Existential Sentences Cross-Linguistically - e
... language, we find corresponding variation in existential sentences cross-linguistically. However, there is an additional source of variation that has less to do with the set of resources in the language and more to do with the extremely poor descriptive content of existential sentences. If indeed ex ...
... language, we find corresponding variation in existential sentences cross-linguistically. However, there is an additional source of variation that has less to do with the set of resources in the language and more to do with the extremely poor descriptive content of existential sentences. If indeed ex ...
Alexandra Anna Spalek Verb Meaning and Combinatory Semantics: A Corpus-Based Study of
... I thank Louise for teaching me how to do scientific work and not to die in the attempt. And yet what I most appreciate in her as an advisor were these ‘mummymoments’ when she understood that I was totally lost and would provide some simple advice, which converted a monstrous problem into a challeng ...
... I thank Louise for teaching me how to do scientific work and not to die in the attempt. And yet what I most appreciate in her as an advisor were these ‘mummymoments’ when she understood that I was totally lost and would provide some simple advice, which converted a monstrous problem into a challeng ...
LANGUAGE ARTS 300
... Identify what expressions are poetic in comparison to those that are not Find words which begin with the same letter or which rhyme with other words Write your own rhyming couplet Synonyms and Antonyms Match synonym and antonym pairs of words Identify whether or not words are synonyms Find antonym p ...
... Identify what expressions are poetic in comparison to those that are not Find words which begin with the same letter or which rhyme with other words Write your own rhyming couplet Synonyms and Antonyms Match synonym and antonym pairs of words Identify whether or not words are synonyms Find antonym p ...
CEBUANO LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES
... The first principle to be discussed will be nouns. Nouns are usually one of the following: person, place, or thing. In English, nouns are marked with the articles “a” or “the” (like “the gospel” or “a copy of the Book of Mormon”). In Cebuano there is a similar idea. Every Cebuano noun in a sentence ...
... The first principle to be discussed will be nouns. Nouns are usually one of the following: person, place, or thing. In English, nouns are marked with the articles “a” or “the” (like “the gospel” or “a copy of the Book of Mormon”). In Cebuano there is a similar idea. Every Cebuano noun in a sentence ...
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 ...
Writing Workshop June 2012 - eGRS
... empathise with the all of these readers – indeed, I think it helps to imagine one individual and write for that person. Your job as the writer is to make the meaning clear. The reader’s job is not to interpret the meaning. Making people do work that they weren’t expecting to have to do will not end ...
... empathise with the all of these readers – indeed, I think it helps to imagine one individual and write for that person. Your job as the writer is to make the meaning clear. The reader’s job is not to interpret the meaning. Making people do work that they weren’t expecting to have to do will not end ...
Compromising transitivity: the problem of reciprocals
... other hand, the verb can be modified as a signal that it is being used reflexively, the modified verb (or “reflexive verb”) now participating in an intransitive clause structure.4 ...
... other hand, the verb can be modified as a signal that it is being used reflexively, the modified verb (or “reflexive verb”) now participating in an intransitive clause structure.4 ...
Statives and Reciprocal Morphology in Swahili
... In this paper we consider the nature of the “stative” morpheme in Swahili, and its interaction with the reciprocal. The first part, sections 2–4, focuses on the stative, while sections 5–7 focus on the reciprocal and its role in the reciprocal stative construction. Section 2 gives a brief overview o ...
... In this paper we consider the nature of the “stative” morpheme in Swahili, and its interaction with the reciprocal. The first part, sections 2–4, focuses on the stative, while sections 5–7 focus on the reciprocal and its role in the reciprocal stative construction. Section 2 gives a brief overview o ...
Discourse, grammar, discourse
... view the thesis (‘the radio got ripped off ’) as supporting the opposite implicit conclusion, namely, that ‘he does not have a radio now’. In other words, there’s a lot of discoursal (contextual, inferential) work involved in interpreting a sentential but example such as (3). If so, both the marking ...
