THE NOUN
... congregation, council, crew, crowd, family, gang, government, group, jury, mob, staff, team and union can be used with singular or plural verbs. They are singular and can combine with the relative pronouns which/that and be replaced by it when we think of them in an impersonal fashion, i.e. as a who ...
... congregation, council, crew, crowd, family, gang, government, group, jury, mob, staff, team and union can be used with singular or plural verbs. They are singular and can combine with the relative pronouns which/that and be replaced by it when we think of them in an impersonal fashion, i.e. as a who ...
Focus and the LF of NP quantification
... 20 incompetent cooks in some small town. They all applie d for the s ame job at the hotel. Besides them, also 80 competent cooks applied for this job. In (9) actually ALL incompetent cooks applied. At the same time, they made up only a rather small fraction of the total number of applying cooks, nam ...
... 20 incompetent cooks in some small town. They all applie d for the s ame job at the hotel. Besides them, also 80 competent cooks applied for this job. In (9) actually ALL incompetent cooks applied. At the same time, they made up only a rather small fraction of the total number of applying cooks, nam ...
Hausa Verbal Compounds
... 2.2.3.3 PDO-frames with 2 VPs.......................................................39 2.2.4 Basic verbal compounds with a ∅DO-frame.......................40 2.2.4.1 ∅DO-frames with 1 VP .......................................................40 2.2.4.2 ∅DO-frames with 2 VPs.......................... ...
... 2.2.3.3 PDO-frames with 2 VPs.......................................................39 2.2.4 Basic verbal compounds with a ∅DO-frame.......................40 2.2.4.1 ∅DO-frames with 1 VP .......................................................40 2.2.4.2 ∅DO-frames with 2 VPs.......................... ...
Different by-phrases with adjectival and verbal passives: Evidence
... To account for the restrictions on event-related modification with German adjectival participles, Gehrke (2011, and subsequent work) proposes that while verbal passives can involve reference to an event token, the event underlying adjectival passives never gets instantiated but remains in the kind d ...
... To account for the restrictions on event-related modification with German adjectival participles, Gehrke (2011, and subsequent work) proposes that while verbal passives can involve reference to an event token, the event underlying adjectival passives never gets instantiated but remains in the kind d ...
Conditional sentences in Modern Standard Arabic and the Taif Dialect
... analysing the subject in SVO order as a topic. The second issue in MSA is the tense and aspect. The chapter will explain the possible types of tense and aspect in MSA. It will argue that there are four types of past in MSA and two types of future. Also, the regular types of aspect that are progressi ...
... analysing the subject in SVO order as a topic. The second issue in MSA is the tense and aspect. The chapter will explain the possible types of tense and aspect in MSA. It will argue that there are four types of past in MSA and two types of future. Also, the regular types of aspect that are progressi ...
The distribution of pronoun case forms in English
... pronoun case variation that cannot be given a purely case-based account occur in strong pronoun contexts. The consistent nominative/objective case distinction found with weak pronouns is due to their syntactic deficiency and the increasing importance of Positional Case in English. Unlike strong pron ...
... pronoun case variation that cannot be given a purely case-based account occur in strong pronoun contexts. The consistent nominative/objective case distinction found with weak pronouns is due to their syntactic deficiency and the increasing importance of Positional Case in English. Unlike strong pron ...
Anaphora, Inversion, and Focus
... separate from the antecedent conditions on ellipsis. I argue that null operator movement, which is in part responsible for deriving the locality condition, violates an island at PF. The only way to ameliorate this violation, following Kennedy and Merchant (2000), is to elide the vP, explaining why e ...
... separate from the antecedent conditions on ellipsis. I argue that null operator movement, which is in part responsible for deriving the locality condition, violates an island at PF. The only way to ameliorate this violation, following Kennedy and Merchant (2000), is to elide the vP, explaining why e ...
PREFIXED ADJECTIVAL PARTICIPLES
... Since -l can attach to imperfective verbs, as in (1) and (2), the ungrammaticality of -lý participles in (7) and (8) is not based on selectional requirements of the affix -l. The ungrammaticality also cannot be based on some requirements of the agreement marker -ý because it can attach to imperfecti ...
