IN DEFENSE OF PASSIVE Consider the following three sentences
... transitive verb, hence (2) is grammatical and interpretable, but that the relative unacceptability of many passive sentences with resemble is due to a general fact about symmetric predicates. The distinction between transitive and non-transitive verb phrases is not a natural one in post Aspects tran ...
... transitive verb, hence (2) is grammatical and interpretable, but that the relative unacceptability of many passive sentences with resemble is due to a general fact about symmetric predicates. The distinction between transitive and non-transitive verb phrases is not a natural one in post Aspects tran ...
Evolution of the Conception of Parts of Speech
... First of all, what needs to be considered is the fact that the concept of parts of speech is based on the concept of word. That seems unproblematic, but the reverse is true. It may seem surprising in view of all advances of modern linguistics, but there is no precise definition for “word.” Yes, ther ...
... First of all, what needs to be considered is the fact that the concept of parts of speech is based on the concept of word. That seems unproblematic, but the reverse is true. It may seem surprising in view of all advances of modern linguistics, but there is no precise definition for “word.” Yes, ther ...
Catenae in Morphology
... “morpheme” is motivated by the need to maintain a surface-oriented level of analysis. A morph is loosely defined as any meaning bearing unit that cannot be reduced any further, but that can be separated from other meaning bearing units in the horizontal AND/OR vertical dimension. 1 The inclusion of ...
... “morpheme” is motivated by the need to maintain a surface-oriented level of analysis. A morph is loosely defined as any meaning bearing unit that cannot be reduced any further, but that can be separated from other meaning bearing units in the horizontal AND/OR vertical dimension. 1 The inclusion of ...
Full Text - Journal of Foreign Languages, Cultures
... The term Subordination like Coordination is defined according to Lehmann (1998), asagrammatical relation "R" connecting syntagms X and Y is a relation of dependency if X occupies a grammatical slot of Y or and vice versa. In a dependency relationship, Y depends on X if X determines the grammatical c ...
... The term Subordination like Coordination is defined according to Lehmann (1998), asagrammatical relation "R" connecting syntagms X and Y is a relation of dependency if X occupies a grammatical slot of Y or and vice versa. In a dependency relationship, Y depends on X if X determines the grammatical c ...
Slide 1
... simple—there must be something wrong with it. But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive con ...
... simple—there must be something wrong with it. But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive con ...
Linguistically Annotated Corpus as an Invaluable Resource for
... The Prague Dependency Treebank is an effort inspired by the PennTreebank; the work started as early as in the mid-nineties and the overall scheme was already published in 1997 (see Hajič et al., 1997 and Hajič, 1998). The basic idea was to build a corpus annotated not only with respect to the part-o ...
... The Prague Dependency Treebank is an effort inspired by the PennTreebank; the work started as early as in the mid-nineties and the overall scheme was already published in 1997 (see Hajič et al., 1997 and Hajič, 1998). The basic idea was to build a corpus annotated not only with respect to the part-o ...
Types of Phrases - Louisburg USD 416
... Activity: Read each of the following sentences and examine the underlined phrases. Choose the correct type of phrase from the list of options and write the letter of the correct answer in the blank. ____ 1. The Soviet Union’s 1957 launching of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, spurred ...
... Activity: Read each of the following sentences and examine the underlined phrases. Choose the correct type of phrase from the list of options and write the letter of the correct answer in the blank. ____ 1. The Soviet Union’s 1957 launching of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, spurred ...
Exploring Metalinguistic Knowledge of Low to
... productive items, as Ellis (2004) points out that measuring receptive rather than productive knowledge of metalanguage may have greater validity because “it is learners’ understanding of explicit linguistic constructs rather than their ability to articulate metalinguistic rules that is important whe ...
... productive items, as Ellis (2004) points out that measuring receptive rather than productive knowledge of metalanguage may have greater validity because “it is learners’ understanding of explicit linguistic constructs rather than their ability to articulate metalinguistic rules that is important whe ...
