Difference between gerund and participle worksheet
... State whether the –ing forms given in the following sentences are participles or gerunds. In the case of participles, name the noun or pronoun they qualify. In.Aug 22, 2013 . It's tough to know the difference between gerunds and present participles in English just by looking because they both consis ...
... State whether the –ing forms given in the following sentences are participles or gerunds. In the case of participles, name the noun or pronoun they qualify. In.Aug 22, 2013 . It's tough to know the difference between gerunds and present participles in English just by looking because they both consis ...
1 Deriving the Complementarity Effect: Relativized Minimality in
... advantage of being rather minimal: very little needs to be said beyond the cross-linguistically familiar fact that weak pronouns but not full DPs can be affixal. The impossibility of agreement morphology tracking an overt DP follows from the Theta Criterion, which disallows a pronoun to co-occur cla ...
... advantage of being rather minimal: very little needs to be said beyond the cross-linguistically familiar fact that weak pronouns but not full DPs can be affixal. The impossibility of agreement morphology tracking an overt DP follows from the Theta Criterion, which disallows a pronoun to co-occur cla ...
Empty categories in the Hindi-Urdu binaa participle clause.
... sentence is odd if there is an overt pronoun rather than an empty object. While this point deserves further investigation, the explanation may be independent of the issue of parasitic gaps. The overt pronoun yah ‘3sg this’ and woo ‘3sg that’ have some semantic content in addition to being pronouns, ...
... sentence is odd if there is an overt pronoun rather than an empty object. While this point deserves further investigation, the explanation may be independent of the issue of parasitic gaps. The overt pronoun yah ‘3sg this’ and woo ‘3sg that’ have some semantic content in addition to being pronouns, ...
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... sentence is odd if there is an overt pronoun rather than an empty object. While this point deserves further investigation, the explanation may be independent of the issue of parasitic gaps. The overt pronoun yah ‘3sg this’ and woo ‘3sg that’ have some semantic content in addition to being pronouns, ...
... sentence is odd if there is an overt pronoun rather than an empty object. While this point deserves further investigation, the explanation may be independent of the issue of parasitic gaps. The overt pronoun yah ‘3sg this’ and woo ‘3sg that’ have some semantic content in addition to being pronouns, ...
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... Anaphors and pronouns are referentially dependent; they can (or must) be coreferential with another NP in the sentence. The way we indicate that two NPs are coreferential is by means of an index, usually a subscripted letter. Two NPs that share the same index (that are coindexed) also share the same ...
... Anaphors and pronouns are referentially dependent; they can (or must) be coreferential with another NP in the sentence. The way we indicate that two NPs are coreferential is by means of an index, usually a subscripted letter. Two NPs that share the same index (that are coindexed) also share the same ...
On the superficiality of Welsh agreement
... In this paper, I will show that agreement in Welsh is rather different. I will argue that it involves superficial aspects of structure and not some kind of abstract structure. It is plausible to suggest that it involves linear order at a superficial level, and I will develop an analysis within HPSG ...
... In this paper, I will show that agreement in Welsh is rather different. I will argue that it involves superficial aspects of structure and not some kind of abstract structure. It is plausible to suggest that it involves linear order at a superficial level, and I will develop an analysis within HPSG ...
Verbs Llevar and Tener - Departament de Filologia Catalana
... c. Hace cinco años que vivo aquí. makes five years that (I) live here 'It is five years that I'm living here.' d. Va para cinco años que vivo aquí. goes for five years that (I) live here 'It is almost five years that I'm living here.' Together with these temporal impersonal constructions, there are ...
... c. Hace cinco años que vivo aquí. makes five years that (I) live here 'It is five years that I'm living here.' d. Va para cinco años que vivo aquí. goes for five years that (I) live here 'It is almost five years that I'm living here.' Together with these temporal impersonal constructions, there are ...
Chapter 4
... 3. She finally gave the museum the diamond and some other gems. 4. Did you see the rubies and the emeralds? 5. Color, brilliance, and weight determine a gem’s value. 6. A lapidary, or gem cutter, gives a gem its final shape. 7. This museum also has an exhibit and books about famous gems. 8. Indian a ...
... 3. She finally gave the museum the diamond and some other gems. 4. Did you see the rubies and the emeralds? 5. Color, brilliance, and weight determine a gem’s value. 6. A lapidary, or gem cutter, gives a gem its final shape. 7. This museum also has an exhibit and books about famous gems. 8. Indian a ...
Canto - Classical Academic Press
... instead of adding extra words, you show who is doing the action and when the action happens by changing the last few letters (the ending) of a verb. Changing the ending of a verb to show who is doing the action and when the action happens is called conjugating. Before we conjugate a verb, we start w ...
