persian for beginners
... release, produced further back in the mouth than the k in kitten. The k in kitten has a somewhat aspirated or a y-glide release and, of course, it is produced further forward in the mouth than the k in cool. These features of the English k are shared by all English words in which the k sound precede ...
... release, produced further back in the mouth than the k in kitten. The k in kitten has a somewhat aspirated or a y-glide release and, of course, it is produced further forward in the mouth than the k in cool. These features of the English k are shared by all English words in which the k sound precede ...
Inanimate nouns as subjects in Mi`gmaq
... of non-living entities that are grammatically animate. It has been reported for the Algonquian language Blackfoot that grammatically and semantically inanimate subjects of transitive verbs are not possible (Ritter and Rosen 2010). Furthermore, experiencer verbs in Blackfoot like ‘to be happy’ also d ...
... of non-living entities that are grammatically animate. It has been reported for the Algonquian language Blackfoot that grammatically and semantically inanimate subjects of transitive verbs are not possible (Ritter and Rosen 2010). Furthermore, experiencer verbs in Blackfoot like ‘to be happy’ also d ...
HSK Grammatical relations Primus
... Grammatical relations, such as subject, direct object and indirect object, have been used as descriptive terms for centuries, the distinction between subject and predicate having been taken over from Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and grammar. Alternative names are grammatical functions (e.g. Br ...
... Grammatical relations, such as subject, direct object and indirect object, have been used as descriptive terms for centuries, the distinction between subject and predicate having been taken over from Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and grammar. Alternative names are grammatical functions (e.g. Br ...
Auxiliaries in spoken Sinhala
... definition, a frequent, cross-linguistically attested development is that main 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 chang ...
... definition, a frequent, cross-linguistically attested development is that main 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 chang ...
MMM5 Proceedings - Geert Booij`s Page
... is vastly more complex these days. Not only are there a number of competing models of syntax to assess – all roughly within the generative rubric – but there are also a number of different models of morphology which embrace or deny the LIH to different extents. In this theoretical universe we have a ...
... is vastly more complex these days. Not only are there a number of competing models of syntax to assess – all roughly within the generative rubric – but there are also a number of different models of morphology which embrace or deny the LIH to different extents. In this theoretical universe we have a ...
THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD Pattern: The subjunctive mood is used
... it is obvious that (certain) es evidente que it is evident that (certain) Many main clauses in Spanish use the word que. It is important to remember that not all phrases with the word que require the subjunctive mood. In fact, some subjunctive phrases do not have the word que in them. In many of the ...
... it is obvious that (certain) es evidente que it is evident that (certain) Many main clauses in Spanish use the word que. It is important to remember that not all phrases with the word que require the subjunctive mood. In fact, some subjunctive phrases do not have the word que in them. In many of the ...
The Double-O Constraints in Japanese* William J. Poser
... The Double-O Constraint (Harada 1973), is intended to account for the ungrammaticality of clauses containing two accusative Noun Phrases. It has been discussed by numerous authors in various formulations. This paper attempts to clarify the phenomena involved and to reduce the class of possible analy ...
... The Double-O Constraint (Harada 1973), is intended to account for the ungrammaticality of clauses containing two accusative Noun Phrases. It has been discussed by numerous authors in various formulations. This paper attempts to clarify the phenomena involved and to reduce the class of possible analy ...
Verb Reference Sheet – ALL Tenses!
... Eat the bread. Coma Ud. el pan. (or) Coman Uds. el pan. Write a letter. Escriba Ud. una carta. (or) Escriban Uds. una carta. Do the assignment. Haga Ud. la tarea. (or) Hagan Uds. la tarea. Be careful. Tenga Ud. cuidado. (or) Tengan Uds. cuidado. ...
... Eat the bread. Coma Ud. el pan. (or) Coman Uds. el pan. Write a letter. Escriba Ud. una carta. (or) Escriban Uds. una carta. Do the assignment. Haga Ud. la tarea. (or) Hagan Uds. la tarea. Be careful. Tenga Ud. cuidado. (or) Tengan Uds. cuidado. ...
