Tense and Aspect Systems
... languages. Most extant descriptions of the world's languages contain almost no information at all about the use of TMA categories except for the labels that the grammarian has chosen to apply to them. Even if these labels are not just taken over from school grammar- as is often the case - the termin ...
... languages. Most extant descriptions of the world's languages contain almost no information at all about the use of TMA categories except for the labels that the grammarian has chosen to apply to them. Even if these labels are not just taken over from school grammar- as is often the case - the termin ...
the present perfect: an exercise in the study of events
... consideração as primeiras três etapas. ...
... consideração as primeiras três etapas. ...
Choosing a Spanish Part-of-Speech tagger for a lexically
... We have developed a mapping from each Spanish tagset to the universal PoS tagset2 . When projecting to the universal PoS tags we loose the inflectional information. Furthermore, past participles have been mapped to the PoS VERB, regardless of whether they function as part of a periphrastic verb tens ...
... We have developed a mapping from each Spanish tagset to the universal PoS tagset2 . When projecting to the universal PoS tags we loose the inflectional information. Furthermore, past participles have been mapped to the PoS VERB, regardless of whether they function as part of a periphrastic verb tens ...
Different by-phrases with adjectival and verbal passives: Evidence
... Die Tür ist geschlossen. the door is closed ∃s0 , ek , xk [close(ek ) ∧ BECOME(s0 )(ek ) ∧ closed(THE DOOR, s0 ) ∧INITIATOR(xk , ek )] ...
... Die Tür ist geschlossen. the door is closed ∃s0 , ek , xk [close(ek ) ∧ BECOME(s0 )(ek ) ∧ closed(THE DOOR, s0 ) ∧INITIATOR(xk , ek )] ...
The -ing dynasty: Rebuilding the semantics of nominalizations
... challenge for the future. Yet even the syntactic and semantic analysis of just those -ing forms in (1) has given rise to much controversy. Since at least Vendler 1967, interpretive differences between the forms have been treated by appeal to different sorts of abstract objects and, as such, -ing for ...
... challenge for the future. Yet even the syntactic and semantic analysis of just those -ing forms in (1) has given rise to much controversy. Since at least Vendler 1967, interpretive differences between the forms have been treated by appeal to different sorts of abstract objects and, as such, -ing for ...
A Practical English Grammar
... Before uncountable nouns (see 13). Before names of meals, except when these are preceded by an adjective: We have breakfast at eight. He gave us a good breakfast. The article is also used when it is a special meal given to celebrate something or in someone's honour: I was invited to dinner (at their ...
... Before uncountable nouns (see 13). Before names of meals, except when these are preceded by an adjective: We have breakfast at eight. He gave us a good breakfast. The article is also used when it is a special meal given to celebrate something or in someone's honour: I was invited to dinner (at their ...
Fourth edition - kitaplarım / my books
... Before uncountable nouns (see 13). Before names of meals, except when these are preceded by an adjective: We have breakfast at eight. He gave us a good breakfast. The article is also used when it is a special meal given to celebrate something or in someone's honour: I was invited to dinner (at their ...
... Before uncountable nouns (see 13). Before names of meals, except when these are preceded by an adjective: We have breakfast at eight. He gave us a good breakfast. The article is also used when it is a special meal given to celebrate something or in someone's honour: I was invited to dinner (at their ...
PERFECTIVITY MIGHT NOT SCOPE OVER MODALITY
... modals: (i) the so-called “past tense” modals: could, should, ought and (ii) need. Depending on the analysis of may and might in (17), counterfactual readings (or external perfect readings) are also attested with (some) epistemic modals. The internal perfect reading can obtain with all the epistemic ...
... modals: (i) the so-called “past tense” modals: could, should, ought and (ii) need. Depending on the analysis of may and might in (17), counterfactual readings (or external perfect readings) are also attested with (some) epistemic modals. The internal perfect reading can obtain with all the epistemic ...
