The morphological family size effect and morphology
... of reaction time in visual lexical decision and the count of family members in the by-item analysis. Furthermore, semantic selection restrictions on the afxation of -heid were observed to determine which family members contribute to the Family Size effect. In the present paper, further evidence for ...
... of reaction time in visual lexical decision and the count of family members in the by-item analysis. Furthermore, semantic selection restrictions on the afxation of -heid were observed to determine which family members contribute to the Family Size effect. In the present paper, further evidence for ...
Orf, Amy - Ohio State University Knowledge Bank
... verb an auxiliary of the progressive, another author will state specifically that it is not an auxiliary. A few scholars argue that auxiliaries don't even exist, that they are only main verbs. Heine finds that auxiliaries cannot be completely distinguished from main verbs, but that a continuum, or " ...
... verb an auxiliary of the progressive, another author will state specifically that it is not an auxiliary. A few scholars argue that auxiliaries don't even exist, that they are only main verbs. Heine finds that auxiliaries cannot be completely distinguished from main verbs, but that a continuum, or " ...
A Grammatical Description of Dameli Emil Perder
... recorded texts and word lists, but questionnaires and paradigms of word forms have also been used. The main emphasis is on describing the features of the language as they appear in texts and other material, rather than on conforming them to any theory, but the analysis is informed by functional anal ...
... recorded texts and word lists, but questionnaires and paradigms of word forms have also been used. The main emphasis is on describing the features of the language as they appear in texts and other material, rather than on conforming them to any theory, but the analysis is informed by functional anal ...
Syntactic overview
... a clause, as the term ‘consists of ’ is used in constituent structure analysis of the type introduced in Ch. 1, §4.2. There is no basis for postulating any singulary branching here, with the clause functioning as head of the sentence. This is why our tree diagram for the example A bird hit the car h ...
... a clause, as the term ‘consists of ’ is used in constituent structure analysis of the type introduced in Ch. 1, §4.2. There is no basis for postulating any singulary branching here, with the clause functioning as head of the sentence. This is why our tree diagram for the example A bird hit the car h ...
The Science of Scientific Writing Writing with the Reader in Mind
... The inclination to direct more energy to that which arrives last in a sentence seems to correspond to the way we work at tasks through time. We tend to take something like a "mental breath" as we begin to read each new sentence, thereby summoning the tension with which we pay attention to the unfold ...
... The inclination to direct more energy to that which arrives last in a sentence seems to correspond to the way we work at tasks through time. We tend to take something like a "mental breath" as we begin to read each new sentence, thereby summoning the tension with which we pay attention to the unfold ...
Where does heteroclisis come from? Evidence from Romanian
... is ‘morphomic’ in the sense of Aronoff (1994), being sensitive to arrays of paradigmatic cells which are not reducible to any common semantic or grammatical function. Most importantly, the relevant arrays of cells have, over and over again in the history of Romanian, been the locus of other major in ...
... is ‘morphomic’ in the sense of Aronoff (1994), being sensitive to arrays of paradigmatic cells which are not reducible to any common semantic or grammatical function. Most importantly, the relevant arrays of cells have, over and over again in the history of Romanian, been the locus of other major in ...
A Brief History of Icelandic Weather Verbs
... A Brief History of Icelandic Weather Verbs∗ Syntax, Semantics and Argument Structure Thórhallur Eythórsson and Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir University of Iceland and Ghent University Weather verbs in Icelandic are not “no-argument” predicates, but occur with a quasi-argument (non-referential pro) a ...
... A Brief History of Icelandic Weather Verbs∗ Syntax, Semantics and Argument Structure Thórhallur Eythórsson and Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir University of Iceland and Ghent University Weather verbs in Icelandic are not “no-argument” predicates, but occur with a quasi-argument (non-referential pro) a ...
Participles, gerunds and syntactic categories
... grammatical category: it is possible to define a category that shares some features with nouns and some with verbs, without requiring it to be fully one or the other. Within LFG, there is no concept of intermediate categories: there is a finite inventory of distinct lexical categories, and every le ...
... grammatical category: it is possible to define a category that shares some features with nouns and some with verbs, without requiring it to be fully one or the other. Within LFG, there is no concept of intermediate categories: there is a finite inventory of distinct lexical categories, and every le ...
A Grammar for Finnish Discourse Patterns
... The article is organized as follows. I will first review Vilkuna’s discourse configuration for simple transitive sentences and discuss its relation to the information structure. This is followed by a short introduction to HPSG, the LKB formalism, and typed feature-structures. I will then present the ...
