the structure of auxiliaries within the complex verbal groups
... know, every Verbal Group (excepting the elliptical ones) contains a lexical verb as its Head. Lexical verbs are those verbs which belong to the general vocabulary of a language. The lexical Head always appears last in the Verbal Groups. The lexical Head Verb may or may not be modified by auxiliary v ...
... know, every Verbal Group (excepting the elliptical ones) contains a lexical verb as its Head. Lexical verbs are those verbs which belong to the general vocabulary of a language. The lexical Head always appears last in the Verbal Groups. The lexical Head Verb may or may not be modified by auxiliary v ...
Grammar by STAAR-light - Priceless Literacy
... of the bestpreserved legal documents from ancient times. C Hammurabi wasn’t the first ruler to establish a system of laws, but by inscribing his code in stone, he left modern archaeologists with one of the bestpreserved legal documents from ancient times. ...
... of the bestpreserved legal documents from ancient times. C Hammurabi wasn’t the first ruler to establish a system of laws, but by inscribing his code in stone, he left modern archaeologists with one of the bestpreserved legal documents from ancient times. ...
large lexicons for natural language processing
... the complexity of the data structures stored on disc should not be constrained in any way by the method of access, as we do not have a very clear idea what form the restructured dictionary may eventually take. Given that we were targeting all envisaged access routes from LDOCE to systems implemented ...
... the complexity of the data structures stored on disc should not be constrained in any way by the method of access, as we do not have a very clear idea what form the restructured dictionary may eventually take. Given that we were targeting all envisaged access routes from LDOCE to systems implemented ...
On the Linguistic Notion of Transitivity:
... not totally arbitrary. On the other hand, languages differ as to how to categorize predicates like resemble in (7) and dread in (8). English formally identifies them with the transitive usage of break, so that nuances in meaning are not reflected at surface. However, this is where many languages sho ...
... not totally arbitrary. On the other hand, languages differ as to how to categorize predicates like resemble in (7) and dread in (8). English formally identifies them with the transitive usage of break, so that nuances in meaning are not reflected at surface. However, this is where many languages sho ...
The SAT Essay * First Impression
... • Since all phrases require two or more words, a participle phrase will often include objects and/or modifiers that complete the thought. Here are some examples: • Crunching caramel corn for the entire movie • Washed with soap and water • Stuck in the back of the closet behind the ...
... • Since all phrases require two or more words, a participle phrase will often include objects and/or modifiers that complete the thought. Here are some examples: • Crunching caramel corn for the entire movie • Washed with soap and water • Stuck in the back of the closet behind the ...
Grammatical Voice in French
... The goal of this paper is, paradoxically, very modest and very ambitious at the same time. Modest, because it does not claim a new discovery or even a new theory; based on well-known facts, I propose an answer to a seemingly innocuous question: How many grammatical voices does French have and what e ...
... The goal of this paper is, paradoxically, very modest and very ambitious at the same time. Modest, because it does not claim a new discovery or even a new theory; based on well-known facts, I propose an answer to a seemingly innocuous question: How many grammatical voices does French have and what e ...
action verb
... • An action verb may also have an indirect object. • An indirect object answers the question to whom? or for whom? after the action verb. Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. ...
... • An action verb may also have an indirect object. • An indirect object answers the question to whom? or for whom? after the action verb. Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. ...
5th inaugral lecture - Copy - National Open University of Nigeria
... contain the verbal base alone or verbal base and the complement(s). This complement could either be direct, indirect, circumstantial etc. In their opinion, each sentence must have basic structure and it is to this basic structure that one could add either complements or adjuncts. These complements o ...
... contain the verbal base alone or verbal base and the complement(s). This complement could either be direct, indirect, circumstantial etc. In their opinion, each sentence must have basic structure and it is to this basic structure that one could add either complements or adjuncts. These complements o ...
Irregular Verbs
... including the three main ones: do, be, and have. Sometimes actions or conditions occur only one time and then they’re over. It’s at times like these that some of the same verbs that are used as auxiliary verbs are instead used as action or linking verbs. In this example, we see the word “is”. This i ...
... including the three main ones: do, be, and have. Sometimes actions or conditions occur only one time and then they’re over. It’s at times like these that some of the same verbs that are used as auxiliary verbs are instead used as action or linking verbs. In this example, we see the word “is”. This i ...
Douglas L. Rideout: Auxiliary Selection in 16th Century French
... generalised the use of the auxiliary avoir for all intransitive and reflexive / pronominal verbs. 4 Another area where regional variation becomes apparent is the attacks launched against certain period grammarians based on regional origins. These critiques emanate mainly from Henri and Robert Estien ...
... generalised the use of the auxiliary avoir for all intransitive and reflexive / pronominal verbs. 4 Another area where regional variation becomes apparent is the attacks launched against certain period grammarians based on regional origins. These critiques emanate mainly from Henri and Robert Estien ...
Auxiliary Selection in 16th Century French: Imposing Norms
... generalised the use of the auxiliary avoir for all intransitive and reflexive / pronominal verbs. 4 Another area where regional variation becomes apparent is the attacks launched against certain period grammarians based on regional origins. These critiques emanate mainly from Henri and Robert Estien ...
... generalised the use of the auxiliary avoir for all intransitive and reflexive / pronominal verbs. 4 Another area where regional variation becomes apparent is the attacks launched against certain period grammarians based on regional origins. These critiques emanate mainly from Henri and Robert Estien ...
On Tense and Copular Verbs in Sakha
... Vinokurova 2005 therefore gives this pattern a theoretical interpretation, taking it as support for a theory of the lexical category distinctions that is different from that of Baker 2003. Baker claimed that verbs are the only intrinsic predicates among the lexical categories of a natural language; ...
