(ref) seven serious sentence errors file
... Most verbs in the English language follow a pattern of development; e.g., the past tense and past participle are formed by adding “ed” to the base form. Verbs that follow these patterns are called “regular.” Verbs that do not follow these patterns are called “irregular.” Irregular verbs can show no ...
... Most verbs in the English language follow a pattern of development; e.g., the past tense and past participle are formed by adding “ed” to the base form. Verbs that follow these patterns are called “regular.” Verbs that do not follow these patterns are called “irregular.” Irregular verbs can show no ...
Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case-Checking
... Among the exciting issues raised by the study of ergative systems is the extent to which they pose a challenge to claims made about universal grammar which are based on the study of nonergative languages. In this paper, we investigate a particularly puzzling construction—the spurious antipassive (he ...
... Among the exciting issues raised by the study of ergative systems is the extent to which they pose a challenge to claims made about universal grammar which are based on the study of nonergative languages. In this paper, we investigate a particularly puzzling construction—the spurious antipassive (he ...
Number as Person - CSSP
... Before turning to our main topic, the revision of the person/number paradigm, we need an account of the interaction of semantic and grammatical agreement. As noted above, the S EMANTIC AGREE MENT H YPOTHESIS , according to which predicate adjectives show semantic agreement, encounters a problem with ...
... Before turning to our main topic, the revision of the person/number paradigm, we need an account of the interaction of semantic and grammatical agreement. As noted above, the S EMANTIC AGREE MENT H YPOTHESIS , according to which predicate adjectives show semantic agreement, encounters a problem with ...
HIERARCHIES AND COMPETING GENERALIZATIONS IN SERBO
... concord gender and number features multiplied by six combinations of index gender and number features). Of these, according to W&Z, only eight have any members in them. Furthermore, once we remove those words whose index features can be derived from their semantic information (i.e. there is no misma ...
... concord gender and number features multiplied by six combinations of index gender and number features). Of these, according to W&Z, only eight have any members in them. Furthermore, once we remove those words whose index features can be derived from their semantic information (i.e. there is no misma ...
Grammar in the Vertical Alignment + Teaching Parallel Structure
... Parallel: To walk in this rain with neither a raincoat nor umbrella is to invite a reprimand from your mother and ridicule from your father. [Here infinitive phrases are parallel. Note how each infinitive phrase is balanced appropriately on either side of the linking verb is. Note, as well, the para ...
... Parallel: To walk in this rain with neither a raincoat nor umbrella is to invite a reprimand from your mother and ridicule from your father. [Here infinitive phrases are parallel. Note how each infinitive phrase is balanced appropriately on either side of the linking verb is. Note, as well, the para ...
the english tongue. - Cunningham Memorial Library
... It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer Ilince Milton '1lust give place to Pope, and even of Drylen it must ...
... It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer Ilince Milton '1lust give place to Pope, and even of Drylen it must ...
Cumulativity and Countability in Karitiana Verbs* Luciana Sanchez
... The sentences with intransitive verbs are in a copular construction. Storto 2009 proposes that copular sentences are bi-clausal structures in Karitiana in which the copula verb aka selects a nominalized small-clause as its complement. These sentences are understood as raising sentences in which the ...
... The sentences with intransitive verbs are in a copular construction. Storto 2009 proposes that copular sentences are bi-clausal structures in Karitiana in which the copula verb aka selects a nominalized small-clause as its complement. These sentences are understood as raising sentences in which the ...
Argument Realization: the role of constructions and discourse factors
... roles, namely those roles which are lexically profiled, are obligatorily expressed. 7 Lexical profiling, following the general spirit of Langacker (1987, 1991), is designed to indicate which participant roles associated with a verb’s meaning are obligatorily accessed, functioning as focal points wit ...
... roles, namely those roles which are lexically profiled, are obligatorily expressed. 7 Lexical profiling, following the general spirit of Langacker (1987, 1991), is designed to indicate which participant roles associated with a verb’s meaning are obligatorily accessed, functioning as focal points wit ...
