compounds
... We talk about so called word classes , primary grammatical categories, parts of speech or lexical categories: ...
... We talk about so called word classes , primary grammatical categories, parts of speech or lexical categories: ...
Complex Feature Values
... of the COMPS list of the head. The 1 ... n notation allows this rule to account for phrases with a variable number of non-head daughters. n stands for any integer greater than or equal to 1. Thus, if a word is specified lexically as [COMPS h AP i], it must co-occur with exactly one AP complement; if ...
... of the COMPS list of the head. The 1 ... n notation allows this rule to account for phrases with a variable number of non-head daughters. n stands for any integer greater than or equal to 1. Thus, if a word is specified lexically as [COMPS h AP i], it must co-occur with exactly one AP complement; if ...
A Grammar Research Guide for Ngwi Languages
... In the sixteenth edition of the Ethnologue (Lewis 2009), a new group of Sino-Tibetan languages was recognized: the Ngwi languages, a branch of Burmic (see www.ethnologue.com/family/17-4039). The term “Ngwi” was recommended by Bradley (2005:164–166) as less pejorative than the term “Lolo,” less ambig ...
... In the sixteenth edition of the Ethnologue (Lewis 2009), a new group of Sino-Tibetan languages was recognized: the Ngwi languages, a branch of Burmic (see www.ethnologue.com/family/17-4039). The term “Ngwi” was recommended by Bradley (2005:164–166) as less pejorative than the term “Lolo,” less ambig ...
“Pale as death” or “pâle comme la mort”: Frozen similes used as
... Bethlehem, 1996). Furthermore, as can be seen from the examples (1) and (2), they often have identical patterns in different languages. The present study attempts to take advantage of the semantic and syntactic similarities of those two languages as far as their simile constructions are concerned in ...
... Bethlehem, 1996). Furthermore, as can be seen from the examples (1) and (2), they often have identical patterns in different languages. The present study attempts to take advantage of the semantic and syntactic similarities of those two languages as far as their simile constructions are concerned in ...
- 1 - Adpositions from nouns, one way or another Das war `ne heiße
... German, appear to be unclear. With no plausible Germanic or Indo-European etymon, it has on phonological grounds been conjectured to be, or to have been perceived as, an expressive; and the playful coexistence of stem-vowel alternants Trotz, Trutz, and Tratz lends credibility to onomatopoeia as a cr ...
... German, appear to be unclear. With no plausible Germanic or Indo-European etymon, it has on phonological grounds been conjectured to be, or to have been perceived as, an expressive; and the playful coexistence of stem-vowel alternants Trotz, Trutz, and Tratz lends credibility to onomatopoeia as a cr ...
PPT - Department of information engineering and computer science
... class that accepts the addition of new items, through such processes as compounding, derivation, coining, borrowing, etc. Typical open word classes are nouns, verbs and adjectives. ...
... class that accepts the addition of new items, through such processes as compounding, derivation, coining, borrowing, etc. Typical open word classes are nouns, verbs and adjectives. ...
Guide to Revising Grammar and Punctuation
... Nouns are naming words. Nouns can name things, people, animals, places a a wide range of processes and concepts (advice, beauty, addition). 10. Pronouns Pronouns replace a noun. This saves a writer from repeating a noun over and over again. me, you, him, her, he, she, we, they, them, it, his, us 11. ...
... Nouns are naming words. Nouns can name things, people, animals, places a a wide range of processes and concepts (advice, beauty, addition). 10. Pronouns Pronouns replace a noun. This saves a writer from repeating a noun over and over again. me, you, him, her, he, she, we, they, them, it, his, us 11. ...
Dissertation - AUT Scholarly Commons
... how the information in each word is passed onto adjacent words for constructing the meanings of the phrase. Thus each word is encoded with a combination of ?L+ (accept words from its left), ?L- (pass this word to the left), ?R+ (accept words from its right), ?R(pass this word to the right), and vari ...
... how the information in each word is passed onto adjacent words for constructing the meanings of the phrase. Thus each word is encoded with a combination of ?L+ (accept words from its left), ?L- (pass this word to the left), ?R+ (accept words from its right), ?R(pass this word to the right), and vari ...
