Evidence of optional infinitive verbs in the spontaneous speech of
... context, defined as whether or not they agreed with plausibly associated subjects in the grammatical context. Our results show that children with SLI produced significantly more errors in verb finiteness, taking into account obligatory context, than did their typicallydeveloping counterparts. We con ...
... context, defined as whether or not they agreed with plausibly associated subjects in the grammatical context. Our results show that children with SLI produced significantly more errors in verb finiteness, taking into account obligatory context, than did their typicallydeveloping counterparts. We con ...
(2005). Some thoughts on Balto-Finnic passives and impersonals
... drink.PAST.IMPS bubbled.wine.PART party.INE ‘Bubbled wine was indeed drunk at the party.’ In the literature, the possibility of the preverbal elements being surface subjects in data like (6) has been rejected, on grounds that they retain their original case marking and do not trigger agreement on th ...
... drink.PAST.IMPS bubbled.wine.PART party.INE ‘Bubbled wine was indeed drunk at the party.’ In the literature, the possibility of the preverbal elements being surface subjects in data like (6) has been rejected, on grounds that they retain their original case marking and do not trigger agreement on th ...
English passive voice
... is formed periphrastically: the usual form uses the auxiliary verb be (or get) together with the past participle of the main verb. For example, Caesar was stabbed by Brutus uses the passive voice. The subject denotes the person (Caesar) affected by the action of the verb. The agent is expressed here ...
... is formed periphrastically: the usual form uses the auxiliary verb be (or get) together with the past participle of the main verb. For example, Caesar was stabbed by Brutus uses the passive voice. The subject denotes the person (Caesar) affected by the action of the verb. The agent is expressed here ...
The Nominative + Infinitive construction and the Accusative +
... may appear, not only with the respective verbs, but also across the verbs seem, appear, etc. Such is the case of it, there, of idiomatic subjects, listed in the lexicon only as parts of the respective idioms Here are examples of this type. Weather it is selected by verbs like rain, drizzle, hail, sl ...
... may appear, not only with the respective verbs, but also across the verbs seem, appear, etc. Such is the case of it, there, of idiomatic subjects, listed in the lexicon only as parts of the respective idioms Here are examples of this type. Weather it is selected by verbs like rain, drizzle, hail, sl ...
The origin and originality of passivization in Papiamentu
... corresponding past participles (e.g. ‘eaten’; ‘known’),
suggesting that at that time all longer verbs were stressed like disyllabic verbs.
Similarly, the Spanish-based orthography used by Sintiago (1898) made him place
an orthographic accent on final syllables of clear (past) partici ...
... corresponding past participles (e.g.
The full infinitive consist of two words, to + verb
... I am used to heat/to living in a hot climate (I have lived in a hot climate for some time so I don’t mind it) 5. be afraid (of), be sorry (for), be ashamed (of) a) be afraid of + gerund (it expresses an action which the subject fears may happen) He never swam far out. He was afraid of getting cramp. ...
... I am used to heat/to living in a hot climate (I have lived in a hot climate for some time so I don’t mind it) 5. be afraid (of), be sorry (for), be ashamed (of) a) be afraid of + gerund (it expresses an action which the subject fears may happen) He never swam far out. He was afraid of getting cramp. ...
Complex Passive Constructions in Norwegian
... general principle’, is naturally stateable in an HPSG format, are presented in section 2. With the same theoretical anchoring, section 3 elucidates the exact way in which the grammar of Norwegian can be said to ‘have’ the Complex Passive construction type, drawing on the notion of a type inheritance ...
... general principle’, is naturally stateable in an HPSG format, are presented in section 2. With the same theoretical anchoring, section 3 elucidates the exact way in which the grammar of Norwegian can be said to ‘have’ the Complex Passive construction type, drawing on the notion of a type inheritance ...
When To Use the Subjunctive Mood
... Subjunctive I want John to go to the store. (The clause "I want" tells us that the speaker feels that there is uncertainty as to whether John goes to the store.) I hope that John goes to the store. (The clause "I hope" tells us that the speaker feels that there is uncertainty as to whether John goe ...
... Subjunctive I want John to go to the store. (The clause "I want" tells us that the speaker feels that there is uncertainty as to whether John goes to the store.) I hope that John goes to the store. (The clause "I hope" tells us that the speaker feels that there is uncertainty as to whether John goe ...