Navajo Coordination - Swarthmore College
... The difference between the two is that the two clauses have equal status when coordination is involved, but with subordination one clause (the second) is the main clause and the other is a modifier of it. There are also cases that involve the presence of a subordinating enclitic that is followed by ...
... The difference between the two is that the two clauses have equal status when coordination is involved, but with subordination one clause (the second) is the main clause and the other is a modifier of it. There are also cases that involve the presence of a subordinating enclitic that is followed by ...
The No-Nonsense Guide to Learning Chitumbuka: Volume 1
... to take care of to run There are also different dialects in Chitumbuka, which seems to vary more significantly between districts than Chichewa does. This guide is written mostly from the perspective of Karonga Chitumubuka, but Rumphi Chitumbuka has also been included where noted. Don’t be discourage ...
... to take care of to run There are also different dialects in Chitumbuka, which seems to vary more significantly between districts than Chichewa does. This guide is written mostly from the perspective of Karonga Chitumubuka, but Rumphi Chitumbuka has also been included where noted. Don’t be discourage ...
Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction
... to know the details of how labio-velar consonants developed in Indo-European languages or the basis for the reconstruction of the locative plural case ending will not find them here; instead they will be able to review in detail arguments about the categories of the Indo-European verb or the syntax ...
... to know the details of how labio-velar consonants developed in Indo-European languages or the basis for the reconstruction of the locative plural case ending will not find them here; instead they will be able to review in detail arguments about the categories of the Indo-European verb or the syntax ...
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 ...
slips of speech - WATA - World Association of Arab Translators
... words; and to determine, in every case, what good usage dictates, is not an easy matter. Authors, like words, must be tested by time before their forms of expression may become a law for others. Pope, in his Essay on Criticism, laid down a rule which, for point and brevity, has never been excelled: ...
... words; and to determine, in every case, what good usage dictates, is not an easy matter. Authors, like words, must be tested by time before their forms of expression may become a law for others. Pope, in his Essay on Criticism, laid down a rule which, for point and brevity, has never been excelled: ...
Zipf`s law and the grammar of languages: A quantitative
... can be captured mathematically, a property we tentatively call their grammatical fingerprint. Our findings suggest implications for both the specific historical process of inflection loss and more generally for the characterization of languages ...
... can be captured mathematically, a property we tentatively call their grammatical fingerprint. Our findings suggest implications for both the specific historical process of inflection loss and more generally for the characterization of languages ...
Cambridge Essential English Dictionary
... The entries in the dictionary are in alphabetical order. We ignore spaces and punctuation marks when putting words in alphabetical order. For example, fairy tale is found between the words fairy and faith. If you are trying to decide the alphabetical order of two words with the same first letter, lo ...
... The entries in the dictionary are in alphabetical order. We ignore spaces and punctuation marks when putting words in alphabetical order. For example, fairy tale is found between the words fairy and faith. If you are trying to decide the alphabetical order of two words with the same first letter, lo ...
Words
... It’s somehow intuitive to think that knowing a language involves knowing the words of the language. Linguists that start with this notion quickly get into trouble by not being clear about what a “word” is such that a speaker might know it or what “know” is such that a speaker might “know” a word. Wh ...
... It’s somehow intuitive to think that knowing a language involves knowing the words of the language. Linguists that start with this notion quickly get into trouble by not being clear about what a “word” is such that a speaker might know it or what “know” is such that a speaker might “know” a word. Wh ...
An analysis of the German Perfekti
... variant of the Präteritum; no attempt is made to bring these two meanings together. This ambiguity account is a relatively safe but not a very elegant position; it is surely preferable if some construction can be given a uniform compositional meaning, rather than two (or no compositional meaning at ...
... variant of the Präteritum; no attempt is made to bring these two meanings together. This ambiguity account is a relatively safe but not a very elegant position; it is surely preferable if some construction can be given a uniform compositional meaning, rather than two (or no compositional meaning at ...
An analysis of the German Perfekti
... variant of the Präteritum; no attempt is made to bring these two meanings together. This ambiguity account is a relatively safe but not a very elegant position; it is surely preferable if some construction can be given a uniform compositional meaning, rather than two (or no compositional meaning at ...