Filling Gaps: Decision principles and structure in sentence
... of conditions on the permissible indexing of structures (or alternative struc ture evaluation conditions) which a representation must adhere to in order to be well-formed. In other frameworks, constraints on permissible filler-gap dependencies are simply inherent in the set of phrase structure rule ...
... of conditions on the permissible indexing of structures (or alternative struc ture evaluation conditions) which a representation must adhere to in order to be well-formed. In other frameworks, constraints on permissible filler-gap dependencies are simply inherent in the set of phrase structure rule ...
Formal Syntax and Language Change
... Explanations of the (Copula) Cycle Recent shift towards third factors and parametric features: Minimize structure and movement. This can be seen in terms of Feature Economy: All change is in the lexicon: sem>i-F>u-F Or since Moro (1997): XP – YP is problematic; Chomsky (2013; 2015) Principles of Pr ...
... Explanations of the (Copula) Cycle Recent shift towards third factors and parametric features: Minimize structure and movement. This can be seen in terms of Feature Economy: All change is in the lexicon: sem>i-F>u-F Or since Moro (1997): XP – YP is problematic; Chomsky (2013; 2015) Principles of Pr ...
Full proceedings volume - Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
... concern that linguistic issues (as a part of the computational linguistics agenda) should be made more visible at future COLINGs. We share the feeling of these colleagues that it is time to enhance the linguistic dimension in the CL spectrum, as well as to strengthen the focus on explanatory rather ...
... concern that linguistic issues (as a part of the computational linguistics agenda) should be made more visible at future COLINGs. We share the feeling of these colleagues that it is time to enhance the linguistic dimension in the CL spectrum, as well as to strengthen the focus on explanatory rather ...
Deriving Behavior Specifications from Textual Use Cases
... the verb describes the action. Further, the direct object of the sentence describes the data being passed. Moreover, for a request, the indirect object of the sentence is the entity receiving the request (if specified). (Exceptions to these rules are discussed in Sect. 2.5.) The first issue in analy ...
... the verb describes the action. Further, the direct object of the sentence describes the data being passed. Moreover, for a request, the indirect object of the sentence is the entity receiving the request (if specified). (Exceptions to these rules are discussed in Sect. 2.5.) The first issue in analy ...
Argument structure: Realising semantic participants in
... Other strategies for handling these data involve movement operations which are too complex to discuss here. There are several different versions of the thematic hierarchy in the literature, partly because linguists disagree on the best strategy for handling the dative alternation and psych verbs ...
... Other strategies for handling these data involve movement operations which are too complex to discuss here. There are several different versions of the thematic hierarchy in the literature, partly because linguists disagree on the best strategy for handling the dative alternation and psych verbs ...
A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF NONCANONICAL WORD ORDER
... level of meaning that is equivalent to the clause at the level of form. Moreover, the Process determines the number of Participants and their semantic roles. The salient participants can be one, two or three. Although human participants are the most common among semantic roles, the animals, things a ...
... level of meaning that is equivalent to the clause at the level of form. Moreover, the Process determines the number of Participants and their semantic roles. The salient participants can be one, two or three. Although human participants are the most common among semantic roles, the animals, things a ...
An Interaction Grammar of Interrogative and Relative Clauses in
... for NLP systems requiring a fine and complete syntactic analysis of natural languages. From a scientific point of view, formalization can be very helpful for linguists, who aim at capturing the complexity of a natural languages with relevant generalizations. In this task, one of the most difficult c ...
... for NLP systems requiring a fine and complete syntactic analysis of natural languages. From a scientific point of view, formalization can be very helpful for linguists, who aim at capturing the complexity of a natural languages with relevant generalizations. In this task, one of the most difficult c ...
Workshop5. Logic in Language
... agree with your mini-terms in the above table. (i) Build two simulated digital circuits, one for the expression given in (h) and the second for your simplified expression in (h). Check that both give identical results. (j) Write code for both expressions and test that they too have identical behavio ...
