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... grammatical categories which have its origin in the description of languages like classical Latin and Greek (Yule, 1985: 70). Since there were well-established grammatical descriptions of these older languages, it seemed appropriate to adopt the existing categories from these descriptions and apply ...
... grammatical categories which have its origin in the description of languages like classical Latin and Greek (Yule, 1985: 70). Since there were well-established grammatical descriptions of these older languages, it seemed appropriate to adopt the existing categories from these descriptions and apply ...
How to label accent position in spontaneous speech boundary labels.
... For the automatic classi cation of accents, large training databases are needed. The perceptual labelling of accents, however, is very time consuming, and the database provided by our Verbmobil (VM) partner University of Braunschweig is therefore not too large. Above that, the higher linguistic modu ...
... For the automatic classi cation of accents, large training databases are needed. The perceptual labelling of accents, however, is very time consuming, and the database provided by our Verbmobil (VM) partner University of Braunschweig is therefore not too large. Above that, the higher linguistic modu ...
small clauses and participial constructions - E
... from infinitives, which allow wh-complementation. The possibility of subordinate interrogative clauses is strong evidence of a CP, since wh-phrases always move to SpecC. But, as mentioned, there are no participial questions. While the declarative finite clause in (3c) allows a participial paraphrase ...
... from infinitives, which allow wh-complementation. The possibility of subordinate interrogative clauses is strong evidence of a CP, since wh-phrases always move to SpecC. But, as mentioned, there are no participial questions. While the declarative finite clause in (3c) allows a participial paraphrase ...
Rule-Based Detection of Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis
... Before we can write the Constraint Grammar for capturing gapping, we need to define the linguistic environment in which gapping occurs. In gapping, the elliptical clause contains at least two sentence elements that have counterparts in the main clause. We can thus detect the elliptical clauses based ...
... Before we can write the Constraint Grammar for capturing gapping, we need to define the linguistic environment in which gapping occurs. In gapping, the elliptical clause contains at least two sentence elements that have counterparts in the main clause. We can thus detect the elliptical clauses based ...
The rise of the periphrastic perfect tense in the continental West
... process-denoting verbal meaning, and furthermore enables the formation of periphrastic perfect-tense constructions. This article further claims that the transition from stage II to stage III is likewise due to a single morphological change: the increase in the number of verbal participles finally re ...
... process-denoting verbal meaning, and furthermore enables the formation of periphrastic perfect-tense constructions. This article further claims that the transition from stage II to stage III is likewise due to a single morphological change: the increase in the number of verbal participles finally re ...
The structure of the do/make construction in
... contain little or no semantic information, which may precede a nominalized English bare verb. The nominalized English verb allows the semantic construal of an event, while the light verb creates the appropriate Chichewa syntactic structure and makes it well-formed. I argue that most English verbs un ...
... contain little or no semantic information, which may precede a nominalized English bare verb. The nominalized English verb allows the semantic construal of an event, while the light verb creates the appropriate Chichewa syntactic structure and makes it well-formed. I argue that most English verbs un ...
Active/agentive Case Marking and Its Motivations
... systems of this kind are often the products of successive diachronic developments, each individually motivated. Several factors can obscure the motivations, including not only crosslinguistic differences in detail, but also shifts of defining features over time, grammaticization, and lexicalization. ...
... systems of this kind are often the products of successive diachronic developments, each individually motivated. Several factors can obscure the motivations, including not only crosslinguistic differences in detail, but also shifts of defining features over time, grammaticization, and lexicalization. ...
Scientific Writing: A Friendly Guide
... Conclusions and interpretations should not go beyond what the sample warrants. When particular demographic characteristics are experimental variables or are important for the interpretation of the results, describe the group specifically, for example, in terms of racial and ethnic designation, natio ...
... Conclusions and interpretations should not go beyond what the sample warrants. When particular demographic characteristics are experimental variables or are important for the interpretation of the results, describe the group specifically, for example, in terms of racial and ethnic designation, natio ...
Use # 2: Adjective clauses: An adjective clause is a clause that
... We shall review 4 different tenses of the subjunctive. You will review the present and imperfect subjunctive (or past subjunctive). In addition, we shall review the corresponding perfect/compound tenses: the present perfect and the pluperfect. ...
... We shall review 4 different tenses of the subjunctive. You will review the present and imperfect subjunctive (or past subjunctive). In addition, we shall review the corresponding perfect/compound tenses: the present perfect and the pluperfect. ...
