Inner aspect and telicity
... participants, and the way in which they participate is referred to by the term participant roles, or thematic roles. The last frequently used term that I introduce here is event structure. Originally, this term referred only to one type of approach to the meaning of the VP, related to the seminal wo ...
... participants, and the way in which they participate is referred to by the term participant roles, or thematic roles. The last frequently used term that I introduce here is event structure. Originally, this term referred only to one type of approach to the meaning of the VP, related to the seminal wo ...
T H C
... both during our meetings and over email and I know that he helped me become the conscientious researcher that I now am. He also introduced me to the history of linguistics, and for this I am also immensely grateful. Tack Sven. After I had finished my dissertation I contacted Prof. (then Dr) Andrew L ...
... both during our meetings and over email and I know that he helped me become the conscientious researcher that I now am. He also introduced me to the history of linguistics, and for this I am also immensely grateful. Tack Sven. After I had finished my dissertation I contacted Prof. (then Dr) Andrew L ...
my dissertation - Semantics Archive
... interact to produce the Internally-Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) construction in Korean and Japanese. The IHRC construction differs from the more familiar Externally-Headed Relative Clause (EHRC) construction in several ways. First, unlike an EHRC, an IHRC’s content restricts the matrix clause’s con ...
... interact to produce the Internally-Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) construction in Korean and Japanese. The IHRC construction differs from the more familiar Externally-Headed Relative Clause (EHRC) construction in several ways. First, unlike an EHRC, an IHRC’s content restricts the matrix clause’s con ...
On the notion of subject for subject-oriented adverbs
... this section, we look at a brief history of controversies over the conception of subject within the broad tradition of generative grammar. It is concluded that those properties that have been assumed to define subjecthood in earlier theories are distributed across different syntactic positions, and ...
... this section, we look at a brief history of controversies over the conception of subject within the broad tradition of generative grammar. It is concluded that those properties that have been assumed to define subjecthood in earlier theories are distributed across different syntactic positions, and ...
Attention and L2 learners` segmentation of complex sentences
... ability to segment complex sentences from aural input. Elementary- and early intermediate-level L2 learners in general have not developed the ability to use syntactic cues to interpret the meaning of sentences they hear. In the case of Japanese, recognition of inflectional morphemes is crucial for t ...
... ability to segment complex sentences from aural input. Elementary- and early intermediate-level L2 learners in general have not developed the ability to use syntactic cues to interpret the meaning of sentences they hear. In the case of Japanese, recognition of inflectional morphemes is crucial for t ...
ppt file
... Prague Dependency Treebank - corpus annotation an intermediate level - 'analytical' representations dependency trees, not always projective nodes for all word tokens, even for punctuation marks ...
... Prague Dependency Treebank - corpus annotation an intermediate level - 'analytical' representations dependency trees, not always projective nodes for all word tokens, even for punctuation marks ...
A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH AND ARABIC ADVERBIAL
... classified on the grounds of function and position. Positions elicited from grammar books will be attested by citation from the material found in the newspapers which make up, in part, the corpus of the study. Still, it is questionable whether one can draw a clear-cut demarcation between the semanti ...
... classified on the grounds of function and position. Positions elicited from grammar books will be attested by citation from the material found in the newspapers which make up, in part, the corpus of the study. Still, it is questionable whether one can draw a clear-cut demarcation between the semanti ...
On the functional structure of locative and directional PPs
... argument, when taken seriously, will actually require more than just an AgrP between Place and PP. Q–float stranding quantifiers in complement positions is generally impossible (*I saw the men all, same in Romance; cf. Sportiche 1988), for whatever reason; so if allemaal in met ons allemaal ‘with us ...
... argument, when taken seriously, will actually require more than just an AgrP between Place and PP. Q–float stranding quantifiers in complement positions is generally impossible (*I saw the men all, same in Romance; cf. Sportiche 1988), for whatever reason; so if allemaal in met ons allemaal ‘with us ...
Copula Variation in African American Vernacular English: an investigation... individual- and stage-level predicate hypothesis
... Labov's data have been reanalyzed using different methods of counting overt and null forms of the copula, and other researchers have undertaken their own variation studies on the AA VE copula, Gullah, Jamaican Creole, and African Nova Scotian English copulas (Baugh 1980; Holm 1984; Rickford 1996; W ...