... variant of the Präteritum; no attempt is made to bring these two meanings together. This ambiguity account is a relatively safe but not a very elegant position; it is surely preferable if some construction can be given a uniform compositional meaning, rather than two (or no compositional meaning at ...
Children`s Early Acquisition of the Passive
... children use is to analyse verbal passive sentences as adjectival passives. Their explanation for the discrepancy in results of comprehension tests is that such an analysis may be felicitous with actional verb past participles but not with non-actional verb past participles, hence children’s inabili ...
... children use is to analyse verbal passive sentences as adjectival passives. Their explanation for the discrepancy in results of comprehension tests is that such an analysis may be felicitous with actional verb past participles but not with non-actional verb past participles, hence children’s inabili ...
Reflexivity and adjustment strategies at the interfaces
... since they violate the double chain condition, which forces nominal elements to share both a tense and thematic features with the verb and the tense heads. Noninherent reflexive verbs require the presence of a SELF-anaphor, which is formed out of a SE-anaphor along with a protector SELF element. The ...
... since they violate the double chain condition, which forces nominal elements to share both a tense and thematic features with the verb and the tense heads. Noninherent reflexive verbs require the presence of a SELF-anaphor, which is formed out of a SE-anaphor along with a protector SELF element. The ...
Notes on the formation and usage of subjunctive
... We believe that the subjunctive is something that is learned mechanically. You learn a number of expressions or verbs which always take the subjunctive, learn and practice them, and eventually you will remember to use the subjunctive form after them. Therefore, in this spirit, we are going to offer ...
... We believe that the subjunctive is something that is learned mechanically. You learn a number of expressions or verbs which always take the subjunctive, learn and practice them, and eventually you will remember to use the subjunctive form after them. Therefore, in this spirit, we are going to offer ...
IV. Two-Verb Sequences and Germanic SOV
... The languages have been divided into three main groups: First the ones that are definitely VO (English, Icelandic, Danish), then Yiddish, and finally the ones that are indisputably OV (Dutch, Afrikaans, West Flemish, Frisian, German, Swabian, and the three Swiss German variants from Sankt Gallen, Zü ...
... The languages have been divided into three main groups: First the ones that are definitely VO (English, Icelandic, Danish), then Yiddish, and finally the ones that are indisputably OV (Dutch, Afrikaans, West Flemish, Frisian, German, Swabian, and the three Swiss German variants from Sankt Gallen, Zü ...
Lesson 5 Verbs--Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles
... An infinitive is a verbal in its basic form with or without the word to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives. When the word to is absent, the infinitive is said to be a bare infinitive; when it is present, it is generally considered to be a part of the infinitive, known ...
... An infinitive is a verbal in its basic form with or without the word to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives. When the word to is absent, the infinitive is said to be a bare infinitive; when it is present, it is generally considered to be a part of the infinitive, known ...
INFLECTION OF ADJECTIVES
... 10 2 a) adjectives take -s in the plural: 'we ourselves,' 'you yourselves,' 'they themselves.' Near the end of the Middle English period the forms of these words were: ourself, yourself, themself, i.e they were uninflected, like most adjectives. T h e first two forms were often ambiguous. Before the ...
... 10 2 a) adjectives take -s in the plural: 'we ourselves,' 'you yourselves,' 'they themselves.' Near the end of the Middle English period the forms of these words were: ourself, yourself, themself, i.e they were uninflected, like most adjectives. T h e first two forms were often ambiguous. Before the ...
Lesson 5 Verbs--Gerunds, Infinitives, and Participles
... An infinitive is a verbal in its basic form with or without the word to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives. When the word to is absent, the infinitive is said to be a bare infinitive; when it is present, it is generally considered to be a part of the infinitive, known ...
... An infinitive is a verbal in its basic form with or without the word to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives. When the word to is absent, the infinitive is said to be a bare infinitive; when it is present, it is generally considered to be a part of the infinitive, known ...