English Grammar Notes
... Conversion of Superlative degree to Comparative degree.........................................................................20 ' These ' and ' Those ' ..................................................................................................................................21 ' much ' and ...
... Conversion of Superlative degree to Comparative degree.........................................................................20 ' These ' and ' Those ' ..................................................................................................................................21 ' much ' and ...
ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE COMPOUNDING
... An endocentric compound consists of a head which represents the core meaning of the whole compound and modifiers which limit the meaning of the head. In general, the meaning of a compound is mainly based on the meaning of its head and has the same word class with components. For example, a blackboar ...
... An endocentric compound consists of a head which represents the core meaning of the whole compound and modifiers which limit the meaning of the head. In general, the meaning of a compound is mainly based on the meaning of its head and has the same word class with components. For example, a blackboar ...
Frequent Frames, Flexible Frames and the Noun-Verb Asymmetry Gary Jones Fernand Gobet
... of the 12 children in the Manchester corpus (Theakston et al., 2001). The child-directed speech in the Manchester corpus is typically in the range of 25,000 to 30,000 utterances per child. Corpora were cleaned up minimally, and only multi-word utterances were analysed. For all corpora the following ...
... of the 12 children in the Manchester corpus (Theakston et al., 2001). The child-directed speech in the Manchester corpus is typically in the range of 25,000 to 30,000 utterances per child. Corpora were cleaned up minimally, and only multi-word utterances were analysed. For all corpora the following ...
Nominalization – Lexical and Syntactic Aspects
... categorization together with a pertinent argument structure.6 Finally, in addition to the major lexical categories like verb, noun, and adjective, the lexical system is usually assumed to contain functional categories like complementizer, determiner, tense, and affixes of derivation and inflection. ...
... categorization together with a pertinent argument structure.6 Finally, in addition to the major lexical categories like verb, noun, and adjective, the lexical system is usually assumed to contain functional categories like complementizer, determiner, tense, and affixes of derivation and inflection. ...
The Tamil Case System
... involve many more contrasts than seem to be minimally necessary according to analysts of case systems in general (cf. Fillmore, 1968:24, who posits six cases minimally), I shall not attempt to fit this analysis into a “universalist” framework. One must also confront here a problem that comes up in a ...
... involve many more contrasts than seem to be minimally necessary according to analysts of case systems in general (cf. Fillmore, 1968:24, who posits six cases minimally), I shall not attempt to fit this analysis into a “universalist” framework. One must also confront here a problem that comes up in a ...
Persian
... A concrete noun (not a predicative one) : mesvâk ‘tooth brush’ + zadan ‘to brush one’s teeth’ šâne ‘comb’ + zadan ‘to comb one’s hair lif ‘face-cloth’ + zadan ‘to wash with a face-cloth’ jâru ‘broom’ + zadan ‘to sweep up’ rang ‘painting’ + zadan ‘to paint’ dast ‘hand’ + zadan ‘to touch’ vâks ‘polish ...
... A concrete noun (not a predicative one) : mesvâk ‘tooth brush’ + zadan ‘to brush one’s teeth’ šâne ‘comb’ + zadan ‘to comb one’s hair lif ‘face-cloth’ + zadan ‘to wash with a face-cloth’ jâru ‘broom’ + zadan ‘to sweep up’ rang ‘painting’ + zadan ‘to paint’ dast ‘hand’ + zadan ‘to touch’ vâks ‘polish ...
subject verb concord - Directorate of Distance Education
... In sentence 1, the action denoted by the verb ‘kills’ passes over from the doer or the subject ‘Ram’ to the object ‘snake’. The verb ‘kills’ is, therefore, called a Transitive verb. In sentence 2, the action denoted by the verb ‘laughs’ stops with the doer i.e., the boy, it does not pass over to any ...
... In sentence 1, the action denoted by the verb ‘kills’ passes over from the doer or the subject ‘Ram’ to the object ‘snake’. The verb ‘kills’ is, therefore, called a Transitive verb. In sentence 2, the action denoted by the verb ‘laughs’ stops with the doer i.e., the boy, it does not pass over to any ...
Grammar - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
... • An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a request. It ends with a period. • An exclamatory sentence expresses strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation point. Read each sentence. Write whether it is declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. 1. What a wonderful camping trip ...
... • An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a request. It ends with a period. • An exclamatory sentence expresses strong feeling. It ends with an exclamation point. Read each sentence. Write whether it is declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. 1. What a wonderful camping trip ...