... Labov's data have been reanalyzed using different methods of counting overt and null forms of the copula, and other researchers have undertaken their own variation studies on the AA VE copula, Gullah, Jamaican Creole, and African Nova Scotian English copulas (Baugh 1980; Holm 1984; Rickford 1996; W ...
Investigations of downward movement
... to this investigation is the observation that Lowering is a highly syntactic operation. In Chapter 2, I argue that a Lowering head may freely target any intermediate syntactic position of the complex head of its complement, thus deriving several cases of morphological optionality; e.g. reduplicative ...
... to this investigation is the observation that Lowering is a highly syntactic operation. In Chapter 2, I argue that a Lowering head may freely target any intermediate syntactic position of the complex head of its complement, thus deriving several cases of morphological optionality; e.g. reduplicative ...
1 Chinese Passives in Comparative Perspective C.
... directly followed by a VP. We shall refer to these as the long passive and the short passive, respectively. There are in fact two versions of the short passive, as pointed out by Ting (1996) and others, a phrasal short passive in which the morpheme is attached to a VP and a lexical one in which it f ...
... directly followed by a VP. We shall refer to these as the long passive and the short passive, respectively. There are in fact two versions of the short passive, as pointed out by Ting (1996) and others, a phrasal short passive in which the morpheme is attached to a VP and a lexical one in which it f ...
Interlingua Based English Hindi Machine Translation and Language
... accessed without some proficiency in this language. This is true for other languages too. The Universal Networking Language (UNL) has been proposed by the United Nations University (UNU) for overcoming the language barrier. However, a particular interlingua can be adopted only if it can capture the ...
... accessed without some proficiency in this language. This is true for other languages too. The Universal Networking Language (UNL) has been proposed by the United Nations University (UNU) for overcoming the language barrier. However, a particular interlingua can be adopted only if it can capture the ...
valency - Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
... actants (first / non-first) and circumstants ...
... actants (first / non-first) and circumstants ...
Tracking Point of View in Narrative
... (Uspensky 1973, Kuroda 1976, Cohn 1978, Ban eld 1982). A striking example is the following: (8) This was David's boy. [Bridgers, All Together Now, p. 91] Sentence (8) is actually about a female character named \Casey". However, it is the represented thought of a character who believes that Casey is ...
... (Uspensky 1973, Kuroda 1976, Cohn 1978, Ban eld 1982). A striking example is the following: (8) This was David's boy. [Bridgers, All Together Now, p. 91] Sentence (8) is actually about a female character named \Casey". However, it is the represented thought of a character who believes that Casey is ...
Into-English Grading Standards - American Translators Association
... These Into-English Grading Standards (IEGS) apply to the grading of all ATA certification examinations in which English is the target language. The individual entries address specific points of US English grammar and usage as well as various issues peculiar to the practice of translating into Englis ...
... These Into-English Grading Standards (IEGS) apply to the grading of all ATA certification examinations in which English is the target language. The individual entries address specific points of US English grammar and usage as well as various issues peculiar to the practice of translating into Englis ...
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... is better than the other. Your student will probably let you know which works best for him. I think it's a good idea to correct the test with the student so mistakes are immediately apparent. If a student answers at least 70% in each section of the assessment (that's the Competency level) correctly, ...
... is better than the other. Your student will probably let you know which works best for him. I think it's a good idea to correct the test with the student so mistakes are immediately apparent. If a student answers at least 70% in each section of the assessment (that's the Competency level) correctly, ...
Treebank-Based Deep Grammar Acquisition for French Probabilistic Parsing Resources Natalie Schluter
... Motivated by the expense in time and other resources to produce hand-crafted grammars, there has been increased interest in wide-coverage grammars automatically obtained from treebanks. In particular, recent years have seen a move towards acquiring deep (LFG, HPSG and CCG) resources that can represe ...
... Motivated by the expense in time and other resources to produce hand-crafted grammars, there has been increased interest in wide-coverage grammars automatically obtained from treebanks. In particular, recent years have seen a move towards acquiring deep (LFG, HPSG and CCG) resources that can represe ...
