Synonym, Vocabulary/Grammar Warm-up
... Words of the day: The first word of the day is feigned. Say the word with me: feigned. To feign means “to pretend.” Some students feign illness to avoid going to school. The next word of the day is disdain. Say the word with me: disdain. The word disdain means have a lack of respect for someone, to ...
... Words of the day: The first word of the day is feigned. Say the word with me: feigned. To feign means “to pretend.” Some students feign illness to avoid going to school. The next word of the day is disdain. Say the word with me: disdain. The word disdain means have a lack of respect for someone, to ...
to basic grammar rules
... 45. ‘as if’ used to convey the sense of pretension. When ‘as if’ is used in this sense, ‘were’ is used in all cases, even with third person singular. He behaves as if he was a king. Incorrect He behaves as if he were a king. Correct The sense of time and tense is also very important. Certain importa ...
... 45. ‘as if’ used to convey the sense of pretension. When ‘as if’ is used in this sense, ‘were’ is used in all cases, even with third person singular. He behaves as if he was a king. Incorrect He behaves as if he were a king. Correct The sense of time and tense is also very important. Certain importa ...
On the Order of the Prenominal Participles in Bulgarian
... prenominal position in Bulgarian, postmodified participles can combine with transitive participles followed by an object (of which we are sure that they are real verbal participles2). We will show that prenominal participial expressions obey certain ordering restrictions in front of the noun, namely ...
... prenominal position in Bulgarian, postmodified participles can combine with transitive participles followed by an object (of which we are sure that they are real verbal participles2). We will show that prenominal participial expressions obey certain ordering restrictions in front of the noun, namely ...
Introductory Linguistics
... done by finding a native-speaker consultant to provide the data. The linguist normally asks the consultant a great number of questions. Some of them are simple and establish basic knowledge: (1) “What is the word for “duck” in your language?” Others look for the various different grammatical forms o ...
... done by finding a native-speaker consultant to provide the data. The linguist normally asks the consultant a great number of questions. Some of them are simple and establish basic knowledge: (1) “What is the word for “duck” in your language?” Others look for the various different grammatical forms o ...
1. Some nouns always take a singular verb
... (J) It also means charges for the labour when used in plural sense. (b) The wages of daily workers have been raised. 8. Also remember the subtle difference in the usage of these pairs of nouns (A) The noun ‘habit’ applies only to an individual whereas ‘custom’ applies to a society or country. (a) Po ...
... (J) It also means charges for the labour when used in plural sense. (b) The wages of daily workers have been raised. 8. Also remember the subtle difference in the usage of these pairs of nouns (A) The noun ‘habit’ applies only to an individual whereas ‘custom’ applies to a society or country. (a) Po ...
Difference between gerund and participle worksheet
... State whether the –ing forms given in the following sentences are participles or gerunds. In the case of participles, name the noun or pronoun they qualify. In.Aug 22, 2013 . It's tough to know the difference between gerunds and present participles in English just by looking because they both consis ...
... State whether the –ing forms given in the following sentences are participles or gerunds. In the case of participles, name the noun or pronoun they qualify. In.Aug 22, 2013 . It's tough to know the difference between gerunds and present participles in English just by looking because they both consis ...
4B Ablative
... (“Diodorus, a man of the utmost dignity, became extremely angry.”) senex cānīs capillīs et ueste sordidā (“a man with white hair and unclean garments”) Note the very similar genitive of description (grammar section 101 in your books). The genitive is used to denote permanent or inherent qualities or ...
... (“Diodorus, a man of the utmost dignity, became extremely angry.”) senex cānīs capillīs et ueste sordidā (“a man with white hair and unclean garments”) Note the very similar genitive of description (grammar section 101 in your books). The genitive is used to denote permanent or inherent qualities or ...
Financial support Basic data Outline of the talk BNs in object position
... BNs in languages with determiners have to denote properties anyway. We argue that BNs are not semantic arguments of the verbs they appear with. So no reason (of the sort advanced in Chierchia 1984) to say that they denote kinds or other entities. Kind terms are not restricted in their distribution i ...