... The article is organized as follows. I will first review Vilkuna’s discourse configuration for simple transitive sentences and discuss its relation to the information structure. This is followed by a short introduction to HPSG, the LKB formalism, and typed feature-structures. I will then present the ...
The Category of Participles
... It is possible that other adjectival positions are sensitive to the state–event distinction as well, for example secondary predicates (see Embick 2004 for discussion). To summarize, above I have shown with the help of morphological and distributional diagnostics that so called "verbal" and "adjectiv ...
... It is possible that other adjectival positions are sensitive to the state–event distinction as well, for example secondary predicates (see Embick 2004 for discussion). To summarize, above I have shown with the help of morphological and distributional diagnostics that so called "verbal" and "adjectiv ...
TENSE, ASPECT AND MOOD IN MESQAN MESERET ESHETU A
... First and for most, I thank the almighty God for granting me tolerance and strength so that I accomplish this study. Secondly, my deepest gratitude goes to my advisor Dr. Ronny Meyer, who gave me constructive criticisms and invaluable comments on each sections of the thesis starting from the proposa ...
... First and for most, I thank the almighty God for granting me tolerance and strength so that I accomplish this study. Secondly, my deepest gratitude goes to my advisor Dr. Ronny Meyer, who gave me constructive criticisms and invaluable comments on each sections of the thesis starting from the proposa ...
A semantic analysis of the verbal prefix o(b)- in Croatian
... on a surface; and 4) being encompassed by an action or brought into a state.8 The link between these meanings is not indicated, although some obvious relations can be established on the basis of the definition. For example, meanings 1 and 4 seem to be related because they both imply "encompassing." ...
... on a surface; and 4) being encompassed by an action or brought into a state.8 The link between these meanings is not indicated, although some obvious relations can be established on the basis of the definition. For example, meanings 1 and 4 seem to be related because they both imply "encompassing." ...
Prepositions TIME and PLACE
... argue about a matter, with a person, for or against a proposition compare to to show likenesses, with to show differences (sometimes similarities) correspond to a thing, with a person differ from an unlike thing, with a person live at an address, in a house or city, on a street, with other people ...
... argue about a matter, with a person, for or against a proposition compare to to show likenesses, with to show differences (sometimes similarities) correspond to a thing, with a person differ from an unlike thing, with a person live at an address, in a house or city, on a street, with other people ...
Appendix to “Measuring Central Bank
... phrases, the first highlighting moderation of long-term inflationary expectations, and the second pointing to current inflationary pressures. By inspection, each raw phrase in this sentence has a different degree of “hawkishness”, and, by cutting it at the comma, we can separately assign scores to e ...
... phrases, the first highlighting moderation of long-term inflationary expectations, and the second pointing to current inflationary pressures. By inspection, each raw phrase in this sentence has a different degree of “hawkishness”, and, by cutting it at the comma, we can separately assign scores to e ...
French Verbs booklet - Frederick Bremer School
... Use it whenever you are preparing speaking and writing for Controlled Assessments to be more accurate and to vary your language more and impress the examiner and achieve a better grade! 1. Personal Pronouns – This is the first thing you need to know before anything else about verbs. The personal pro ...
... Use it whenever you are preparing speaking and writing for Controlled Assessments to be more accurate and to vary your language more and impress the examiner and achieve a better grade! 1. Personal Pronouns – This is the first thing you need to know before anything else about verbs. The personal pro ...
Any student of Russian as a foreign language has been faced with
... suffixes involved are (hard and soft variants) -yvaj-/-ivaj-, -vaj-, and the unproductive -aj(Tikhonov, 1998: 18). Imperfectivization always forms pure aspectual pairs, because, unlike prefixes, the suffixes cannot change the lexical meaning. Continuing with the perfective verb razbit’, the imperfec ...
... suffixes involved are (hard and soft variants) -yvaj-/-ivaj-, -vaj-, and the unproductive -aj(Tikhonov, 1998: 18). Imperfectivization always forms pure aspectual pairs, because, unlike prefixes, the suffixes cannot change the lexical meaning. Continuing with the perfective verb razbit’, the imperfec ...
Constructing grammatical meaning
... reflexive morpheme. This meaning has been understood in terms of reconfiguring the agent–patient relations captured in the semantic valence of verbs. A purely semantic account, organized around the concept of self-affectedness, has been proposed by Janda (1993). Similar in spirit is also the approach a ...