The Akan Phrasal Verb as a Syntactic Manifestation
... It will be necessary, at this juncture, to discuss the nature and workings of the adposition element in the Akan. Adposition elements in Akan can be grouped into the ordinary and the verbal according to the grammatical form with which the meaning of the adposition element is associated; and also int ...
... It will be necessary, at this juncture, to discuss the nature and workings of the adposition element in the Akan. Adposition elements in Akan can be grouped into the ordinary and the verbal according to the grammatical form with which the meaning of the adposition element is associated; and also int ...
Relativization in English and Embosi
... If in Tswana the relative pronoun and the antecedent are linked by a connector, in Embsí on the contrary, there is no connector. Of interest is the fact that either the connector in Tswana or the relative pronouns in Embsí depend on the noun class of their antecedents. In addition, they do not car ...
... If in Tswana the relative pronoun and the antecedent are linked by a connector, in Embsí on the contrary, there is no connector. Of interest is the fact that either the connector in Tswana or the relative pronouns in Embsí depend on the noun class of their antecedents. In addition, they do not car ...
Quenya - the Ancient Tongue
... proved to be of a very different character when he became King in 3177 (or 3175 according to one source - see UT:227). He repented of the ways of the Kings before him and took a title in Quenya according to the ancient custom: Tar-Palantir, the Far-Sighted. Tar-Palantir "would fain have returned to ...
... proved to be of a very different character when he became King in 3177 (or 3175 according to one source - see UT:227). He repented of the ways of the Kings before him and took a title in Quenya according to the ancient custom: Tar-Palantir, the Far-Sighted. Tar-Palantir "would fain have returned to ...
TENSE, ASPECT AND MOOD IN MESQAN MESERET ESHETU A
... i. Describe the distinction between tense and aspect. ii Identify the grammatical markers of tense, aspect and mood of the language. ii. Analyze whether Mesqan is primarily a tense or aspect language. Mesqan verbs are primarily marked for aspect, i.e. they have distinct grammatical base forms for th ...
... i. Describe the distinction between tense and aspect. ii Identify the grammatical markers of tense, aspect and mood of the language. ii. Analyze whether Mesqan is primarily a tense or aspect language. Mesqan verbs are primarily marked for aspect, i.e. they have distinct grammatical base forms for th ...
This opposition reveals a special category, the category
... Modern English, as distinct from Modern Russian, is a language of analytical structure. Relations of words in the sentence are expressed mainly by the positions of words or by special form-words. The main means of expressing syntactic relations in Russian (a language of synthetic structure) is the s ...
... Modern English, as distinct from Modern Russian, is a language of analytical structure. Relations of words in the sentence are expressed mainly by the positions of words or by special form-words. The main means of expressing syntactic relations in Russian (a language of synthetic structure) is the s ...
AnaPro, tool for identification and resolution of direct anaphora
... words to which the pronoun refers. It locates in the previous sentences the referent or antecedent which the pronoun replaces. An example of a direct anaphora solved is: the pronoun “he” in the sentence “He is sad.” AnaPro directly supports text analysis (to understand what a document says), a non t ...
... words to which the pronoun refers. It locates in the previous sentences the referent or antecedent which the pronoun replaces. An example of a direct anaphora solved is: the pronoun “he” in the sentence “He is sad.” AnaPro directly supports text analysis (to understand what a document says), a non t ...
Untitled
... verbs for purposes of syntax. In Japanese, however, this is by no means the case. Here it is rather the rule than the exception that a word with or even without a change of inflection can be converted at pleasure into a verb, an adIku, to go,' for instance, looking to its jective or a noun. ...
... verbs for purposes of syntax. In Japanese, however, this is by no means the case. Here it is rather the rule than the exception that a word with or even without a change of inflection can be converted at pleasure into a verb, an adIku, to go,' for instance, looking to its jective or a noun. ...
Constraints on the formal structure of Russian verb clusters
... behavior • Conceptualization of different types of events and relationship to time • Components of verb meaning correlate with selection of Perfectives ...
... behavior • Conceptualization of different types of events and relationship to time • Components of verb meaning correlate with selection of Perfectives ...
1 Background on this module 2 Introduction
... polymorphemic word - a word containing more than one morpheme. The word love, then, is monomorphemic and the word lovely is polymorphemic. In our example, the morpheme love is also what we refer to as a root. A root is generally the base form of a word, a form that cannot be analyzed into further mo ...
