TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Linguistics Journal
... ways---it is by definition self-agentive and involves complex patterns of internal motion of the body and limbs, the function of which is to cause translational motion. According to this definition, this dissertation summarizes the following distinguished features of human locomotion, based on which ...
... ways---it is by definition self-agentive and involves complex patterns of internal motion of the body and limbs, the function of which is to cause translational motion. According to this definition, this dissertation summarizes the following distinguished features of human locomotion, based on which ...
Valence Creation and the German Applicative
... prepositional phrase. Brinkmann (1997: 84-5) points to several verb classes in which such alternations can be found, including verbs of active perception, verbs of speech, and verbs of emotional expression. Pairs exemplifying alternations in each class are, respectively, riechen an/beriechen 'sniff ...
... prepositional phrase. Brinkmann (1997: 84-5) points to several verb classes in which such alternations can be found, including verbs of active perception, verbs of speech, and verbs of emotional expression. Pairs exemplifying alternations in each class are, respectively, riechen an/beriechen 'sniff ...
Word-formation in English
... The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means - among many other things - knowing the words of that language. The average speaker knows thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. T ...
... The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means - among many other things - knowing the words of that language. The average speaker knows thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. T ...
Word-formation in English
... The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means - among many other things - knowing the words of that language. The average speaker knows thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. T ...
... The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means - among many other things - knowing the words of that language. The average speaker knows thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. T ...
1 How To: Outlining a Research Paper Note for students: This
... A. Summary of objectives and approach of this paper a. supporting sentence or statement (citation) b. supporting sentence or statement (citation) c. supporting sentence or statement (citation) B. Major findings of this paper a. supporting sentence or statement (citation) b. supporting sentence or st ...
... A. Summary of objectives and approach of this paper a. supporting sentence or statement (citation) b. supporting sentence or statement (citation) c. supporting sentence or statement (citation) B. Major findings of this paper a. supporting sentence or statement (citation) b. supporting sentence or st ...
chapter 11 the preterit tense
... verbs as stem changers because they do not follow the patterns that stemchanging verbs follow. These verbs also do not use the normal preterit endings, but there is a consistent set of endings for all of these irregular verbs. Some of the most commonly used verbs in the language are irregular in the ...
... verbs as stem changers because they do not follow the patterns that stemchanging verbs follow. These verbs also do not use the normal preterit endings, but there is a consistent set of endings for all of these irregular verbs. Some of the most commonly used verbs in the language are irregular in the ...
12 Multi-Clause Sentences
... Relative clauses (RCs) (also, but misleadingly, called adjective clauses), follow the head nouns they modify and may begin either with that, a wh-word such as who or which, a phrase with a wh-word in it, or no special word at all. Relative clauses must be divided into two types, restrictive and non‑ ...
... Relative clauses (RCs) (also, but misleadingly, called adjective clauses), follow the head nouns they modify and may begin either with that, a wh-word such as who or which, a phrase with a wh-word in it, or no special word at all. Relative clauses must be divided into two types, restrictive and non‑ ...
THE NOUN AND THE DICTIONARY IN TSHIVENDA BY SHUMANI
... nouns with regard to their treatment in non-African language dictionaries, i.e. English and Afrikaans and in African language dictionaries, i.e. Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Sepedi, Zulu, Xhosa, Setswana and Sesotho. This will help to develop a theoretical framework as to how nouns should be treated in Afri ...
... nouns with regard to their treatment in non-African language dictionaries, i.e. English and Afrikaans and in African language dictionaries, i.e. Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Sepedi, Zulu, Xhosa, Setswana and Sesotho. This will help to develop a theoretical framework as to how nouns should be treated in Afri ...
conceptualization in the english gerund and its spanish - e
... display serious limitations in their analysis of these constructions. Although the subject of the English gerund and its Spanish equivalents has been studied from several perspectives, there are few relevant studies so far. Studies exist (Álvarez, 1991; Fente, 1971; Criado de Val, 1972; Losada, 1980 ...
