5 The acquisition of Dutch
... 'Houses bought have should he three' The learners studied here hardly reach a level of proficiency at which such subtleties would matter. Still, these differences are noteworthy for two reasons. First, the fact that Dutch is slightly less liberal in word order than German may be correlated to the mu ...
... 'Houses bought have should he three' The learners studied here hardly reach a level of proficiency at which such subtleties would matter. Still, these differences are noteworthy for two reasons. First, the fact that Dutch is slightly less liberal in word order than German may be correlated to the mu ...
studies in basque syntax: relative clauses
... exploration of the syntax of Basque with a study of relative clauses. Many parts of Basque grammar cannot be fully understood without knowledge of the structure of the relative clause. Time claus~s, the determiner system and complementation, subjects which grammarians have racked their brains over, ...
... exploration of the syntax of Basque with a study of relative clauses. Many parts of Basque grammar cannot be fully understood without knowledge of the structure of the relative clause. Time claus~s, the determiner system and complementation, subjects which grammarians have racked their brains over, ...
OD - Princeton University
... %In \ex{0a, we have an expression with predicate focus. To be more precise, Lambrecht (1994) offers the following definition: \begin{quote SENTENCE FOCUS CONSTRUCTION: the Sentence Focus construction is formally marked as expressing a pragmatically structured proposition in which both the subj and p ...
... %In \ex{0a, we have an expression with predicate focus. To be more precise, Lambrecht (1994) offers the following definition: \begin{quote SENTENCE FOCUS CONSTRUCTION: the Sentence Focus construction is formally marked as expressing a pragmatically structured proposition in which both the subj and p ...
Focus in Bantu
... marked by an inflectional morpheme following the tense-marker: D60, M40, (M50), M60, P20-30, S20-30, K21, S40-50. This contrast is talked about in the literature in two slightly different ways: in terms of the relationship between verb and other constituents, or in terms of what is focused. Conjunct ...
... marked by an inflectional morpheme following the tense-marker: D60, M40, (M50), M60, P20-30, S20-30, K21, S40-50. This contrast is talked about in the literature in two slightly different ways: in terms of the relationship between verb and other constituents, or in terms of what is focused. Conjunct ...
Syntactic Structure and Ambiguity of English
... (b) adjectives in the superlative degree, excluding "most" and "least". Ex. "prettiest, best, worst". ...
... (b) adjectives in the superlative degree, excluding "most" and "least". Ex. "prettiest, best, worst". ...
Clear and Emphatic Sentences
... Creating an emphatic expression involves adding an adverb intensifier to existing sentence or expression to make feelings even stronger. In an emphatic phrase the adverb intensifier is always added before the verb. The most common emphatic intensifiers in English are “really” and “very much. I reall ...
... Creating an emphatic expression involves adding an adverb intensifier to existing sentence or expression to make feelings even stronger. In an emphatic phrase the adverb intensifier is always added before the verb. The most common emphatic intensifiers in English are “really” and “very much. I reall ...
Configurationality and Greek clause structure
... Movement, in the form of substitution and adjunction, is also employed in accounts of word order variation within the same language. In these cases, one of the orders shown in (5) is hypothesized at the D-structure level of the grammar which is transformationally mapped onto an S-structure order. Fu ...
... Movement, in the form of substitution and adjunction, is also employed in accounts of word order variation within the same language. In these cases, one of the orders shown in (5) is hypothesized at the D-structure level of the grammar which is transformationally mapped onto an S-structure order. Fu ...
Agreement: a crash-course ( ) . The Person Case
... The mechanisms of agreement & intervention, implicated in the PCC, are only in place when we can see them. ...
... The mechanisms of agreement & intervention, implicated in the PCC, are only in place when we can see them. ...
In this paper we investigate the possibility to insert an additional
... In this paper we discuss the possibility to insert an additional feature [Information] in the characteristics of the words even at the POS level of annotation. Some lexemes as well as morphosyntactic constructions can play significant role in Topic-Focus articulation. This fact should be taken into ...
