actor-emphatic sentences in mäori
... verbal sentence appears after the first phrase of the verbal predicate. The predicate illustrated in (9) is a very common type of locational phrase in Mäori. Roto is one of a class of relational (usually called ‘local’) nouns which are very widely followed by prepositional phrases as here. These ‘p ...
... verbal sentence appears after the first phrase of the verbal predicate. The predicate illustrated in (9) is a very common type of locational phrase in Mäori. Roto is one of a class of relational (usually called ‘local’) nouns which are very widely followed by prepositional phrases as here. These ‘p ...
Verb Movement, Objects, and Serialization
... ordinary NPs is of little help, since they appear in more or less the same position at Spellout in both languages, and LF movement of these NPs is difficult to detect. However, there is one special type of object that could be more revealing: namely weak pronominal clitics. In many languages, these ...
... ordinary NPs is of little help, since they appear in more or less the same position at Spellout in both languages, and LF movement of these NPs is difficult to detect. However, there is one special type of object that could be more revealing: namely weak pronominal clitics. In many languages, these ...
1 In Press, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Discourse
... They are situation entities introduced by verb constellations in clausal complements of certain predicates. Clausal complements referring to facts and propositions have characteristic distributional and other linguistic features, and thus - like the other classes of situation entities - function as ...
... They are situation entities introduced by verb constellations in clausal complements of certain predicates. Clausal complements referring to facts and propositions have characteristic distributional and other linguistic features, and thus - like the other classes of situation entities - function as ...
Jonathan Edwards- "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God"
... In each sentence, underline each gerund or gerund phrase. 1. A catamaran is a sailboat made by joining two separate hulls together. 2. Leaving a little space between the two hulls is important. 3. Natives of the South Seas invented the “cat” by tying two logs together. 4. Using paddles and sometimes ...
... In each sentence, underline each gerund or gerund phrase. 1. A catamaran is a sailboat made by joining two separate hulls together. 2. Leaving a little space between the two hulls is important. 3. Natives of the South Seas invented the “cat” by tying two logs together. 4. Using paddles and sometimes ...
ADVP - Center for Language Engineering
... NEGATIVE: not, the negative adverb, is treated separately from other adverbs in modern English grammars. This is because of its affinity with negative words of other kinds, such as determiners and pronouns (neither, no, none). Not has wide-ranging powers within sentences, to modify a word(verb, adje ...
... NEGATIVE: not, the negative adverb, is treated separately from other adverbs in modern English grammars. This is because of its affinity with negative words of other kinds, such as determiners and pronouns (neither, no, none). Not has wide-ranging powers within sentences, to modify a word(verb, adje ...
Comma Usage Commas Guidelines 3 pages long (ELC charges 10
... Mr. Jones described two planets, Mars and Saturn. (in apposition with the object, planets) My favorite teacher was Mr. Jones, my science teacher. (in apposition with the predicate complement, Mr. Jones) An appositive may sum up the meaning of a whole group of words: Mr. Jones chews gum noisily and c ...
... Mr. Jones described two planets, Mars and Saturn. (in apposition with the object, planets) My favorite teacher was Mr. Jones, my science teacher. (in apposition with the predicate complement, Mr. Jones) An appositive may sum up the meaning of a whole group of words: Mr. Jones chews gum noisily and c ...
as a PDF
... Choosing a path which allows the discourse analysis techniques to be selected is first clouded by the issues surrounding the definition of "sentence". The problem arises when groups of sentences are to be considered, because of the need to have a workable grammar of English besides the linguistic gr ...
... Choosing a path which allows the discourse analysis techniques to be selected is first clouded by the issues surrounding the definition of "sentence". The problem arises when groups of sentences are to be considered, because of the need to have a workable grammar of English besides the linguistic gr ...
Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections
... • Prepositions answer the questions Where? Or When? The boy by the window is French. • The word by in the sentence above is a preposition. By shows the relationship of the word boy to the noun window. ...
... • Prepositions answer the questions Where? Or When? The boy by the window is French. • The word by in the sentence above is a preposition. By shows the relationship of the word boy to the noun window. ...
Participle Phrases (as reduced relative clauses?)
... The above mistake arises because the student may have forgotten the fact that if a sentence begins with a participle clause, the two verbs must refer to the same subject. In this sentence, the verb "read" is not performed by the subject "it", and so the sentence is wrong. In this case when the subje ...