... display serious limitations in their analysis of these constructions. Although the subject of the English gerund and its Spanish equivalents has been studied from several perspectives, there are few relevant studies so far. Studies exist (Álvarez, 1991; Fente, 1971; Criado de Val, 1972; Losada, 1980 ...
specificational copular sentences in russian and english
... sentence is NP1 in English, NP2 in Russian. The conclusions I argue for in this paper are as follows: (i) English and Russian do indeed differ at the syntactic level on whether they make NP1 the subject in a specificational sentence. (ii) In both languages, NP1 has predicate type or something ...
... sentence is NP1 in English, NP2 in Russian. The conclusions I argue for in this paper are as follows: (i) English and Russian do indeed differ at the syntactic level on whether they make NP1 the subject in a specificational sentence. (ii) In both languages, NP1 has predicate type
Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction
... to say, *Lee is improbable to be elected? (In keeping with standard linguistic practice, we will use an asterisk to mark an expression that is not well-formed – that is, that doesn’t ‘sound good’ to our ears). Example 2: The sentences They saw Pat with Chris and They saw Pat and Chris are near parap ...
... to say, *Lee is improbable to be elected? (In keeping with standard linguistic practice, we will use an asterisk to mark an expression that is not well-formed – that is, that doesn’t ‘sound good’ to our ears). Example 2: The sentences They saw Pat with Chris and They saw Pat and Chris are near parap ...
Innu and English Structures - Innu
... set of words that speakers combine in different ways to build sentences, or to understand other people’s sentences. It is thus not surprising that the grammars of Innu and English are alike in many ways, and we highlight these similarities in this booklet. For example, one answer to the question, “H ...
... set of words that speakers combine in different ways to build sentences, or to understand other people’s sentences. It is thus not surprising that the grammars of Innu and English are alike in many ways, and we highlight these similarities in this booklet. For example, one answer to the question, “H ...
Georgi Kapchits Sentence particles in the Somali language and their
... objective pronouns and adverbial particles. The use of objective pronouns is obligatory if there are valencies for them. The absence of the object in a position where it is syntactically necessary indicates the 3rd person singular or plural and is expressed by a zero marker (more details about this ...
... objective pronouns and adverbial particles. The use of objective pronouns is obligatory if there are valencies for them. The absence of the object in a position where it is syntactically necessary indicates the 3rd person singular or plural and is expressed by a zero marker (more details about this ...
the definition of the grammatical category in a syntactically oriented
... proposal is that relational adjectives are actually nominal projections that lack the formal features that they need to play the role of arguments of a predicate; the adjectival morpheme has the function of providing the noun with these features. We propose that the relational adjective moves to the ...
... proposal is that relational adjectives are actually nominal projections that lack the formal features that they need to play the role of arguments of a predicate; the adjectival morpheme has the function of providing the noun with these features. We propose that the relational adjective moves to the ...
Phrase particles in the Somali language
... objective pronouns and adverbial particles. The use of objective pronouns is obligatory if there are valencies for them. The absence of the object in a position where it is syntactically necessary indicates the 3rd person singular or plural and is expressed by a zero marker (more details about this ...
... objective pronouns and adverbial particles. The use of objective pronouns is obligatory if there are valencies for them. The absence of the object in a position where it is syntactically necessary indicates the 3rd person singular or plural and is expressed by a zero marker (more details about this ...
Untitled - NACCL - The Ohio State University
... 1979: 112-8; Givon, 2009; Li & Thompson, 1981; Noonan, 1985). It is hoped that the fuzzy boundary proposal of this study may help clarify this construction in Chinese grammar for language learners for their understanding and usage of this pattern. 2. Background information and data 2.1. Serial verb ...
... 1979: 112-8; Givon, 2009; Li & Thompson, 1981; Noonan, 1985). It is hoped that the fuzzy boundary proposal of this study may help clarify this construction in Chinese grammar for language learners for their understanding and usage of this pattern. 2. Background information and data 2.1. Serial verb ...
automatic prosodic sentence analysis, accentuation and phrasing
... Some syntactic information, however, is of vital importance for a correct prosodic analysis. For example, the main verb (or verb group) in a sentence must be identified. This word (group) establishes a Predicate constituent, which should correspond to a separate Phi domain (Gee and Grosjean 1983). I ...