... instead of adding extra words, you show who is doing the action and when the action happens by changing the last few letters (the ending) of a verb. Changing the ending of a verb to show who is doing the action and when the action happens is called conjugating. Before we conjugate a verb, we start w ...
van Gelderen 2009
... Merge as late as possible. Recently, Economy has come to be seen in terms of what Baker (2008: 156) calls the Borer–Chomsky Conjecture, namely that all variation among languages finds its origin in the lexicon. As a reaction to that, I will reformulate (4) and (5) as principles of Feature Economy, bu ...
... Merge as late as possible. Recently, Economy has come to be seen in terms of what Baker (2008: 156) calls the Borer–Chomsky Conjecture, namely that all variation among languages finds its origin in the lexicon. As a reaction to that, I will reformulate (4) and (5) as principles of Feature Economy, bu ...
Rule 1. You may end a sentence with a preposition. Just do not use
... We can actually interchange “into” and “in” more or less freely when used with verbs of motion. There are exceptions, though. We can only use “in” (or “inside”) when the preposition is the last word in the sentence or occurs right before an adverbial of time (“today,” “tomorrow”), manner (“quickly,” ...
... We can actually interchange “into” and “in” more or less freely when used with verbs of motion. There are exceptions, though. We can only use “in” (or “inside”) when the preposition is the last word in the sentence or occurs right before an adverbial of time (“today,” “tomorrow”), manner (“quickly,” ...
Free! - Classical Academic Press
... readings, translations, and fun things to do and learn. You should find this book quite familiar. Its setup is very similar to that of Primer A, but it is a thicker book because there are more pages per chapter. If you have completed Primer A, you already know some important tips for learning Spanis ...
... readings, translations, and fun things to do and learn. You should find this book quite familiar. Its setup is very similar to that of Primer A, but it is a thicker book because there are more pages per chapter. If you have completed Primer A, you already know some important tips for learning Spanis ...
two types of impersonal sentences in spanish
... position: one of them involves an eventive predicate, and the second one involves a stative predicate. The verb ocurrir ‘to happen’, as well as meteorological verbs are members of the former class (as in En esta carretera ocurrió un accidente, Lit. ‘in this road happened an accident’). Predicates w ...
... position: one of them involves an eventive predicate, and the second one involves a stative predicate. The verb ocurrir ‘to happen’, as well as meteorological verbs are members of the former class (as in En esta carretera ocurrió un accidente, Lit. ‘in this road happened an accident’). Predicates w ...
Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case-Checking
... pose a challenge to claims made about universal grammar which are based on the study of nonergative languages. In this paper, we investigate a particularly puzzling construction—the spurious antipassive (hereafter, SAP)—in Chukchi, a language that differs from many more wellstudied languages not onl ...
... pose a challenge to claims made about universal grammar which are based on the study of nonergative languages. In this paper, we investigate a particularly puzzling construction—the spurious antipassive (hereafter, SAP)—in Chukchi, a language that differs from many more wellstudied languages not onl ...
DeQue: A Lexicon of Complex Prepositions and Conjunctions
... C1: Function as PRE/CONJ C1.1 A CPRE/CCONJ in DeQue consists of groups of at least two words ending with de/que. C1.2 A CPRE/CCONJ in DeQue includes at least one open-class (or content) word, that is, one noun, adjective, adverb or verb. C1.3 A CPRE/CCONJ in DeQue commutes with a similar single-word ...
... C1: Function as PRE/CONJ C1.1 A CPRE/CCONJ in DeQue consists of groups of at least two words ending with de/que. C1.2 A CPRE/CCONJ in DeQue includes at least one open-class (or content) word, that is, one noun, adjective, adverb or verb. C1.3 A CPRE/CCONJ in DeQue commutes with a similar single-word ...
Pronoun Production: Word or World Knowledge?
... knowledge and world-knowledge. Word-knowledge consists of the relatively immutable meanings of words (and the relationships between words)—the core meaning that a word (hypothetically) brings with it from situation to situation. Because this core meaning is immutable in this fashion, it is a likely ...
... knowledge and world-knowledge. Word-knowledge consists of the relatively immutable meanings of words (and the relationships between words)—the core meaning that a word (hypothetically) brings with it from situation to situation. Because this core meaning is immutable in this fashion, it is a likely ...
“Por” vs “Para”
... in order to convey the right message. The best way to do this is to remember what each preposition is used for. Here is a summary of the uses: Por 1. Passing through 2. General location 3. How long something lasts 4. The cause of something 5. An exchange 6. Doing something in place of another 7. Tra ...