... In this paper we discuss the possibility to insert an additional feature [Information] in the characteristics of the words even at the POS level of annotation. Some lexemes as well as morphosyntactic constructions can play significant role in Topic-Focus articulation. This fact should be taken into ...
Tense in Basque - Create and Use Your home.uchicago.edu Account
... with non-synthetic verbs: one when Asp is present and is imperfective and habitual, and a different one where Asp is not present. A necessary consequence of this is that the suffix -t(z)en is not the realization of Asp. In fact, as I argue in §5, there is evidence that neither of the participial su ...
... with non-synthetic verbs: one when Asp is present and is imperfective and habitual, and a different one where Asp is not present. A necessary consequence of this is that the suffix -t(z)en is not the realization of Asp. In fact, as I argue in §5, there is evidence that neither of the participial su ...
in Word format
... Parsed Corpus. For the remaining sentences, which had been parsed, we accepted the "winning parse" (that to which the parser had assigned the highest probability) as the input to a manual post-editing stage. During manual post-editing, many sentences which the parser had incorrectly parsed (accordin ...
... Parsed Corpus. For the remaining sentences, which had been parsed, we accepted the "winning parse" (that to which the parser had assigned the highest probability) as the input to a manual post-editing stage. During manual post-editing, many sentences which the parser had incorrectly parsed (accordin ...
in Acrobat format
... the Parsed Corpus. For the remaining sentences, which had been parsed, we accepted the "winning parse" (that to which the parser had assigned the highest probability) as the input to a manual post-editing stage. During manual post-editing, many sentences which the parser had incorrectly parsed (acco ...
... the Parsed Corpus. For the remaining sentences, which had been parsed, we accepted the "winning parse" (that to which the parser had assigned the highest probability) as the input to a manual post-editing stage. During manual post-editing, many sentences which the parser had incorrectly parsed (acco ...
The emergence of na as a copula in Nigerian Pidgin
... In 2 and 3 we have intermediate cases where the copular complement is a nondetermined noun phrase. In 2 the constituent “a good student” retains some predicative features because its referential status is low. The copular complement expresses a type that should describe a property about a subject (a ...
... In 2 and 3 we have intermediate cases where the copular complement is a nondetermined noun phrase. In 2 the constituent “a good student” retains some predicative features because its referential status is low. The copular complement expresses a type that should describe a property about a subject (a ...
Subject, Topic and Topic Chain in Chinese
... by the topic that appears at the first clause in the same chain. g. Topic, except in clauses in which it is also subject, plays no role in such processes as reflexivization, passivization, Equi-NP deletion, and imperativization. ...
... by the topic that appears at the first clause in the same chain. g. Topic, except in clauses in which it is also subject, plays no role in such processes as reflexivization, passivization, Equi-NP deletion, and imperativization. ...
湖南省第一师范学院外语系备课用纸
... If the predicator of the wh-clause is in the passive voice, the whole clause may be omitted only with the by-phrase retained, eg.. The cup was broken by someone, but I wonder by whom (the cup was broken). If two coordinate clauses are introduced by identical wh-words, the wh-word of the second claus ...
... If the predicator of the wh-clause is in the passive voice, the whole clause may be omitted only with the by-phrase retained, eg.. The cup was broken by someone, but I wonder by whom (the cup was broken). If two coordinate clauses are introduced by identical wh-words, the wh-word of the second claus ...
Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Nouns, Pronouns , Pronouns , Pronouns and
... first person dual subject resumptive pronoun ehya (1DU:RSUMP) ‘we two’ versus the non-first person feminine dual subject resumptive pronoun efya (N1FDU:RSUMP) ‘you/ they two’. For dual and plural first person references, an inclusive-exclusive distinction is made by the object pronouns (§4.6.2), and ...
... first person dual subject resumptive pronoun ehya (1DU:RSUMP) ‘we two’ versus the non-first person feminine dual subject resumptive pronoun efya (N1FDU:RSUMP) ‘you/ they two’. For dual and plural first person references, an inclusive-exclusive distinction is made by the object pronouns (§4.6.2), and ...