1 Articles and one, a little/a few, this, that
... (b) one can be used before day/week/month/year/summer/winter etc or before the name of the day or month to denote a particular time when something happened One night there was a terrible storm One winter the snow fell early One day a telegram arrived (c) one day can also be used to mean 'at some fut ...
... (b) one can be used before day/week/month/year/summer/winter etc or before the name of the day or month to denote a particular time when something happened One night there was a terrible storm One winter the snow fell early One day a telegram arrived (c) one day can also be used to mean 'at some fut ...
prone - mthoyibi.files.wordpress
... (b) one can be used before day/week/month/year/summer/winter etc or before the name of the day or month to denote a particular time when something happened One night there was a terrible storm One winter the snow fell early One day a telegram arrived (c) one day can also be used to mean 'at some fut ...
... (b) one can be used before day/week/month/year/summer/winter etc or before the name of the day or month to denote a particular time when something happened One night there was a terrible storm One winter the snow fell early One day a telegram arrived (c) one day can also be used to mean 'at some fut ...
`Have` and the Link Between Perfects and Existentials in Old Catalan
... haver with a prototypical unaccusative show a series of traits that link them to existential constructions4. These features are the presence of a locative/dative PP, a definiteness effect, and a number mismatch between the theme-NP of the construction and the verb, which does not occur in any other ...
... haver with a prototypical unaccusative show a series of traits that link them to existential constructions4. These features are the presence of a locative/dative PP, a definiteness effect, and a number mismatch between the theme-NP of the construction and the verb, which does not occur in any other ...
Translating Infinitival Structures
... described phenomenon utterly clear. An overview of literature on the translation of the infinitive and infinitival constructions as well as the research results, were presented at the students’ conference at Šiauliai University in March 2005. ...
... described phenomenon utterly clear. An overview of literature on the translation of the infinitive and infinitival constructions as well as the research results, were presented at the students’ conference at Šiauliai University in March 2005. ...
Yegana Baghirova MA thesis - Khazar University Institutional
... The term "grammar" can also be used to represent the rules that direct the linguistic behaviour of speakers. Accordingly, the term "English grammar" may receive several meanings. It may denote the entire English grammar; it means the grammar that is used by all the speakers of the English language. ...
... The term "grammar" can also be used to represent the rules that direct the linguistic behaviour of speakers. Accordingly, the term "English grammar" may receive several meanings. It may denote the entire English grammar; it means the grammar that is used by all the speakers of the English language. ...
Intermediate Spanish for Dummies
... For general information on our other products and services, please contact our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 800-762-2974, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3993, or fax 317-572-4002. For technical support, please visit www.wiley.com/techsupport. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety o ...
... For general information on our other products and services, please contact our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 800-762-2974, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3993, or fax 317-572-4002. For technical support, please visit www.wiley.com/techsupport. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety o ...
Part II: Writing in the Present
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... For general information on our other products and services, please contact our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 800-762-2974, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3993, or fax 317-572-4002. For technical support, please visit www.wiley.com/techsupport. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety o ...
Grammar in Context Proficiency Level
... If you are the kind of learner for whom this book has been written, you will have learnt English intensively for months or less intensively for years. You will now be in contact with the language as it is used by British, American and other native speakers in conversation, on radio and television, i ...
... If you are the kind of learner for whom this book has been written, you will have learnt English intensively for months or less intensively for years. You will now be in contact with the language as it is used by British, American and other native speakers in conversation, on radio and television, i ...
A Linguistic History of Awyu-Dumut
... Ever since I can remember, wantok is the term used by those with the surname ‘Wester’ to refer to those with the surname ‘Reesink.’ Ger, you have been an excellent wantok the past four years, and going back to the origin of this Tok Pisin word, I would like to thank you for ‘speaking the same langua ...
