Focus on Topic: Information Structure in the
... question “why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea?” (Lambrecht, 1994:i). Because different information structure roles such as ‘topic’ and ‘focus’ are expressed with different formal devices, the analy ...
... question “why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea?” (Lambrecht, 1994:i). Because different information structure roles such as ‘topic’ and ‘focus’ are expressed with different formal devices, the analy ...
Embedded clauses
... in the sense that they allow extraction out of the clause they have as complement. In fact, according to Vikner it seems that his “bridge verbs” are only distinguished as a group by their ability to take a V2 complement, and moreover, there is some variation between the Germanic languages as to whic ...
... in the sense that they allow extraction out of the clause they have as complement. In fact, according to Vikner it seems that his “bridge verbs” are only distinguished as a group by their ability to take a V2 complement, and moreover, there is some variation between the Germanic languages as to whic ...
Complex sentences in Avatime
... • Noun class marked with prefix on the noun; there is agreement on numerals, determiners and subject marking on the verb. • Subject-marking on the verb is obligatory; there is no object agreement. • Aspect, modality and negation are marked with prefixes on the verb, no tense-marking. • When the verb ...
... • Noun class marked with prefix on the noun; there is agreement on numerals, determiners and subject marking on the verb. • Subject-marking on the verb is obligatory; there is no object agreement. • Aspect, modality and negation are marked with prefixes on the verb, no tense-marking. • When the verb ...
George_Ehrenhaft_Ed
... point. If the evidence you provide wanders from the main idea or raises additional issues that you don’t have time to discuss, the effect of the essay will be diluted. Above all, you don’t want readers to reach the end scratching their heads over the point of the essay. Once you have decided on your ...
... point. If the evidence you provide wanders from the main idea or raises additional issues that you don’t have time to discuss, the effect of the essay will be diluted. Above all, you don’t want readers to reach the end scratching their heads over the point of the essay. Once you have decided on your ...
my dissertation - Semantics Archive
... construction? And, if pragmatic principles have a role to play, how do they interact with the morphosyntax and the semantics? I answer these questions within an event semantics framework. I show that the construction’s interpretation is determined partly by grammatical factors (e.g., the embedded c ...
... construction? And, if pragmatic principles have a role to play, how do they interact with the morphosyntax and the semantics? I answer these questions within an event semantics framework. I show that the construction’s interpretation is determined partly by grammatical factors (e.g., the embedded c ...
More on the Anaphor Agreement Effect
... may be pronominal or anaphoric, this second approach also correctly predicts that anaphors are compatible only with anaphoric agreement.3 I will also suggest that if it can be established that the anaphor agreement effect is universal, it may be possible to use it as a diagnostic for the presence or ...
... may be pronominal or anaphoric, this second approach also correctly predicts that anaphors are compatible only with anaphoric agreement.3 I will also suggest that if it can be established that the anaphor agreement effect is universal, it may be possible to use it as a diagnostic for the presence or ...
Argumentation Mining: The Detection, Classification and Structure of
... Argumentative Zoning was applied later on legal documents by Ben Hachey and Claire Grover [9]. The authors train a classifier on 141 House of Lords judgments and test it on 47 judgments, where a judgment contains 105 sentences on average. Different classification algorithms are used: decision tree l ...
... Argumentative Zoning was applied later on legal documents by Ben Hachey and Claire Grover [9]. The authors train a classifier on 141 House of Lords judgments and test it on 47 judgments, where a judgment contains 105 sentences on average. Different classification algorithms are used: decision tree l ...
Structuring information in discourse: the explicit/implicit
... (ii) Five case studies that are thematically, theoretically and/or methodologically related to one or more of the keynote papers listed in (i). These case studies also widen the perspective somewhat: one paper presenting a unified context-dependent semantics for the conjunct adverb doch (Elena K ...
... (ii) Five case studies that are thematically, theoretically and/or methodologically related to one or more of the keynote papers listed in (i). These case studies also widen the perspective somewhat: one paper presenting a unified context-dependent semantics for the conjunct adverb doch (Elena K ...
The Empty Object Construction and Related Phenomena
... argument in an adjunct, the Dutch/German Adjunct Object Gap (AOG), commonly ...