... reflexive morpheme. This meaning has been understood in terms of reconfiguring the agent–patient relations captured in the semantic valence of verbs. A purely semantic account, organized around the concept of self-affectedness, has been proposed by Janda (1993). Similar in spirit is also the approach a ...
3 `Derivational verbs` and other multiple
... which has been transcribed (see Awetí Documentation in the references). A major part of the transcribed texts has also been translated. In the transcribed texts, I found more than 900 occurrences of gerund forms (and more than 200 of semantically similar purposive forms). For this study I analyzed a ...
... which has been transcribed (see Awetí Documentation in the references). A major part of the transcribed texts has also been translated. In the transcribed texts, I found more than 900 occurrences of gerund forms (and more than 200 of semantically similar purposive forms). For this study I analyzed a ...
Resulting States in Niuean
... While it is true that ma-words can modify nouns, as might be expected of participles, this is not an argument for participle status, as this is the case for regular verbs as well in Niuean (Sperlich 1997:16). This is due to the fact that generally, there is no clear part-of-speech “adjective” in Niu ...
... While it is true that ma-words can modify nouns, as might be expected of participles, this is not an argument for participle status, as this is the case for regular verbs as well in Niuean (Sperlich 1997:16). This is due to the fact that generally, there is no clear part-of-speech “adjective” in Niu ...
Remarks on Nominalizationl
... features. The nonterminal vocabulary of the context-free grammar is drawn from a universal and rather limited vocabulary, some aspects of which will be considered below. The context-free grammar generates phrase-Markers, with a dummy symbol as one of the terminal elements. A general principle of lex ...
... features. The nonterminal vocabulary of the context-free grammar is drawn from a universal and rather limited vocabulary, some aspects of which will be considered below. The context-free grammar generates phrase-Markers, with a dummy symbol as one of the terminal elements. A general principle of lex ...
untangling the russian predicate agreement
... (2003) propose a theory of agreement based on the distinction between CONCORD and INDEX agreement (Wechsler and Zlatic 2000, 2003; King and Dalrymple 2004). An agreement trigger such as a noun or pronoun carries both CONCORD and INDEX agreement feature sets, which are understood as grammaticalizatio ...
... (2003) propose a theory of agreement based on the distinction between CONCORD and INDEX agreement (Wechsler and Zlatic 2000, 2003; King and Dalrymple 2004). An agreement trigger such as a noun or pronoun carries both CONCORD and INDEX agreement feature sets, which are understood as grammaticalizatio ...
Chapter six - UNT Department of English
... THEME, while the single NP accompanying the verb dream must be an EXPERIENCER. Technically, meaningful roles like AGENT and EXPERIENCER are known as thematic roles, roles for short. - roles are part of the speakers lexical knowledge. In other words, the speakers lexiconan expanded mental dictio ...
... THEME, while the single NP accompanying the verb dream must be an EXPERIENCER. Technically, meaningful roles like AGENT and EXPERIENCER are known as thematic roles, roles for short. - roles are part of the speakers lexical knowledge. In other words, the speakers lexiconan expanded mental dictio ...
Grammar - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... 9. Then he saw his classroom. 10. Bright and sunny. 11. Made friends. 12. Peter had a lot of fun. 13. Peter’s new teacher. ...
... 9. Then he saw his classroom. 10. Bright and sunny. 11. Made friends. 12. Peter had a lot of fun. 13. Peter’s new teacher. ...
ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION FOR CLASS SIX
... i) (Cat/Cats) are domestic (animal/animals). (It/they) are fond of fish. j) (Vulture/Vultures) eat dead (animal/animals). (It/they) are very far-sighted. 2. Correct the errors in the following sentences: a) The book contain many interesting illustration. b) English is one of most important language ...
... i) (Cat/Cats) are domestic (animal/animals). (It/they) are fond of fish. j) (Vulture/Vultures) eat dead (animal/animals). (It/they) are very far-sighted. 2. Correct the errors in the following sentences: a) The book contain many interesting illustration. b) English is one of most important language ...
EXP Grammar Tutor 1 - 2
... can be used with the verb to be to say what someone or something is like. Robert is tall. (Robert is a noun; tall is an adjective.) That pretty girl is also tall. (girl is a noun; pretty and tall are adjectives.) The teachers are funny and friendly. They are all tall as well. (teachers is a noun; fu ...
... can be used with the verb to be to say what someone or something is like. Robert is tall. (Robert is a noun; tall is an adjective.) That pretty girl is also tall. (girl is a noun; pretty and tall are adjectives.) The teachers are funny and friendly. They are all tall as well. (teachers is a noun; fu ...