... Since -l can attach to imperfective verbs, as in (1) and (2), the ungrammaticality of -lý participles in (7) and (8) is not based on selectional requirements of the affix -l. The ungrammaticality also cannot be based on some requirements of the agreement marker -ý because it can attach to imperfecti ...
Grammatical structure of the English Language
... It is but natural that the verb should take up as much, or indeed, more space than all the other parts of speech. It is the only part of speech in present-day English that has a morphological system based on a series of categories. It is the only part of speech that has analytical forms, and again t ...
... It is but natural that the verb should take up as much, or indeed, more space than all the other parts of speech. It is the only part of speech in present-day English that has a morphological system based on a series of categories. It is the only part of speech that has analytical forms, and again t ...
interrogatives and relatives in some varieties of english
... in both the indirect interrogative clauses and the dependent clauses embedded within main questions. (ii) The proposal outlined by McCloskey (1992) and related work is along the lines of the CP-recursion analysis, that is, the occurrence of multiple CPs that represent the final landing sites of move ...
... in both the indirect interrogative clauses and the dependent clauses embedded within main questions. (ii) The proposal outlined by McCloskey (1992) and related work is along the lines of the CP-recursion analysis, that is, the occurrence of multiple CPs that represent the final landing sites of move ...
the structure of complex predicates in urdu
... dissertation would not be as thorough without his input. Paul Kiparsky and Veneeta Dayal joined the committee as the dissertation was already well under way, but had an immediate and pronounced effect. Paul Kiparsky attacked issues of morphology and lexical semantics I had not considered before. Ven ...
... dissertation would not be as thorough without his input. Paul Kiparsky and Veneeta Dayal joined the committee as the dissertation was already well under way, but had an immediate and pronounced effect. Paul Kiparsky attacked issues of morphology and lexical semantics I had not considered before. Ven ...
A verb-centered Sentiment Analysis for French
... to the system via a so-called polarity lexicon. A polarity lexicon consists of an extensive list of lemmas, i.e. words in their base form, which are marked with both their polarity (or valence) and word class. This list enables the system to identify a word in a text as polar or neutral. However, po ...
... to the system via a so-called polarity lexicon. A polarity lexicon consists of an extensive list of lemmas, i.e. words in their base form, which are marked with both their polarity (or valence) and word class. This list enables the system to identify a word in a text as polar or neutral. However, po ...
Contents - The Okuna Language
... not shied away from using technical terms in cases where I felt this would make the description more precise (to those unfamiliar with these terms, I apologise in advance). That said, I do not present a formal analysis of the language, but have tried to keep my treatment as descriptive as possible. ...
... not shied away from using technical terms in cases where I felt this would make the description more precise (to those unfamiliar with these terms, I apologise in advance). That said, I do not present a formal analysis of the language, but have tried to keep my treatment as descriptive as possible. ...
Contribute a Verse
... members. Juan understands that he will need to use a variety of strategies to draw an audience from these various populations. He decides first to make posters for campus and community buildings. These will feature a high resolution color photo from a cast dress rehearsal along with basic informatio ...
... members. Juan understands that he will need to use a variety of strategies to draw an audience from these various populations. He decides first to make posters for campus and community buildings. These will feature a high resolution color photo from a cast dress rehearsal along with basic informatio ...
Serial Verb Constructions
... Not all of these parameters are new—but the way in which they are systematically discussed and applied provides an original perspective and presents a comprehensive view of serial verb constructions worldwide. The week of the workshop was an intellectually stimulating and exciting time, full of disc ...
... Not all of these parameters are new—but the way in which they are systematically discussed and applied provides an original perspective and presents a comprehensive view of serial verb constructions worldwide. The week of the workshop was an intellectually stimulating and exciting time, full of disc ...
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 ...
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... psycholinguistic investigation. To begin with, the distance between the filler and the gap is in principle unbounded, both linearly and in terms of hierarchical structure (Ross 1967, McElree et al. 2003). ...
