7116 Sentence Building Int.
... children to locate other verb Rods that show mental actions that are not easy to act out (like, knew, mean, become, etc.). Have students link together a Rod train of action verbs that are easy to act out and a Rod train of verbs that are not easy to act out. If students are unable to complete the ta ...
... children to locate other verb Rods that show mental actions that are not easy to act out (like, knew, mean, become, etc.). Have students link together a Rod train of action verbs that are easy to act out and a Rod train of verbs that are not easy to act out. If students are unable to complete the ta ...
A Study of the Verbs of Verb-copying Construction in Mandarin
... Under the theoretical framework of Minimalist Program by Chomsky (1995), linguistics is intended to be empirical with the aim of describing and formulating the theory of the nature of the language within a universalistic view. Following this line, the present study is designed to combine the theoret ...
... Under the theoretical framework of Minimalist Program by Chomsky (1995), linguistics is intended to be empirical with the aim of describing and formulating the theory of the nature of the language within a universalistic view. Following this line, the present study is designed to combine the theoret ...
Introduction to Tocharian - Ústav srovnávací jazykovědy
... 1.1.2. Who were the Tocharians? The speakers of Tocharian played an important role in the Buddhist civilization of preIslamic eastern Central Asia, but their exact identity remains unknown. The name “Tocharian” rests mainly on the form twɣry in an Old Uyghur colophon, but both the reading and the i ...
... 1.1.2. Who were the Tocharians? The speakers of Tocharian played an important role in the Buddhist civilization of preIslamic eastern Central Asia, but their exact identity remains unknown. The name “Tocharian” rests mainly on the form twɣry in an Old Uyghur colophon, but both the reading and the i ...
AspectuAlity in Hindi: tHe two pAirs of Aspects
... marked category and the imperfective is unmarked. Keeping in mind the unmarkedness of simple verbs, Pořízka (1978: 161) reasons: “Simple verbs are neutral, unmarked of verbal aspect. They do not have the perfective or any other aspectual meaning, but at the same time they do not throw it away and ca ...
... marked category and the imperfective is unmarked. Keeping in mind the unmarkedness of simple verbs, Pořízka (1978: 161) reasons: “Simple verbs are neutral, unmarked of verbal aspect. They do not have the perfective or any other aspectual meaning, but at the same time they do not throw it away and ca ...
Using Modifiers Correctly
... 12. For instance, she taught us to wrap thread behind buttons we sew on, so that they will be more easier to button. 13. We learned how to make skirts, blouses, and all sorts of other things, and now there isn't hardly anything we can't make. 14. I was sad when we left Grandma's house, but I like ou ...
... 12. For instance, she taught us to wrap thread behind buttons we sew on, so that they will be more easier to button. 13. We learned how to make skirts, blouses, and all sorts of other things, and now there isn't hardly anything we can't make. 14. I was sad when we left Grandma's house, but I like ou ...
Innovative 1PL Subject Constructions in Finnish
... province, China. The data presented here is based on ongoing fieldwork by the authors. In Rtau, there are two main ways of reporting what someone else has said, direct speech (DS) and semi-direct speech (SDS). The authors have been unable to ascertain the existence of any other type of reported spee ...
... province, China. The data presented here is based on ongoing fieldwork by the authors. In Rtau, there are two main ways of reporting what someone else has said, direct speech (DS) and semi-direct speech (SDS). The authors have been unable to ascertain the existence of any other type of reported spee ...
Shallow-Parsing Stylebook for German
... definition of chunks does not allow recursive structures, postmodifying prepositional or nominal constituents may not be part of a noun chunk (See Figure 4). As mentioned in section 2.1, discontinuous chunks are not allowed and, thus, determiners might in some cases be separated from the noun chunk ...
... definition of chunks does not allow recursive structures, postmodifying prepositional or nominal constituents may not be part of a noun chunk (See Figure 4). As mentioned in section 2.1, discontinuous chunks are not allowed and, thus, determiners might in some cases be separated from the noun chunk ...
Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction
... organization, and in a number of specific details cited in the text. Teaching morphology is much easier if the students have some basic background in phonology. For this reason, most of the chapters dealing with morphology are clustered at the end of the book (chapters 13–17), for the benefit of stu ...
