Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles
... sets of semantic roles. These sets of roles range from the very specific to the very general, and many have been used in computational implementations of one type or another. At the specific end of the spectrum are domain-specific roles such as the FROM AIRPORT , TO AIRPORT , or DEPART TIME discusse ...
... sets of semantic roles. These sets of roles range from the very specific to the very general, and many have been used in computational implementations of one type or another. At the specific end of the spectrum are domain-specific roles such as the FROM AIRPORT , TO AIRPORT , or DEPART TIME discusse ...
Laura A. Michaelis University of Colorado at Boulder Proceedings of
... Pearl Street) combining with an operator that is logically compatible only with an eventive predication. In accordance with Herweg’s (1991: 976) analysis of frequency adverbials, we can describe the conflict in (2) as involving applications of a characterizing predicate to an interval. As per the mo ...
... Pearl Street) combining with an operator that is logically compatible only with an eventive predication. In accordance with Herweg’s (1991: 976) analysis of frequency adverbials, we can describe the conflict in (2) as involving applications of a characterizing predicate to an interval. As per the mo ...
Invitation to Systemic Functional Linguistics
... However, it is important to emphasize that what the Sydney and Cardiff Grammars have in common is far more important than the things over which we differ, and this too will, I hope, be very clear. For example, the framework for understanding language that you will meet here is functional rather than ...
... However, it is important to emphasize that what the Sydney and Cardiff Grammars have in common is far more important than the things over which we differ, and this too will, I hope, be very clear. For example, the framework for understanding language that you will meet here is functional rather than ...
The Marshallese Complemetizer Phrase
... In this structure, the head determines the category of the projection. Thus XP is the maximal projection of the head of the phrase. XP also includes the X' node, making the head a sister to [Comp, XP]. This structure applies to all phrases, regardless of the lexical or functional category of the hea ...
... In this structure, the head determines the category of the projection. Thus XP is the maximal projection of the head of the phrase. XP also includes the X' node, making the head a sister to [Comp, XP]. This structure applies to all phrases, regardless of the lexical or functional category of the hea ...
Refining Your Writing
... Have you ever ordered a dish in a restaurant and been not happy with its taste, even though it contained most of your favorite ingredients? Just as a meal might lack the finishing touches needed to spice it up, so too might a paragraph contain all the basic components but still lack the stylistic fi ...
... Have you ever ordered a dish in a restaurant and been not happy with its taste, even though it contained most of your favorite ingredients? Just as a meal might lack the finishing touches needed to spice it up, so too might a paragraph contain all the basic components but still lack the stylistic fi ...
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... Have you ever ordered a dish in a restaurant and been not happy with its taste, even though it contained most of your favorite ingredients? Just as a meal might lack the finishing touches needed to spice it up, so too might a paragraph contain all the basic components but still lack the stylistic fi ...
... Have you ever ordered a dish in a restaurant and been not happy with its taste, even though it contained most of your favorite ingredients? Just as a meal might lack the finishing touches needed to spice it up, so too might a paragraph contain all the basic components but still lack the stylistic fi ...
Grammar Reveiw
... Simple Sentence: A sentence with one independent clause Compound Sentence: A sentence with two or more independent clauses joined together by a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon. Complex Sentence: A sentence with a dependent clause attached to an independent clause usually begins with a subord ...
... Simple Sentence: A sentence with one independent clause Compound Sentence: A sentence with two or more independent clauses joined together by a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon. Complex Sentence: A sentence with a dependent clause attached to an independent clause usually begins with a subord ...
Middle Egyptian Grammar
... Egyptian languages. The past 10 years of teaching an introductory course in Middle Egyptian at Rutgers University-Camden convinced the author that a profitable and rewarding way to draw the students’ interests to this subject (and to raise one of the worst retention rates in languages) is to bring i ...
... Egyptian languages. The past 10 years of teaching an introductory course in Middle Egyptian at Rutgers University-Camden convinced the author that a profitable and rewarding way to draw the students’ interests to this subject (and to raise one of the worst retention rates in languages) is to bring i ...
analyzing english grammar
... 9. Students have difficulty finding this, but handbooks generally agree that fewer is appropriate before count nouns. 10. [VERB AGREEMENT; CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS] The noun or pronoun after or and nor (in this case she) governs the verb, which would be is. 11. Handbooks will probably not give space ...
