Automatic annotation of similes in literary texts
... 1.1 Stylistics and the Study of Literature The incredible power of language cannot be denied; after all, according to the JudaeoChristian tradition, each and every single little thing on Earth has been created only with words. Indeed, through language, it is possible to immerse people in fictional s ...
... 1.1 Stylistics and the Study of Literature The incredible power of language cannot be denied; after all, according to the JudaeoChristian tradition, each and every single little thing on Earth has been created only with words. Indeed, through language, it is possible to immerse people in fictional s ...
German Adverbial Adjectives: Syntactic Position
... The dissertation consists of eight chapters. In chapter 2, I explain my usage of the terms adjective, adverb and adverbial and give a short overview of the standard semantic approaches to adverbial modification. Chapter 3 aims for a classification of the different usages of adverbial adjectives with ...
... The dissertation consists of eight chapters. In chapter 2, I explain my usage of the terms adjective, adverb and adverbial and give a short overview of the standard semantic approaches to adverbial modification. Chapter 3 aims for a classification of the different usages of adverbial adjectives with ...
German Adverbial Adjectives: Syntactic Position and
... The dissertation consists of eight chapters. In chapter 2, I explain my usage of the terms adjective, adverb and adverbial and give a short overview of the standard semantic approaches to adverbial modification. Chapter 3 aims for a classification of the different usages of adverbial adjectives with ...
... The dissertation consists of eight chapters. In chapter 2, I explain my usage of the terms adjective, adverb and adverbial and give a short overview of the standard semantic approaches to adverbial modification. Chapter 3 aims for a classification of the different usages of adverbial adjectives with ...
Tracking Point of View in Narrative
... Sentence (7.2) is not a purely narrative sentence informing the reader that if Je wants to avoid notice, he must change the way he is walking. Rather, (7.2) is Je's thought expressing his goal to avoid notice, and also his belief about how to achieve it. Understanding this is necessary for the rea ...
... Sentence (7.2) is not a purely narrative sentence informing the reader that if Je wants to avoid notice, he must change the way he is walking. Rather, (7.2) is Je's thought expressing his goal to avoid notice, and also his belief about how to achieve it. Understanding this is necessary for the rea ...
A Study of Word Order Variation in German, with Special Reference
... deal with word order variation in Machine Translation. It specially refers to modifier placement, as modifiers are generally neglected in linguistic (word order) description. The order of phrases in free word order languages is not entirely free, as some variations can be ungrammatical, and further ...
... deal with word order variation in Machine Translation. It specially refers to modifier placement, as modifiers are generally neglected in linguistic (word order) description. The order of phrases in free word order languages is not entirely free, as some variations can be ungrammatical, and further ...
C. The Verb
... "Unaccusative verb | Special kind of intransitive verb. Semantically, its subject does not actively initiate or is not actively responsible for the action of the verb; rather, it has properties which it shares with the direct object of a transitive verb (or better, with the grammatical subject of it ...
... "Unaccusative verb | Special kind of intransitive verb. Semantically, its subject does not actively initiate or is not actively responsible for the action of the verb; rather, it has properties which it shares with the direct object of a transitive verb (or better, with the grammatical subject of it ...
NEW SECOND STEPS IN LATIN
... In New Second Steps, the student’s syntactical horizon expands. The various pronouns, complementary infinitives, and indirect statement make longer, more complex, and more idiomatic sentences possible. Additional genitive, dative, and ablative constructions and subordinating conjunctions also allow t ...
... In New Second Steps, the student’s syntactical horizon expands. The various pronouns, complementary infinitives, and indirect statement make longer, more complex, and more idiomatic sentences possible. Additional genitive, dative, and ablative constructions and subordinating conjunctions also allow t ...
PAYA KUNA - SIL International
... 9 BASIC HEALTH/MEDICAL DISCUSSION ............................................................................ 102 ...
... 9 BASIC HEALTH/MEDICAL DISCUSSION ............................................................................ 102 ...