... The above mistake arises because the student may have forgotten the fact that if a sentence begins with a participle clause, the two verbs must refer to the same subject. In this sentence, the verb "read" is not performed by the subject "it", and so the sentence is wrong. In this case when the subje ...
CASPR Research Report 2006-01 HOW COMPLEX
... main clause, such as He seems [to like it] (from He likes it). The original D-Level scale would lead us to classify raising structures such as Mary seems to John [to be sad] as Level 1 infinitive complements, since the embedded verb is an infinitive. This, however, does not conform to children’s lin ...
... main clause, such as He seems [to like it] (from He likes it). The original D-Level scale would lead us to classify raising structures such as Mary seems to John [to be sad] as Level 1 infinitive complements, since the embedded verb is an infinitive. This, however, does not conform to children’s lin ...
COPULAR INVERSION AND NON-SUBJECT AGREEMENT Alex
... the complement of the OBJ. For this reason, Molts en llegeixen els llibres is grammatical with en corresponding to the complement of the OBJ els llibres (hence, the meaning of the sentence: ‘Many read his/her books’). It does not correspond in any case to the missing noun of the SUBJ. ...
... the complement of the OBJ. For this reason, Molts en llegeixen els llibres is grammatical with en corresponding to the complement of the OBJ els llibres (hence, the meaning of the sentence: ‘Many read his/her books’). It does not correspond in any case to the missing noun of the SUBJ. ...
Chapter 12
... Please list the flights from Charlotte to Long Beach arriving after lunch time Show me the last flight to leave We can model this sentence structure with another rule for the expansion of S: S → VP ...
... Please list the flights from Charlotte to Long Beach arriving after lunch time Show me the last flight to leave We can model this sentence structure with another rule for the expansion of S: S → VP ...
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... spoken in Western Kenya. Using a descriptive design and basing on data generated by the author as a native speaker of Kisa, this paper identifies and describes the syntactic structures that constitute verb phrases in Kisa. It delimits the elements that form a Kisa verb phrase and explains how they c ...
... spoken in Western Kenya. Using a descriptive design and basing on data generated by the author as a native speaker of Kisa, this paper identifies and describes the syntactic structures that constitute verb phrases in Kisa. It delimits the elements that form a Kisa verb phrase and explains how they c ...
The Indo-European Languages Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paolo
... of comparative reconstruction has been able to strip away some, but by no means all, of the fusional nature of early Indo-European and point to an earlier stage of Proto-Indo-European which was more agglutinative; for rather strikingly different reconstructions of this type, reference may be made to ...
... of comparative reconstruction has been able to strip away some, but by no means all, of the fusional nature of early Indo-European and point to an earlier stage of Proto-Indo-European which was more agglutinative; for rather strikingly different reconstructions of this type, reference may be made to ...
Verbals 3
... Gerunds and Participles Recognize a gerund when you see one. Every gerund, without exception, ends in ing. Gerunds are not, however, all that easy to identify. The problem is that all present participles also end in ing. What is the difference? Gerunds function as nouns. Thus, gerunds will be subjec ...
... Gerunds and Participles Recognize a gerund when you see one. Every gerund, without exception, ends in ing. Gerunds are not, however, all that easy to identify. The problem is that all present participles also end in ing. What is the difference? Gerunds function as nouns. Thus, gerunds will be subjec ...
The Layered Structure of Syntactic VV Compounds in
... a process is denoted by the predicate (see e.g. Larson 1988, Chomsky 1995, Ritter and Rosen 1998, 2000, Travis 1994, 2000, Ramchand 2008). 3 Moreover, I posit the projection (named InchP) that specifies the initiation of an event described by the verb, and I argue that this projection constitutes an ...
... a process is denoted by the predicate (see e.g. Larson 1988, Chomsky 1995, Ritter and Rosen 1998, 2000, Travis 1994, 2000, Ramchand 2008). 3 Moreover, I posit the projection (named InchP) that specifies the initiation of an event described by the verb, and I argue that this projection constitutes an ...
Tailoring a broad coverage grammar for the analysis of dictionary
... ("del computare") is attached to the closest available head, "effetto", and the alternative attachment site, the nominal phrase covering the coordinated genus terms, is indicated by a question mark. This parse would only allow the semantic relation "effetto del computare" to be extracted from the pa ...
