to predict what ...
Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank Project
... This category includes my (as in My, what a gorgeous day), oh, please, see (as in See, it's like this), ah, well and yes, among others. List item marker-LS This category includes letters and numerals when they are used to identify items in a list. M o d a l verb--MD This category includes all verbs ...
... This category includes my (as in My, what a gorgeous day), oh, please, see (as in See, it's like this), ah, well and yes, among others. List item marker-LS This category includes letters and numerals when they are used to identify items in a list. M o d a l verb--MD This category includes all verbs ...
Gustar, Interesar, Aburrir
... Actually, the verb encantar is just like the verb gustar, but it means “to delight. – Me encantan los tacos. I am delighted by the tacos. The tacos delight me. The tacos are delighting to me. ...
... Actually, the verb encantar is just like the verb gustar, but it means “to delight. – Me encantan los tacos. I am delighted by the tacos. The tacos delight me. The tacos are delighting to me. ...
The Verb aNd Verbals iN eNGlish
... syntactical functions performed in the sentence, the most important communicative unit of speech. For instance, the most widely occurring full words belong to the noun word class, whose common meaning is that of substance or thingness, i.e. names of living beings (a man, a dog, Ann, George), concret ...
... syntactical functions performed in the sentence, the most important communicative unit of speech. For instance, the most widely occurring full words belong to the noun word class, whose common meaning is that of substance or thingness, i.e. names of living beings (a man, a dog, Ann, George), concret ...
adjectives - University of Maryland, Baltimore
... Adjectives modify nouns by specifying which, what kind, or how many. Which: The oldest child is 10. Note: The adjective “oldest” modifies the noun “child,” indicating which child the writer is referring to. What kind: I live in a small house. Note: The adjective “small” modifies the noun “house,” de ...
... Adjectives modify nouns by specifying which, what kind, or how many. Which: The oldest child is 10. Note: The adjective “oldest” modifies the noun “child,” indicating which child the writer is referring to. What kind: I live in a small house. Note: The adjective “small” modifies the noun “house,” de ...
compounds
... They live in a very downmarket neighbourhood. This year’s expenditure is even more over-budget than last year’s . ...
... They live in a very downmarket neighbourhood. This year’s expenditure is even more over-budget than last year’s . ...
Iberdrola Style Guide
... Avoid the forms inputted and outputted. Instead, write input and output: 70,000 records were input last month. ...
... Avoid the forms inputted and outputted. Instead, write input and output: 70,000 records were input last month. ...
Evidence for very early Germanic
... the mass comparison of words or other such dubious ventures. Mass comparatists hope that the more words they find with similar sound and similar meaning, the stronger will be their case for a historical relationship between the languages compared. However, words which sound similar and mean somethin ...
... the mass comparison of words or other such dubious ventures. Mass comparatists hope that the more words they find with similar sound and similar meaning, the stronger will be their case for a historical relationship between the languages compared. However, words which sound similar and mean somethin ...
Involuntary state constructions in Polish: a case of semantic
... Consequently, the features to be accounted for in ISCs are: the occurrence of the dative argument in the absence of the nominative subject, the default verbal form showing no agreement, the necessity of manner modification, the human/animate character of the dative argument, which, however, does not ...
... Consequently, the features to be accounted for in ISCs are: the occurrence of the dative argument in the absence of the nominative subject, the default verbal form showing no agreement, the necessity of manner modification, the human/animate character of the dative argument, which, however, does not ...
Volition and Non-Volition Markers on the Verb
... plosives, two fricatives, three nasals and three liquids. Vowels include two high front unrounded vowels, two high back rounded vowels and a low vowel. As much as possible the orthographic symbols used for a Latin alphabet transcription of the language directly correspond to the IPA phoneme symbols ...
... plosives, two fricatives, three nasals and three liquids. Vowels include two high front unrounded vowels, two high back rounded vowels and a low vowel. As much as possible the orthographic symbols used for a Latin alphabet transcription of the language directly correspond to the IPA phoneme symbols ...
Generating A Parsing Lexicon from an LCS-Based Lexicon
... The first methodology fails for some classes because the distribution of syntactic patterns over a specific class is not uniform. In other words, attempting to assign only a set of patterns to each class introduces errors because some classes are associated with more than one syntactic frame. For ex ...
... The first methodology fails for some classes because the distribution of syntactic patterns over a specific class is not uniform. In other words, attempting to assign only a set of patterns to each class introduces errors because some classes are associated with more than one syntactic frame. For ex ...
Reflections on English personal pronouns
... The pronoun you originally referred to a group of people including the hearer. In this capacity it may now be replaced by you all or youse in certain dialects. Today it replaces the obsolete thou (surviving only in the Quaker thee) in referring to a single hearer, although it still requires the plur ...
... The pronoun you originally referred to a group of people including the hearer. In this capacity it may now be replaced by you all or youse in certain dialects. Today it replaces the obsolete thou (surviving only in the Quaker thee) in referring to a single hearer, although it still requires the plur ...
The Quantization Puzzle
... sentence (3), and both (2) and (3) can freely be used for iterative, habitual and generic statements in a suitable context. However, the aspectual system of Russian verbs is more complex than the above presentation suggests, when we look at the whole range of the relevant data. Here, I will focus o ...
... sentence (3), and both (2) and (3) can freely be used for iterative, habitual and generic statements in a suitable context. However, the aspectual system of Russian verbs is more complex than the above presentation suggests, when we look at the whole range of the relevant data. Here, I will focus o ...