... argument in an adjunct, the Dutch/German Adjunct Object Gap (AOG), commonly ...
A Broad-Coverage Model of Prediction in Human Sentence
... In evaluating the proposed model, this thesis also makes a methodological contribution. The design and evaluation of current sentence processing theories are usually based exclusively on experimental results from individual psycholinguistic experiments on specific linguistic structures. However, a t ...
... In evaluating the proposed model, this thesis also makes a methodological contribution. The design and evaluation of current sentence processing theories are usually based exclusively on experimental results from individual psycholinguistic experiments on specific linguistic structures. However, a t ...
Negation in clause linkages1
... not just the illocutionary force of the clauses (see Cosme 2008 for comparative work on information packaging in English, Dutch and French clause linkage structures). In a multivariate analysis, these clauses can be coded for their illocutionary force, their tense and modal characteristics, the scop ...
... not just the illocutionary force of the clauses (see Cosme 2008 for comparative work on information packaging in English, Dutch and French clause linkage structures). In a multivariate analysis, these clauses can be coded for their illocutionary force, their tense and modal characteristics, the scop ...
A Computational Theory of Human Linguistic - TedLab
... is to devise efficient algorithms for obtaining all possible parses for an input string (see e.g., Aho & Ullman (1972) and Tomita (1987) and the references cited in each). Another attack on the problem relies on the fact that natural languages, unlike programming languages, are extremely ambiguous. ...
... is to devise efficient algorithms for obtaining all possible parses for an input string (see e.g., Aho & Ullman (1972) and Tomita (1987) and the references cited in each). Another attack on the problem relies on the fact that natural languages, unlike programming languages, are extremely ambiguous. ...
Tracking Point of View in Narrative
... Third-person ctional narrative text is composed not only of passages that objectively narrate events, but also of passages that present characters' thoughts, perceptions, and inner states. Such passages take a character's psychological point of view. A language understander must determine the curre ...
... Third-person ctional narrative text is composed not only of passages that objectively narrate events, but also of passages that present characters' thoughts, perceptions, and inner states. Such passages take a character's psychological point of view. A language understander must determine the curre ...
Manhattan Review GMAT Sentence Correction Guide [4th Edition]
... Professor Joern Meissner, the founder and chairman of Manhattan Review has over twenty-five years of teaching experience in undergraduate and graduate programs at prestigious business schools in the USA, UK and Germany. He created the original lectures, which are constantly updated by the Manhattan ...
... Professor Joern Meissner, the founder and chairman of Manhattan Review has over twenty-five years of teaching experience in undergraduate and graduate programs at prestigious business schools in the USA, UK and Germany. He created the original lectures, which are constantly updated by the Manhattan ...
Document
... a.Bob, an experienced teacher, he knows how to deal with such problems. b.Bob is an experienced teacher since he knowing how to deal with such problems. c.Being an experienced teacher, Bob knows how to deal with such problems. d.Knowing how to deal with such problems, Bob is an experienced teacher. ...
... a.Bob, an experienced teacher, he knows how to deal with such problems. b.Bob is an experienced teacher since he knowing how to deal with such problems. c.Being an experienced teacher, Bob knows how to deal with such problems. d.Knowing how to deal with such problems, Bob is an experienced teacher. ...
The development of a spatial technical writing
... Probability of by chance obtaining L out of T ...
... Probability of by chance obtaining L out of T ...
Grammar Practice Book
... (2) Locomotives provide power for trains. (3) They pull several attached railroad cars. (4) Steam diesel and electricity have all been used to power trains. (5) Passenger trains and freight haulers mostly use railroad tracks originally laid more than 100 years ago. (6) Modern-day commuters, though, ...
... (2) Locomotives provide power for trains. (3) They pull several attached railroad cars. (4) Steam diesel and electricity have all been used to power trains. (5) Passenger trains and freight haulers mostly use railroad tracks originally laid more than 100 years ago. (6) Modern-day commuters, though, ...