ROA 1229 - Rutgers Optimality Archive
... give rise to systematic patterns of paradigm correspondence that correlate with whether velar segments in the paradigm’s base - the infinitive - are stressed. In this way, stress fulfils the role previously given to indexation: rather than relying on (a series of) idiosyncratic output-to-output cons ...
... give rise to systematic patterns of paradigm correspondence that correlate with whether velar segments in the paradigm’s base - the infinitive - are stressed. In this way, stress fulfils the role previously given to indexation: rather than relying on (a series of) idiosyncratic output-to-output cons ...
I find the book worth reading.
... same verb+entry to speech with the other, analytical models of various categorical expression, including the futures; on the other hand, the future of the present, is prospected from the present; on the other hand, the future of by the speaker the meaning of the present with this connotation will be ...
... same verb+entry to speech with the other, analytical models of various categorical expression, including the futures; on the other hand, the future of the present, is prospected from the present; on the other hand, the future of by the speaker the meaning of the present with this connotation will be ...
Participle Phrases
... common in those constructions. It is participles that usually give us problems; we know what we mean, so we do not stop to think about what we have actually said. Historically, the dangling participle has always been around, and in spoken English dangling participles are not unforgivable, but they a ...
... common in those constructions. It is participles that usually give us problems; we know what we mean, so we do not stop to think about what we have actually said. Historically, the dangling participle has always been around, and in spoken English dangling participles are not unforgivable, but they a ...
Children`s Early Acquisition of the Passive
... experiment and were scored according to the criteria outlined below. ...
... experiment and were scored according to the criteria outlined below. ...
The Gerund and the to-Infinitive as Subject
... on a definition of their basic meanings as the condition determining their use in discourse. The distinction in meaning between these two constructions is shown to be more complex than that of a simple binary opposition, as the to-infinitive is a composite made up of the meanings of its two componen ...
... on a definition of their basic meanings as the condition determining their use in discourse. The distinction in meaning between these two constructions is shown to be more complex than that of a simple binary opposition, as the to-infinitive is a composite made up of the meanings of its two componen ...
Month 10 - Shri Chitrapur Math
... Well, since the participle follows the subject, it doesn't matter who the "actual" doer is..... that doer ALWAYS falls into the trutiya vibhakti and has nothing to do with the participle or the verb. Let's look at another example, this time using the verb form along with the participle to see how mu ...
... Well, since the participle follows the subject, it doesn't matter who the "actual" doer is..... that doer ALWAYS falls into the trutiya vibhakti and has nothing to do with the participle or the verb. Let's look at another example, this time using the verb form along with the participle to see how mu ...
Where does heteroclisis come from? Evidence from Romanian
... the first and fourth conjugations is unstressed in the first and second persons plural present, subjunctive, imperative and infinitive—stress falling instead on the root there is not one vowel corresponding to the thematic vowel of the first and fourth conjugations, but two quite different ones: e i ...
... the first and fourth conjugations is unstressed in the first and second persons plural present, subjunctive, imperative and infinitive—stress falling instead on the root there is not one vowel corresponding to the thematic vowel of the first and fourth conjugations, but two quite different ones: e i ...
Finnish and Estonian - filologiaugrofinnica
... WALS: among 261 languages there are only 24 that have over 10 cases. Uralic languages, with the largest number in Hungarian; also Finnish. Also infinitives are declinable Dahl: it is the case system that makes the Uralic languages, so to say, typologically special and make an impression of agglutina ...
... WALS: among 261 languages there are only 24 that have over 10 cases. Uralic languages, with the largest number in Hungarian; also Finnish. Also infinitives are declinable Dahl: it is the case system that makes the Uralic languages, so to say, typologically special and make an impression of agglutina ...
Fulltext: english,
... (19) can also mean ’The ice breaker broke the iceberg’ because both nouns can be either the nominative or the accusative case. In (20) both mjesec and oblak are either nominative or accusative, but the only plausible semantic and pragmatic interpretation is the one given in the translation of (20). ...
... (19) can also mean ’The ice breaker broke the iceberg’ because both nouns can be either the nominative or the accusative case. In (20) both mjesec and oblak are either nominative or accusative, but the only plausible semantic and pragmatic interpretation is the one given in the translation of (20). ...
