Old Nubian Relative Clauses
... antecedent of the rc) in §3.1 and non-coreferential (the subject of the rc is not coreferential with the antecedent of the rc) in §3.2. Non-coreferential rcs are further subdivided into those with overt subjects (§3.2.1) and those without overt subjects (§3.2.2). As we will see, the presence or abse ...
... antecedent of the rc) in §3.1 and non-coreferential (the subject of the rc is not coreferential with the antecedent of the rc) in §3.2. Non-coreferential rcs are further subdivided into those with overt subjects (§3.2.1) and those without overt subjects (§3.2.2). As we will see, the presence or abse ...
The Ancient Languages of Syria
... fricative, and a voiceless retroflex stop. In Semitic studies, however, the same symbols are used to denote very different phonetic realities: ś represents a voiceless lateral fricative while .s and .t transcribe two of the so-called emphatic consonants – the latter a voiceless stop produced with a ...
... fricative, and a voiceless retroflex stop. In Semitic studies, however, the same symbols are used to denote very different phonetic realities: ś represents a voiceless lateral fricative while .s and .t transcribe two of the so-called emphatic consonants – the latter a voiceless stop produced with a ...
Section 8 – Compound Main Clauses
... 3. The Sentence Test........................................................................................................................ 129 Exercise 17. 1 Verbs That Function as Nouns (Gerunds # 1) ........................................................ 130 Exercise 17. 2 Verbs That Function a ...
... 3. The Sentence Test........................................................................................................................ 129 Exercise 17. 1 Verbs That Function as Nouns (Gerunds # 1) ........................................................ 130 Exercise 17. 2 Verbs That Function a ...
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... In (4a) the negative answer, aniyo, means that 'John did not go' rather than 'I did not see.' ( 4b) never means '1 did not notice the fact that John had gone' in which case -TE wou ld be in the scope of negation. Notice in ( 4c) which is the long form negation of (4b) that the negative suffix -an pr ...
... In (4a) the negative answer, aniyo, means that 'John did not go' rather than 'I did not see.' ( 4b) never means '1 did not notice the fact that John had gone' in which case -TE wou ld be in the scope of negation. Notice in ( 4c) which is the long form negation of (4b) that the negative suffix -an pr ...
Accepted for publication in the Journal of Semantics, pre
... sentences in the two languages share these semantic features, they are very different morphosyntactically: English employs the nominal bipartite anaphor each other, CQ employs two verbal suffixes: -na, which I will argue is a pluractional marker, and -ku, a reflexive. The main question for typologi ...
... sentences in the two languages share these semantic features, they are very different morphosyntactically: English employs the nominal bipartite anaphor each other, CQ employs two verbal suffixes: -na, which I will argue is a pluractional marker, and -ku, a reflexive. The main question for typologi ...
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax
... continuous directed motion undergone by < 1 > motion involves rapid movement of legs, no continuous contact with ground ...
... continuous directed motion undergone by < 1 > motion involves rapid movement of legs, no continuous contact with ground ...
A multivariate analysis of the Old English ACC+DAT double object
... The present study is based on a corpus sample of N = 2409 instances of the ACC+DAT construction, taken from the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE)(Taylor et al. 2003). The influence of 16 factors − 13 linguistic and 3 extralinguistic ones − was evaluated by means of mixe ...
... The present study is based on a corpus sample of N = 2409 instances of the ACC+DAT construction, taken from the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE)(Taylor et al. 2003). The influence of 16 factors − 13 linguistic and 3 extralinguistic ones − was evaluated by means of mixe ...
Language notes Unit 1 A great read - Assets
... “Like me he seems family oriented. He’s obviously enjoying family life – as I am. But he finds it hard. Most people do. I know my sister does. She has three children – all under six!” “Well, she obviously changed careers – a lot of people do these days. But it sounds like she took a risk by choosing ...
... “Like me he seems family oriented. He’s obviously enjoying family life – as I am. But he finds it hard. Most people do. I know my sister does. She has three children – all under six!” “Well, she obviously changed careers – a lot of people do these days. But it sounds like she took a risk by choosing ...
