On the functional structure of locative and directional PPs
... In combination with the verb lopen ‘walk’, an in–PP with a directional interpretation (‘into x’) must be postpositional (7); but in the complement of the verb klimmen ‘climb’ (8), an in–PP supports a directional interpretation in both its pre- and postpositional incarnations, and the same is true fo ...
... In combination with the verb lopen ‘walk’, an in–PP with a directional interpretation (‘into x’) must be postpositional (7); but in the complement of the verb klimmen ‘climb’ (8), an in–PP supports a directional interpretation in both its pre- and postpositional incarnations, and the same is true fo ...
Turner2016 - Edinburgh Research Archive
... I used to think I was quite a got-it-all-together kind of person. Until I did a PhD. Now I know what the Teacher was getting at. There’s no way I could have got to submitting a thesis without the help of a cast of thousands. Some of them are people who helped me with my research and study-related th ...
... I used to think I was quite a got-it-all-together kind of person. Until I did a PhD. Now I know what the Teacher was getting at. There’s no way I could have got to submitting a thesis without the help of a cast of thousands. Some of them are people who helped me with my research and study-related th ...
Balogné Bérces Katalin Az angol nyelv szerkezete (The
... This book gives an overview of the morphological and syntactic structure of English. Its intended audience is the students of PPCU at the English Studies BA programme on the one hand, and at the MA programme in TEFL on the other, both full-time and part-time. The two courses involved are called Engl ...
... This book gives an overview of the morphological and syntactic structure of English. Its intended audience is the students of PPCU at the English Studies BA programme on the one hand, and at the MA programme in TEFL on the other, both full-time and part-time. The two courses involved are called Engl ...
The full infinitive consist of two words, to + verb
... Appreciate usually requires a possessive adjective or passive gerund: I appreciate your giving me so much of your time. I appreciate being given this opportunity. Common expressions + gerund: can’t stand, can’t help, it's worthwhile, it's little use, etc. There's no telling what will happen. It's no ...
... Appreciate usually requires a possessive adjective or passive gerund: I appreciate your giving me so much of your time. I appreciate being given this opportunity. Common expressions + gerund: can’t stand, can’t help, it's worthwhile, it's little use, etc. There's no telling what will happen. It's no ...
Descriptive analysis of negation cues in biomedical texts
... words they have scope over, and the scope is not always continuous. An additional characteristic of negation cues is that some cues are very frequent, whereas the rest occurs only occasionally. This section contains a list of negation cues and the description of their scope. We provide the following ...
... words they have scope over, and the scope is not always continuous. An additional characteristic of negation cues is that some cues are very frequent, whereas the rest occurs only occasionally. This section contains a list of negation cues and the description of their scope. We provide the following ...
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational
... comparable performance: statistical parsers acquired from the Penn Treebank (PTB); data-driven dependency parsers; ‘deep’ parsers trained off enriched treebanks (in linguistic frameworks like CCG, HPSG, or LFG); and hybrid ‘deep’ parsers, employing hand-built grammars in, for example, HPSG, LFG, or ...
... comparable performance: statistical parsers acquired from the Penn Treebank (PTB); data-driven dependency parsers; ‘deep’ parsers trained off enriched treebanks (in linguistic frameworks like CCG, HPSG, or LFG); and hybrid ‘deep’ parsers, employing hand-built grammars in, for example, HPSG, LFG, or ...
Thoughts on grammaticalization
... this evidence, the various basic processes which integrate grammaticalization and which are called its parameters are then extracted and ordered according to how they pertain to the paradigmatic or the syntagmatic aspect, to the content or the expression of the grammaticalized sign. The degree to wh ...
... this evidence, the various basic processes which integrate grammaticalization and which are called its parameters are then extracted and ordered according to how they pertain to the paradigmatic or the syntagmatic aspect, to the content or the expression of the grammaticalized sign. The degree to wh ...
Thoughts on grammaticalization
... this evidence, the various basic processes which integrate grammaticalization and which are called its parameters are then extracted and ordered according to how they pertain to the paradigmatic or the syntagmatic aspect, to the content or the expression of the grammaticalized sign. The degree to wh ...
... this evidence, the various basic processes which integrate grammaticalization and which are called its parameters are then extracted and ordered according to how they pertain to the paradigmatic or the syntagmatic aspect, to the content or the expression of the grammaticalized sign. The degree to wh ...