Copula Variation in African American Vernacular English: an investigation... individual- and stage-level predicate hypothesis
... with the individual- and stage-level predicate distinction. We first justify a semantic approach to the variation and then examine the semantic and syntactic structure of individual- and stage-level copular predicates. We follow Kratzer (1989) in proposing that the predicates are distinguished by th ...
... with the individual- and stage-level predicate distinction. We first justify a semantic approach to the variation and then examine the semantic and syntactic structure of individual- and stage-level copular predicates. We follow Kratzer (1989) in proposing that the predicates are distinguished by th ...
1 Chinese Passives in Comparative Perspective C.
... The analysis of passive sentences is one of the most familiar topics of syntactic research. There is now a relatively uncontroversial view of how such sentences should be analyzed in English and other familiar Western languages--uncontroversial at least among researchers working within the same theo ...
... The analysis of passive sentences is one of the most familiar topics of syntactic research. There is now a relatively uncontroversial view of how such sentences should be analyzed in English and other familiar Western languages--uncontroversial at least among researchers working within the same theo ...
dissertation - VU-dare - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
... Wilbert Spooren. Gerard, thank you for introducing me to the wonderful world of metaphor and for letting me, and our team, be part of the inspiring worlds of Pragglejaz and RaAM. Your critical view on the work that I did and constructive feedback were always helpful and sometimes much-needed. Wilber ...
... Wilbert Spooren. Gerard, thank you for introducing me to the wonderful world of metaphor and for letting me, and our team, be part of the inspiring worlds of Pragglejaz and RaAM. Your critical view on the work that I did and constructive feedback were always helpful and sometimes much-needed. Wilber ...
Attention and L2 learners` segmentation of complex sentences
... ability to segment complex sentences from aural input. Elementary- and early intermediate-level L2 learners in general have not developed the ability to use syntactic cues to interpret the meaning of sentences they hear. In the case of Japanese, recognition of inflectional morphemes is crucial for t ...
... ability to segment complex sentences from aural input. Elementary- and early intermediate-level L2 learners in general have not developed the ability to use syntactic cues to interpret the meaning of sentences they hear. In the case of Japanese, recognition of inflectional morphemes is crucial for t ...
Further and Farther
... 2.1 Data extraction and sorting This comparative study of further and farther is based on two part-of-speech (POS) tagged corpora covering the period from 1473 to 1920. For the purposes of this analysis, we have chosen to focus on the diachronic competition between the two forms from 1570 to 1920, a ...
... 2.1 Data extraction and sorting This comparative study of further and farther is based on two part-of-speech (POS) tagged corpora covering the period from 1473 to 1920. For the purposes of this analysis, we have chosen to focus on the diachronic competition between the two forms from 1570 to 1920, a ...
an analysis of lexical phrases in business letters: an online business
... online Business Letter Corpus (BLC) and five selected textbooks used in Thai universities. They were analyzed in terms of form as collocations and multi-word expressions and in terms of function as politeness and as social interactional and discourse devices. The five textbooks were transcribed and ...
... online Business Letter Corpus (BLC) and five selected textbooks used in Thai universities. They were analyzed in terms of form as collocations and multi-word expressions and in terms of function as politeness and as social interactional and discourse devices. The five textbooks were transcribed and ...
the structure of complex predicates in urdu
... Constructions variously described as complex predicates, compound verbs, composite predicates, or serial verbs range across quite an impressive number of differing expressions in differing languages. As such, it is not immediately obvious how to arrive at a consistent formulation of the differences, ...
... Constructions variously described as complex predicates, compound verbs, composite predicates, or serial verbs range across quite an impressive number of differing expressions in differing languages. As such, it is not immediately obvious how to arrive at a consistent formulation of the differences, ...
On the notion of subject for subject-oriented adverbs
... notes that no combination of these properties is found to be both necessary and sufficient to identify an NP in a sentence in any language as the subject of that sentence. In this section, we look at a brief history of controversies over the conception of subject within the broad tradition of genera ...
... notes that no combination of these properties is found to be both necessary and sufficient to identify an NP in a sentence in any language as the subject of that sentence. In this section, we look at a brief history of controversies over the conception of subject within the broad tradition of genera ...