PROGRESSIVE STRUCTURES OF ENGLISH AND CATALAN
... As far as V-ing postnominal clauses are concerned, two essential issues are the properties of the head Act and the adjunction site of ActP. Essentially, a V-ing clause is an ActP (the projection of the head Act) with a VP complement. Following Kayne (1994) -who, in turn, follows Vergnaud (1984)--1 p ...
... As far as V-ing postnominal clauses are concerned, two essential issues are the properties of the head Act and the adjunction site of ActP. Essentially, a V-ing clause is an ActP (the projection of the head Act) with a VP complement. Following Kayne (1994) -who, in turn, follows Vergnaud (1984)--1 p ...
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
... Grammatically, statements are characterized by: 1) the subject-predicate structure with the direct order of words. They are mostly twomember sentences, although they may be one-member sentences: e.g.: Very early morning. 2) a falling tone; 3) a pause in speaking and by a full stop in writing. Interr ...
... Grammatically, statements are characterized by: 1) the subject-predicate structure with the direct order of words. They are mostly twomember sentences, although they may be one-member sentences: e.g.: Very early morning. 2) a falling tone; 3) a pause in speaking and by a full stop in writing. Interr ...
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... doing in the sentence. Verbs are called body of sentence. Jokhio (2011) defines Sindhi verb that anything which tells or shows something, any action, state or condition of someone in the sentence that is called a verb. Jokhio (2012) divides the Sindhi verbs into two types; main verbs and to be or au ...
... doing in the sentence. Verbs are called body of sentence. Jokhio (2011) defines Sindhi verb that anything which tells or shows something, any action, state or condition of someone in the sentence that is called a verb. Jokhio (2012) divides the Sindhi verbs into two types; main verbs and to be or au ...
Establishing the Thematic Structure and Investigating
... doing in the sentence. Verbs are called body of sentence. Jokhio (2011) defines Sindhi verb that anything which tells or shows something, any action, state or condition of someone in the sentence that is called a verb. Jokhio (2012) divides the Sindhi verbs into two types; main verbs and to be or au ...
... doing in the sentence. Verbs are called body of sentence. Jokhio (2011) defines Sindhi verb that anything which tells or shows something, any action, state or condition of someone in the sentence that is called a verb. Jokhio (2012) divides the Sindhi verbs into two types; main verbs and to be or au ...
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... subjunctive in (2a), (2b) and (2c) is expected since the tenses in the main clause are present, future and present perfect respectively, and this is what the concordantia temporum predicts. What is striking is that in all the other examples, the embedded verb is also in the present subjunctive. The ...
... subjunctive in (2a), (2b) and (2c) is expected since the tenses in the main clause are present, future and present perfect respectively, and this is what the concordantia temporum predicts. What is striking is that in all the other examples, the embedded verb is also in the present subjunctive. The ...
Syntax: a minimalist introduction
... then w e are im plicitly taking a cognitive view of the nature of grammar. After all, if the term grammatical com petence is used to denote w hat native speakers tacitly k n ow about the grammar of their language, then grammar is part of the more general study of cognition (i.e. human knowledge). In ...
... then w e are im plicitly taking a cognitive view of the nature of grammar. After all, if the term grammatical com petence is used to denote w hat native speakers tacitly k n ow about the grammar of their language, then grammar is part of the more general study of cognition (i.e. human knowledge). In ...
771Lec19-WordMeaningsII
... troponym: the verb Y is a troponym of the verb X if the activity Y is doing X in some manner (to lisp is a troponym of to talk) entailment: the verb Y is entailed by X if by doing X you must be doing Y (to sleep is entailed by to snore) coordinate terms: those verbs sharing a common hypernym (to lis ...
... troponym: the verb Y is a troponym of the verb X if the activity Y is doing X in some manner (to lisp is a troponym of to talk) entailment: the verb Y is entailed by X if by doing X you must be doing Y (to sleep is entailed by to snore) coordinate terms: those verbs sharing a common hypernym (to lis ...