19. Bed-Books and Night-Lights, By HM Tomlinson
... various grade levels and to establish the “T-unit” (the KISS “main clause”) as a primary unit for measuring the growth of sentences as students become older. Noting that the study left the researchers with “a sense of incompleteness,” he also included a study of the writing of professionals (54-55). ...
... various grade levels and to establish the “T-unit” (the KISS “main clause”) as a primary unit for measuring the growth of sentences as students become older. Noting that the study left the researchers with “a sense of incompleteness,” he also included a study of the writing of professionals (54-55). ...
1 - JWoodsDistrict205
... A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun, or a group of words used as nouns. Pronouns are classified in five (5) different categories: personal pronouns, relative pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, indefinite pronouns, and interrogative pronouns. Some pronouns can appear in more than one classificati ...
... A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun, or a group of words used as nouns. Pronouns are classified in five (5) different categories: personal pronouns, relative pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, indefinite pronouns, and interrogative pronouns. Some pronouns can appear in more than one classificati ...
An Open Toolkit for Automatic Machine Translation (Meta
... By default, correlation coefficients are accompanied by 95% confidence intervals computed using the Fisher’s z-distribution (Fisher, 1924). Since the sampling distribution of correlation coefficients is not normally distributed, they are first converted to Fisher’s z using the Fisher transformation ...
... By default, correlation coefficients are accompanied by 95% confidence intervals computed using the Fisher’s z-distribution (Fisher, 1924). Since the sampling distribution of correlation coefficients is not normally distributed, they are first converted to Fisher’s z using the Fisher transformation ...
Literal and Nonliteral Meaning in Placename Idioms Key words
... The implicature provides a one-to-one correspondence between stupid people and people coming from Dummsdorf. This is the basis for using the expression “be from Stupidville” as synonymous with “be stupid”. We note that other idiomatic interpretations for placename idioms are also possible and attest ...
... The implicature provides a one-to-one correspondence between stupid people and people coming from Dummsdorf. This is the basis for using the expression “be from Stupidville” as synonymous with “be stupid”. We note that other idiomatic interpretations for placename idioms are also possible and attest ...
On participles
... modification area. His theory returns to the old idea in terms of the possibility to have verbal participles in front of the noun. It suggests that the prenominal position is not reserved for adjectives only but that reduced relative clauses, including verbal participles, must also be able to occur ...
... modification area. His theory returns to the old idea in terms of the possibility to have verbal participles in front of the noun. It suggests that the prenominal position is not reserved for adjectives only but that reduced relative clauses, including verbal participles, must also be able to occur ...
User`s Guide
... Create an entry, enter the source word, and enter the target word or words. Then enter semantic and contextual information that will help the translation engine choose the appropriate target word. 3. Build a user dictionary Once you have entered your words, save the dictionary in a format that the W ...
... Create an entry, enter the source word, and enter the target word or words. Then enter semantic and contextual information that will help the translation engine choose the appropriate target word. 3. Build a user dictionary Once you have entered your words, save the dictionary in a format that the W ...
infinitive clauses - E
... Infinitive constructions represent a complex, diversified type of subordinate clauses, with a central position in the complement system of English. Unlike that complements, infinitive complements are non-finite, i.e., the infinitive lacks deictic tense and agreement features. Origin. The infinitive ...
... Infinitive constructions represent a complex, diversified type of subordinate clauses, with a central position in the complement system of English. Unlike that complements, infinitive complements are non-finite, i.e., the infinitive lacks deictic tense and agreement features. Origin. The infinitive ...
KISS Level 3. 2. 1 - Ellipsis in Clauses
... Applying KISS to Students’ Own Reading and Writing The primary objective of KISS is to enable students to intelligently discuss the grammar of anything that they read and especially anything that they write. Those who understand KISS concepts could, theoretically, use the Master Books and then use o ...
... Applying KISS to Students’ Own Reading and Writing The primary objective of KISS is to enable students to intelligently discuss the grammar of anything that they read and especially anything that they write. Those who understand KISS concepts could, theoretically, use the Master Books and then use o ...
Infinitive 1
... 4. In the LXX, however, it is rare in proportion to the other uses. 5. The accusative case is to us more manifest when the article occurs. Infinitive Modifier 1. This use of the infinitive is generally with verbs the meaning of which adapts itself naturally to an infinitive complement. 2. This is in ...