... BNs in languages with determiners have to denote properties anyway. We argue that BNs are not semantic arguments of the verbs they appear with. So no reason (of the sort advanced in Chierchia 1984) to say that they denote kinds or other entities. Kind terms are not restricted in their distribution i ...
On the syntax of locative and directional adpositional phrases
... Koopman resorts to movement to SpecAgrP in an attempt to account for Q–float facts: met ons allemaal ‘with us all’ is assumed to result from movement of ons ‘us’ to a higher A–position, stranding the quantifier allemaal ‘all’ along the way (as in Sportiche’ s 1988 analysis of Q–float). The Q–float a ...
... Koopman resorts to movement to SpecAgrP in an attempt to account for Q–float facts: met ons allemaal ‘with us all’ is assumed to result from movement of ons ‘us’ to a higher A–position, stranding the quantifier allemaal ‘all’ along the way (as in Sportiche’ s 1988 analysis of Q–float). The Q–float a ...
Structural Classification of English Modals
... English relies on modal expressions more than many languages and possesses a vast complexity of mood and modal forms. While there may be much debate as to which moods are or are not present in English usage, there is little to deny that mood plays an integral role in the meaning and structure of utt ...
... English relies on modal expressions more than many languages and possesses a vast complexity of mood and modal forms. While there may be much debate as to which moods are or are not present in English usage, there is little to deny that mood plays an integral role in the meaning and structure of utt ...
7.8. Arabic Adjectives - الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة
... 7.3 .2 .5 Interrogative Adjectives: When words like what, which, whose are used with nouns to ask questions; they are known as Interrogative Adjectives. Whose car is this? Which lecture did you attend? 7.3 .2.6 Possessive Adjectives: A possessive adjective ("my," "your," "his," "her," "its," "our," ...
... 7.3 .2 .5 Interrogative Adjectives: When words like what, which, whose are used with nouns to ask questions; they are known as Interrogative Adjectives. Whose car is this? Which lecture did you attend? 7.3 .2.6 Possessive Adjectives: A possessive adjective ("my," "your," "his," "her," "its," "our," ...
Introductory Linguistics
... by finding a native-speaker consultant to provide the data. The linguist normally asks the consultant a great number of questions. Some of them are simple and establish basic knowledge: (1) “What is the word for “duck” in your language?” Others look for the various different grammatical forms of the ...
... by finding a native-speaker consultant to provide the data. The linguist normally asks the consultant a great number of questions. Some of them are simple and establish basic knowledge: (1) “What is the word for “duck” in your language?” Others look for the various different grammatical forms of the ...
العدد/9 مجلة كلية التربية الأساسية/ جامعة بابل أيلول/2012م English
... (My father, John), hyponymous (a tree, an oak tree), synonymous (a priest, a man of the clergy and attributive (my sister, tax accountant). Quirk et al put forward syntactic and semantic criteria in their definition of apposition : (1) each of the appositives can be omitted without affecting the acc ...
... (My father, John), hyponymous (a tree, an oak tree), synonymous (a priest, a man of the clergy and attributive (my sister, tax accountant). Quirk et al put forward syntactic and semantic criteria in their definition of apposition : (1) each of the appositives can be omitted without affecting the acc ...
A Typology of Verbal Borrowings
... The present volume is the revised version of my dissertation which was submitted to the Faculty of Philology of Leipzig University in January 2008 and defended in July 2008. This thesis took shape during the four years of the XXVIIIth Olympiad which I spent at the Department of Linguistics of the M ...
... The present volume is the revised version of my dissertation which was submitted to the Faculty of Philology of Leipzig University in January 2008 and defended in July 2008. This thesis took shape during the four years of the XXVIIIth Olympiad which I spent at the Department of Linguistics of the M ...
LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
... These facts clearly indicate that the structure of all languages must be based on the nature of man. This is not an original idea; indeed, much of the current work in linguistics in all theoretical frameworks proceeds from this position. For example, it is basic to Chomsky’s concept of linguistic un ...
... These facts clearly indicate that the structure of all languages must be based on the nature of man. This is not an original idea; indeed, much of the current work in linguistics in all theoretical frameworks proceeds from this position. For example, it is basic to Chomsky’s concept of linguistic un ...