... polymorphemic word - a word containing more than one morpheme. The word love, then, is monomorphemic and the word lovely is polymorphemic. In our example, the morpheme love is also what we refer to as a root. A root is generally the base form of a word, a form that cannot be analyzed into further mo ...
Clitics in Word Grammar
... as the intermediate forms recognised in traditional inflectional morphology (e.g. the various tense forms in Latin to which person and number affixes are added). This hierarchical subclassification of forms is clearly different from any hierarchy that would apply to words, as can be seen from Figure ...
... as the intermediate forms recognised in traditional inflectional morphology (e.g. the various tense forms in Latin to which person and number affixes are added). This hierarchical subclassification of forms is clearly different from any hierarchy that would apply to words, as can be seen from Figure ...
The morphology and syntax of Scottish English
... continuum to Standard English at the other. Different speakers make different choices in different situations. This paper focuses on structures towards and at the Broad Scots end of the range. Broad Scots is essentially a spoken variety and spontaneous spoken language has its own structures and prop ...
... continuum to Standard English at the other. Different speakers make different choices in different situations. This paper focuses on structures towards and at the Broad Scots end of the range. Broad Scots is essentially a spoken variety and spontaneous spoken language has its own structures and prop ...
pronominalised himalayan languages limbu - rai
... Lot of activities have been taking place for the development of Limbu language by Government and Non-governmental organisations. It has its own orthography called Sirijangga, which is the indigenous name of Limbu script. In All India Radio, Limbu language programmes were introduced in 1985 with the ...
... Lot of activities have been taking place for the development of Limbu language by Government and Non-governmental organisations. It has its own orthography called Sirijangga, which is the indigenous name of Limbu script. In All India Radio, Limbu language programmes were introduced in 1985 with the ...
C05_Giruba_Beulah_onemotion_detection
... manually annotated. Such an approach may work for languages of few cases. However, not all cases in a language may be affect sensitive. Cases in Tamil are eight and only two of these are affect sensitive, namely the instrumental and the accusative case. Thus manually annotating cases in Tamil would ...
... manually annotated. Such an approach may work for languages of few cases. However, not all cases in a language may be affect sensitive. Cases in Tamil are eight and only two of these are affect sensitive, namely the instrumental and the accusative case. Thus manually annotating cases in Tamil would ...
Curriculum Map
... of previously assessed topics ▪ is there correct application of conjugation, verbs, vocabulary, agreement, and syntax? ▪ can students make inferences about cultural traditions and activities based on discussion, reading selections, and prior ...
... of previously assessed topics ▪ is there correct application of conjugation, verbs, vocabulary, agreement, and syntax? ▪ can students make inferences about cultural traditions and activities based on discussion, reading selections, and prior ...
primary argument case-marking in baltic and finnic
... languages. The accusative is based on Proto-I.E*-m > Proto-Baltic*-n, retained as -n in Prussian, as nasalization on the stem vowel in Lithuanian, and -u from an older *-uo in Latvian where the loss of -n caused a subsequent lengthening of the vowel which then shortened in word final position: *om > ...
... languages. The accusative is based on Proto-I.E*-m > Proto-Baltic*-n, retained as -n in Prussian, as nasalization on the stem vowel in Lithuanian, and -u from an older *-uo in Latvian where the loss of -n caused a subsequent lengthening of the vowel which then shortened in word final position: *om > ...
Three Agreement Alternations in Dutch and their Interactions
... (Note that it is not possible to apply (15b) and delete [PAR] while leaving [ADD] unaffected, as this would result in an ill-formed feature geometry.) Thus, (16) can block the application of impoverishment rules.1 The principle in (16) also illuminates an apparent complication with the agreement fo ...
... (Note that it is not possible to apply (15b) and delete [PAR] while leaving [ADD] unaffected, as this would result in an ill-formed feature geometry.) Thus, (16) can block the application of impoverishment rules.1 The principle in (16) also illuminates an apparent complication with the agreement fo ...
Modern Greek grammar
The grammar of Standard Modern Greek, as spoken in present-day Greece and Cyprus, is basically that of Demotic Greek, but it has also assimilated certain elements of Katharevousa, the archaic, learned variety of Greek imitating Classical Greek forms, which used to be the official language of Greece through much of the 19th and 20th centuries. Modern Greek grammar has preserved many features of Ancient Greek, but has also undergone changes in a similar direction as many other modern Indo-European languages, from more synthetic to more analytic structures.