4. DUAL NOUNS
... Tiersma (1999: 31) thinks that these are the prints French left on English; that French influenced legal English also in creating names of persons referring to opposite parties. According to him “the past participles of French verbs ending with -ee later came to be used as names of persons receiving ...
... Tiersma (1999: 31) thinks that these are the prints French left on English; that French influenced legal English also in creating names of persons referring to opposite parties. According to him “the past participles of French verbs ending with -ee later came to be used as names of persons receiving ...
English Exam / Answers
... B. appositive phrase C. adjectival clause D. adverbial phrase 17. “Each of these legendary figures is associated with the unexplored regions of our new nation during the 1800s. Does anyone know what these folk heroes represented to the early settlers?” Mrs. Clark asked. A. gerund phrase B. present p ...
... B. appositive phrase C. adjectival clause D. adverbial phrase 17. “Each of these legendary figures is associated with the unexplored regions of our new nation during the 1800s. Does anyone know what these folk heroes represented to the early settlers?” Mrs. Clark asked. A. gerund phrase B. present p ...
Quantification in German
... small class of nouns inflect as well), but predominantly on determiner elements. Nouns belong to one of three inflectional classes (genders) in the singular, which are typically called ‘masculine’, ‘feminine’, and ‘neuter’. The conjugation table for the definite determiner is given below. The plural ...
... small class of nouns inflect as well), but predominantly on determiner elements. Nouns belong to one of three inflectional classes (genders) in the singular, which are typically called ‘masculine’, ‘feminine’, and ‘neuter’. The conjugation table for the definite determiner is given below. The plural ...
www.unige.ch
... put, while in the morning is an optional descriptor of the time at which the action was performed. Though both attached to the verb, the two PPs entertain different relationships with the verb – the first is an argument while the latter is an adjunct. Analogous examples could be built for attachment ...
... put, while in the morning is an optional descriptor of the time at which the action was performed. Though both attached to the verb, the two PPs entertain different relationships with the verb – the first is an argument while the latter is an adjunct. Analogous examples could be built for attachment ...
Producing Biographical Summaries: Combining
... patterns with lexical and syntactic information, to identify constructions such as pre- and postmodifying appositive phrases, e.g., “Presidential candidate George Bush”, “Bush, the presidential candidate”, and relative clauses, e.g., “Senator ..., who is running for re-election this Fall,”. These ap ...
... patterns with lexical and syntactic information, to identify constructions such as pre- and postmodifying appositive phrases, e.g., “Presidential candidate George Bush”, “Bush, the presidential candidate”, and relative clauses, e.g., “Senator ..., who is running for re-election this Fall,”. These ap ...
Making Use of Infinitives - Spearfish School District
... Change the italicized sentence to an infinitive phrase. After changing the italicized sentence to an infinitive phrase, insert it in the sentence next to the noun it modifies. 2. Johnny’s ambition was typical of a child. It was to become a firefighter. ...
... Change the italicized sentence to an infinitive phrase. After changing the italicized sentence to an infinitive phrase, insert it in the sentence next to the noun it modifies. 2. Johnny’s ambition was typical of a child. It was to become a firefighter. ...
X-BAR MOTIVATED
... the former is something physically tangible and edible (even if disgusting) while the latter is not physically tangible And things get more complicated when we look at clausal complements. Ling 216 ~ X-Bar Motivated ~ Cherlon Ussery ...
... the former is something physically tangible and edible (even if disgusting) while the latter is not physically tangible And things get more complicated when we look at clausal complements. Ling 216 ~ X-Bar Motivated ~ Cherlon Ussery ...
Dependency in Linguistic Description
... that (information) means, strictly speaking, (degree of organization).) More specifically, all the units which constitute the utterance—let us limit ourselves here, for simplicity's sake, to wordforms— are arranged by the speaker in well-specified configurations, according to numerous complicated ru ...
... that (information) means, strictly speaking, (degree of organization).) More specifically, all the units which constitute the utterance—let us limit ourselves here, for simplicity's sake, to wordforms— are arranged by the speaker in well-specified configurations, according to numerous complicated ru ...