... 4. In the LXX, however, it is rare in proportion to the other uses. 5. The accusative case is to us more manifest when the article occurs. Infinitive Modifier 1. This use of the infinitive is generally with verbs the meaning of which adapts itself naturally to an infinitive complement. 2. This is in ...
viewed - Association for Computational Linguistics
... The data just produced demonstrate that gapping, stripping, and pseudogapping are types of ellipsis that are either absent from Mandarin, or are much more restricted than in English. The fact that examples involving both gapping and stripping are bad is not surprising since the two are widely viewed ...
... The data just produced demonstrate that gapping, stripping, and pseudogapping are types of ellipsis that are either absent from Mandarin, or are much more restricted than in English. The fact that examples involving both gapping and stripping are bad is not surprising since the two are widely viewed ...
Dative verbs: A crosslinguistic perspective
... verb-event schema mapping. The paper, then, has two goals, related to the two parts of the argument realization problem. It will show that the event schemas distribute as expected across the three verb types in several languages. Specifically, the distinction between give-type verbs and throw- and s ...
... verb-event schema mapping. The paper, then, has two goals, related to the two parts of the argument realization problem. It will show that the event schemas distribute as expected across the three verb types in several languages. Specifically, the distinction between give-type verbs and throw- and s ...
4 adjectives and adverbs
... Inanimate objects cannot have feelings so we don’t usually use -ed adjectives about feelings to describe them: ✗ The report into police behaviour during the demonstration was rather worried. ✓ The report was rather worrying. (= The report made readers feel anxious.) 4 We can also combine words to m ...
... Inanimate objects cannot have feelings so we don’t usually use -ed adjectives about feelings to describe them: ✗ The report into police behaviour during the demonstration was rather worried. ✓ The report was rather worrying. (= The report made readers feel anxious.) 4 We can also combine words to m ...
PSSA Review - Belle Vernon Area
... separate items in a series. Option A incorrectly uses commas to separate three noun phrases in a series by adding an unnecessary comma after “are” and is therefore incorrect. Option B correctly uses commas to separate three independent clauses in a series and is therefore the correct answer. Option ...
... separate items in a series. Option A incorrectly uses commas to separate three noun phrases in a series by adding an unnecessary comma after “are” and is therefore incorrect. Option B correctly uses commas to separate three independent clauses in a series and is therefore the correct answer. Option ...
FORMATIVE B
... Which sentence below has the same meaning with the given sentence above? a.Although I don't like to owe people money, I decline his offer of a loan. b.Although I don't like to owe people money, I accepted his offer of a loan. c.Although his offers of a loan, I don't take money. d.I didn't take the m ...
... Which sentence below has the same meaning with the given sentence above? a.Although I don't like to owe people money, I decline his offer of a loan. b.Although I don't like to owe people money, I accepted his offer of a loan. c.Although his offers of a loan, I don't take money. d.I didn't take the m ...
Non-Constituent Coordination: Prosody, Not Movement Benjamin
... Current approaches to non-constituent coordination all assume that they actually involve coordination of larger categories plus ellipsis.1 There are basically two analyses within this general ellipsis approach. The first, one with a long history, involves left-edge ellipsis of a linear string. This ...
... Current approaches to non-constituent coordination all assume that they actually involve coordination of larger categories plus ellipsis.1 There are basically two analyses within this general ellipsis approach. The first, one with a long history, involves left-edge ellipsis of a linear string. This ...
ENG 206 - University of Maiduguri
... same specie; some people could be brought together by some common purpose; a shoal of fish, a pride of lions, a family of five, a chamber of lawyers, etc. Each of these examples highlights a ‘group’. In grammar [especially the systemic model], ‘group’ is a term referring to a sequence of words which ...
... same specie; some people could be brought together by some common purpose; a shoal of fish, a pride of lions, a family of five, a chamber of lawyers, etc. Each of these examples highlights a ‘group’. In grammar [especially the systemic model], ‘group’ is a term referring to a sequence of words which ...
Chapter I
... transitive (ST). If role is emic item, rather than actor, one has equative (EqJ (without scope) or semi-equative (SEq) (with scope). For the clause types in Fig. 1 we give a few samples. Notice that in any one set there may be formal subsets (e.g. active versus passive) or ...
... transitive (ST). If role is emic item, rather than actor, one has equative (EqJ (without scope) or semi-equative (SEq) (with scope). For the clause types in Fig. 1 we give a few samples. Notice that in any one set there may be formal subsets (e.g. active versus passive) or ...