Shurley and Reading Street Alignment
... Letter writing skills: friendly and business letters, addressing envelopes, thank-you notes, invitations, and using contractions. Unit 7-Combine with the Greek/Latin roots unit (from Shari Alexander). This unit covers dictionary skills and alphabetizing, as well as the Greek/Latin roots. Use Shurley ...
... Letter writing skills: friendly and business letters, addressing envelopes, thank-you notes, invitations, and using contractions. Unit 7-Combine with the Greek/Latin roots unit (from Shari Alexander). This unit covers dictionary skills and alphabetizing, as well as the Greek/Latin roots. Use Shurley ...
Let Us All Learn About ---==”Subject and Verb Agreement”
... 3. All of the plants in the farm (was, were) applied with fertilizers. 4. One – fourth of the farmers (practice, practices) crop rotation. 5. All Angelo needs (is, are) to study. 6. The number of drop- outs (decrease, decreases) this year. 7. A number of teacher applicants (arrive, arrives) the scho ...
... 3. All of the plants in the farm (was, were) applied with fertilizers. 4. One – fourth of the farmers (practice, practices) crop rotation. 5. All Angelo needs (is, are) to study. 6. The number of drop- outs (decrease, decreases) this year. 7. A number of teacher applicants (arrive, arrives) the scho ...
Constructing verb paradigms in French: adult construals and
... their first language (Veneziano 2003; Veneziano and Parisse 2010). Our hypothesis is that children make use of adult interpretations of their utterances by aligning different constructions with each temporal meaning. This allows them to sort out certain homophonous verb forms in context. For this to ...
... their first language (Veneziano 2003; Veneziano and Parisse 2010). Our hypothesis is that children make use of adult interpretations of their utterances by aligning different constructions with each temporal meaning. This allows them to sort out certain homophonous verb forms in context. For this to ...
The morphosyntax of mood in early grammar, with special reference
... The paper is organized as follows. In the following section we review several studies of the realis-irrealis mood distinction as it is manifested in the various European child languages noted above and we lay out our assumptions concerning the relation of realis and irrealis mood to the morphosynta ...
... The paper is organized as follows. In the following section we review several studies of the realis-irrealis mood distinction as it is manifested in the various European child languages noted above and we lay out our assumptions concerning the relation of realis and irrealis mood to the morphosynta ...
WRITING DETAILS
... element to another. He was helpful and considerate of his friends. If friends is intended to attach to helpful as well as to considerate, a second preposition is needed; of does not work after helpful. He was helpful to his friends and considerate of them. Parallelism in Comparisons Parallel pattern ...
... element to another. He was helpful and considerate of his friends. If friends is intended to attach to helpful as well as to considerate, a second preposition is needed; of does not work after helpful. He was helpful to his friends and considerate of them. Parallelism in Comparisons Parallel pattern ...
A brief grammar of Euskara - University of the Basque Country
... The oldest traces of Euskara in history are a set of proper names found in Roman inscriptions in the Aquitaine. They consist mostly of person and divinity names, which are easily recognizable given modern Basque: thus for instance, Andere corresponds to andere 'woman, lady', and Nescato corresponds ...
... The oldest traces of Euskara in history are a set of proper names found in Roman inscriptions in the Aquitaine. They consist mostly of person and divinity names, which are easily recognizable given modern Basque: thus for instance, Andere corresponds to andere 'woman, lady', and Nescato corresponds ...
“Onto” vs. - San Jose State University
... 2) Use “on” as a particle as part of a phrasal verb. Example: He must move on from past mistakes. Example: She had nothing to add on after her speech. 3) Use “on” interchangeably with “onto” following action verbs. In the following two examples, “placed” and “landed” are both action verbs. ...
... 2) Use “on” as a particle as part of a phrasal verb. Example: He must move on from past mistakes. Example: She had nothing to add on after her speech. 3) Use “on” interchangeably with “onto” following action verbs. In the following two examples, “placed” and “landed” are both action verbs. ...
Bilingual Complex Verbs - Linguistic Society of America
... construction into a verb. For example, bikri kᴐra ‘sale do’ is an N+do construction in Bengali, which means ‘sell’. The V+V structure consists of two or more predicational elements, where the main verb provides the main semantic information to the construction and is followed by a light verb which p ...
... construction into a verb. For example, bikri kᴐra ‘sale do’ is an N+do construction in Bengali, which means ‘sell’. The V+V structure consists of two or more predicational elements, where the main verb provides the main semantic information to the construction and is followed by a light verb which p ...
