(Popescu), Roxana-Iuliana, Coordination and
... to the availability of one and the same discursive expressions to be multiply labeled, as fundamental logical category, or derived logical category. The grammatical synonymy thing offers lists of clause / sentence rephrasing that are able to express one and the same idea, for example, all the gramm ...
... to the availability of one and the same discursive expressions to be multiply labeled, as fundamental logical category, or derived logical category. The grammatical synonymy thing offers lists of clause / sentence rephrasing that are able to express one and the same idea, for example, all the gramm ...
Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction
... Prepositions are bad to end sentences with. As modern linguists our concerns are very different. We view human language as a natural phenomenon amenable to scientific investigation, rather than something to be regulated by the decrees of authorities. Your seventh grade math teacher might have told y ...
... Prepositions are bad to end sentences with. As modern linguists our concerns are very different. We view human language as a natural phenomenon amenable to scientific investigation, rather than something to be regulated by the decrees of authorities. Your seventh grade math teacher might have told y ...
Coordination with goon and Bisyndetic =goon in Dongolawi and
... A paraphrase of adversativity is presented by Zeevat: “The content has been suggested to be false in the context.”17 exemplified by German ‘doch.’ I.e. adversativity challenges a previous assumption, corresponding to Malchukov’s ‘concessive.’ Further terms used to describe the concessive are “frustr ...
... A paraphrase of adversativity is presented by Zeevat: “The content has been suggested to be false in the context.”17 exemplified by German ‘doch.’ I.e. adversativity challenges a previous assumption, corresponding to Malchukov’s ‘concessive.’ Further terms used to describe the concessive are “frustr ...
Interplay between Syntax and Semantics during Sentence
... internal processing event. In principle, qualitatively different processing events can show up as latency or amplitude modulations of qualitatively distinct ERP components. An important example in this context is the distinction between semantic and syntactic ERP effects in comprehension. The proces ...
... internal processing event. In principle, qualitatively different processing events can show up as latency or amplitude modulations of qualitatively distinct ERP components. An important example in this context is the distinction between semantic and syntactic ERP effects in comprehension. The proces ...
University of Groningen Data-driven identification of fixed
... a more common concept in the literature (Fernando and Flavell, 1981; Nunberg et al., 1994). A non-transparent meaning is the manifestation of opacity. Thus, the more opaque the meaning of a fixed expression is, the more unpredictable it is. Fernando and Flavell (1981) compared the semantic unpredict ...
... a more common concept in the literature (Fernando and Flavell, 1981; Nunberg et al., 1994). A non-transparent meaning is the manifestation of opacity. Thus, the more opaque the meaning of a fixed expression is, the more unpredictable it is. Fernando and Flavell (1981) compared the semantic unpredict ...
Translating Infinitival Structures
... … thus, interest in the field has never been stronger and the study of translation is taking place alongside an increase in its practice all over the world’ (Bassnett, 2003:1). Furthermore, translation is also a subject of great interest to linguists, who approached it from different points of view, ...
... … thus, interest in the field has never been stronger and the study of translation is taking place alongside an increase in its practice all over the world’ (Bassnett, 2003:1). Furthermore, translation is also a subject of great interest to linguists, who approached it from different points of view, ...
CLIPP Christiani Lehmanni inedita, publicanda
... Just as in the case of markedness, the nominal definition of grammaticalization offered in D4 may appear to beg the important problems since we do not know how to verify whether A is more integrated into the grammatical system than B. Therefore this definition, too, has to be associated with a set o ...
... Just as in the case of markedness, the nominal definition of grammaticalization offered in D4 may appear to beg the important problems since we do not know how to verify whether A is more integrated into the grammatical system than B. Therefore this definition, too, has to be associated with a set o ...
The acquisition of a unification-based generalised categorial grammar
... of a Universal Grammar with associated parameters, and a learning algorithm, following the Principles and Parameters Theory. The Universal Grammar is implemented as a Unification-Based Generalised Categorial Grammar, embedded in a default inheritance network of lexical types. The learning algorithm ...
... of a Universal Grammar with associated parameters, and a learning algorithm, following the Principles and Parameters Theory. The Universal Grammar is implemented as a Unification-Based Generalised Categorial Grammar, embedded in a default inheritance network of lexical types. The learning algorithm ...
