To Moderately Split an Infinitive
... verb it governs; to practically ignore, for example, is a split infinitive. The anti-split-infinitive alliance vehemently opposes this sentence structure, often citing its use as barbaric and juvenile. Writers who support, or at least don’t combat, the split infinitive don’t seem to be as strongly o ...
... verb it governs; to practically ignore, for example, is a split infinitive. The anti-split-infinitive alliance vehemently opposes this sentence structure, often citing its use as barbaric and juvenile. Writers who support, or at least don’t combat, the split infinitive don’t seem to be as strongly o ...
Automatic Refinement of Linguistic Rules for Tagging
... linguistic insights), Reusability (possibility to apply to new corpora). If we look at the literature on tagging it seems that the features that received most attention are accuracy (reasonably enough) and reusability. In particular, reusability has been addressed by the development of efficient lea ...
... linguistic insights), Reusability (possibility to apply to new corpora). If we look at the literature on tagging it seems that the features that received most attention are accuracy (reasonably enough) and reusability. In particular, reusability has been addressed by the development of efficient lea ...
Summarising Legal Texts - Association for Computational Linguistics
... When automated summarisation is based on text extraction, an abstract will typically consist of sentences selected from the source text, possibly with some smoothing to increase the coherence between the sentences. The advantage of this method is that it is a very general technique, which will work ...
... When automated summarisation is based on text extraction, an abstract will typically consist of sentences selected from the source text, possibly with some smoothing to increase the coherence between the sentences. The advantage of this method is that it is a very general technique, which will work ...
Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases
... Jan denkt dat Peter hem/*zichzelf bewondert. Jan thinks that Peter him/himself admires ‘Jan thinks that Peter is admiring him [= Jan].’ Jan denkt dat Peter zichzelf/*hem bewondert. Jan thinks that Peter himself/him admires ‘Jan thinks that Peter is admiring himself [= Peter].’ ...
... Jan denkt dat Peter hem/*zichzelf bewondert. Jan thinks that Peter him/himself admires ‘Jan thinks that Peter is admiring him [= Jan].’ Jan denkt dat Peter zichzelf/*hem bewondert. Jan thinks that Peter himself/him admires ‘Jan thinks that Peter is admiring himself [= Peter].’ ...
Class 16 Notes - Université d`Ottawa
... (operations and processes) that apply to a sentence before it reaches its final form. • Recall that there are different steps that apply before a sentence is ‘ready’. That is, merge combines words to create phrases, and then combines phrases with one another to create a sentence. • We found out that ...
... (operations and processes) that apply to a sentence before it reaches its final form. • Recall that there are different steps that apply before a sentence is ‘ready’. That is, merge combines words to create phrases, and then combines phrases with one another to create a sentence. • We found out that ...
Checklist for Writing - Louisiana Tech University
... Similarly, do not use “haven’t,” “doesn’t,” “wouldn’t,” “don’t,” “we’re,” “they’ve,” or any similar term that you might otherwise use in common speech. Wordiness It is typical for students to use phrases and constructions that are more complicated than necessary. The best way to learn to write clear ...
... Similarly, do not use “haven’t,” “doesn’t,” “wouldn’t,” “don’t,” “we’re,” “they’ve,” or any similar term that you might otherwise use in common speech. Wordiness It is typical for students to use phrases and constructions that are more complicated than necessary. The best way to learn to write clear ...
ENGA21: Grammar exercises
... Food for thought and speculation 1. The dative alternation (mentioned in the lecture) can be though of as a case of multiple realizations of the ‘same’ valency pattern (direct and indirect object, in this case). Often, different realizations of the ‘same’ pattern result in differences in meaning. Fo ...
... Food for thought and speculation 1. The dative alternation (mentioned in the lecture) can be though of as a case of multiple realizations of the ‘same’ valency pattern (direct and indirect object, in this case). Often, different realizations of the ‘same’ pattern result in differences in meaning. Fo ...
//. 3y Université de Monfréal Parsing Impoverished Syntax Andrew
... grammar must be respected. As such, apparent oddities of language, such as wh-islands, rather than being stipulations of the grammar, can be considered legibility conditions or anti-reconstruction effects. Thus wh-islands are points in the sentential string that impede ‘movement’ ofwh-words or phras ...
