University of Pardubice Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
... They can be classified either by structural type (in terms of the elements they themselves contain) or by function (structural position they have in the superordinate clause), fully described in the following chapters. There is the absence of a finite verb form. They have no tense and they cannot in ...
... They can be classified either by structural type (in terms of the elements they themselves contain) or by function (structural position they have in the superordinate clause), fully described in the following chapters. There is the absence of a finite verb form. They have no tense and they cannot in ...
NP Movement into Theta-positions and Unexpected Behavior of
... Whether an NP moves into theta position or not has been controversial. Chomsky (1986, 1995) claims that such a movement is disallowed. While Pesetsky (1992) and Bošković (1997) argue that such a movement is possible in ECM construction. Saito (2001), analyzing resultative constructions of English, c ...
... Whether an NP moves into theta position or not has been controversial. Chomsky (1986, 1995) claims that such a movement is disallowed. While Pesetsky (1992) and Bošković (1997) argue that such a movement is possible in ECM construction. Saito (2001), analyzing resultative constructions of English, c ...
Option 5 - Apps With Curriculum
... many different endings. Essential or Nonessential? • The boy who is the smartest is also my cousin. Essential or Nonessential? • “Now you will join the others, who made their way before you.” Essential or Nonessential? This Smarty Activity is the intellectual property of Cyndie Sebourn and Sascyn Pu ...
... many different endings. Essential or Nonessential? • The boy who is the smartest is also my cousin. Essential or Nonessential? • “Now you will join the others, who made their way before you.” Essential or Nonessential? This Smarty Activity is the intellectual property of Cyndie Sebourn and Sascyn Pu ...
Study_Island (22) - Punctuation Activities with answer key
... A. Doctors are concerned about the rising death rate from asthma they are unsure of its cause. B. Doctors are concerned about the rising death rate from asthma; they are unsure of its cause. C. Doctors are concerned about the rising death rate from asthma, they are unsure of its cause. Doctors are c ...
... A. Doctors are concerned about the rising death rate from asthma they are unsure of its cause. B. Doctors are concerned about the rising death rate from asthma; they are unsure of its cause. C. Doctors are concerned about the rising death rate from asthma, they are unsure of its cause. Doctors are c ...
Conjunctions - BasicComposition.Com
... A subordinating conjunction p laced at the beginning of an ind ep end ent clau se changes it into a subordinate or dependent clause (no longer a com p lete sentence). It introd u ces the d epend ent clau se and show s how it relates to the ind ep end ent clau se to w hich it is joined . There are m ...
... A subordinating conjunction p laced at the beginning of an ind ep end ent clau se changes it into a subordinate or dependent clause (no longer a com p lete sentence). It introd u ces the d epend ent clau se and show s how it relates to the ind ep end ent clau se to w hich it is joined . There are m ...
Copula Variation in African American Vernacular English: an investigation... individual- and stage-level predicate hypothesis
... copula presence. Pustet outlines four parameters of predicates that she finds correlate with copula presence: ...
... copula presence. Pustet outlines four parameters of predicates that she finds correlate with copula presence: ...
Essay resources - Peirce College
... in a list anything and everything that comes to mind about the assignment. Do not stop to judge what you write or worry about spelling, grammar or punctuation. After the timer goes off, look over your list and cross out anything that doesn’t makes sense or is unrelated to the assignment. You will ha ...
... in a list anything and everything that comes to mind about the assignment. Do not stop to judge what you write or worry about spelling, grammar or punctuation. After the timer goes off, look over your list and cross out anything that doesn’t makes sense or is unrelated to the assignment. You will ha ...
Placed, Non- Placed and Anaphorically Placed Expressions:
... It has been noted by many that the morphological expression of Tense is strongly interrelated with the morphological expression of Person. As stated in Greenberg’s Universal 30 (Greenberg ,1963), for instance, if a language has Person- Number categories, it always has TenseMood categories. On indepe ...
... It has been noted by many that the morphological expression of Tense is strongly interrelated with the morphological expression of Person. As stated in Greenberg’s Universal 30 (Greenberg ,1963), for instance, if a language has Person- Number categories, it always has TenseMood categories. On indepe ...
english - Ressursmateriell: Introducing English Grammar
... Sentence 1 is a compound sentence: she screamed and they ran away are both main clauses. Sentence 2 is a complex sentence: that they ran away is a dependent clause. It functions as the direct object of scream. While the second main clause in sentence 1 describes an action that happened in addition t ...