Cognate objects in Vietnamese transitive verbs
... (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 occurs as a DO, the contextual DO (e.g. fire wood) can occur as a second object only when it refers to a countable object (12c). A mass noun (e.g. fire wood) never occurs ...
... (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 occurs as a DO, the contextual DO (e.g. fire wood) can occur as a second object only when it refers to a countable object (12c). A mass noun (e.g. fire wood) never occurs ...
RELC Journal
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
Absolute Phrases one skill
... An absolute phrase (also called a nominative absolute) is a group of words consisting of a noun or pronoun and a participle as well as any related modifiers. Absolute phrases do not directly connect to or modify any specific word in the rest of the sentence; instead, they modify the entire sentence, ...
... An absolute phrase (also called a nominative absolute) is a group of words consisting of a noun or pronoun and a participle as well as any related modifiers. Absolute phrases do not directly connect to or modify any specific word in the rest of the sentence; instead, they modify the entire sentence, ...
Mende Grammar Essentials
... The Mende language is the western dialect of the Kwanga language, which has been classified as a Papuan language of the Sepik-Ramu Phylum, Sepik Sub-Phylym, Sepik Super-Stock, MiddleSepik Stock and Nukuma family (Wurm 1982). When we allocated in the language group we called the language Kwanga as it ...
... The Mende language is the western dialect of the Kwanga language, which has been classified as a Papuan language of the Sepik-Ramu Phylum, Sepik Sub-Phylym, Sepik Super-Stock, MiddleSepik Stock and Nukuma family (Wurm 1982). When we allocated in the language group we called the language Kwanga as it ...
Complete ACT Grammar and Punctuation Rules
... Dependent clauses are clauses that cannot stand on their own as full sentences. They begin with subordinating conjunctions such as before, after, because, when, until, unless, and since. Dependent Clauses: Because I went home After we returned from the movie When we visited Chicago In the following ...
... Dependent clauses are clauses that cannot stand on their own as full sentences. They begin with subordinating conjunctions such as before, after, because, when, until, unless, and since. Dependent Clauses: Because I went home After we returned from the movie When we visited Chicago In the following ...
primary argument case-marking in baltic and finnic
... ancient and some modern Indo-European languages share this usage of the genitive case (Gothic, Vedic, Greek, Old Slavic, Early Latin). The partitive usage of the genitive is considered to be of Proto-Indo-European origin and even one of its main functions: 'le principal emploi du génitif indoeuropée ...
... ancient and some modern Indo-European languages share this usage of the genitive case (Gothic, Vedic, Greek, Old Slavic, Early Latin). The partitive usage of the genitive is considered to be of Proto-Indo-European origin and even one of its main functions: 'le principal emploi du génitif indoeuropée ...
dependent clauses File
... Relative Adverb Examples: The university where my sister goes to school is in Chicago. ( Where my sister goes to school is a relative clause. It contains the relative adverb where, the subject sister, and the verb goes. The clause modifies the noun university.) My family is taking a trip during the ...
... Relative Adverb Examples: The university where my sister goes to school is in Chicago. ( Where my sister goes to school is a relative clause. It contains the relative adverb where, the subject sister, and the verb goes. The clause modifies the noun university.) My family is taking a trip during the ...
Persian Grammar Sketch
... The noun functions primarily as a referring expression. Among the criteria that can help identify a noun are: 1. They inflect for singular or plural number. 2. They can take determiners. 3. They can occur as subjects, objects and complement. 4. They can take the clitic particles =rā and =e. 5. They ...
... The noun functions primarily as a referring expression. Among the criteria that can help identify a noun are: 1. They inflect for singular or plural number. 2. They can take determiners. 3. They can occur as subjects, objects and complement. 4. They can take the clitic particles =rā and =e. 5. They ...
Full Paper
... treating predicates like mendrika >merits=, as in mendrika azy izy >Henom merits itacc= with He = Goal and it = Theme. Refining Fact 1 leaves Def 1 unchanged. Being Actor Voice is likely a syntactic invariant of Malagasy grammar [K&S]. This property is syntactically significant in that: (1) Only AV ...
