Clausal coordinate ellipsis in German: The TIGER treebank as a
... • In LDG, the posterior conjunct consists of constituents whose left-hand counterparts belong to different clauses. My son in (3) is the counterpart of my wife in the main clause whereas a motorcycle pairs up with a car in the infinitival complement clause. • SUBGAPPING is a special case of simple G ...
... • In LDG, the posterior conjunct consists of constituents whose left-hand counterparts belong to different clauses. My son in (3) is the counterpart of my wife in the main clause whereas a motorcycle pairs up with a car in the infinitival complement clause. • SUBGAPPING is a special case of simple G ...
Language Structure and Reading Skills
... Sometimes the introductory word may be omitted from the adjective clause. Omitted: Most of the things we worry about never happen. Included: Most of the things that we worry about never happen. The best way to recognize these “no signal” clauses within a sentence is to look for a subject-verb combin ...
... Sometimes the introductory word may be omitted from the adjective clause. Omitted: Most of the things we worry about never happen. Included: Most of the things that we worry about never happen. The best way to recognize these “no signal” clauses within a sentence is to look for a subject-verb combin ...
Participle Phrases (as reduced relative clauses?)
... Sequential relationship: Having locked the door, I went to sleep. √ c. Students also tend to mistake participle clauses with gerund clauses, as in the following: ...
... Sequential relationship: Having locked the door, I went to sleep. √ c. Students also tend to mistake participle clauses with gerund clauses, as in the following: ...
ACT English Curriculum Review Worksheets
... logical relationships (e.g., first, afterward, in response) ...
... logical relationships (e.g., first, afterward, in response) ...
Syntactic categories and constituency
... • We’ve replaced his lab coat with the cocktail party in one place, and the cocktail party with the lab in another. • There are lots of other types of replacements we could imagine that won’t yield a good sentence, like swapping Beverly angrily with was inappropriate. • When two (groups of) words ca ...
... • We’ve replaced his lab coat with the cocktail party in one place, and the cocktail party with the lab in another. • There are lots of other types of replacements we could imagine that won’t yield a good sentence, like swapping Beverly angrily with was inappropriate. • When two (groups of) words ca ...
Lecture 3 - ELTE / SEAS
... Clearly the possible Deep structures associated with (26) is limitless and therefore the task of its recovery is impossible. Of course, one might consider strategies that could be adopted to ensure that some Deep structure could be recovered: taking contextual clues for example, or constructing a no ...
... Clearly the possible Deep structures associated with (26) is limitless and therefore the task of its recovery is impossible. Of course, one might consider strategies that could be adopted to ensure that some Deep structure could be recovered: taking contextual clues for example, or constructing a no ...
Copernicus Project 621
... - without reducing the recall, i.e. with the strict constraint of never discarding a correct analysis. The principle of a system of lexical ambiguity resolution is to obtain this effect by exploring only a local context of the words marked as ambiguous after dictionary lookup. A trade-off between re ...
... - without reducing the recall, i.e. with the strict constraint of never discarding a correct analysis. The principle of a system of lexical ambiguity resolution is to obtain this effect by exploring only a local context of the words marked as ambiguous after dictionary lookup. A trade-off between re ...
Document
... • The Simple Subject tells WHAT or WHOM the sentence is about. Chad, my next door neighbor, went to the store to buy some apples. Simple Subject Complete Subject The Complete Subject tells about the WHOLE subject of the sentence. ...
... • The Simple Subject tells WHAT or WHOM the sentence is about. Chad, my next door neighbor, went to the store to buy some apples. Simple Subject Complete Subject The Complete Subject tells about the WHOLE subject of the sentence. ...
understanding the racial and religious tolerance act 2001 (vic)
... II R E S E A R C H M E T H O D Sentences crafted in conventional legal English are often of extended length. To understand them, it is necessary to trace out their referencing systems. This has been done by unravelling the clausal structure of the sentences and identifying the function of the clause ...
... II R E S E A R C H M E T H O D Sentences crafted in conventional legal English are often of extended length. To understand them, it is necessary to trace out their referencing systems. This has been done by unravelling the clausal structure of the sentences and identifying the function of the clause ...
Varied Sentence Structure Activities with answer key
... B. Because your eyes are so important that you must take care of them. C. Because your eyes are so important, and you must take care of them. D. Because your eyes are so important, then you must take care of them. ...
... B. Because your eyes are so important that you must take care of them. C. Because your eyes are so important, and you must take care of them. D. Because your eyes are so important, then you must take care of them. ...
Gerunds
... 2) Introduce the term "gerunds." 3) Identify gerunds and participles in a sentence. 4) Create sentences using gerunds and participles as sentence ...
... 2) Introduce the term "gerunds." 3) Identify gerunds and participles in a sentence. 4) Create sentences using gerunds and participles as sentence ...
GMAT-Sentence-Correction-Categories-by-Narendran - Skill-Guru
... 3. Most state constitutions now mandate that the state budget be balanced each year. (A) mandate that the state budget be balanced (B) mandate the state budget to be balanced (C) mandate that the state budget will be balanced (D) have a mandate for a balanced state budget (E) have a mandate to balan ...
... 3. Most state constitutions now mandate that the state budget be balanced each year. (A) mandate that the state budget be balanced (B) mandate the state budget to be balanced (C) mandate that the state budget will be balanced (D) have a mandate for a balanced state budget (E) have a mandate to balan ...
3. - DROPS
... analyze the corpus sentences, which outputs the syntactic tree and dependencies in XML [10]. The need for a high-level XML processing language was identified, to replace the existing use of the DOM, one of the leading causes of complexity. In addition, to satisfy the requirement of generation metada ...