... organization, and in a number of specific details cited in the text. Teaching morphology is much easier if the students have some basic background in phonology. For this reason, most of the chapters dealing with morphology are clustered at the end of the book (chapters 13–17), for the benefit of stu ...
infinitive as a predicate noun
... An infinitive/infinitive phrase that acts as an adverb explains WHY an action (verb) is done or modifies an adjective by answering HOW. There are ways to check if an infinitive is functioning as an adverb: • Often, if you insert the words “in order” in front of an adverb infinitive, the sentence wil ...
... An infinitive/infinitive phrase that acts as an adverb explains WHY an action (verb) is done or modifies an adjective by answering HOW. There are ways to check if an infinitive is functioning as an adverb: • Often, if you insert the words “in order” in front of an adverb infinitive, the sentence wil ...
6.863J Natural Language Processing Lecture 9: Writing grammars
... believe [VPrep in] [NP ghosts] believe [NP my mother] believe [Sfin that I will pass this test] believe [Swh what I see] ... ...
... believe [VPrep in] [NP ghosts] believe [NP my mother] believe [Sfin that I will pass this test] believe [Swh what I see] ... ...
II PRONOUNS APPENDIX B When we speak or write about different
... When a pronoun ending in y/f -self* or 1-selves* is written after a noun or a pronoun and is not used as an object of a verb or a preposition, it is not a R pronoun. It is called an Emphatic pronoun, It puts an emphasis on the doer of an action. ...
... When a pronoun ending in y/f -self* or 1-selves* is written after a noun or a pronoun and is not used as an object of a verb or a preposition, it is not a R pronoun. It is called an Emphatic pronoun, It puts an emphasis on the doer of an action. ...
Chapter 4 Modifiers and Complements Adjectives and Adjective
... An adverb phrase consists of an adverb head and all its modifiers; only adverb phrases can modify adverbs. A substantial number of adverbs are derived from adjectives by suffixing -ly to the adjective, so, for example, the adverbs frivolously, amazingly, enormously, largely, literally, and abundantl ...
... An adverb phrase consists of an adverb head and all its modifiers; only adverb phrases can modify adverbs. A substantial number of adverbs are derived from adjectives by suffixing -ly to the adjective, so, for example, the adverbs frivolously, amazingly, enormously, largely, literally, and abundantl ...
Subject: ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS (THEORY) Subject
... difficult to understand or learn other languages. In such a situation English helped in bridging the gap between state to state and province to province. Many popular freedom fighters started using this language as a tool to reach the mass. English worked not only as a language for communication but ...
... difficult to understand or learn other languages. In such a situation English helped in bridging the gap between state to state and province to province. Many popular freedom fighters started using this language as a tool to reach the mass. English worked not only as a language for communication but ...
Prosody Drives the Syntax: O`odham Rhythm
... Tohono O'odham (TO; formerly Papago) is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in southern Arizona. It is a language with free word order, although there are some constraints on where certain elements may or may not appear. The two restrictions relevant for this paper are those placed on the g determiner and ...
... Tohono O'odham (TO; formerly Papago) is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in southern Arizona. It is a language with free word order, although there are some constraints on where certain elements may or may not appear. The two restrictions relevant for this paper are those placed on the g determiner and ...
1 Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Old Turkic and Altai
... In addition to the converb forms discussed above, there were a variety of AVCs in Old Turkic where the lexical verb appeared in a participial form. Generally speaking, these might be considered a special sub-type of where the lexical verb appears in an inflected form, here only limited to tense/aspe ...
... In addition to the converb forms discussed above, there were a variety of AVCs in Old Turkic where the lexical verb appeared in a participial form. Generally speaking, these might be considered a special sub-type of where the lexical verb appears in an inflected form, here only limited to tense/aspe ...
Accusative subjects in Avestan
... sentences, durative sentences, negative sentences, modal sentences, or sentences where a nonvolitional event is described are low transitive sentences. Consequently, sentences with the opposite values are high transitive sentences. Furthermore, by adopting a constructional approach, I believe that a ...
... sentences, durative sentences, negative sentences, modal sentences, or sentences where a nonvolitional event is described are low transitive sentences. Consequently, sentences with the opposite values are high transitive sentences. Furthermore, by adopting a constructional approach, I believe that a ...