NOUNS AND NOUN PHRASES
... even though he only worked with a single speaker. All five vowels can be articulated nasally, but their distribution is limited: in the current corpus nasalised vowels only occur after the consonants /h/ and /w/. There is only one exception: the nasalised vowel sequence /ãĩ/ occurs after the bilabia ...
... even though he only worked with a single speaker. All five vowels can be articulated nasally, but their distribution is limited: in the current corpus nasalised vowels only occur after the consonants /h/ and /w/. There is only one exception: the nasalised vowel sequence /ãĩ/ occurs after the bilabia ...
Iberdrola Style Guide
... 5. Use the active voice whenever possible (subject + verb + object structure). It gets straight to the point. ...
... 5. Use the active voice whenever possible (subject + verb + object structure). It gets straight to the point. ...
12. Infinitive Phrase Practice
... Practice Sentence 1 Write the unscrambled sentence. Then, follow your teacher’s additional instructions. ...
... Practice Sentence 1 Write the unscrambled sentence. Then, follow your teacher’s additional instructions. ...
Shallow-Parsing Stylebook for German
... Figure 7: Two coordinated NCs (or a cardinal number) as a head word (with the exception mentioned in section 2.3.4 and below) and of optional determiners, adverb chunks or attributive adjective chunks (See Figures 4, 11 and 10 and the examples mentioned in section 2.3.4). Noun chunks can only be con ...
... Figure 7: Two coordinated NCs (or a cardinal number) as a head word (with the exception mentioned in section 2.3.4 and below) and of optional determiners, adverb chunks or attributive adjective chunks (See Figures 4, 11 and 10 and the examples mentioned in section 2.3.4). Noun chunks can only be con ...
interference in learning english: grammatical errors in english essay
... Celce-Murcia & Larsen-Freeman (1999) describe ‘determiner’ as a special class of words that limits (or determines) the nouns that follow them. These words could be in the form of articles (the, a(n)), demonstratives (this, that, these, those), possessive determiners (my, your, his, her, its, our, th ...
... Celce-Murcia & Larsen-Freeman (1999) describe ‘determiner’ as a special class of words that limits (or determines) the nouns that follow them. These words could be in the form of articles (the, a(n)), demonstratives (this, that, these, those), possessive determiners (my, your, his, her, its, our, th ...
Talbanken05: A Swedish Treebank with Phrase Structure and
... Table 1: The priority list of head-finding rules step is to make all other words dependents of the head. In the simpler case, when the head is an individual word (terminal node), that word be the head of all its child nodes. The verb fäster is a terminal that becomes the head of the other terminals ...
... Table 1: The priority list of head-finding rules step is to make all other words dependents of the head. In the simpler case, when the head is an individual word (terminal node), that word be the head of all its child nodes. The verb fäster is a terminal that becomes the head of the other terminals ...
Exercise : Faulty Parallelism
... - Using the same pattern of words. - In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. ...
... - Using the same pattern of words. - In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. ...
Ovid, Metamorphoses 8
... 153 ut: here = 'when'. Note that the verb (contigit) is indicative. ratibus: plural for singular. Latin poets often use singular forms for plural and vice versa. Cūrētida: Greek accusative, agreeing with terram. Cūrētis is an adjective meaning 'Cretan'. The Curetes were an ancient Cretan people. 154 ...
... 153 ut: here = 'when'. Note that the verb (contigit) is indicative. ratibus: plural for singular. Latin poets often use singular forms for plural and vice versa. Cūrētida: Greek accusative, agreeing with terram. Cūrētis is an adjective meaning 'Cretan'. The Curetes were an ancient Cretan people. 154 ...
5. Valency Aspects of SVCs
... nouns. The patterns the abstract nouns enter are determined by their function and meaning”.2 While Helbig and Buscha were struggling to identify a distinct class of “Funktionsverben”, and Baron and Herslund (1998), Rothkegel (1973) and Persson (1975, 1992) were trying to define support verb construc ...
... nouns. The patterns the abstract nouns enter are determined by their function and meaning”.2 While Helbig and Buscha were struggling to identify a distinct class of “Funktionsverben”, and Baron and Herslund (1998), Rothkegel (1973) and Persson (1975, 1992) were trying to define support verb construc ...