Lexically Specific Verb Information - D-Scholarship@Pitt
... ambiguity following the verb. This ambiguity can cause problems for a listener or reader. If the comprehender perceives “eat” in version (1b) to be used transitively, he or she will be ‘gardenpathed’ when he encounters “may be missing …”, requiring revision to his or her initial understanding of the ...
... ambiguity following the verb. This ambiguity can cause problems for a listener or reader. If the comprehender perceives “eat” in version (1b) to be used transitively, he or she will be ‘gardenpathed’ when he encounters “may be missing …”, requiring revision to his or her initial understanding of the ...
noun
... Notice that nouns often make their plurals by adding an s, but verbs don’t. Why is this important? Because each sentence must be either about one thing or about more than one thing, and if the noun is singular but the verb is plural, then we can not tell! The number must show. Future verb tenses, ho ...
... Notice that nouns often make their plurals by adding an s, but verbs don’t. Why is this important? Because each sentence must be either about one thing or about more than one thing, and if the noun is singular but the verb is plural, then we can not tell! The number must show. Future verb tenses, ho ...
spanish iii review guide for final exam
... world (note that “experience” includes things one “knows” indirectly through books, TV, other people, etc.). She uses the subjunctive to talk about actions and events that she regards as being in some way doubtful, uncertain, not factual, even impossible – i.e., actions and events that belong to the ...
... world (note that “experience” includes things one “knows” indirectly through books, TV, other people, etc.). She uses the subjunctive to talk about actions and events that she regards as being in some way doubtful, uncertain, not factual, even impossible – i.e., actions and events that belong to the ...
By Peter Ryan 2008 - Affiliates Marketing Solutions
... Note: They are usually nouns, but some homophones and homonyms can be verbs e.g. Cent (noun) and sent (verb) “The boy sent (verb) a 10 cent (noun) piece to his mother by mail. Usually, homophones are in groups of two (our, hour), but very occasionally they can be in groups of three (to, too, two) or ...
... Note: They are usually nouns, but some homophones and homonyms can be verbs e.g. Cent (noun) and sent (verb) “The boy sent (verb) a 10 cent (noun) piece to his mother by mail. Usually, homophones are in groups of two (our, hour), but very occasionally they can be in groups of three (to, too, two) or ...
Linguistic Models - Geert Booij`s Page
... structure, with two arguments, usually called Agent and Theme. The differences in the syntactic realization of these arguments are determined by independent syntactic principles: (Ib) is ungrammatical because the nominal head refusal does not assign case to postnominal complements (and hence they ha ...
... structure, with two arguments, usually called Agent and Theme. The differences in the syntactic realization of these arguments are determined by independent syntactic principles: (Ib) is ungrammatical because the nominal head refusal does not assign case to postnominal complements (and hence they ha ...
THE PASSIVE VOICE
... weary of this accusation), who use the passive voice to avoid responsibility for actions taken. Thus "Cigarette ads were designed to appeal especially to children" places the burden on the ads — as opposed to "We designed the cigarette ads to appeal especially to children," in which "we" accepts res ...
... weary of this accusation), who use the passive voice to avoid responsibility for actions taken. Thus "Cigarette ads were designed to appeal especially to children" places the burden on the ads — as opposed to "We designed the cigarette ads to appeal especially to children," in which "we" accepts res ...
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
... Americans really only use four of these: AND, BUT, OR and SO. The British use YET (meaning "but"), and NOR from time to time, but not very often. Unfortunately, you will probably see these conjunctions on standardized exams such as the CPT (College Placement Test), the CLAST (College Level Academics ...
... Americans really only use four of these: AND, BUT, OR and SO. The British use YET (meaning "but"), and NOR from time to time, but not very often. Unfortunately, you will probably see these conjunctions on standardized exams such as the CPT (College Placement Test), the CLAST (College Level Academics ...
Jorge Baptista1,2, Ilia Markov1,2,3 1 Universidade do Algarve, Faro
... Thus, this work will target different complex relations that, in the framework of Harris (1991) here adopted, may also have a transformational status, besides their historical (diachronic) nature. One of the motivations for this work is to automatically extract from texts part-whole relations (also ...