The development of relative clauses in spontaneous child speech*
... a relative clause in our corpus. We only considered ®nite relative clauses marked by a relative pronoun, a complementizer (i.e., that), the question word where (after locative head nouns; e.g., the place where we used to live), or just a gap in the argument structure. So we did not consider reduced ...
... a relative clause in our corpus. We only considered ®nite relative clauses marked by a relative pronoun, a complementizer (i.e., that), the question word where (after locative head nouns; e.g., the place where we used to live), or just a gap in the argument structure. So we did not consider reduced ...
STRUKTURA A FUNGOVÁNÍ ZNAKOVÉHO JAZYKA Studijní
... All languages, spoken and signed, have examples of arbitrary forms and iconic forms. Liddell (1990) pointed out that this is not an either-or issue. All languages have iconic and arbitrary symbols. This recognition is especially important for the study of sign language structure because until recent ...
... All languages, spoken and signed, have examples of arbitrary forms and iconic forms. Liddell (1990) pointed out that this is not an either-or issue. All languages have iconic and arbitrary symbols. This recognition is especially important for the study of sign language structure because until recent ...
Spalding - Colorado River Schools
... categorize nouns ex. boy/John objects receive the action pronouns used as objects receive the action linking verb identify subject pronouns and nouns or adjective linked by form ...
... categorize nouns ex. boy/John objects receive the action pronouns used as objects receive the action linking verb identify subject pronouns and nouns or adjective linked by form ...
PARTITIVE RESTRICTIVE mODIFICATION OF NAmES IN
... onto one of its possible active zones: Joyce when young. This active zone constitutes a relation involving joyce (i.e. the relation is the predication of youth on Joyce) which is situated at a time period determined by the active mental space Joyce’s biography. This time period does not coincide wit ...
... onto one of its possible active zones: Joyce when young. This active zone constitutes a relation involving joyce (i.e. the relation is the predication of youth on Joyce) which is situated at a time period determined by the active mental space Joyce’s biography. This time period does not coincide wit ...
Building event-based ad hoc properties: On the
... support for the claim that adjectival passives are a means of creating more or less ad hoc a possibly complex adjectival predicate by which the subject referent is assigned a certain property that is shaped by contextually salient knowledge, attitudes and goals. The view of adjectival passives as ex ...
... support for the claim that adjectival passives are a means of creating more or less ad hoc a possibly complex adjectival predicate by which the subject referent is assigned a certain property that is shaped by contextually salient knowledge, attitudes and goals. The view of adjectival passives as ex ...
Title of paper - Semantics Archive
... support for the claim that adjectival passives are a means of creating more or less ad hoc a possibly complex adjectival predicate by which the subject referent is assigned a certain property that is shaped by contextually salient knowledge, attitudes and goals. The view of adjectival passives as ex ...
... support for the claim that adjectival passives are a means of creating more or less ad hoc a possibly complex adjectival predicate by which the subject referent is assigned a certain property that is shaped by contextually salient knowledge, attitudes and goals. The view of adjectival passives as ex ...
Adverbs in Kenyang
... mapping between the semantic and syntactic composition of Jackedoff’s adverbs by suggesting that the speaker-oriented adverbs take scope over CP, the sentence adverbs take scope over IP, the subject-oriented adverbs take scope over INFL, and the event-oriented adverbs take scope over the verb. Anoth ...
... mapping between the semantic and syntactic composition of Jackedoff’s adverbs by suggesting that the speaker-oriented adverbs take scope over CP, the sentence adverbs take scope over IP, the subject-oriented adverbs take scope over INFL, and the event-oriented adverbs take scope over the verb. Anoth ...
Force and finiteness in the Spanish complementizer system
... appears to be very restricted (as has been noted by Spanish traditional grammarians): it would include the particle que, ‘that’, which introduces declarative sentences (Dije [que me iba] ‘I said that I was leaving’), and si ‘if’ appearing in embedded interrogative sentences (Me preguntó [si me iba] ...
... appears to be very restricted (as has been noted by Spanish traditional grammarians): it would include the particle que, ‘that’, which introduces declarative sentences (Dije [que me iba] ‘I said that I was leaving’), and si ‘if’ appearing in embedded interrogative sentences (Me preguntó [si me iba] ...