Agree in the Functional Domain: Evidence from the Morphosyntax of
... temporal case marker. Since such sentences do not differ along any semantic mood or modality notions, it is better to avoid using the term “mood” when referring to morphological endings of verbs in such contexts. A second argument why such temporal case markers are formal features and have no semant ...
... temporal case marker. Since such sentences do not differ along any semantic mood or modality notions, it is better to avoid using the term “mood” when referring to morphological endings of verbs in such contexts. A second argument why such temporal case markers are formal features and have no semant ...
Lecture Notes: Chapter 3 - Web Hosting at UMass Amherst
... θ-roles are assigned, but it only correctly delivers θ-roles to objects, and then, only when there is one. Under what conditions is the θ-role delivered to a subject argument? c. The CP complements to verbs present a paradox. They appear to be in complement position with respect to tests like do so ...
... θ-roles are assigned, but it only correctly delivers θ-roles to objects, and then, only when there is one. Under what conditions is the θ-role delivered to a subject argument? c. The CP complements to verbs present a paradox. They appear to be in complement position with respect to tests like do so ...
The Definite Article and Possessive Marking in Amharic
... the Minimalist Program (2004), we would like to treat the Amharic article as an inflectional suffix. We furthermore would like to assume that the noun is the semantic and syntactic head of the nominal phrase and that the indefinite determiner and, demonstratives, and quantifiers are selected by the ...
... the Minimalist Program (2004), we would like to treat the Amharic article as an inflectional suffix. We furthermore would like to assume that the noun is the semantic and syntactic head of the nominal phrase and that the indefinite determiner and, demonstratives, and quantifiers are selected by the ...
Chapter The Many Facets of the Cause-Effect Relation
... another phenomenon A varies in some particular way, then A is a cause or an effect of B. Perhaps the most influential of these ideas is the method of difference. According to this method, we can conclude that event A causes event B if we find two instances which are similar in every respect except t ...
... another phenomenon A varies in some particular way, then A is a cause or an effect of B. Perhaps the most influential of these ideas is the method of difference. According to this method, we can conclude that event A causes event B if we find two instances which are similar in every respect except t ...
Words and Sentences
... were, been, of which only one is derivable from a principal part (being is derived from be). On the history of this verb, see Indo-European copula. Verbs had more forms when the pronoun thou was still in regular use and there was a number distinction in the second person. To be, for instance, had ar ...
... were, been, of which only one is derivable from a principal part (being is derived from be). On the history of this verb, see Indo-European copula. Verbs had more forms when the pronoun thou was still in regular use and there was a number distinction in the second person. To be, for instance, had ar ...
Objective - Magistra Snyder`s Latin Website
... agitābat = he/she/it was hunting, used to hunt amābat = he/she/it was loving, used to love servābat = he/she/it was preserving, used to preserve spectābat = he/she/it was watching, used to watch cūpiēbat = he/she/it was desiring, used to desire ...
... agitābat = he/she/it was hunting, used to hunt amābat = he/she/it was loving, used to love servābat = he/she/it was preserving, used to preserve spectābat = he/she/it was watching, used to watch cūpiēbat = he/she/it was desiring, used to desire ...
VILNIUS PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY
... to the scholar, the failure of the bus to turn up functions as cause, and my being late for the meeting functions as effect. These two micro-situations form a single complex macro-situation, that is, the causative situation. In this case, it would be possible to express the macro-situation by combin ...
... to the scholar, the failure of the bus to turn up functions as cause, and my being late for the meeting functions as effect. These two micro-situations form a single complex macro-situation, that is, the causative situation. In this case, it would be possible to express the macro-situation by combin ...
Paraphrasing factoid dependency trees into fluent sentences in a
... An information carrier i will be said to be about information carrier j if the information borne by j holds in i. The rather abstract sounding notion of “information carrier” can denote a single term, but also a composition of terms into a structured query or a document. In other retrieval models (B ...
... An information carrier i will be said to be about information carrier j if the information borne by j holds in i. The rather abstract sounding notion of “information carrier” can denote a single term, but also a composition of terms into a structured query or a document. In other retrieval models (B ...
BASIC KOREAN: A GRAMMAR AND WORKBOOK
... Korean-as-a-foreign-language (KFL) teaching and learning in the Englishspeaking world has hardly been popular among non-Koreans until quite recently. However, the number of KFL learners has started to grow rapidly since the latter half of the 1970s for various reasons, such as the increasing visibil ...
... Korean-as-a-foreign-language (KFL) teaching and learning in the Englishspeaking world has hardly been popular among non-Koreans until quite recently. However, the number of KFL learners has started to grow rapidly since the latter half of the 1970s for various reasons, such as the increasing visibil ...
A Description of Preverb and Particle Usage in Innu - Innu
... discusses Plains Cree connective particles, focusing on their position in the clause with respect to nouns and verbs. Ogg says connective particles often occur at the left edge of ...
... discusses Plains Cree connective particles, focusing on their position in the clause with respect to nouns and verbs. Ogg says connective particles often occur at the left edge of ...
A grammar of the Spanish language
... more elements for making their way in Spanish intercourse than they could by reading or learning a whole volume of dialogues, every expression in which may be altered in twenty different ways. Finally, on perusing the contents of this vohime, the Author hopes it will be perceived that the arrangemen ...
... more elements for making their way in Spanish intercourse than they could by reading or learning a whole volume of dialogues, every expression in which may be altered in twenty different ways. Finally, on perusing the contents of this vohime, the Author hopes it will be perceived that the arrangemen ...