... view the thesis (‘the radio got ripped off ’) as supporting the opposite implicit conclusion, namely, that ‘he does not have a radio now’. In other words, there’s a lot of discoursal (contextual, inferential) work involved in interpreting a sentential but example such as (3). If so, both the marking ...
1-1 1-1 Japanese Audio Flashcard Lessons, Grammar Guide, 9
... You may recall that aru = arimasu (‘exist’) is used for inanimate objects including plants. By contrast, iru = imasu (‘exist’) is used for animate objects like animals and people, not including plants. Iru is an ru verb, since you don’t ‘double the t’ when making its te and ta forms, i.e., ite = ‘ex ...
... You may recall that aru = arimasu (‘exist’) is used for inanimate objects including plants. By contrast, iru = imasu (‘exist’) is used for animate objects like animals and people, not including plants. Iru is an ru verb, since you don’t ‘double the t’ when making its te and ta forms, i.e., ite = ‘ex ...
Japanese Grammar Guide - Tae Kim`s Guide to Learning Japanese
... 3.11.1 The last three particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.11.2 The Inclusive 「と」 particle . . . . . . . . . . . 3.11.3 The Vague Listing 「や」 and 「とか」 particles 3.11.4 The 「の」 particle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.11.5 The 「の」 particle as explanation . . . . . . . . Adverbs and Sentence-en ...
... 3.11.1 The last three particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.11.2 The Inclusive 「と」 particle . . . . . . . . . . . 3.11.3 The Vague Listing 「や」 and 「とか」 particles 3.11.4 The 「の」 particle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.11.5 The 「の」 particle as explanation . . . . . . . . Adverbs and Sentence-en ...
On Word Definition in Children and Adults
... adjectives, and 7 concrete and abstract verbs. Word definitions were analysed for grammatical form and use of semantic components (i.e. categorical term, specificity of the hyperonym, and semantic content of the definiens). Findings for Study 1 indicated a generalized effect of the morphological ca ...
... adjectives, and 7 concrete and abstract verbs. Word definitions were analysed for grammatical form and use of semantic components (i.e. categorical term, specificity of the hyperonym, and semantic content of the definiens). Findings for Study 1 indicated a generalized effect of the morphological ca ...
The Marshallese Complemetizer Phrase
... Thus the distinction between in/e is parallel to determiners je- which is 1st PL IN- and kim- 1st PL EX. ne- Ne, 2nd person, means close to the listener. en- En means away from both the speaker and the listener and is the 3rd person determiner. English does not make the distinction between 2nd and 3 ...
... Thus the distinction between in/e is parallel to determiners je- which is 1st PL IN- and kim- 1st PL EX. ne- Ne, 2nd person, means close to the listener. en- En means away from both the speaker and the listener and is the 3rd person determiner. English does not make the distinction between 2nd and 3 ...
Grammar and Language Workbook
... Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission ...
... Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission ...
The Elements of Style - Academic Server| Cleveland State University
... entries, and enliven the argument. Professor Strunk was a positive man. His book contains rules of grammar phrased as direct orders. In the main I have not tried to soften his commands, or modify his pronouncements, or remove the special objects of his scorn. I have tried, instead, to preserve the f ...
... entries, and enliven the argument. Professor Strunk was a positive man. His book contains rules of grammar phrased as direct orders. In the main I have not tried to soften his commands, or modify his pronouncements, or remove the special objects of his scorn. I have tried, instead, to preserve the f ...
Language Arts Curriculum Guide Template
... Experiment with long parallel structures in all forms – infinitive, gerunds, clauses, phrases, Refer to appropriate style and vocabulary above. ...
... Experiment with long parallel structures in all forms – infinitive, gerunds, clauses, phrases, Refer to appropriate style and vocabulary above. ...
FRE 122 - National Open University of Nigeria
... The advantage of distance learning is that, you can read and work through specially designed study materials at your own pace, and at your convenient time and place. The course material replaces the lecturer that stands before you in a face of face situation. Each of the units has a common format. T ...