... Sentence 1 is a compound sentence: she screamed and they ran away are both main clauses. Sentence 2 is a complex sentence: that they ran away is a dependent clause. It functions as the direct object of scream. While the second main clause in sentence 1 describes an action that happened in addition t ...
The Reduced Relative Clause: A Misnomer?
... participles convey an uncompleted action and so are interpreted as occurring simultaneously with the time referred to by the matrix verb. Unreduced relatives can only be interpreted „deictically‟. This is why sentences such as (9b) and (9d) are perfectly acceptable. Relative to the moment of speakin ...
... participles convey an uncompleted action and so are interpreted as occurring simultaneously with the time referred to by the matrix verb. Unreduced relatives can only be interpreted „deictically‟. This is why sentences such as (9b) and (9d) are perfectly acceptable. Relative to the moment of speakin ...
Sentence Parsing
... NPs and VPs themselves. It has been observed in various studies that double centerembeddings (in a null context) tend to become somewhat easier when the most deeply embedded subject is replaced by an indexical pronoun (e.g., you or I). Gibson verified this in an as yet unpublished experiment with se ...
... NPs and VPs themselves. It has been observed in various studies that double centerembeddings (in a null context) tend to become somewhat easier when the most deeply embedded subject is replaced by an indexical pronoun (e.g., you or I). Gibson verified this in an as yet unpublished experiment with se ...
LIFEPAC® 7th Grade Language Arts Unit 9 Worktext
... Interrogative sentences. If declarative sentences are so important, why are the other three types needed? Could the story of Saul’s conversion (Acts 9:1-20) have been told using only declarative sentences? It probably could have, but sentences that ask questions are important also. Interrogative sen ...
... Interrogative sentences. If declarative sentences are so important, why are the other three types needed? Could the story of Saul’s conversion (Acts 9:1-20) have been told using only declarative sentences? It probably could have, but sentences that ask questions are important also. Interrogative sen ...
Depictive Secondary Predicates and Small Clause Approaches to
... characterizes the direct object during the causing event and not during the resultant state. This is inconsistent with the small clause analysis, where the direct object is not a participant in the verbal causing event. The facts are the exact opposite of what is expected on the small clause analysi ...
... characterizes the direct object during the causing event and not during the resultant state. This is inconsistent with the small clause analysis, where the direct object is not a participant in the verbal causing event. The facts are the exact opposite of what is expected on the small clause analysi ...
Some Predictions of Optimality Theory on Sentence Processing
... the preposed wh-phrase. This has been established first by Frazier & Flores d’Àrcais (1989) for Dutch, and it was later shown to be correct for English, German, Italian, and many other languages. Because of the limited scope of the present paper, we will refrain from entering a detailed discussion o ...
... the preposed wh-phrase. This has been established first by Frazier & Flores d’Àrcais (1989) for Dutch, and it was later shown to be correct for English, German, Italian, and many other languages. Because of the limited scope of the present paper, we will refrain from entering a detailed discussion o ...
Information structure and grammaticalization
... object. These categories and functions are subject to grammaticalization, i.e. they can evolve and dissolve into something different through grammaticalization. Their genesis is semantically motivated; but the more they are grammaticalized, the more they become arbitrary components of language-speci ...
... object. These categories and functions are subject to grammaticalization, i.e. they can evolve and dissolve into something different through grammaticalization. Their genesis is semantically motivated; but the more they are grammaticalized, the more they become arbitrary components of language-speci ...
Clause patterns in Modern British English: A corpus
... 1971; Ellegård, 1978; De Haan, 1989a) Table 1.1: Some quantitative corpus-based studies (cf. de Haan, 1989a: 50) object of study: ...
... 1971; Ellegård, 1978; De Haan, 1989a) Table 1.1: Some quantitative corpus-based studies (cf. de Haan, 1989a: 50) object of study: ...
Unit 3 - Adverbial Clauses
... verbs, a list that does not account for sentences such as “the gates groaned open” from Mary Renault’s The King Must Die. Once one understands the palimpsest concept, it makes the analysis of such sentences easy, and it provides an alternative explanation that can be applied to other sentences, such ...
... verbs, a list that does not account for sentences such as “the gates groaned open” from Mary Renault’s The King Must Die. Once one understands the palimpsest concept, it makes the analysis of such sentences easy, and it provides an alternative explanation that can be applied to other sentences, such ...