... ("del computare") is attached to the closest available head, "effetto", and the alternative attachment site, the nominal phrase covering the coordinated genus terms, is indicated by a question mark. This parse would only allow the semantic relation "effetto del computare" to be extracted from the pa ...
Stiahnuť prednášku - Nechodimnaprednasky.sk
... Within it, there is a nonfinite subordinate clause to play the piano -- its main verb play has the to-infinitive form. On the other hand, subordinate clauses can be either finite or nonfinite: Finite: He said [SubC that they stayed at a lovely hotel] -- past tense Nonfinite: I was advised [SubC to ...
... Within it, there is a nonfinite subordinate clause to play the piano -- its main verb play has the to-infinitive form. On the other hand, subordinate clauses can be either finite or nonfinite: Finite: He said [SubC that they stayed at a lovely hotel] -- past tense Nonfinite: I was advised [SubC to ...
3. - DROPS
... In order to develop the exercises, the STRING [11] NPL processing chain is used to analyze the corpus sentences, which outputs the syntactic tree and dependencies in XML [10]. The need for a high-level XML processing language was identified, to replace the existing use of the DOM, one of the leading ...
... In order to develop the exercises, the STRING [11] NPL processing chain is used to analyze the corpus sentences, which outputs the syntactic tree and dependencies in XML [10]. The need for a high-level XML processing language was identified, to replace the existing use of the DOM, one of the leading ...
Race-Based Parsing and Syntactic Disambiguution
... the same situations, sometimes agreeing and sometimes disagreeing on what is the preferred attachment. Thus, if one actually tries to use them to build a sentence-processing system, one must either sacrifice some or try to incorporate them all and resolve any conflicts in such a way that redundancie ...
... the same situations, sometimes agreeing and sometimes disagreeing on what is the preferred attachment. Thus, if one actually tries to use them to build a sentence-processing system, one must either sacrifice some or try to incorporate them all and resolve any conflicts in such a way that redundancie ...
additive conjunction choice in english children short stories
... one word has many meanings, but when the word is used in a sentence, we will know the meaning of the word clearly. Intuitively, semantic interpretation should help syntactic disambiguation, and joint syntactic– semantic analysis has a long tradition in linguistic theory. In linguistics, semantic ana ...
... one word has many meanings, but when the word is used in a sentence, we will know the meaning of the word clearly. Intuitively, semantic interpretation should help syntactic disambiguation, and joint syntactic– semantic analysis has a long tradition in linguistic theory. In linguistics, semantic ana ...
On the Linguistic Notion of Transitivity:
... not totally arbitrary. On the other hand, languages differ as to how to categorize predicates like resemble in (7) and dread in (8). English formally identifies them with the transitive usage of break, so that nuances in meaning are not reflected at surface. However, this is where many languages sho ...
... not totally arbitrary. On the other hand, languages differ as to how to categorize predicates like resemble in (7) and dread in (8). English formally identifies them with the transitive usage of break, so that nuances in meaning are not reflected at surface. However, this is where many languages sho ...
Sentence diagram generation using dependency parsing
... the best of our knowledge, the first use of dependency relations as an evaluation tool for parse trees was in (Lin, 1995), which described a process for determining heads in phrase structures and assigning modifiers to those heads appropriately. Because of different ways to describe relations betwee ...
... the best of our knowledge, the first use of dependency relations as an evaluation tool for parse trees was in (Lin, 1995), which described a process for determining heads in phrase structures and assigning modifiers to those heads appropriately. Because of different ways to describe relations betwee ...
Antisymmetry
In linguistics, antisymmetry is a theory of syntactic linearization presented in Richard Kayne's 1994 monograph The Antisymmetry of Syntax. The crux of this theory is that hierarchical structure in natural language maps universally onto a particular surface linearization, namely specifier-head-complement branching order. The theory derives a version of X-bar theory. Kayne hypothesizes that all phrases whose surface order is not specifier-head-complement have undergone movements that disrupt this underlying order. Subsequently, there have also been attempts at deriving specifier-complement-head as the basic word order.Antisymmetry as a principle of word order is reliant on assumptions that many theories of syntax dispute, e.g. constituency structure (as opposed to dependency structure), X-bar notions such as specifier and complement, and the existence of ordering altering mechanisms such as movement and/or copying.