Lecture 12: Semantics and Pragmatics
... ➣ Language has many uses, only one of which is to convey information — but surely transferring information is important ➣ We can measure information in a limited, technical, and very useful, sense ➢ Think of a signal being transmitted from a source to a destination, possibly with noise in the channe ...
... ➣ Language has many uses, only one of which is to convey information — but surely transferring information is important ➣ We can measure information in a limited, technical, and very useful, sense ➢ Think of a signal being transmitted from a source to a destination, possibly with noise in the channe ...
Ineffability in Grammar
... syntax: island constraints or the scope taking behavior of quantifiers. For many such cases, it can be shown that the winners of purely formal competitions are uninterpretable either in semantic or in pragmatic terms. Solving the difficulties just mentioned (parochiality, absence of lexical items, n ...
... syntax: island constraints or the scope taking behavior of quantifiers. For many such cases, it can be shown that the winners of purely formal competitions are uninterpretable either in semantic or in pragmatic terms. Solving the difficulties just mentioned (parochiality, absence of lexical items, n ...
The Gerund and the to-Infinitive as Subject
... to-infinitive is defined in terms of temporality, either partially or totally. The -ing form is most commonly claimed to evoke an event that exists at the same time as some other event or point of reference; the to-infinitive is depicted as denoting an event that is hypothetical or future in some wa ...
... to-infinitive is defined in terms of temporality, either partially or totally. The -ing form is most commonly claimed to evoke an event that exists at the same time as some other event or point of reference; the to-infinitive is depicted as denoting an event that is hypothetical or future in some wa ...
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... b. Analytical construction in Indonesian Language is [do] (X) CAUSE [do (Y) BECOME predicate (Z)], if the predicate of the non causative construction is a transitive verb. c. Causative construction in Indonesian Language is [do (X)] CAUSE [BECOME predicate (Y)]. The component structure of cause is s ...
... b. Analytical construction in Indonesian Language is [do] (X) CAUSE [do (Y) BECOME predicate (Z)], if the predicate of the non causative construction is a transitive verb. c. Causative construction in Indonesian Language is [do (X)] CAUSE [BECOME predicate (Y)]. The component structure of cause is s ...
Constructions with and without articles Henriëtte de Swart
... kitchen, *at store, *to garage. Among the classes that appear in N-based bare PPs are the nouns that indicate social-geographical spaces like hospital and school that have an institutional meaning. N-based bare PPs are to be contrasted with P-based bare PPs, in which it is the preposition that drive ...
... kitchen, *at store, *to garage. Among the classes that appear in N-based bare PPs are the nouns that indicate social-geographical spaces like hospital and school that have an institutional meaning. N-based bare PPs are to be contrasted with P-based bare PPs, in which it is the preposition that drive ...
- Lancaster EPrints
... corpus of spoken data, this thesis sets out to examine aspects of the grammar of pronominal expressions in Puxian, focusing especially on three prominent issues in the linguistic literature, viz. impersonality, reflexive markings and Person effects on linearization. The investigation of impersonalit ...
... corpus of spoken data, this thesis sets out to examine aspects of the grammar of pronominal expressions in Puxian, focusing especially on three prominent issues in the linguistic literature, viz. impersonality, reflexive markings and Person effects on linearization. The investigation of impersonalit ...
Chapter 7: Linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences
... linking algorithms proposed in Chapter 5 for simple sentences must be modified to deal with complex sentences. Most complex sentences pose no particular difficulties for the linking system we developed in Chapter 5. Clausal junctures, for example, are composed of clauses, each of which links like an ...
... linking algorithms proposed in Chapter 5 for simple sentences must be modified to deal with complex sentences. Most complex sentences pose no particular difficulties for the linking system we developed in Chapter 5. Clausal junctures, for example, are composed of clauses, each of which links like an ...
Decomposing Existence: Evidence from Germanic
... „habitat” reading. Such existentials are for example German es gibt, Danish der findes, Swedish det finns, Norwegian det fins and Icelandic der være til. In section 3, I will contrast locative and pure existentials using data from Germanic languages. The habitual interpretation of pure existentials ...
... „habitat” reading. Such existentials are for example German es gibt, Danish der findes, Swedish det finns, Norwegian det fins and Icelandic der være til. In section 3, I will contrast locative and pure existentials using data from Germanic languages. The habitual interpretation of pure existentials ...