French Regular
... change to ç (c with a cedilla) to keep the c soft (as in cell). In the present tense and the imperative, this c > ç spelling change is found only in the nous conjugation: lançons. It is needed in the present participle, lançant, but not the past participle, lancé. And it occurs in the following tens ...
... change to ç (c with a cedilla) to keep the c soft (as in cell). In the present tense and the imperative, this c > ç spelling change is found only in the nous conjugation: lançons. It is needed in the present participle, lançant, but not the past participle, lancé. And it occurs in the following tens ...
Building Statives - Semantics Archive
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
... According to (14), the stativity of target state participles is the result of existentially quantifying the Davidsonian argument of a category-neutral predicate that has an additional target state argument. Lieber 1980 has argued that what makes adjectival participles adjectival in English and Germa ...
Building Statives
... English and German, is a zero suffix attached outside of the visible participle morphology. This is why verbal and adjectival passive participles show the same allomorphy in those languages. If Lieber is correct, the stativizer in (14) might be the denotation of a zero suffix. Alternatively, we coul ...
... English and German, is a zero suffix attached outside of the visible participle morphology. This is why verbal and adjectival passive participles show the same allomorphy in those languages. If Lieber is correct, the stativizer in (14) might be the denotation of a zero suffix. Alternatively, we coul ...
French Verbs booklet - Frederick Bremer School
... J’aime courir le matin - I like to run in the morning J’ai besoin de courir tous les jours - I need to run every day. Je peux courir très vite - I can run fast Je dois courir pour rester en forme - I must run to stay fit. When the verb is conjugated with I, you, he, she etc. there are verbs that fol ...
... J’aime courir le matin - I like to run in the morning J’ai besoin de courir tous les jours - I need to run every day. Je peux courir très vite - I can run fast Je dois courir pour rester en forme - I must run to stay fit. When the verb is conjugated with I, you, he, she etc. there are verbs that fol ...
Motivation for studying Italian
... corresponding form of a regular 2nd conjugation verb such as comer ‘to eat’ (see Table 1 below). The status of diphthongized stem forms, e.g. entender - entiendo ‘to understand - I understand’, rogar - ruego ‘to beg - I beg’, is controversial. Diphthongization is common in Spanish, not only in verbs ...
... corresponding form of a regular 2nd conjugation verb such as comer ‘to eat’ (see Table 1 below). The status of diphthongized stem forms, e.g. entender - entiendo ‘to understand - I understand’, rogar - ruego ‘to beg - I beg’, is controversial. Diphthongization is common in Spanish, not only in verbs ...
Zero Conditional
... Both gerunds and infinitives can be nouns, which means they can do just about anything that a noun can do. Although they name things, like other nouns, they normally name activities rather than people or objects. Here are five noun-uses of gerunds and infinitives (and one additional non-noun use, th ...
... Both gerunds and infinitives can be nouns, which means they can do just about anything that a noun can do. Although they name things, like other nouns, they normally name activities rather than people or objects. Here are five noun-uses of gerunds and infinitives (and one additional non-noun use, th ...
GREENBERG`S ASYMMETRY IN ARABIC: A CONSEQUENCE OF
... one of these two allomorphs underlies the alternation? One answer to this question is suggested by the following observation. The shape of [madad] is the shape of the nonalternating triliteral verbs like [katab-a] ‘he wrote’, [katab-tu] ‘I wrote’. Conventionally, triliterals are assumed to be the ca ...
... one of these two allomorphs underlies the alternation? One answer to this question is suggested by the following observation. The shape of [madad] is the shape of the nonalternating triliteral verbs like [katab-a] ‘he wrote’, [katab-tu] ‘I wrote’. Conventionally, triliterals are assumed to be the ca ...
The Verb aNd Verbals iN eNGlish
... present and past participles, e.g. (to) speak – speaking – speaking – spoken, (to) live – living – living – lived, respectively. In the proverb Actions speak louder than words, the verb speak, a simple synthetic predicate, is in the third person plural because it agrees with the plural subject noun, ...
... present and past participles, e.g. (to) speak – speaking – speaking – spoken, (to) live – living – living – lived, respectively. In the proverb Actions speak louder than words, the verb speak, a simple synthetic predicate, is in the third person plural because it agrees with the plural subject noun, ...