... psycholinguistic investigation. To begin with, the distance between the filler and the gap is in principle unbounded, both linearly and in terms of hierarchical structure (Ross 1967, McElree et al. 2003). ...
the demotic verbal system - Oriental Institute
... Egyptian language. The stage of the language called Demotic has affinities with both Late Egyptian, its predecessor, and Coptic, its successor.1 It was presumably much closer to the spoken language, especially when it first came into use, than was the archaic “classical” language preserved in religi ...
... Egyptian language. The stage of the language called Demotic has affinities with both Late Egyptian, its predecessor, and Coptic, its successor.1 It was presumably much closer to the spoken language, especially when it first came into use, than was the archaic “classical” language preserved in religi ...
Definition - KhmerDocs
... A helping verb is a kind of verbs that is used to help other verbs make negative, interrogative sentence and make tenses or aspects. Definition: A main verb is a kind of verbs that is used to state the action of subject. ( Main verb can’t be omitted ) CUE ...
... A helping verb is a kind of verbs that is used to help other verbs make negative, interrogative sentence and make tenses or aspects. Definition: A main verb is a kind of verbs that is used to state the action of subject. ( Main verb can’t be omitted ) CUE ...
Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction
... do they study? It turns out that human languages are amazingly complex systems, whose inner workings can be investigated in large part simply by consulting the intuitions of native speakers. We employ this technique throughout this book, using our own intuitions about English as our principal source ...
... do they study? It turns out that human languages are amazingly complex systems, whose inner workings can be investigated in large part simply by consulting the intuitions of native speakers. We employ this technique throughout this book, using our own intuitions about English as our principal source ...
Armenian. Modern Eastern Armenian
... of a genitive and, in the case of human definite referents, also marking the direct object. Demonstrative pronouns have a three-term system paralleling the three persons. The verb distinguishes a present and an aorist stem, tenses other than the aorist being formed analytically by means of a partic ...
... of a genitive and, in the case of human definite referents, also marking the direct object. Demonstrative pronouns have a three-term system paralleling the three persons. The verb distinguishes a present and an aorist stem, tenses other than the aorist being formed analytically by means of a partic ...
Tense and Aspect Systems
... 'moods', the semantics of which tends to be even more elusive than that of tenses. Tenses, moods, and aspects - henceforth 'TMA categories' belong to the things in one's native language that one tends to take for granted, and often, they have only attracted the attention of grammarians who have had ...
... 'moods', the semantics of which tends to be even more elusive than that of tenses. Tenses, moods, and aspects - henceforth 'TMA categories' belong to the things in one's native language that one tends to take for granted, and often, they have only attracted the attention of grammarians who have had ...
Syntactic Relations - Cornell University
... specified set of syntactic properties. Following standard practice, I assume that these properties are specified in the lexical entry of the LI in the first coordinate by means of subcategorization and selection features of the form [___C], where C is a categorial feature, some combination of catego ...
... specified set of syntactic properties. Following standard practice, I assume that these properties are specified in the lexical entry of the LI in the first coordinate by means of subcategorization and selection features of the form [___C], where C is a categorial feature, some combination of catego ...
Spanish!Grammar!
... selected on the basis of Buchanan’s Graded Spanish Word List (1927). Some 84% of these words are found in the basic first thousand of Buchanan’s Word List, and nearly 15% in the second thousand, a very few words have been introduced arbitrarily. These 620 words are meant to be a working, active voca ...
... selected on the basis of Buchanan’s Graded Spanish Word List (1927). Some 84% of these words are found in the basic first thousand of Buchanan’s Word List, and nearly 15% in the second thousand, a very few words have been introduced arbitrarily. These 620 words are meant to be a working, active voca ...
Adjectives and Argument Structure
... The last decades have seen a growing interest in the study of argument structure. The different θroles assigned by various predicates were identified, the principles governing argument projection to syntactic positions were investigated, and a variety of diathesis alternations were analyzed. However ...
... The last decades have seen a growing interest in the study of argument structure. The different θroles assigned by various predicates were identified, the principles governing argument projection to syntactic positions were investigated, and a variety of diathesis alternations were analyzed. However ...