... The advantage of distance learning is that, you can read and work through specially designed study materials at your own pace, and at your convenient time and place. The course material replaces the lecturer that stands before you in a face of face situation. Each of the units has a common format. T ...
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational
... GR, and PropBank (and other) annotations are available, contributors were invited to scrutinize existing gold-standard representations contrastively, identify perceived deficiencies, and sketch what can be done to address these. As an optional component, participants in the shared task were welcome ...
... GR, and PropBank (and other) annotations are available, contributors were invited to scrutinize existing gold-standard representations contrastively, identify perceived deficiencies, and sketch what can be done to address these. As an optional component, participants in the shared task were welcome ...
English l 100
... Grammar rules change over time, usually to catch up with what is called common usage, which is a change that has become widely recognized and practiced by professionals, academics, the media, and the general populace. Standard English is a phrase you may have heard before in reference to the English ...
... Grammar rules change over time, usually to catch up with what is called common usage, which is a change that has become widely recognized and practiced by professionals, academics, the media, and the general populace. Standard English is a phrase you may have heard before in reference to the English ...
Fulltext: english,
... display a great deal of syntactic and semantic variation not only when comparing different languages, but also when comparing this family of constructions within one language.2 The constructions share some important properties but differ in certain specifics, including the degree of productivity of d ...
... display a great deal of syntactic and semantic variation not only when comparing different languages, but also when comparing this family of constructions within one language.2 The constructions share some important properties but differ in certain specifics, including the degree of productivity of d ...
How to Use the Holt Handbook CD
... wasps. Among the best-known social wasps are [15] those within a group that, like ants, has a caste system in [16] its societies. The queen builds a small nest consisting of a [17] few cells, and then she lays eggs. [18] These hatch into workers. The workers enlarge the nest, [19] which is made of m ...
... wasps. Among the best-known social wasps are [15] those within a group that, like ants, has a caste system in [16] its societies. The queen builds a small nest consisting of a [17] few cells, and then she lays eggs. [18] These hatch into workers. The workers enlarge the nest, [19] which is made of m ...
110 CHAPTER 3. NULL OBJECTS IN ENGLISH
... It should be stated clearly from the start, that an examination of English null objects leads one into the murky waters of the distinction between arguments of verbs and information available from world knowledge about events. This is, in part, what makes the study of null objects interesting. A wel ...
... It should be stated clearly from the start, that an examination of English null objects leads one into the murky waters of the distinction between arguments of verbs and information available from world knowledge about events. This is, in part, what makes the study of null objects interesting. A wel ...
yaqui coordination - University of Arizona
... combining a simplified version of Minimalism, with the addition of Combinators from Combinatorial Grammar. In this work and within an OT approach, I suggest that coordination must be restricted to adjunction structures too. This proposal predicts that if coordination is adjunction and subordination ...
... combining a simplified version of Minimalism, with the addition of Combinators from Combinatorial Grammar. In this work and within an OT approach, I suggest that coordination must be restricted to adjunction structures too. This proposal predicts that if coordination is adjunction and subordination ...
Syntax: a minimalist introduction
... know ledge of traditional gram m atical terms like subject, case, agree ment, etc., and then go on to introduce new tongue-twisting terms and conceptually constipated constructs on every page: if y o u ’re like me, by the time you reach page 742, yo u ’ve forgotten w hat exactly the new term introd ...
... know ledge of traditional gram m atical terms like subject, case, agree ment, etc., and then go on to introduce new tongue-twisting terms and conceptually constipated constructs on every page: if y o u ’re like me, by the time you reach page 742, yo u ’ve forgotten w hat exactly the new term introd ...
Tips for Writing Theses for non
... • An abbreviation that is more familiar to the reader than the term for which it stands, for example, DNA. These can be used freely. ...
... • An abbreviation that is more familiar to the reader than the term for which it stands, for example, DNA. These can be used freely. ...