Relative clauses in Asante Twi
... about half of cases and that the conditioning environment depends on a number of discourse factors including the topic-worthiness of the relativized argument and the distance between the head noun and the end of the relative clause. Finally, I examine noun phrase accessibility in Twi according to Ke ...
... about half of cases and that the conditioning environment depends on a number of discourse factors including the topic-worthiness of the relativized argument and the distance between the head noun and the end of the relative clause. Finally, I examine noun phrase accessibility in Twi according to Ke ...
Appositive Phrases
... Underline the appositive or appositive phrase in each sentence below. On the line, identify each phrase as E if it is essential or N E if it is nonessential. Add the necessary c o m m a s to sentences w i t h nonessential clauses. 1. The poetry of Robert Frost is identified w i t h rural N e w Engla ...
... Underline the appositive or appositive phrase in each sentence below. On the line, identify each phrase as E if it is essential or N E if it is nonessential. Add the necessary c o m m a s to sentences w i t h nonessential clauses. 1. The poetry of Robert Frost is identified w i t h rural N e w Engla ...
additive conjunction choice in english children short stories
... one word has many meanings, but when the word is used in a sentence, we will know the meaning of the word clearly. Intuitively, semantic interpretation should help syntactic disambiguation, and joint syntactic– semantic analysis has a long tradition in linguistic theory. In linguistics, semantic ana ...
... one word has many meanings, but when the word is used in a sentence, we will know the meaning of the word clearly. Intuitively, semantic interpretation should help syntactic disambiguation, and joint syntactic– semantic analysis has a long tradition in linguistic theory. In linguistics, semantic ana ...
Binding Connectivity in Copular Sentences
... obvious is that the pre-extraction/reconstruction level appears to be semantic hash. In other words, since this is the level of representation at which binding is stated, it presumably is more generally the level which inputs the model-theoretic interpretation. Yet it is difficult to imagine any nat ...
... obvious is that the pre-extraction/reconstruction level appears to be semantic hash. In other words, since this is the level of representation at which binding is stated, it presumably is more generally the level which inputs the model-theoretic interpretation. Yet it is difficult to imagine any nat ...
A Bi-Polar Theory of Nominal and Clause Structure and Function
... theory that explains otherwise arbitrary generalizations about the syntax and the lexicon…a theory’s deviations from efficient encoding must be vigorously justified, for what appears to be an irregular relationship between syntax and semantics may turn out merely to be a bad theory of one or the oth ...
... theory that explains otherwise arbitrary generalizations about the syntax and the lexicon…a theory’s deviations from efficient encoding must be vigorously justified, for what appears to be an irregular relationship between syntax and semantics may turn out merely to be a bad theory of one or the oth ...
Chapter 7: Refining Your Writing: How Do I Improve
... The overuse of prepositional phrases often occurs when our thoughts are jumbled and we are unsure how concepts or ideas relate to one another. If you are preparing a report or a proposal, take the time to organize your thoughts in an outline before writing a rough draft. Read the draft aloud, either ...
... The overuse of prepositional phrases often occurs when our thoughts are jumbled and we are unsure how concepts or ideas relate to one another. If you are preparing a report or a proposal, take the time to organize your thoughts in an outline before writing a rough draft. Read the draft aloud, either ...
The syntax and semantics of internally headed relative clauses in
... heads must project a phrase. In the schema proposed above in (18), the N′ exhaustively dominates an S, not an N. Culy claims, “while this structure is unusual, it is similar to a rule proposed by Jackendoff (1977) that allows ‘category-switching’ ”. That rule is: xi → af → yi The difference, accordi ...
... heads must project a phrase. In the schema proposed above in (18), the N′ exhaustively dominates an S, not an N. Culy claims, “while this structure is unusual, it is similar to a rule proposed by Jackendoff (1977) that allows ‘category-switching’ ”. That rule is: xi → af → yi The difference, accordi ...
THEORETICAL GRAMMAR 4 U SYNTAX
... different communicative intention. The content of pragmatic component can be presented as a combination “I (hereby) + verb, which determines illocutionary force of expression + addressee”. The verb which characterizes relationships between sender and addressee is sometimes called performative. For e ...
... different communicative intention. The content of pragmatic component can be presented as a combination “I (hereby) + verb, which determines illocutionary force of expression + addressee”. The verb which characterizes relationships between sender and addressee is sometimes called performative. For e ...