... Thus, this work will target different complex relations that, in the framework of Harris (1991) here adopted, may also have a transformational status, besides their historical (diachronic) nature. One of the motivations for this work is to automatically extract from texts part-whole relations (also ...
Gene Interaction Extraction from Biomedical Texts by Sentence Skeletonization
... Proximity assumption. Due to declared operation atomicity, the word sequence is never seen as a whole, but always locally. As a result, especially conjunction words may be ambiguous: being given only the immediate neighborhood, it may by hard to determine, what subsequences of the sentence actually ...
... Proximity assumption. Due to declared operation atomicity, the word sequence is never seen as a whole, but always locally. As a result, especially conjunction words may be ambiguous: being given only the immediate neighborhood, it may by hard to determine, what subsequences of the sentence actually ...
El Primer Paso - La clase de Español de Sra. Simpson
... ______ using SER with adjectives ______ gender and number noun/adjective agreement ______ questioning techniques: questions words, using inflection (tone of voice), and inversion (swapping order of subject+verb) ______ nouns and definite articles (the words that mean “the”) ______ using GUSTAR to ta ...
... ______ using SER with adjectives ______ gender and number noun/adjective agreement ______ questioning techniques: questions words, using inflection (tone of voice), and inversion (swapping order of subject+verb) ______ nouns and definite articles (the words that mean “the”) ______ using GUSTAR to ta ...
Unit-4: Difficulties of Translating from English to Odia
... mouse, keyboard, Facebook etc. This is being done in all the languages. The main purpose of all translation is to transfer the sense or meaning. Word is only a means to reach that end. Culture-specific terms Culture-specific terms are also equally difficult to translate because a word is meaningful ...
... mouse, keyboard, Facebook etc. This is being done in all the languages. The main purpose of all translation is to transfer the sense or meaning. Word is only a means to reach that end. Culture-specific terms Culture-specific terms are also equally difficult to translate because a word is meaningful ...
Noun incorporation and transitivity in Soninke (West Mande)
... Soninke (sòonìnkànqánnè), spoken by approximately 2 million speakers living mainly in Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, and The Gambia, belongs to the Soninke-Bozo sub-branch of the western branch of the Mande language family. Soninke does not have a standard variety. The data analyzed in this paper is fro ...
... Soninke (sòonìnkànqánnè), spoken by approximately 2 million speakers living mainly in Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, and The Gambia, belongs to the Soninke-Bozo sub-branch of the western branch of the Mande language family. Soninke does not have a standard variety. The data analyzed in this paper is fro ...
+ infinitive
... There are still other nouns which do not admit of an infinitive as post-modifier; a "preposition + -ing" is normally used, e.g. There is no hope of winning the game. ...
... There are still other nouns which do not admit of an infinitive as post-modifier; a "preposition + -ing" is normally used, e.g. There is no hope of winning the game. ...
JoL-submission #1016 - Munin
... Aktionsart. The relevant data are presented in §3, where we present contrasts in Spanish and other Indoeuropean languages showing that with a specific set of nominalizers, an AS-nominalization must always denote a part of the aspectual information contained in the Aktionsart of the base verb. This g ...
... Aktionsart. The relevant data are presented in §3, where we present contrasts in Spanish and other Indoeuropean languages showing that with a specific set of nominalizers, an AS-nominalization must always denote a part of the aspectual information contained in the Aktionsart of the base verb. This g ...
independent clause
... I love living in the city. I have a wonderful view of the entire city. I have an apartment. I can see the Golden Gate Bridge. I can see many cargo ships pass under the bridge each day. I like the restaurants in San Francisco. I can find ...
... I love living in the city. I have a wonderful view of the entire city. I have an apartment. I can see the Golden Gate Bridge. I can see many cargo ships pass under the bridge each day. I like the restaurants in San Francisco. I can find ...
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses -- Debate
... Let me give some examples. One type of amplifying clause is that which amplifies an adjective that precedes the antecedent noun. Such clauses are mildly redundant and are very common in speech and informal writing. Some examples from students: ...
... Let me give some examples. One type of amplifying clause is that which amplifies an adjective that precedes the antecedent noun. Such clauses are mildly redundant and are very common in speech and informal writing. Some examples from students: ...
Grammars, Words, and Embodied Meanings: On the Uses and
... They’re like “Stick this card into this machine and . . . .” In combination with something, like can be used to append various kinds of components to units of talk, as Examples 9 and 10 illustrate. Example 9. or something like that Example 10. something like “Now it’s finally over.” Each time, then, ...