Verbal inflection and overflow auxiliaries
... DM terms. In other words, was is nothing more than the realization of past features in a position that does not contain a verb.1 Similar views of auxiliary BE have been previously developed by various authors, (Dik, 1983, 1987; Dechaine, 1993, 1995; Schütze, 2003; Cowper, 2010), but not extended be ...
... DM terms. In other words, was is nothing more than the realization of past features in a position that does not contain a verb.1 Similar views of auxiliary BE have been previously developed by various authors, (Dik, 1983, 1987; Dechaine, 1993, 1995; Schütze, 2003; Cowper, 2010), but not extended be ...
The neuter in Bantu A Systemic Functional analysis
... elaborated below in §1.4.1). The present work provides the first description of a Bantu language within the model of SFG, and thus ties in with the domain of systemic functional typology in that it gives a description of a previously unexplored language group (at least within systemic functional typ ...
... elaborated below in §1.4.1). The present work provides the first description of a Bantu language within the model of SFG, and thus ties in with the domain of systemic functional typology in that it gives a description of a previously unexplored language group (at least within systemic functional typ ...
The Notion of Argument in Prepositional Phrase Attachment
... Modeling both the site and the nature of the attachment of a PP into the tree structure is important. Distinguishing arguments from adjuncts is key to identifying the elements that belong to the semantic kernel of a sentence. Extracting the kernel of a sentence or phrase, in turn, is necessary for a ...
... Modeling both the site and the nature of the attachment of a PP into the tree structure is important. Distinguishing arguments from adjuncts is key to identifying the elements that belong to the semantic kernel of a sentence. Extracting the kernel of a sentence or phrase, in turn, is necessary for a ...
CHAPTER 4 The Non-finite verbal participles of Bangla
... 4.0 Organization of the chapter: This chapter will concentrate on the other major area of a sentence, viz., verbal construction, which has not been touched upon in the second chapter on DP. Even within the verbal area this study is limited to the non-finite verbforms. The major key that relates chap ...
... 4.0 Organization of the chapter: This chapter will concentrate on the other major area of a sentence, viz., verbal construction, which has not been touched upon in the second chapter on DP. Even within the verbal area this study is limited to the non-finite verbforms. The major key that relates chap ...
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 ...
NP Movement into Theta-positions and Unexpected Behavior of
... Whether an NP moves into theta position or not has been controversial. Chomsky (1986, 1995) claims that such a movement is disallowed. While Pesetsky (1992) and Bošković (1997) argue that such a movement is possible in ECM construction. Saito (2001), analyzing resultative constructions of English, c ...
... Whether an NP moves into theta position or not has been controversial. Chomsky (1986, 1995) claims that such a movement is disallowed. While Pesetsky (1992) and Bošković (1997) argue that such a movement is possible in ECM construction. Saito (2001), analyzing resultative constructions of English, c ...
Idiomatic Root Merge in Modern Hebrew blends
... In section §5, I propose Idiomatic Root Merge (IRM) as an analysis for phrasal idioms, and extend this analysis to blends, which behave similarly in comprising constituents (potentially phrasal), while having idiosyncratic meaning. IRM is an alternative to Locality Constraints, eliminating the idea ...
... In section §5, I propose Idiomatic Root Merge (IRM) as an analysis for phrasal idioms, and extend this analysis to blends, which behave similarly in comprising constituents (potentially phrasal), while having idiosyncratic meaning. IRM is an alternative to Locality Constraints, eliminating the idea ...
MOR - TalkBank
... compound. Proper nouns are not treated as compounds. Therefore, they take forms with underlines instead of pluses, such as Luke_Skywalker or New_York_City. ...
... compound. Proper nouns are not treated as compounds. Therefore, they take forms with underlines instead of pluses, such as Luke_Skywalker or New_York_City. ...
Greek Notes by Terry Cook
... Not until people wished to communicate with those at a distance, or thought they had something worth handing down to future generations, did they feel the need to commit their words to written form. So, from simple oral communication the need arose for written forms of communication. Mesopotamian wr ...
... Not until people wished to communicate with those at a distance, or thought they had something worth handing down to future generations, did they feel the need to commit their words to written form. So, from simple oral communication the need arose for written forms of communication. Mesopotamian wr ...