Prose Passages for Level 2
... tree. The green leaf floated away down the stream, and the butterfly with it, for he was fastened to the leaf and could not get loose from it. Oh, dear! how terrified poor little Thumbelina was when the cockchafer flew off with her to the tree! But she was especially distressed on the beautiful whit ...
... tree. The green leaf floated away down the stream, and the butterfly with it, for he was fastened to the leaf and could not get loose from it. Oh, dear! how terrified poor little Thumbelina was when the cockchafer flew off with her to the tree! But she was especially distressed on the beautiful whit ...
A Synopsis of the Indian Tribes Within the United States East of the
... the nineteen others, ten are west of the Stony Mountains; and seven of these inhabit, south of the sixtieth degree of north latitude, the islands and the narrow tract of land contained between the Pacific Ocean and the continuation of the Californian chain of mountains, as far south as the forty-sev ...
... the nineteen others, ten are west of the Stony Mountains; and seven of these inhabit, south of the sixtieth degree of north latitude, the islands and the narrow tract of land contained between the Pacific Ocean and the continuation of the Californian chain of mountains, as far south as the forty-sev ...
The Development of Root Infinitives and Null Subjects in Child
... INFL is a referential category with lexically listed affixes in exactly those languages where regular subject-verb agreement minimally distinctively marks all referential INFL-features such that a. and b.: a. In at least one number and one tense, the person features [1st] and [2nd] are distinctively ...
... INFL is a referential category with lexically listed affixes in exactly those languages where regular subject-verb agreement minimally distinctively marks all referential INFL-features such that a. and b.: a. In at least one number and one tense, the person features [1st] and [2nd] are distinctively ...
Clitics in Word Grammar
... Another issue where I still hold the beliefs I expressed in my earlier work is the analysis of compounds (Hudson 1984:50-2), which I think are words that contain smaller words. For example, FIELDMOUSE can be recognised as a single word alongside its component words FIELD and MOUSE. Since the compone ...
... Another issue where I still hold the beliefs I expressed in my earlier work is the analysis of compounds (Hudson 1984:50-2), which I think are words that contain smaller words. For example, FIELDMOUSE can be recognised as a single word alongside its component words FIELD and MOUSE. Since the compone ...
Life after PCFGs? 1 Problems with CFGs 2 CFGs and features
... Figure 1: A feature agreement grammar using variable to fill in feature values from below. complete discussion of linguistic theories that adopt such full-fledged unification is beyond the scope of these notes. Such grammars go by the name of unification grammar; lexical-functional grammar (LFG), a ...
... Figure 1: A feature agreement grammar using variable to fill in feature values from below. complete discussion of linguistic theories that adopt such full-fledged unification is beyond the scope of these notes. Such grammars go by the name of unification grammar; lexical-functional grammar (LFG), a ...
Missing Objects in Persian
... Sag: # “It is not clear that you’ll be able to [VP ].” VPE Sag: “It is not clear that you’ll be able to do it.” do it anaphora ...
... Sag: # “It is not clear that you’ll be able to [VP ].” VPE Sag: “It is not clear that you’ll be able to do it.” do it anaphora ...
primary argument case-marking in baltic and finnic
... contexts that would call for the partitive in Standard Finnish (Ojajärvi 1950: 40–42). The use of the genitive object in Baltic can be divided in two categories: partitive (and in that group, the closely related genitive of negation) and ablative. Some IE languages (Indo-Iranian and partly ancient ...
... contexts that would call for the partitive in Standard Finnish (Ojajärvi 1950: 40–42). The use of the genitive object in Baltic can be divided in two categories: partitive (and in that group, the closely related genitive of negation) and ablative. Some IE languages (Indo-Iranian and partly ancient ...
A GRAMMAR OF HARO WITH COMPARATIVE NOTES ON THE
... a traditional blanket made of cotton and take it to the weekly Merab Abaya market that takes place every Sunday. ...
... a traditional blanket made of cotton and take it to the weekly Merab Abaya market that takes place every Sunday. ...