... Vinokurova 2005 therefore gives this pattern a theoretical interpretation, taking it as support for a theory of the lexical category distinctions that is different from that of Baker 2003. Baker claimed that verbs are the only intrinsic predicates among the lexical categories of a natural language; ...
Lesson 8 Nouns
... Hong Kong basketball team coach (we can have more than one “noun as adjective”; here Hong Kong, basketball and team are all “nouns as adjective,” describing coach.) ...
... Hong Kong basketball team coach (we can have more than one “noun as adjective”; here Hong Kong, basketball and team are all “nouns as adjective,” describing coach.) ...
Mnemonic Songs Memory-Boosting
... hen we began team teaching, we wanted to meet the auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning styles of our students. We discovered that a combination of music, print, and movement turned out to be effective. Over the years, we’ve taught students in all elementary grades, as well as multiage groups, ...
... hen we began team teaching, we wanted to meet the auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning styles of our students. We discovered that a combination of music, print, and movement turned out to be effective. Over the years, we’ve taught students in all elementary grades, as well as multiage groups, ...
English modal verbs - Basic Knowledge 101
... The modals can and could are from Old English can(n) Modals can appear in tag questions and other elliptical and cuþ, which were respectively present and preterite sentences without the governed verb being expressed: forms of the verb cunnan (“to be able”). The silent l in ...can he?; I mustn't.; Wo ...
... The modals can and could are from Old English can(n) Modals can appear in tag questions and other elliptical and cuþ, which were respectively present and preterite sentences without the governed verb being expressed: forms of the verb cunnan (“to be able”). The silent l in ...can he?; I mustn't.; Wo ...
Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Experienced writers
... C, "Alejandro played football" because, possibly, he didn't have anything else to do, for or because "Maria went shopping." How can the use of other coordinators change the relationship between the two clauses? What implications would the use of "yet" or "but" have on the meaning of the sentence? CO ...
... C, "Alejandro played football" because, possibly, he didn't have anything else to do, for or because "Maria went shopping." How can the use of other coordinators change the relationship between the two clauses? What implications would the use of "yet" or "but" have on the meaning of the sentence? CO ...
湖南省第一师范学院外语系备课用纸
... He arrived at London where he was met by his friend. or to avoid the subject being top-heavy. The picture was painted by a very good friend of mine whom I'd like you to meet sometime. 2) Voice constraints Not all the active sentences can be made passive. Some transitive or stative verbs, for example ...
... He arrived at London where he was met by his friend. or to avoid the subject being top-heavy. The picture was painted by a very good friend of mine whom I'd like you to meet sometime. 2) Voice constraints Not all the active sentences can be made passive. Some transitive or stative verbs, for example ...
Click to Octopodes
... matters; dangling modifiers and ambiguous reference can occur when phrases are moved too far away from whatever it is they are supposed to modify. One of the ways we enhance the beauty of our language is by arranging phrases in similar ways, creating parallel structure. The important thing to rememb ...
... matters; dangling modifiers and ambiguous reference can occur when phrases are moved too far away from whatever it is they are supposed to modify. One of the ways we enhance the beauty of our language is by arranging phrases in similar ways, creating parallel structure. The important thing to rememb ...
cumulative - Villa Walsh Academy
... – Begin with a relative pronoun (who, whom, whose, which, that) or relative adverb (where, when) – Have a subject and a verb – Modify nouns and pronouns – “That” is restrictive; “which” is usually nonrestrictive ...
... – Begin with a relative pronoun (who, whom, whose, which, that) or relative adverb (where, when) – Have a subject and a verb – Modify nouns and pronouns – “That” is restrictive; “which” is usually nonrestrictive ...
a Brazilian treebank annotated with semantic role labels
... Portuguese may be conveyed by different verbs in English. A problem we faced is related to arguments not predicted in the near synonym roleset in English. For example, the verb “relinquish” is the better synonym for “renunciar”, but in Portuguese it is frequent to find a beneficiary (somebody in fav ...
... Portuguese may be conveyed by different verbs in English. A problem we faced is related to arguments not predicted in the near synonym roleset in English. For example, the verb “relinquish” is the better synonym for “renunciar”, but in Portuguese it is frequent to find a beneficiary (somebody in fav ...
Morphology vs. Syntax in Adjective Class Acquisition
... as separate features. Adjectives have a limited syntactic distribution (much more restricted than e.g. verbs), so that even this simple representation should provide relevant evidence. The second one is bigram representation, with features consisting of the POS of the word to the left of the adjecti ...
... as separate features. Adjectives have a limited syntactic distribution (much more restricted than e.g. verbs), so that even this simple representation should provide relevant evidence. The second one is bigram representation, with features consisting of the POS of the word to the left of the adjecti ...
Gerunds - gpssummerenglish
... a sentence more appealing, more understandable. Listed below are rules for punctuation of different types of phrases. Adjective and Adverb Phrases When adjective or adverb phrases (prepositional phrases) begin a sentence, you have to use mathematics and good judgement. o If the phrase is three wor ...
... a sentence more appealing, more understandable. Listed below are rules for punctuation of different types of phrases. Adjective and Adverb Phrases When adjective or adverb phrases (prepositional phrases) begin a sentence, you have to use mathematics and good judgement. o If the phrase is three wor ...
Parsing the Past - Identification of Verb Constructions in Historical Text
... processing. We will mainly follow the methodology for verb extraction described in Pettersson and Nivre (2011), but adding the extraction of not only the verbs themselves, but also their adherent complements. It would perhaps have been desirable to use tools specifically trained for analysing histor ...
... processing. We will mainly follow the methodology for verb extraction described in Pettersson and Nivre (2011), but adding the extraction of not only the verbs themselves, but also their adherent complements. It would perhaps have been desirable to use tools specifically trained for analysing histor ...