... grammar must be respected. As such, apparent oddities of language, such as wh-islands, rather than being stipulations of the grammar, can be considered legibility conditions or anti-reconstruction effects. Thus wh-islands are points in the sentential string that impede ‘movement’ ofwh-words or phras ...
The Case of Old English HRĒOW
... The LSW constitutes an explanatory device because it provides the kind of exhaustive analysis of category and function at multiple levels that functional theories of grammar (and the Linguistic Circle of Prague before them) have been carrying out for nearly thirty years. This functional approach, wh ...
... The LSW constitutes an explanatory device because it provides the kind of exhaustive analysis of category and function at multiple levels that functional theories of grammar (and the Linguistic Circle of Prague before them) have been carrying out for nearly thirty years. This functional approach, wh ...
Sentences - Murad Faridi
... dependent clauses. A complex sentence always has a subordinator such as because, since, after, although, or when or a relative pronoun such as that, who, or which. In the following complex sentences, subjects are in yellow, verbs are in green, and the subordinators and their commas (when required) a ...
... dependent clauses. A complex sentence always has a subordinator such as because, since, after, although, or when or a relative pronoun such as that, who, or which. In the following complex sentences, subjects are in yellow, verbs are in green, and the subordinators and their commas (when required) a ...
Syntactic Deviations / Stylistic Variants in Poetry
... al. (1985) call “the principle of end-weight”, which is the tendency in English “to reserve the final position for the more complex parts of a clause or a sentence”. Co-ordinate noun phrases and pronouns in the subjective relation are most often separated by a verb phrase: 32. And up I roos , and al ...
... al. (1985) call “the principle of end-weight”, which is the tendency in English “to reserve the final position for the more complex parts of a clause or a sentence”. Co-ordinate noun phrases and pronouns in the subjective relation are most often separated by a verb phrase: 32. And up I roos , and al ...
Learning Morphology by Itself1 - Mediterranean Morphology Meetings
... phonologically weak, often unstressed, word boundary positions. Moreover, they convey fairly abstract and procedural semantic content (i.e. morpho-syntactic properties), having very few if any perceptual correlates in the grounding environment where words are uttered. Finally, when a language offers ...
... phonologically weak, often unstressed, word boundary positions. Moreover, they convey fairly abstract and procedural semantic content (i.e. morpho-syntactic properties), having very few if any perceptual correlates in the grounding environment where words are uttered. Finally, when a language offers ...
Exercises for Developing Prediction Skills in Reading Latin Sentences
... available on the TCL website) or using American Sign Language. One can make separate picture and prepositional phrase cards and use them to play a matching game or create a SMART Notebook activity version. One can also ask “yes/no” or alternative questions about a picture (e.g. I.1 and 2 above) or b ...
... available on the TCL website) or using American Sign Language. One can make separate picture and prepositional phrase cards and use them to play a matching game or create a SMART Notebook activity version. One can also ask “yes/no” or alternative questions about a picture (e.g. I.1 and 2 above) or b ...
The following terms are necessary to an analysis of syntax at the AP
... Syntax refers to the way words are arranged within sentences. How the writer controls and manipulates the sentence is a strong determiner of voice and imparts personality to the writing. Syntax encompasses sentence length, word order, sentence focus, and punctuation. The following terms are necessar ...
... Syntax refers to the way words are arranged within sentences. How the writer controls and manipulates the sentence is a strong determiner of voice and imparts personality to the writing. Syntax encompasses sentence length, word order, sentence focus, and punctuation. The following terms are necessar ...
Formal Description of Arabic Syntactic Structure in the Framework of
... require a complete syntactic analysis. For information retrieval (IR), it is sufficient to find noun phrases (NPs) and verbal phrases (VPs). However, for such applications as information extraction (IE), text summarization (TS), question answering (QA), we are interested in information about specifi ...
... require a complete syntactic analysis. For information retrieval (IR), it is sufficient to find noun phrases (NPs) and verbal phrases (VPs). However, for such applications as information extraction (IE), text summarization (TS), question answering (QA), we are interested in information about specifi ...
4. Third scenario: Sexual selection and a run
... 2. First scenario: cognitive and physical predispositions for language In evolutionary biology, the phenomenon of predisposition or pre-adaptation is known in various species. Thus certain insects are resistant against pesticides, some bacteria against antibiotics, although they never had an opportu ...