Martina Mašková - Univerzita Karlova
... alternate with other nominal elements and function, for example, as the subject or object of a clause; the participle, on the other hand, usually forms adverbial or postmodifying clauses. The fact that non- finite clauses are often preferred to finite clauses where both could fill the same syntactic ...
... alternate with other nominal elements and function, for example, as the subject or object of a clause; the participle, on the other hand, usually forms adverbial or postmodifying clauses. The fact that non- finite clauses are often preferred to finite clauses where both could fill the same syntactic ...
对英语中歧义的初步研究
... Many people know the word –ambiguity and can realize the ambiguity phenomenon, but few people are able to clarify the definition of ambiguity exactly. What is ambiguity? In the oxford dictionary(page 50), it has the following meanings: (1) [U] the state of having more than one possible meaning(2) [C ...
... Many people know the word –ambiguity and can realize the ambiguity phenomenon, but few people are able to clarify the definition of ambiguity exactly. What is ambiguity? In the oxford dictionary(page 50), it has the following meanings: (1) [U] the state of having more than one possible meaning(2) [C ...
Insubordination and its ·uses • --
... these include· both types of nonfinite construction, such as infinitives, and those that are not normally considered to manifest nonfiniteness, such as subordinating conjunction, as well as categories that are intermediate or disputed. • To establish the range of functions that are served by insubor ...
... these include· both types of nonfinite construction, such as infinitives, and those that are not normally considered to manifest nonfiniteness, such as subordinating conjunction, as well as categories that are intermediate or disputed. • To establish the range of functions that are served by insubor ...
descriptive analysis of dangling modifier made by the fifth semester
... they should know a set of rules that must be followed which is called grammar. According to Radford (1988: 2) grammar is the description of the ways in which words can change their form and can combine into sentences in that language. It can be sure that grammar is the essential part as a writing gu ...
... they should know a set of rules that must be followed which is called grammar. According to Radford (1988: 2) grammar is the description of the ways in which words can change their form and can combine into sentences in that language. It can be sure that grammar is the essential part as a writing gu ...
(Popescu), Roxana-Iuliana, Coordination and
... This thesis, entitled Coordination and Subordination – a Logical – Linguistical Approach, aims at identifying the interest of linguistics and logic for defining coordination and subordination, as logical - linguistic phenomena. The purpose of this thesis is to prove that there is an adequate common ...
... This thesis, entitled Coordination and Subordination – a Logical – Linguistical Approach, aims at identifying the interest of linguistics and logic for defining coordination and subordination, as logical - linguistic phenomena. The purpose of this thesis is to prove that there is an adequate common ...
Using Conjunctions
... I am a highly motivated and diligent worker, so I should be considered for the job. Correlative conjunctions come in pairs and function like coordinating conjunctions to connect equal elements. The most common correlative conjunctions are either . . . or, neither . . . nor, not only . . . but also, ...
... I am a highly motivated and diligent worker, so I should be considered for the job. Correlative conjunctions come in pairs and function like coordinating conjunctions to connect equal elements. The most common correlative conjunctions are either . . . or, neither . . . nor, not only . . . but also, ...
Make the sentence corrections in red. Write the vocabulary words in
... A period is a full stop. It marks the end of a sentence. It marks the end of an idea or a thought. It marks the end of an action. A question mark is, naturally, a mark which shows the sentence is a question. A question mark is required at the end of an interrogative sentence. Exclamation marks a ...
... A period is a full stop. It marks the end of a sentence. It marks the end of an idea or a thought. It marks the end of an action. A question mark is, naturally, a mark which shows the sentence is a question. A question mark is required at the end of an interrogative sentence. Exclamation marks a ...
Photos The typology of clause linkage: status quo, challenges
... on postnominal clauses in Japanese and Khmer; cf. also Matsumoto 1997, Comrie 1998). Moreover, even in those languages that appear to do so, many individual instances of clause combining cannot easily be assigned to a single type (cf. Section 5 below). Finally, the question arises to what extent gen ...
... on postnominal clauses in Japanese and Khmer; cf. also Matsumoto 1997, Comrie 1998). Moreover, even in those languages that appear to do so, many individual instances of clause combining cannot easily be assigned to a single type (cf. Section 5 below). Finally, the question arises to what extent gen ...