... 9. Students have difficulty finding this, but handbooks generally agree that fewer is appropriate before count nouns. 10. [VERB AGREEMENT; CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS] The noun or pronoun after or and nor (in this case she) governs the verb, which would be is. 11. Handbooks will probably not give space ...
A Study of the Microstructure of Monolingual Urdu Dictionaries
... not to provide lexical relations. The figures in Table 2-b and the discussion indicate that these Urdu dictionaries mostly include synonyms as meanings, even though it creates ambiguities. This may be the reason these dictionaries avoid giving importance to synonymy as an additional element. The NOD ...
... not to provide lexical relations. The figures in Table 2-b and the discussion indicate that these Urdu dictionaries mostly include synonyms as meanings, even though it creates ambiguities. This may be the reason these dictionaries avoid giving importance to synonymy as an additional element. The NOD ...
exercise 1 exercise 2 exercise 3 exercise 4
... EXERCISE 22 1. 1. “A fine October morning” is not a sentence, because it does not form a statement, question, or command. 2. “The leaves are red and green” is a sentence, because it forms a statement. 3. “And some yellow” is not a sentence, because it does not form a statement, question, or command. ...
... EXERCISE 22 1. 1. “A fine October morning” is not a sentence, because it does not form a statement, question, or command. 2. “The leaves are red and green” is a sentence, because it forms a statement. 3. “And some yellow” is not a sentence, because it does not form a statement, question, or command. ...
An Analysis of Grammatical Errors in Writing
... and which type of errors is the most dominant one done by the second semester students at the diploma program English department in Airlangga University. In order to obtain valid findings, qualitative method is used in this study. Twenty six (26) narrative texts were collected from 26 students in th ...
... and which type of errors is the most dominant one done by the second semester students at the diploma program English department in Airlangga University. In order to obtain valid findings, qualitative method is used in this study. Twenty six (26) narrative texts were collected from 26 students in th ...
the nature and classification of idioms
... to tell someone where to get off, to bring the house down, to take it out on someone. The learner will have great difficulty here unless he has heard the idioms before. Even when they are used in context, it is not easy to detect the meaning exactly. To get off usually appears together with bus or b ...
... to tell someone where to get off, to bring the house down, to take it out on someone. The learner will have great difficulty here unless he has heard the idioms before. Even when they are used in context, it is not easy to detect the meaning exactly. To get off usually appears together with bus or b ...
A Syntactic Analysis of Modal bì 必: Auxiliary Verb or Adverb?
... belongs to the Predicate adjuncts (PA) which resemble adverbs, but are distinguished from them “because they can also modify nominals, as adjunct to a nominal predicate”. More particular, bì 必 belongs to the PA of quality which “express the degree of certainty with which a predication is made or the ...
... belongs to the Predicate adjuncts (PA) which resemble adverbs, but are distinguished from them “because they can also modify nominals, as adjunct to a nominal predicate”. More particular, bì 必 belongs to the PA of quality which “express the degree of certainty with which a predication is made or the ...
Bracketing Guidelines for Treebank II Style Penn Treebank Project 1
... the policy it describes. Leslie Dossey and Elizabeth Hamilton put a lot of e ort into early analysis and organization of the issues. Beatrice Santorini wrote the previous manual, upon which much of our policy is still based. Finally, we would like to thank a set of people too numerous to mention spe ...
... the policy it describes. Leslie Dossey and Elizabeth Hamilton put a lot of e ort into early analysis and organization of the issues. Beatrice Santorini wrote the previous manual, upon which much of our policy is still based. Finally, we would like to thank a set of people too numerous to mention spe ...
Do we need summary and sequential scanning in
... characterisation of bare infinitives (e.g. enter) vs. to-infinitives (to enter) vs. gerunds or –ing forms (e.g. entering). The rationale is always that differences in form must imply differences in meaning. We have already pointed out that bare infinitives are relations scanned sequentially. As for ...
... characterisation of bare infinitives (e.g. enter) vs. to-infinitives (to enter) vs. gerunds or –ing forms (e.g. entering). The rationale is always that differences in form must imply differences in meaning. We have already pointed out that bare infinitives are relations scanned sequentially. As for ...