... 2. First scenario: cognitive and physical predispositions for language In evolutionary biology, the phenomenon of predisposition or pre-adaptation is known in various species. Thus certain insects are resistant against pesticides, some bacteria against antibiotics, although they never had an opportu ...
this PDF file - Journal of Teaching English for Specific
... use. There are several possible explanations which, however, should not be considered competing but rather complementary. One explanation is the 'amount of knowledge' explanation which says that productive learning is considered more difficult because it requires extra learning of new spoken or writ ...
... use. There are several possible explanations which, however, should not be considered competing but rather complementary. One explanation is the 'amount of knowledge' explanation which says that productive learning is considered more difficult because it requires extra learning of new spoken or writ ...
The Syntactic Level
... equivalent despite changes in the part-of-speech or the sentence structure. To a translator, s/he can select any style which is grammatically correct based on his/her structural preferences, profound knowledge, and/or preciseness. ...
... equivalent despite changes in the part-of-speech or the sentence structure. To a translator, s/he can select any style which is grammatically correct based on his/her structural preferences, profound knowledge, and/or preciseness. ...
grade 6 - Stanhope School
... teachers. Nevertheless, everyone benefits when instruction is codified, thereby ensuring continuity, eliminating redundancy, and facilitating a more comprehensive mastery of both the individual skills and the curricula in which those skills are essential. In order to achieve the learning targets sta ...
... teachers. Nevertheless, everyone benefits when instruction is codified, thereby ensuring continuity, eliminating redundancy, and facilitating a more comprehensive mastery of both the individual skills and the curricula in which those skills are essential. In order to achieve the learning targets sta ...
Appendix C - Pearson Custom
... verbs instead of gerunds even if they do exist [Haitian Creole]. ...
... verbs instead of gerunds even if they do exist [Haitian Creole]. ...
Syntactic Structure and Ambiguity of English
... context-free languages even of greatly restricted generality (Chomsky and Schiitzenberger3 , Greibach 7 ), i.e., no general algorithm can be found for determining whether or not a given dpa (psg) will analyze (generate) some sentence in more than one way. The outlook for practically interesting deci ...
... context-free languages even of greatly restricted generality (Chomsky and Schiitzenberger3 , Greibach 7 ), i.e., no general algorithm can be found for determining whether or not a given dpa (psg) will analyze (generate) some sentence in more than one way. The outlook for practically interesting deci ...
Book 6B Final Test
... phrases, circle the word the phrase modifies, and then write either adverb phrase or adjective phrase beneath it. 1.Those cows with the black and white spots are in the barn. 2.Farmers work in the fields all day long. C.For each word group below, underline the subject and circle the verb. Then write ...
... phrases, circle the word the phrase modifies, and then write either adverb phrase or adjective phrase beneath it. 1.Those cows with the black and white spots are in the barn. 2.Farmers work in the fields all day long. C.For each word group below, underline the subject and circle the verb. Then write ...
Fast Semantic Extraction Using a Novel Neural
... annotated parses of sentences. The current version of the dataset gives semantic tags for the same sentences as in the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al., 1993), which are excerpts from the Wall Street Journal. The central idea is that each verb in a sentence is labeled with its propositional arguments, w ...
... annotated parses of sentences. The current version of the dataset gives semantic tags for the same sentences as in the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al., 1993), which are excerpts from the Wall Street Journal. The central idea is that each verb in a sentence is labeled with its propositional arguments, w ...
PC-Kimmo
... dictionary entries should there be? Example, the word fair meaning (a) light coloured (b) impartial and (c) a festival. In general answer depends on purposes. Englex’s lexicon is a parsing lexicon, not a full dictionary, so it only distinguishes homonyms having different parts of speech. ...
... dictionary entries should there be? Example, the word fair meaning (a) light coloured (b) impartial and (c) a festival. In general answer depends on purposes. Englex’s lexicon is a parsing lexicon, not a full dictionary, so it only distinguishes homonyms having different parts of speech. ...
Constraint Based Design
... Rules and parameters help create an overall unity and organization to a design. In some form or another, constraints as a means to influence form has been used for a long time. Ancient Greek architecture used an extensive ordering system to regulate the proportion and placement of formal elements of ...
... Rules and parameters help create an overall unity and organization to a design. In some form or another, constraints as a means to influence form has been used for a long time. Ancient Greek architecture used an extensive ordering system to regulate the proportion and placement of formal elements of ...