The Evolution of English Grammar
... grammar made learning more fun through various activities such as labeling, categorizing, structured overviews, and classifying. These new activities emphasized how the terms relate to one another (1 Vitale). Structuralism observed the place within a sentence which words were placed and what type of ...
... grammar made learning more fun through various activities such as labeling, categorizing, structured overviews, and classifying. These new activities emphasized how the terms relate to one another (1 Vitale). Structuralism observed the place within a sentence which words were placed and what type of ...
lect07 - Duke University
... independently of its other parts Multi-threaded programs can do multiple things at once e.g. download a file from the web while still looking at other web pages Question: What is the problem with multiple agents working at the same time? Synchronization ...
... independently of its other parts Multi-threaded programs can do multiple things at once e.g. download a file from the web while still looking at other web pages Question: What is the problem with multiple agents working at the same time? Synchronization ...
Language Acquisition Linking Parser Development to Acquisition of
... be a noun or a verb), syntactic attachment ambiguities (e.g., The cop saw the man with the binoculars), or semantic ambiguities (e.g., Some student likes every professor) to name but a few.2 The parser must thus rely on various indirect sources of linguistic and nonlinguistic information to hypothes ...
... be a noun or a verb), syntactic attachment ambiguities (e.g., The cop saw the man with the binoculars), or semantic ambiguities (e.g., Some student likes every professor) to name but a few.2 The parser must thus rely on various indirect sources of linguistic and nonlinguistic information to hypothes ...
Sentence (linguistics)
... In the field of linguistics, a sentence is an expression in natural language, often defined to indicate a grammatical and lexical unit consisting of one or more words that represent distinct concepts. A sentence can include words grouped meaningfully to express a statement, question, exclamation, re ...
... In the field of linguistics, a sentence is an expression in natural language, often defined to indicate a grammatical and lexical unit consisting of one or more words that represent distinct concepts. A sentence can include words grouped meaningfully to express a statement, question, exclamation, re ...
- George Walkden
... down the hierarchies, the prediction is made that it should be possible to change from one to another in a single historical step. Attested cases of transition between ‘types’, however, seem to be mediated by ‘mixed’ systems where ordering is relativized to categories, as in the histories of English ...
... down the hierarchies, the prediction is made that it should be possible to change from one to another in a single historical step. Attested cases of transition between ‘types’, however, seem to be mediated by ‘mixed’ systems where ordering is relativized to categories, as in the histories of English ...
Usage and Mechanics
... http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/to_be.htm (D, R) Strategies for Verb Tenses: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/tenses/tense_frames.htm (D, R) Strategies for Pronoun Consistency: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/consistency.htm (D, R, A) ...
... http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/to_be.htm (D, R) Strategies for Verb Tenses: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/tenses/tense_frames.htm (D, R) Strategies for Pronoun Consistency: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/consistency.htm (D, R, A) ...
Students as “Grammarians”: Discovering Effective Sentence Patterns
... Look at the sentences from the previous section and together with a partner complete the following paragraph. There are a few ways to write sentences which express cause and ______________ . In order to write them effectively, certain expressions can be used. For example, to signal a cause, we may u ...
... Look at the sentences from the previous section and together with a partner complete the following paragraph. There are a few ways to write sentences which express cause and ______________ . In order to write them effectively, certain expressions can be used. For example, to signal a cause, we may u ...
Natural Language Processing
... lecture). However, good students should find it quite easy to come up with questions that the supervisors (and the lecturer) can’t answer! Language is like that . . . Generally I’m taking a rather informal/example-based approach to concepts such as finite-state automata, context-free grammars etc. P ...
... lecture). However, good students should find it quite easy to come up with questions that the supervisors (and the lecturer) can’t answer! Language is like that . . . Generally I’m taking a rather informal/example-based approach to concepts such as finite-state automata, context-free grammars etc. P ...
Java! - Duke Computer Science
... Estimate based on powers rather than multiples of 10 How tall is your dorm? More like 1, 10, 100, 1000 feet? 1 foot tall is like a doll house, so that’s out What do we know that is about 10 feet big? Hmm... People If building is a couple of people high, 10 sounds good. But that means 1000, ...
... Estimate based on powers rather than multiples of 10 How tall is your dorm? More like 1, 10, 100, 1000 feet? 1 foot tall is like a doll house, so that’s out What do we know that is about 10 feet big? Hmm... People If building is a couple of people high, 10 sounds good. But that means 1000, ...
understanding and executing a declarative sentence involving a
... Recently, we have developed a sub-system to learn the grammar terms (parts-of-speech) of the English language [32]. It is a part of the communication agent of the learning program in the project: A Learning Program System (ALPS) [33] whose goal is to learn all knowledge. The initial focus of ALPS ha ...
... Recently, we have developed a sub-system to learn the grammar terms (parts-of-speech) of the English language [32]. It is a part of the communication agent of the learning program in the project: A Learning Program System (ALPS) [33] whose goal is to learn all knowledge. The initial focus of ALPS ha ...
Meaning representation, semantic analysis, and lexical semantics
... – It is a specification of a conceptualization of a knowledge domain – It is a controlled vocabulary that describes objects and the relations between them in a formal way, and has strict rules about how to specify terms and relationships. ...