The grammar of hitting and breaking in Kimaragang Dusun
... lacking on intransitive verbs.3 Many verbal roots occur in both transitive and intransitive forms, as illustrated in (3) with the root patay „die; kill‟. In the most productive pattern, and the one of interest to us here, the intransitive form has an inchoative (change of state) meaning while the tr ...
... lacking on intransitive verbs.3 Many verbal roots occur in both transitive and intransitive forms, as illustrated in (3) with the root patay „die; kill‟. In the most productive pattern, and the one of interest to us here, the intransitive form has an inchoative (change of state) meaning while the tr ...
Post-syntactic movement and the Old Irish Verb
... OI is a VSO language (see Thurneysen 1975, Watkins 1963). Current transformational theory provides a number of possible derivations for surface VSO order which all posit an underlying VP. The motivation for this VP constituent is primarily theoretical (stemming from constraints on binary branching a ...
... OI is a VSO language (see Thurneysen 1975, Watkins 1963). Current transformational theory provides a number of possible derivations for surface VSO order which all posit an underlying VP. The motivation for this VP constituent is primarily theoretical (stemming from constraints on binary branching a ...
Improving Verb Phrase Extraction from Historical Text by use of Verb
... In this work, we adopt the verb phrase extraction method presented in Pettersson et al. (2013), where verbs and complements are extracted from historical text based on output from NLP tools developed for present-day Swedish. In addition to their approach, we also include a post-processing step, remo ...
... In this work, we adopt the verb phrase extraction method presented in Pettersson et al. (2013), where verbs and complements are extracted from historical text based on output from NLP tools developed for present-day Swedish. In addition to their approach, we also include a post-processing step, remo ...
Notes on the Interpretation of the Prepositional Accusative in
... grammatical gender feature is either inherent in the pronoun, or acquired by agreement with a nominal pro. Since pro has only grammatical features, there can be no potential disagreement between semantic and grammatical gender, so the grammatical gender features do double duty, triggering the use of ...
... grammatical gender feature is either inherent in the pronoun, or acquired by agreement with a nominal pro. Since pro has only grammatical features, there can be no potential disagreement between semantic and grammatical gender, so the grammatical gender features do double duty, triggering the use of ...
This chapter makes theoretical contributions to construction grammar
... For the purposes of this article we define grammatical subjects as those subjects that are expressed by a nominative noun phrase that triggers verbal agreement, and this type of subject is most typically an agent. Under this definition, many sentences in Russian do not have a grammatical subject, an ...
... For the purposes of this article we define grammatical subjects as those subjects that are expressed by a nominative noun phrase that triggers verbal agreement, and this type of subject is most typically an agent. Under this definition, many sentences in Russian do not have a grammatical subject, an ...
Egenéto he basileia tou kosmou tou kyríou hêmon kai tou
... vocabulary became available with the publication of the Etymologies (LR:347-400), and enthusiasts were soon trying to compile actual texts using the “Elvish” words Tolkien had listed half a century earlier. These attempts to celebrate Tolkien’s Elvish were still impeded by the lack of many crucial “ ...
... vocabulary became available with the publication of the Etymologies (LR:347-400), and enthusiasts were soon trying to compile actual texts using the “Elvish” words Tolkien had listed half a century earlier. These attempts to celebrate Tolkien’s Elvish were still impeded by the lack of many crucial “ ...
Nominalization in Yami*
... semantic role (i.e., agent, patient, instrument, location, product, manner, reason) of the nominalized verb. In some languages, an entire predicate or proposition can be turned into a noun phrase. For example, dependent clauses (relative, complement and adverbial clauses) are used extensively to for ...
... semantic role (i.e., agent, patient, instrument, location, product, manner, reason) of the nominalized verb. In some languages, an entire predicate or proposition can be turned into a noun phrase. For example, dependent clauses (relative, complement and adverbial clauses) are used extensively to for ...
On Verb-Initial and Verb-Final Word Orders in Lokaa.
... clauses and gerunds. This article aspires to give a comprehensive description of this phenomenon, together with a theoretical analysis. It considers how a full range of grammatical elements are ordered in both kinds of clauses—including direct objects, second objects, particles, weak pronouns, compl ...
... clauses and gerunds. This article aspires to give a comprehensive description of this phenomenon, together with a theoretical analysis. It considers how a full range of grammatical elements are ordered in both kinds of clauses—including direct objects, second objects, particles, weak pronouns, compl ...
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.