... Ever since I can remember, wantok is the term used by those with the surname ‘Wester’ to refer to those with the surname ‘Reesink.’ Ger, you have been an excellent wantok the past four years, and going back to the origin of this Tok Pisin word, I would like to thank you for ‘speaking the same langua ...
teaching english passive contrastively and in comparison
... (a) The butler murdered the detective (b) The detective was murdered by the butler”. “But although the structure of a sentence changes under voice transformation, its meaning remains the same.” Greenbaum (1991: 52) states that “Verbs have two voices: active and passive. (…) The active and passive ha ...
... (a) The butler murdered the detective (b) The detective was murdered by the butler”. “But although the structure of a sentence changes under voice transformation, its meaning remains the same.” Greenbaum (1991: 52) states that “Verbs have two voices: active and passive. (…) The active and passive ha ...
A Diachronic Study on the Complementation of the Verb Try
... verb phrase (VP), and according to Lakoff and Ross (1966, II 5), “elements that may occur after ‘do so’ are outside of the verb phrase (are not constituents of VP), and elements that cannot so occur are inside the verb phrase.” Though Lakoff and Ross do not concentrate on complements and adjuncts, t ...
... verb phrase (VP), and according to Lakoff and Ross (1966, II 5), “elements that may occur after ‘do so’ are outside of the verb phrase (are not constituents of VP), and elements that cannot so occur are inside the verb phrase.” Though Lakoff and Ross do not concentrate on complements and adjuncts, t ...
On the syntax ofconstructions with arb SE in Spanish
... the verb trabajar 'to work'. The corresponding representation for Unergative structures is that in (13a). We are following ideas in Chomsky (1989) about the structure of the sentence. In particular, we adopt the view that there are two AGRP: an AGRP (s)ubject and an AGRP (o)bject. The latter can be ...
... the verb trabajar 'to work'. The corresponding representation for Unergative structures is that in (13a). We are following ideas in Chomsky (1989) about the structure of the sentence. In particular, we adopt the view that there are two AGRP: an AGRP (s)ubject and an AGRP (o)bject. The latter can be ...
Gerunds in Greek - Brill Online Books and Journals
... a connective, should in principle leave it underspecified with regard to its argument or adjunct status, as is for example the case with English infinitival or gerund clauses which may appear in either argument or adjunct positions (e.g. purposive clauses as adjuncts). In other words, if the status of ...
... a connective, should in principle leave it underspecified with regard to its argument or adjunct status, as is for example the case with English infinitival or gerund clauses which may appear in either argument or adjunct positions (e.g. purposive clauses as adjuncts). In other words, if the status of ...
The Uzbek tense aspect modality system
... What is usually called the tense system of a language expresses not only the time a state, event or action is taking place, but also notions such as: - aspect (the temporal inner or outer view of the state or event), - evidentiality (source of knowledge), - epistemic modality (degree of certainty), ...
... What is usually called the tense system of a language expresses not only the time a state, event or action is taking place, but also notions such as: - aspect (the temporal inner or outer view of the state or event), - evidentiality (source of knowledge), - epistemic modality (degree of certainty), ...
(Past) Participle Agreement
... account, as well as the subsequent literature on the topic, has typically left unexplained why such agreement process should be obligatory in some cases and optional in other cases which would otherwise meet the relevant configuration. Consider the difference in Italian, presented in section 2, betw ...
... account, as well as the subsequent literature on the topic, has typically left unexplained why such agreement process should be obligatory in some cases and optional in other cases which would otherwise meet the relevant configuration. Consider the difference in Italian, presented in section 2, betw ...
Introduction to Specific Language Impairment/SLI
... and Schaeffer (2003) for more detailed discussion of diagnostic criteria for SLI. Prevalence and Persistence of SLI Leonard (1989) estimates that around 6% of children suffer some form of language impairment (with 1.5% having a tested language age of less than two thirds of their tested mental age), ...
... and Schaeffer (2003) for more detailed discussion of diagnostic criteria for SLI. Prevalence and Persistence of SLI Leonard (1989) estimates that around 6% of children suffer some form of language impairment (with 1.5% having a tested language age of less than two thirds of their tested mental age), ...