... They’re like “Stick this card into this machine and . . . .” In combination with something, like can be used to append various kinds of components to units of talk, as Examples 9 and 10 illustrate. Example 9. or something like that Example 10. something like “Now it’s finally over.” Each time, then, ...
essential grammatical features of jaminjung and ngaliwurru
... both the so-called ‘discontinuous noun phrases’, and the lack of a distinction between nouns and adjectives, can be accounted for. For Jaminjung, several phenomena suggest the existence of a weakly grammaticalised phrasal category ‘noun phrase’. However, this term will be restricted to nominal const ...
... both the so-called ‘discontinuous noun phrases’, and the lack of a distinction between nouns and adjectives, can be accounted for. For Jaminjung, several phenomena suggest the existence of a weakly grammaticalised phrasal category ‘noun phrase’. However, this term will be restricted to nominal const ...
Distributional Parts of Speech
... considered as LACKING CATEGORIALITY completely unless nounhood or verbhood is forced on them by their discourse functions. To the extent that forms can be said to have an a-priori existence outside of discourse, they are characterizable as ACATEGORIAL” (Hopper & Traugott 1984: 747). According to Dix ...
... considered as LACKING CATEGORIALITY completely unless nounhood or verbhood is forced on them by their discourse functions. To the extent that forms can be said to have an a-priori existence outside of discourse, they are characterizable as ACATEGORIAL” (Hopper & Traugott 1984: 747). According to Dix ...
CHAPTER 6 | Instead of Nouns: Pronouns
... Words like τον or him are typical pronouns. They always need a point of reference outside them in order for one to get their actual meaning. This point of reference may be inside the text like in sentence 1, or outside it. The blue “I” in the second line of this page (no, it’s not a misprint) and th ...
... Words like τον or him are typical pronouns. They always need a point of reference outside them in order for one to get their actual meaning. This point of reference may be inside the text like in sentence 1, or outside it. The blue “I” in the second line of this page (no, it’s not a misprint) and th ...
From word to sentence
... More recently, Greenberg observed that Indo-European belongs to a bigger Eurasiatic superfamily, which also includes the Ural-Altaic languages and may stretch as far east as Japan. It is not so easy to find recognizably related words belonging to members of this superfamily, except for later borrowi ...
... More recently, Greenberg observed that Indo-European belongs to a bigger Eurasiatic superfamily, which also includes the Ural-Altaic languages and may stretch as far east as Japan. It is not so easy to find recognizably related words belonging to members of this superfamily, except for later borrowi ...
Grammar Conjunctions - Neshaminy School District
... complete thought. A list of dependent clauses is treated like any other list of equivalent elements. (See “Items in a List” above.) Independent Clauses: An independent clause contains a subject and a verb and is complete standing by itself. When connecting two independent clauses, a coordinating con ...
... complete thought. A list of dependent clauses is treated like any other list of equivalent elements. (See “Items in a List” above.) Independent Clauses: An independent clause contains a subject and a verb and is complete standing by itself. When connecting two independent clauses, a coordinating con ...
TRANSFORMATIONAL- GENERATIVE SYNTAX AND THE TEACHING OF SENTENCE MECHANICS
... transform them into the corresponding b sentences-that is, into the tagquestions. Writing instructors can readily demonstrate this both to themselves and to their students by reading the a sentences in class and having their students orally produce the corresponding tag-questions. But how is it poss ...
... transform them into the corresponding b sentences-that is, into the tagquestions. Writing instructors can readily demonstrate this both to themselves and to their students by reading the a sentences in class and having their students orally produce the corresponding tag-questions. But how is it poss ...
docsymp: graduate students` first linguistics symposium
... and CONTEXT. The value of the CATEGORY feature is a feature structure that contains mainly syntactic information. For instance the HEAD feature gets the values that are shared with the mother node. The detailed description of the HEAD feature structure can be omitted here. The valence features list ...
... and CONTEXT. The value of the CATEGORY feature is a feature structure that contains mainly syntactic information. For instance the HEAD feature gets the values that are shared with the mother node. The detailed description of the HEAD feature structure can be omitted here. The valence features list ...