... agree with your mini-terms in the above table. (i) Build two simulated digital circuits, one for the expression given in (h) and the second for your simplified expression in (h). Check that both give identical results. (j) Write code for both expressions and test that they too have identical behavio ...
Šablona -- Diplomová práce
... Learning foreign languages is essential in today’s globalized world and the importance of English is stressed as it is considered the most important language in the world, globally used in business life, tourism or international affairs. English is studied as the main mean of communication among cul ...
... Learning foreign languages is essential in today’s globalized world and the importance of English is stressed as it is considered the most important language in the world, globally used in business life, tourism or international affairs. English is studied as the main mean of communication among cul ...
(2004). Linking eye movements to sentence comprehension in
... pretty clear understanding of the amount of visual information processed during a fixation on text. During reading, factors such as a word’s frequency, length, predictability, and ease of integration into the sentence influence how long it takes to access the lexical entry for that word and to incor ...
... pretty clear understanding of the amount of visual information processed during a fixation on text. During reading, factors such as a word’s frequency, length, predictability, and ease of integration into the sentence influence how long it takes to access the lexical entry for that word and to incor ...
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... indefinite article and the zero article. The semantic presentation of the articles: the definite article - identification, the indefinite article - classifying generalization, the zero article - abstract generalization. Articles with different groups of nouns. Correlation of the articles wiht other ...
... indefinite article and the zero article. The semantic presentation of the articles: the definite article - identification, the indefinite article - classifying generalization, the zero article - abstract generalization. Articles with different groups of nouns. Correlation of the articles wiht other ...
Gemination of stops in Tamil - UCL Phonetics and Linguistics
... This paper investigates the syntactic determination of the phonological rule of gemination of stops in Tamil and attempts to account for the phenomenon using three crucial notions: (1) degree/depth of embedding, (2) directionality of application and (3) a locality restriction. Contrary to popular cl ...
... This paper investigates the syntactic determination of the phonological rule of gemination of stops in Tamil and attempts to account for the phenomenon using three crucial notions: (1) degree/depth of embedding, (2) directionality of application and (3) a locality restriction. Contrary to popular cl ...
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... (y-axis) is called dominance: in this dimension the dominance relationships between the nodes are represented by angled, solid dependency edges. This type of tree representation is most closely associated with the work of Hays (1964). Tree representations in other dependency theories may look quite ...
... (y-axis) is called dominance: in this dimension the dominance relationships between the nodes are represented by angled, solid dependency edges. This type of tree representation is most closely associated with the work of Hays (1964). Tree representations in other dependency theories may look quite ...
Study_Island (22) - Punctuation Activities with answer key
... D. A panther is a leopard with a dark coat ...
... D. A panther is a leopard with a dark coat ...
Some Notes on Economy of Derivation and Representation
... structure of L to be the set of structural descriptions, for all expreslons E. The language L itself consists of a lexicon, a specific choice of values for parameters of UG, and such rules as there may be, perhaps restricted to phonology. I understand "language" here in the sense of what I have call ...
... structure of L to be the set of structural descriptions, for all expreslons E. The language L itself consists of a lexicon, a specific choice of values for parameters of UG, and such rules as there may be, perhaps restricted to phonology. I understand "language" here in the sense of what I have call ...
Optimality in Sentence Processing
... produces are all rooted in S (i.e., a sentence node; also labeled as IP or CP in X’ representation). If the initial words of the sentence are parsed as an NP, for example, the parse tree is rooted in NP; later, this NP may be embedded as, say, the subject of a matrix clause, at which point the tree ...
... produces are all rooted in S (i.e., a sentence node; also labeled as IP or CP in X’ representation). If the initial words of the sentence are parsed as an NP, for example, the parse tree is rooted in NP; later, this NP may be embedded as, say, the subject of a matrix clause, at which point the tree ...