Information Structure and Unmarked Word order in (Older) Germanic
... adverb follows the verb that it modifies, which is typical of VO-languages and ungrammatical in OV-languages. Likewise in (4), while the subject follows the selecting verb (and the auxiliary), the participle precedes the auxiliary, as is typical in OV-languages. Given this state of affairs, the ques ...
... adverb follows the verb that it modifies, which is typical of VO-languages and ungrammatical in OV-languages. Likewise in (4), while the subject follows the selecting verb (and the auxiliary), the participle precedes the auxiliary, as is typical in OV-languages. Given this state of affairs, the ques ...
Metonymy as a Syntactic Strategy in Assigning Informational
... realize the syntactic function of head of the marked noun phrase. This syntactic function is supplanted by the NP “the ham sandwich”, which is new information. However, this expression does not bring about the description of the customer but its identification. “The ham sandwich” is recognized as pa ...
... realize the syntactic function of head of the marked noun phrase. This syntactic function is supplanted by the NP “the ham sandwich”, which is new information. However, this expression does not bring about the description of the customer but its identification. “The ham sandwich” is recognized as pa ...
English 10 Grammar PowerPoint
... c. Since he was perfect makes sense, you would use who. d. Sometimes you will have to rearrange the clause into normal word order. ...
... c. Since he was perfect makes sense, you would use who. d. Sometimes you will have to rearrange the clause into normal word order. ...
English_10_Grammar_PowerPoint
... c. Since he was perfect makes sense, you would use who. d. Sometimes you will have to rearrange the clause into normal word order. ...
... c. Since he was perfect makes sense, you would use who. d. Sometimes you will have to rearrange the clause into normal word order. ...
A [wikid] GLOSSARY OF SYNTAX
... dependents are taken to be a single component called a verb phrase or the predicate of the clause; thus the clause can be said to consist of subject plus predicate. Dependents include any number of complements (especially a noun phrase functioning as the object), and other modifiers of the verb. Nou ...
... dependents are taken to be a single component called a verb phrase or the predicate of the clause; thus the clause can be said to consist of subject plus predicate. Dependents include any number of complements (especially a noun phrase functioning as the object), and other modifiers of the verb. Nou ...
the hierarchy of linguistic units
... In grammatical hierarchy, morphemes are the smallest units (of grammar) and the sentences are the highest in rank. Morphemes combine to form words, words combine to form groups, groups combine to form clauses, and clauses combine to form sentences. In other words, a sentence consists of clauses, whi ...
... In grammatical hierarchy, morphemes are the smallest units (of grammar) and the sentences are the highest in rank. Morphemes combine to form words, words combine to form groups, groups combine to form clauses, and clauses combine to form sentences. In other words, a sentence consists of clauses, whi ...
the relationship between noun phrase and verb phrase
... PP is a functional phrase. In PP a preposition precedes an NP and becomes the head. Other functional words such as determiners, auxiliary verbs and modals, and conjunctions can also precede other phrases. A determiner precedes a noun to form a determiner phrase (DP). An auxiliary including a modal c ...
... PP is a functional phrase. In PP a preposition precedes an NP and becomes the head. Other functional words such as determiners, auxiliary verbs and modals, and conjunctions can also precede other phrases. A determiner precedes a noun to form a determiner phrase (DP). An auxiliary including a modal c ...
Generation of Simple Turkish Sentences with
... Ahmet chairman NegNoun+COP. `Ahmet is not the chairman.' The other tenses in the nominal sentences are expressed by the auxiliary verb ol (be). In this case, the auxiliary verb is realized the same way as the predicate of a verbal sentence. (4) Yarn okul-da ol-ma-yacag-m. Tomorrow school+DAT be+N ...
... Ahmet chairman NegNoun+COP. `Ahmet is not the chairman.' The other tenses in the nominal sentences are expressed by the auxiliary verb ol (be). In this case, the auxiliary verb is realized the same way as the predicate of a verbal sentence. (4) Yarn okul-da ol-ma-yacag-m. Tomorrow school+DAT be+N ...