Contents of the Reference Section
... people will come to this book because they are learning English and trying to master the structure of the language. As soon as they have enough practical English to master the text, they will find this grammar helpful to them although it has been written primarily for students of advanced level. Th ...
... people will come to this book because they are learning English and trying to master the structure of the language. As soon as they have enough practical English to master the text, they will find this grammar helpful to them although it has been written primarily for students of advanced level. Th ...
Adverbs of time
... category is not as easy to define as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, since adverbs have many kinds meaning and form, and their grammar is quite complex. In meaning, adverbs express such ideas as manner, time and place (location or destination). Only manner adverbs have a recognizable form, most of the ...
... category is not as easy to define as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, since adverbs have many kinds meaning and form, and their grammar is quite complex. In meaning, adverbs express such ideas as manner, time and place (location or destination). Only manner adverbs have a recognizable form, most of the ...
Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study
... Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the ‘Brown family’ of corpora, ...
... Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the ‘Brown family’ of corpora, ...
parameters and micro-parameters in arabic sentence structure
... In particular, the essential architecture of sentences expressing the dependency relations verbs and associated elements have with the 'functional' portion of sentences (i.e., tense/modality properties) is universal in that these dependency relations will be expressed on the basis of the same featur ...
... In particular, the essential architecture of sentences expressing the dependency relations verbs and associated elements have with the 'functional' portion of sentences (i.e., tense/modality properties) is universal in that these dependency relations will be expressed on the basis of the same featur ...
CONJUNCTIONS AND GRAMMATICAL AGREEMENT WHEN
... Corpus data and sentence production experiments were used to test hypotheses about the mechanisms involved in producing agreement. A search of American English sentences from the World Wide Web revealed that speakers often produce singular verbs with conjoined subjects (28% singular verbs overall), ...
... Corpus data and sentence production experiments were used to test hypotheses about the mechanisms involved in producing agreement. A search of American English sentences from the World Wide Web revealed that speakers often produce singular verbs with conjoined subjects (28% singular verbs overall), ...
table of contents - Università degli Studi di Verona
... deverbal nominals in a framework of decompositional lexical semantics. Specifically, this research, which is placed against the theoretical background of generative morphology, rests on groundwork laid in recent years by Lieber and Baayen (1997; 1999) and Lieber (2003), and in the more elaborated ve ...
... deverbal nominals in a framework of decompositional lexical semantics. Specifically, this research, which is placed against the theoretical background of generative morphology, rests on groundwork laid in recent years by Lieber and Baayen (1997; 1999) and Lieber (2003), and in the more elaborated ve ...
Yegana Baghirova MA thesis - Khazar University Institutional
... imperative sentences, e.g. Be attentive!), but such phrases also may start with a complement such as an adverb (for instance, in the imperative sentences, e.g. Really be attentive!). There is no exact rule about a verb phrase which should be preceded by the particle to or a complement as an adverb. ...
... imperative sentences, e.g. Be attentive!), but such phrases also may start with a complement such as an adverb (for instance, in the imperative sentences, e.g. Really be attentive!). There is no exact rule about a verb phrase which should be preceded by the particle to or a complement as an adverb. ...
Theoretical Approaches to Locative Inversion
... In addition to the linear reversal, locative inversion is often thought of as a process that reverses the grammatical relations of the participants. Evidence for this comes from agreement, as shown by the example above: After reversal, the theme tsîme no longer triggers subject agreement. It is now ...
... In addition to the linear reversal, locative inversion is often thought of as a process that reverses the grammatical relations of the participants. Evidence for this comes from agreement, as shown by the example above: After reversal, the theme tsîme no longer triggers subject agreement. It is now ...
Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog
... properties in Tagalog is due to the Actor’s semantic and pragmatic prominence, together with the fact that non-subject Actors are always terms (non-oblique arguments) in Tagalog, unlike passive agents in English. Evidence is presented which shows that the nominative argument does not have the proper ...
... properties in Tagalog is due to the Actor’s semantic and pragmatic prominence, together with the fact that non-subject Actors are always terms (non-oblique arguments) in Tagalog, unlike passive agents in English. Evidence is presented which shows that the nominative argument does not have the proper ...