Context-Free Grammars (CFGs) Parsing: Assigning Structure to
... gerunds (and other verbal clauses), and relative clauses ...
... gerunds (and other verbal clauses), and relative clauses ...
“The Use of the Gerund in the English Language and ways of its
... consisting of a gerund and some modifiers that function as the direct object, indirect object, or complement of an action or a state expressed in the gerund. Finding a needle in a haystack would be easier then what we're trying to do. finding (gerund) a needle (direct object of the action expressed ...
... consisting of a gerund and some modifiers that function as the direct object, indirect object, or complement of an action or a state expressed in the gerund. Finding a needle in a haystack would be easier then what we're trying to do. finding (gerund) a needle (direct object of the action expressed ...
Māori Vocabulary: A Study of Some High Frequency Homonyms
... vocabulary in comparison with e.g. English. As Boyce (2006, ii) acknowledges, this is partly explained by the degree of homonymy in Māori, which undermines the accuracy of the count. Homonymy is the phenomenon of the same string of letters (word-form) having two or more unrelated meanings (e.g. kī ‘ ...
... vocabulary in comparison with e.g. English. As Boyce (2006, ii) acknowledges, this is partly explained by the degree of homonymy in Māori, which undermines the accuracy of the count. Homonymy is the phenomenon of the same string of letters (word-form) having two or more unrelated meanings (e.g. kī ‘ ...
Linguistic Ambiguity in Language-based Jokes
... characteristics of the language, where a noun often has the same form of a verb, or vice versa, or the past tense and the past participle of a verb often coincide” (p. 7) and “[word class ambiguity] is quite common in English, unlike in other languages, given the capacity of the same word to functio ...
... characteristics of the language, where a noun often has the same form of a verb, or vice versa, or the past tense and the past participle of a verb often coincide” (p. 7) and “[word class ambiguity] is quite common in English, unlike in other languages, given the capacity of the same word to functio ...
UM_Sintaksis_(teorgrammatika)_022600_st
... generally come first … but when one of two modifiers is a lengthy group, the shorter verb-modifier is often allowed to precede even if it would otherwise follow as in “he heard again the language of his nursery” (“he heard it again”), (op. cit). There are many other fruitful remarks on the structure ...
... generally come first … but when one of two modifiers is a lengthy group, the shorter verb-modifier is often allowed to precede even if it would otherwise follow as in “he heard again the language of his nursery” (“he heard it again”), (op. cit). There are many other fruitful remarks on the structure ...
Attempto Controlled English (ACE)
... There are two forms of subordination: relative sentences and if-then sentences. Relative sentences starting with who, which, that allow to add detail to nouns, e.g. A customer who is new inserts a card that he owns. With the help of if-then sentences we can specify conditional or hypothetical situat ...
... There are two forms of subordination: relative sentences and if-then sentences. Relative sentences starting with who, which, that allow to add detail to nouns, e.g. A customer who is new inserts a card that he owns. With the help of if-then sentences we can specify conditional or hypothetical situat ...
Open Access - Biblio UGent
... and Cornips (1994), but can straightforwardly be analyzed as a small clause. Under this analysis, the Possessor of the possessive BE-sentence is argued by Broekhuis and Cornips (1994) to be a structural dative indirect object (hem ‘him’), assigned by the verb BE in the specifier position of the verb ...
... and Cornips (1994), but can straightforwardly be analyzed as a small clause. Under this analysis, the Possessor of the possessive BE-sentence is argued by Broekhuis and Cornips (1994) to be a structural dative indirect object (hem ‘him’), assigned by the verb BE in the specifier position of the verb ...
Referentiality in Spanish CPs Abstract: In this paper, we discuss the
... Mainland Scandinavian for example. In Spanish, saber (‘know’) does not allow non-ref-que. However, this does not necessarily mean that saber never takes a cP complement in Spanish, as not all cP complements contain non-ref-que. See footnote 12. In addition, Haegeman (2006:1666) discusses examples wh ...
... Mainland Scandinavian for example. In Spanish, saber (‘know’) does not allow non-ref-que. However, this does not necessarily mean that saber never takes a cP complement in Spanish, as not all cP complements contain non-ref-que. See footnote 12. In addition, Haegeman (2006:1666) discusses examples wh ...