... treating predicates like mendrika >merits=, as in mendrika azy izy >Henom merits itacc= with He = Goal and it = Theme. Refining Fact 1 leaves Def 1 unchanged. Being Actor Voice is likely a syntactic invariant of Malagasy grammar [K&S]. This property is syntactically significant in that: (1) Only AV ...
A typology of subject marker and object marker systems in African
... However, many languages have object markers that are stage I object markers in the sense that they are not always present in transitive constructions, but that depart from the typical behaviour of stage I object markers in the sense that at least in certain conditions, they must be present even if t ...
... However, many languages have object markers that are stage I object markers in the sense that they are not always present in transitive constructions, but that depart from the typical behaviour of stage I object markers in the sense that at least in certain conditions, they must be present even if t ...
gothic word order patterns as attested in the gothic gospel of luke
... the sounds [ε] and [ɔ] respectively when followed by the consonants /r, h, ƕ/; this process is known as The Gothic Breaking. As regards the Gothic consonant system, it is considered to have been rather phonemic except for the consonants /þ/, /b/, /d/ and /g/, which used to be voiced in intervocalic ...
... the sounds [ε] and [ɔ] respectively when followed by the consonants /r, h, ƕ/; this process is known as The Gothic Breaking. As regards the Gothic consonant system, it is considered to have been rather phonemic except for the consonants /þ/, /b/, /d/ and /g/, which used to be voiced in intervocalic ...
New Observations on Ancient Greek Voice
... have had an active form and lost it, or else they never had an active but really should have had it; at any rate, they do not display the behavior of a “standard” Greek verb. I really doubt that a speaker or writer of ancient Greek would have thought these verbs were formed or function in any irregu ...
... have had an active form and lost it, or else they never had an active but really should have had it; at any rate, they do not display the behavior of a “standard” Greek verb. I really doubt that a speaker or writer of ancient Greek would have thought these verbs were formed or function in any irregu ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Grammar and
... 7. Nouns of relationship: With the exception of sasi brother, sister, nouns of relationship are never used with a suffixed pronoun: _maa nau_ my father. The prefix _mwai_, denoting reciprocity of relationship, may precede: _mwai asi nau_ brethren. In speaking of pairs of people _ro_ is used: _ro mwa ...
... 7. Nouns of relationship: With the exception of sasi brother, sister, nouns of relationship are never used with a suffixed pronoun: _maa nau_ my father. The prefix _mwai_, denoting reciprocity of relationship, may precede: _mwai asi nau_ brethren. In speaking of pairs of people _ro_ is used: _ro mwa ...
Dutch Tenses and the Analysis of a Literary Text: The Case of Marga
... Sometimes he will justify such open-mindedness by the realization that truly past events cannot actually be experienced; in other cases he is aware that some thoughts may be approached most relevantly within the framework of the knowledge contained in another mind (maybe his own mind at some other m ...
... Sometimes he will justify such open-mindedness by the realization that truly past events cannot actually be experienced; in other cases he is aware that some thoughts may be approached most relevantly within the framework of the knowledge contained in another mind (maybe his own mind at some other m ...
Metapragmatic presentationals - Create and Use Your home
... the meaning of kz- is 'golwent like this' where the bound pronoun serving as logical subject specifies the source of the quoted utterance in relation to the current event, where the replicated communication indicates both the communicative modality and, in conjunction with verbal and nonverbal conte ...
... the meaning of kz- is 'golwent like this' where the bound pronoun serving as logical subject specifies the source of the quoted utterance in relation to the current event, where the replicated communication indicates both the communicative modality and, in conjunction with verbal and nonverbal conte ...
Covert nominative and dative subjects in Faroese∗
... The example in (1) shows the verb dáma ‘like’, the most common verb alternating between dative and nominative subject in Faroese. Other verbs in this tiny class include leingjast ‘long for’, mangla ‘lack’, nýtast ‘need’ and tørva ‘need’. The variation between dative and nominative is not associated ...
... The example in (1) shows the verb dáma ‘like’, the most common verb alternating between dative and nominative subject in Faroese. Other verbs in this tiny class include leingjast ‘long for’, mangla ‘lack’, nýtast ‘need’ and tørva ‘need’. The variation between dative and nominative is not associated ...