Nathaniel Dorgbetor
... Per the asymmetric relationship between the internal arguments in the DOC; variants of the shell structure, originally proposed by Larson (1988), has been assumed nowadays in the analyses of the structure of the English DOC. The standard view on the English DOC has been that it can only have the V-G ...
... Per the asymmetric relationship between the internal arguments in the DOC; variants of the shell structure, originally proposed by Larson (1988), has been assumed nowadays in the analyses of the structure of the English DOC. The standard view on the English DOC has been that it can only have the V-G ...
A grammar of Mauwake - Language Science Press
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... Language Science Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Information regarding prices, trav ...
A grammar of Mauwake - Language Science Press
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... Language Science Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Information regarding prices, trav ...
CONJUNCTIONS AND GRAMMATICAL AGREEMENT WHEN
... Corpus data and sentence production experiments were used to test hypotheses about the mechanisms involved in producing agreement. A search of American English sentences from the World Wide Web revealed that speakers often produce singular verbs with conjoined subjects (28% singular verbs overall), ...
... Corpus data and sentence production experiments were used to test hypotheses about the mechanisms involved in producing agreement. A search of American English sentences from the World Wide Web revealed that speakers often produce singular verbs with conjoined subjects (28% singular verbs overall), ...
Meaning Through Syntax: Language
... is used to denote a discourse entity characterized by a particular function. The function is defined in the following way: participation in an event caused by some force or entity external to itself. In other words, a discourse entity denoted by an object reduced relative clause could be represented ...
... is used to denote a discourse entity characterized by a particular function. The function is defined in the following way: participation in an event caused by some force or entity external to itself. In other words, a discourse entity denoted by an object reduced relative clause could be represented ...
Complex Predicates Müller, Stefan
... The most complex phenomenon that is discussed in this book is the combination of verbs with particles which will be discussed in Chapter 6. There are large classes of particle verbs that are formed productively and there are also many particle verb combinations that do not have a transparent meaning ...
... The most complex phenomenon that is discussed in this book is the combination of verbs with particles which will be discussed in Chapter 6. There are large classes of particle verbs that are formed productively and there are also many particle verb combinations that do not have a transparent meaning ...
2 - NIS
... 1. The children will plant tulips in the garden. 2. The adults are going to plant roses. 3. The garden will have many pretty flowers. 4. I think we should plant trees too. Think of new plural nouns to replace the ones in the sentences above. Write each new sentence. ...
... 1. The children will plant tulips in the garden. 2. The adults are going to plant roses. 3. The garden will have many pretty flowers. 4. I think we should plant trees too. Think of new plural nouns to replace the ones in the sentences above. Write each new sentence. ...
Non-subject Arguments in Indonesian - ORB
... associated with the various types of argument and the means by which they are licensed in clauses turn out to be problematic. Two argument verbs appear in a range of clause types which are related in interesting ways. I argue that it is possible to give a coherent analysis of the system as a whole, ...
... associated with the various types of argument and the means by which they are licensed in clauses turn out to be problematic. Two argument verbs appear in a range of clause types which are related in interesting ways. I argue that it is possible to give a coherent analysis of the system as a whole, ...
281 A FUNCTIONAL AND FORMAL COMPARISON ON ADJECTIVE
... relative clause as a modifier. It cannot be removed from the noun phrase without changing the meaning of the sentence. In other words, “the omission of the adjective clause robs the sentence of a most essential fact. (Allen, 1995)”. However, when the subordinator which introduces the restrictive rel ...
... relative clause as a modifier. It cannot be removed from the noun phrase without changing the meaning of the sentence. In other words, “the omission of the adjective clause robs the sentence of a most essential fact. (Allen, 1995)”. However, when the subordinator which introduces the restrictive rel ...
Contents - The Okuna Language
... a purely personal artistic and intellectual exercise, though my hope is that others—those few who appreciate the Secret Vice—will find the results interesting and entertaining. My goal is to construct the outlines of a naturalistic grammar, one which is linguistically plausible, internally consisten ...
... a purely personal artistic and intellectual exercise, though my hope is that others—those few who appreciate the Secret Vice—will find the results interesting and entertaining. My goal is to construct the outlines of a naturalistic grammar, one which is linguistically plausible, internally consisten ...