... Some syntactic information, however, is of vital importance for a correct prosodic analysis. For example, the main verb (or verb group) in a sentence must be identified. This word (group) establishes a Predicate constituent, which should correspond to a separate Phi domain (Gee and Grosjean 1983). I ...
FreDist : Automatic construction of distributional thesauri for
... Once the corpus had been automatically annotated with lemmas, POS tags, and syntactic dependency relations between words, we extracted context relations. Although the base lexical term used in distributional lexical methods is often the inflected form or the lemma, we chose to use a base lexical ter ...
... Once the corpus had been automatically annotated with lemmas, POS tags, and syntactic dependency relations between words, we extracted context relations. Although the base lexical term used in distributional lexical methods is often the inflected form or the lemma, we chose to use a base lexical ter ...
independent clause - Blog UMY Community
... The other type of dependent clause that we are going to look at is the relative clause. It is called a relative clause because it “relates” to another word in the sentence. It is placed next to the word it relates to (or modifies) to avoid confusion. What it does is give more information about the w ...
... The other type of dependent clause that we are going to look at is the relative clause. It is called a relative clause because it “relates” to another word in the sentence. It is placed next to the word it relates to (or modifies) to avoid confusion. What it does is give more information about the w ...
Particle verbs and benefactive double objects in English: high and
... little v that takes a VP as its complement and assigns case to the direct object (Chomsky 1995). With the benefactive construction, borrowing from analyses of the betterresearched dative double object construction, the verb would select a small clause headed by a HAVE predicate; in this way, we inco ...
... little v that takes a VP as its complement and assigns case to the direct object (Chomsky 1995). With the benefactive construction, borrowing from analyses of the betterresearched dative double object construction, the verb would select a small clause headed by a HAVE predicate; in this way, we inco ...
The secret life of focus exponents, and what it tells us about fronted
... so-called meaningful expressions (semantic terms, cf. Sailer 2000) as values. The background of a sentence in De Kuthy’s approach is defined to be that part of the logical form of the sentence which is neither in focus nor in topic. This characterization of background closely resembles the definitio ...
... so-called meaningful expressions (semantic terms, cf. Sailer 2000) as values. The background of a sentence in De Kuthy’s approach is defined to be that part of the logical form of the sentence which is neither in focus nor in topic. This characterization of background closely resembles the definitio ...
a corpus-based description GLEDHILL
... constraints of natural languages. The resulting symbolic systems of science were later termed artificial languages (the term can apply to the terminology of chemistry to the notation of mathematics: Swales 1990). This term was applied later on to universal language projects, although some adherents ...
... constraints of natural languages. The resulting symbolic systems of science were later termed artificial languages (the term can apply to the terminology of chemistry to the notation of mathematics: Swales 1990). This term was applied later on to universal language projects, although some adherents ...
Final Assessment
... sentences that they themselves write. The problem, in other words, is in finding a balance between enabling the students to explain as much as possible without overloading them with too many concepts. Initially I was going to include a lot more about distinguishing finite verbs (that make sentences) ...
... sentences that they themselves write. The problem, in other words, is in finding a balance between enabling the students to explain as much as possible without overloading them with too many concepts. Initially I was going to include a lot more about distinguishing finite verbs (that make sentences) ...
文法第３課 Grammar Notes for Lesson 3
... It is also possible to use the phrase いいえ、違います。to give a negative answer in past tense. Since it is a set expression, do not try to change the tense. (Iie, chigaimashita does not exist!) ...
... It is also possible to use the phrase いいえ、違います。to give a negative answer in past tense. Since it is a set expression, do not try to change the tense. (Iie, chigaimashita does not exist!) ...
Chapter 4 Extragrammatical expression of
... evidentiality to the other TAM categories. The intricate relationship that especially involves modality does not provide conclusive results. But whatever scope of evidentiality one might have in mind, there are still significant empirical lessons that can be drawn from a comparison between what is e ...
... evidentiality to the other TAM categories. The intricate relationship that especially involves modality does not provide conclusive results. But whatever scope of evidentiality one might have in mind, there are still significant empirical lessons that can be drawn from a comparison between what is e ...