... in order to convey the right message. The best way to do this is to remember what each preposition is used for. Here is a summary of the uses: Por 1. Passing through 2. General location 3. How long something lasts 4. The cause of something 5. An exchange 6. Doing something in place of another 7. Tra ...
Topics and Participants in Jamamadí Narrative
... Participants may also be introduced by kinship terms. When a kinship term is used the person referred to by the term is never topic. They may become a paragraph topic at a later point in the story but cannot then be referred to by a kinship term. The ego of the kinship term is always the topic of t ...
... Participants may also be introduced by kinship terms. When a kinship term is used the person referred to by the term is never topic. They may become a paragraph topic at a later point in the story but cannot then be referred to by a kinship term. The ego of the kinship term is always the topic of t ...
Remarks on the History of the Indo-European Infinitive
... of infinitives infinitives undergo undergo are: are: subjects a. equivalent equivalent noun noun phrase deletion ; a. phrase deletion; b. raising to object; to object; b. raising c. raising raising to subject. c. to subject. When subordinate is not not coreferent coreferent with with aa main main cl ...
... of infinitives infinitives undergo undergo are: are: subjects a. equivalent equivalent noun noun phrase deletion ; a. phrase deletion; b. raising to object; to object; b. raising c. raising raising to subject. c. to subject. When subordinate is not not coreferent coreferent with with aa main main cl ...
The liaison in French IP and VP: a syntactic analysis - clic
... Furthermore, impossible liaison involving indirect modifiers could be associated with impossible liaison involving relative pronouns (22). If indirect modifiers are reduced relatives clauses, the absence of liaison in these two contexts may correlate: ...
... Furthermore, impossible liaison involving indirect modifiers could be associated with impossible liaison involving relative pronouns (22). If indirect modifiers are reduced relatives clauses, the absence of liaison in these two contexts may correlate: ...
Object agreement, grammatical relations, and information structure. In
... In previous descriptions of Ostyak the presence of object agreement (the objective conjugation) has been stated to be conditioned by the definiteness of the direct object (Rédei 1965; Honti 1984, and many others). The term “definite,” in its turn, is taken to denote the formal properties of object N ...
... In previous descriptions of Ostyak the presence of object agreement (the objective conjugation) has been stated to be conditioned by the definiteness of the direct object (Rédei 1965; Honti 1984, and many others). The term “definite,” in its turn, is taken to denote the formal properties of object N ...
HIERARCHIES AND COMPETING GENERALIZATIONS IN SERBO
... which could be analyzed as showing either concord agreement (hence, feminine singular) or index agreement (hence, neuter plural), is assumed in W&Z for theory-internal considerations to show index agreement and therefore to be neuter plural. As for the semantic features, they are assumed to be neede ...
... which could be analyzed as showing either concord agreement (hence, feminine singular) or index agreement (hence, neuter plural), is assumed in W&Z for theory-internal considerations to show index agreement and therefore to be neuter plural. As for the semantic features, they are assumed to be neede ...
Attributive clauses in Modern English
... The lack of completeness is manifested by some deictic elements (determinants) before the antecedent (mainly articles, demonstrative pronouns, or words with a demonstrative or particularizing meaning, such as the same, the only, the best). The presence of such elements is justified only if the attri ...
... The lack of completeness is manifested by some deictic elements (determinants) before the antecedent (mainly articles, demonstrative pronouns, or words with a demonstrative or particularizing meaning, such as the same, the only, the best). The presence of such elements is justified only if the attri ...
Bible Daily Grammar Practice Level V
... Daily Grammar Practice (DGP) is a different way to learn grammar. Students get one sentence to work with each week, and each day they spend just a few minutes doing something different with that same sentence. This process is difficult at first, but it gets easier with practice. More importantly, it ...
... Daily Grammar Practice (DGP) is a different way to learn grammar. Students get one sentence to work with each week, and each day they spend just a few minutes doing something different with that same sentence. This process is difficult at first, but it gets easier with practice. More importantly, it ...
Handling of Prepositions in English to Bengali Machine Translation
... However, there are some words that act as prepositions and fall into other POS categories as well. For example, the word before can be used as an adverb (e.g., I could not come before), preposition (e.g., He came before me) or a conjunction (e.g., He came before I came). Similarly, the word round ca ...
... However, there are some words that act as prepositions and fall into other POS categories as well. For example, the word before can be used as an adverb (e.g., I could not come before), preposition (e.g., He came before me) or a conjunction (e.g., He came before I came). Similarly, the word round ca ...