... – It is a specification of a conceptualization of a knowledge domain – It is a controlled vocabulary that describes objects and the relations between them in a formal way, and has strict rules about how to specify terms and relationships. ...
Chapter 4 Syntax
... ----Coordination has four important properties: • no limit on the number of coordinated categories before the conjunction; • a category at any level can be coordinated; • the categories must be of the same type; • the category type of the coordinate phrase is identical to the category type of the el ...
... ----Coordination has four important properties: • no limit on the number of coordinated categories before the conjunction; • a category at any level can be coordinated; • the categories must be of the same type; • the category type of the coordinate phrase is identical to the category type of the el ...
Making Sense of Nonce Sense
... referents are not denumerable. He can be used to refer to any of an indefinitely large number of males, past, present, and future, real and imaginary. These males cannot be listed, even in theory, since someone can always imagine another male and refer to it with he. Let me call this property nonden ...
... referents are not denumerable. He can be used to refer to any of an indefinitely large number of males, past, present, and future, real and imaginary. These males cannot be listed, even in theory, since someone can always imagine another male and refer to it with he. Let me call this property nonden ...
OLD_s1a_alg_analysis..
... • sorting problem the number of items to be sorted • multiply two matrices together the total number of elements in the two matrices And sometimes the input order as well (e.g., sorting algorithms). ...
... • sorting problem the number of items to be sorted • multiply two matrices together the total number of elements in the two matrices And sometimes the input order as well (e.g., sorting algorithms). ...
introduction - Assets - Cambridge University Press
... traditional grammar. Teachers in training need help with grammar terms of all kinds. Their schooling may not have included much formal grammar, but their undergraduate reading may well take them over the border between language pedagogy and linguistic research. They need a ready reference to find ou ...
... traditional grammar. Teachers in training need help with grammar terms of all kinds. Their schooling may not have included much formal grammar, but their undergraduate reading may well take them over the border between language pedagogy and linguistic research. They need a ready reference to find ou ...
Geoffrey Leech - ELLO (English Language and Linguistics Online)
... subcorpus and the three written subcorpora - but these differences of frequency would not have made any sense, had we not also recognized that the same categories occur across the spoken-written divide. Conversation makes use of entities such as prepositions, modals, noun phrases and relative clause ...
... subcorpus and the three written subcorpora - but these differences of frequency would not have made any sense, had we not also recognized that the same categories occur across the spoken-written divide. Conversation makes use of entities such as prepositions, modals, noun phrases and relative clause ...
Sentence Structure
... grammatical categories and meaning is more complex than these few examples suggest. For example, some nouns refer to events (marriage and destruction) and others to states (happiness, loneliness). We can use abstract nouns such as honor and beauty, rather than adjectives, to refer to properties and ...
... grammatical categories and meaning is more complex than these few examples suggest. For example, some nouns refer to events (marriage and destruction) and others to states (happiness, loneliness). We can use abstract nouns such as honor and beauty, rather than adjectives, to refer to properties and ...
Dangling Modifiers - San Jose State University
... http://www.sjsu.edu/writingcenter/ Written by Alanna Callaway and Andrea Smith ...
... http://www.sjsu.edu/writingcenter/ Written by Alanna Callaway and Andrea Smith ...
Bold approach to art of persuasion
... Published 2010 Reviewed by Geoffrey K. Pullum In classical times, all advanced learning was founded on the linguistic topics of the trivium: grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Only when those had been mastered could the student proceed to arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry (the quadrivium). Rheto ...
... Published 2010 Reviewed by Geoffrey K. Pullum In classical times, all advanced learning was founded on the linguistic topics of the trivium: grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Only when those had been mastered could the student proceed to arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry (the quadrivium). Rheto ...
4 Syntax
... active and passive sentences. It is obvious that these are related in meaning and there is a clear relationship in form as well, seeing as how the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive one and the subject of the active sentence is expressed (optionally) as a prepositional ...
... active and passive sentences. It is obvious that these are related in meaning and there is a clear relationship in form as well, seeing as how the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive one and the subject of the active sentence is expressed (optionally) as a prepositional ...
The IULA Spanish LSP Treebank
... The manual selection task has been performed using the [incr tstb()] profiling environment of the DELPH-IN framework (Oepen and Carroll, 2000). Briefly, [incr tstb()] includes a tree comparison tool that allows the annotator to select the appropriate parse for each sentence directly, as it is displa ...
... The manual selection task has been performed using the [incr tstb()] profiling environment of the DELPH-IN framework (Oepen and Carroll, 2000). Briefly, [incr tstb()] includes a tree comparison tool that allows the annotator to select the appropriate parse for each sentence directly, as it is displa ...
Programming Languages
... Reorganize parts of of the program to execute faster and more efficiently Use computer resources more effectively ...
... Reorganize parts of of the program to execute faster and more efficiently Use computer resources more effectively ...
Lecture 2: Phrase Structure
... subject and object were seen to be properties of nouns. The fact that there could be a whole bunch of other words which served to modify the noun was uninteresting as structural issues were typically not considered. It is clear that a concentration on meaning is what led the traditional grammarians ...
... subject and object were seen to be properties of nouns. The fact that there could be a whole bunch of other words which served to modify the noun was uninteresting as structural issues were typically not considered. It is clear that a concentration on meaning is what led the traditional grammarians ...