... analyze the corpus sentences, which outputs the syntactic tree and dependencies in XML [10]. The need for a high-level XML processing language was identified, to replace the existing use of the DOM, one of the leading causes of complexity. In addition, to satisfy the requirement of generation metada ...
Anaphora Resolution for Question Answering
... Underlying the motivation for this project is a desire to improve the performance of the InfoLab Group's question answering systems. START, Sapere, and future group projects can benefit from the use of a pronominal anaphora resolution tool. As mentioned above, Sapere indexes relations as part of its ...
... Underlying the motivation for this project is a desire to improve the performance of the InfoLab Group's question answering systems. START, Sapere, and future group projects can benefit from the use of a pronominal anaphora resolution tool. As mentioned above, Sapere indexes relations as part of its ...
complete paper - Cascadilla Proceedings Project
... all the characteristic features of Long Distance Reflexives (LDR), but differs from them in that it may not be locally bound. The evidence suggests that other syntactic factors besides logophoricity may be responsible for the licensing of the pronominal anaphor òun. Accounts of LDRs in Chinese and o ...
... all the characteristic features of Long Distance Reflexives (LDR), but differs from them in that it may not be locally bound. The evidence suggests that other syntactic factors besides logophoricity may be responsible for the licensing of the pronominal anaphor òun. Accounts of LDRs in Chinese and o ...
parallelism - Johnson County Community College
... saying the same thing might be, "Lee had a great time scubadiving and also she waterskied during her vacation." Here the two parallel thoughts are expressed in nonparallel forms of words, and the sense of their parallel relationship is weakened. I. When elements are parallel in thought, use p ...
... saying the same thing might be, "Lee had a great time scubadiving and also she waterskied during her vacation." Here the two parallel thoughts are expressed in nonparallel forms of words, and the sense of their parallel relationship is weakened. I. When elements are parallel in thought, use p ...
Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real
... Although it is commonly taught that a pronoun “takes the place of a noun,” the fact is that the pronoun takes the place of the noun + its modifiers (noun phrase). To illustrate this concept, have students try replacing the noun only with a pronoun. They will immediately see that the true function of ...
... Although it is commonly taught that a pronoun “takes the place of a noun,” the fact is that the pronoun takes the place of the noun + its modifiers (noun phrase). To illustrate this concept, have students try replacing the noun only with a pronoun. They will immediately see that the true function of ...
POSTTEST: PRONOUNS I.Definition (matching)
... A. This pronoun is formed by adding –self or –selves to certain personal pronouns; this pronoun reflects an action back upon the subject; it can act as a direct object or and indirect object of the verb, the object of a preposition, or a predicate nominative. B. This is a word used in place of ...
... A. This pronoun is formed by adding –self or –selves to certain personal pronouns; this pronoun reflects an action back upon the subject; it can act as a direct object or and indirect object of the verb, the object of a preposition, or a predicate nominative. B. This is a word used in place of ...
The Science of Scientific Writing
... sentence?Is the functional sigruficance of URF's still "elusive"? Will this passage lead us to further discussion about URF's, or about Complex I, or both? Knowing a little about the subject matter does not clear up all the confusion. The intended audience of this passage would probably possess at l ...
... sentence?Is the functional sigruficance of URF's still "elusive"? Will this passage lead us to further discussion about URF's, or about Complex I, or both? Knowing a little about the subject matter does not clear up all the confusion. The intended audience of this passage would probably possess at l ...
AP English 12 - Ms Hogue`s Online English Resources
... Quizzes will be as follows: I will pronounce a word and you will spell it correctly, define it, and use it in a sentence with contextual clues that help define it further. You will also be expected to write sentences that follow certain sentence patterns or types. There are two reasons we do this: ...
... Quizzes will be as follows: I will pronounce a word and you will spell it correctly, define it, and use it in a sentence with contextual clues that help define it further. You will also be expected to write sentences that follow certain sentence patterns or types. There are two reasons we do this: ...
sentence structure basics
... A. Identify the subjects and verbs in the following sentences by writing an “S” above the subject and a “V” above the verb. Identify the types of clauses by underlining independent clauses once and dependent clauses twice. Then indicate which type of sentence each one is. ...
... A. Identify the subjects and verbs in the following sentences by writing an “S” above the subject and a “V” above the verb. Identify the types of clauses by underlining independent clauses once and dependent clauses twice. Then indicate which type of sentence each one is. ...
THE SCIENCE OF SCIENTIFIC WRITING
... These revisions lead us to a second set of reader expectations. Each unit of discourse, no matter what the size, is expected to serve a single function, to make a single point. In the case of a sentence, the point is expected to appear in a specific place reserved for emphasis. The Stress Position I ...
... These revisions lead us to a second set of reader expectations. Each unit of discourse, no matter what the size, is expected to serve a single function, to make a single point. In the case of a sentence, the point is expected to appear in a specific place reserved for emphasis. The Stress Position I ...
The Science of Scientific Writing by George D. Gopen and Judith A
... Only the author could tell us which of these revisions more accurately reflects his intentions. These revisions lead us to a second set of reader expectations. Each unit of discourse, no matter what the size, is expected to serve a single function, to make a single point. In the case of a sentence, ...
... Only the author could tell us which of these revisions more accurately reflects his intentions. These revisions lead us to a second set of reader expectations. Each unit of discourse, no matter what the size, is expected to serve a single function, to make a single point. In the case of a sentence, ...