PARTITIVE RESTRICTIVE mODIFICATION OF NAmES IN
... For reasons discussed in Barcelona (2003a) I define metonymy as a conceptual projection or mapping, as claimed by Lakoff and Turner (1989: 103); however, whereas metaphor consists of a set of structural, symmetric sub-mappings or correspondences (a systematic matching of counterparts between source ...
... For reasons discussed in Barcelona (2003a) I define metonymy as a conceptual projection or mapping, as claimed by Lakoff and Turner (1989: 103); however, whereas metaphor consists of a set of structural, symmetric sub-mappings or correspondences (a systematic matching of counterparts between source ...
Chapter 4: Syntactic Relations and Case Marking
... the postulation of grammatical relations in addition to semantic roles. The traditional description of these phenomena is in terms of the grammatical relations of subject, direct object and indirect object, but the investigation of Philippine, ergative and active languages has shown that analyses ba ...
... the postulation of grammatical relations in addition to semantic roles. The traditional description of these phenomena is in terms of the grammatical relations of subject, direct object and indirect object, but the investigation of Philippine, ergative and active languages has shown that analyses ba ...
PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DEDUCTIVE PARSING STUART M. SHIEBER, YVES SCHABES, AND
... Many of the ideas that we present are not new. Some have been presented before; others form part of the folk wisdom of the logic programming community. However, the present work is to our knowledge the first to make the ideas available explicitly in a single notation and with a clean implementation. ...
... Many of the ideas that we present are not new. Some have been presented before; others form part of the folk wisdom of the logic programming community. However, the present work is to our knowledge the first to make the ideas available explicitly in a single notation and with a clean implementation. ...
Make the sentence corrections in red. Write the vocabulary words in
... two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. With disdain, the students in Connie Coherent’s English class watched the teacher pass out the first essay assignment of the year; needless to say, there was much whining in the class. PowerEd Plans ...
... two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. With disdain, the students in Connie Coherent’s English class watched the teacher pass out the first essay assignment of the year; needless to say, there was much whining in the class. PowerEd Plans ...
A Degree Account of Exclamatives
... The proposal is this: for the utterance of an exclamation to be expressively correct, its content must be salient, and the speaker must find this content surprising. For the utterance of an exclamative to be expressively correct, its content must additionally be about a degree, and that degree must ...
... The proposal is this: for the utterance of an exclamation to be expressively correct, its content must be salient, and the speaker must find this content surprising. For the utterance of an exclamative to be expressively correct, its content must additionally be about a degree, and that degree must ...
An Unmediated Analysis of Relative Clauses
... This shows that the relativized element is syntactically associated with both positions. Crucially, IHRCs provide no evidence for a relative pronoun, or for a mediated analysis of the relative clause construction. It is instructive to consider what an in-situ mediated structure would look like. Cons ...
... This shows that the relativized element is syntactically associated with both positions. Crucially, IHRCs provide no evidence for a relative pronoun, or for a mediated analysis of the relative clause construction. It is instructive to consider what an in-situ mediated structure would look like. Cons ...
Constructions and Result: English Phrasal Verbs as Analyses in
... is a meaningful part of the separated construction, the non-separated construction which occurs with those verbs that do not co-occur with the separated construction represents verbs which have a different basic syntactic structure than the separable phrasal verbs. I propose that the particles found ...
... is a meaningful part of the separated construction, the non-separated construction which occurs with those verbs that do not co-occur with the separated construction represents verbs which have a different basic syntactic structure than the separable phrasal verbs. I propose that the particles found ...
teaching english passive contrastively and in comparison
... 3. Types of voices (diatheses) in English We believe there exist: one characteristic type of active diathesis, several sub kinds of passive structures, a few active-passive forms, some of which are closer to the passive rather than to the active and, could be also treated as passives, an impersonal ...
... 3. Types of voices (diatheses) in English We believe there exist: one characteristic type of active diathesis, several sub kinds of passive structures, a few active-passive forms, some of which are closer to the passive rather than to the active and, could be also treated as passives, an impersonal ...
Discourse, grammar, discourse
... Thompson and Mulac support their claims with statistically significant data. But why should discourse reflect any consistent patterns regarding +/– that, and why specifically the above tendencies? To answer this question we first need to consider what it is that speakers use complement-taking verb c ...
... Thompson and Mulac support their claims with statistically significant data. But why should discourse reflect any consistent patterns regarding +/– that, and why specifically the above tendencies? To answer this question we first need to consider what it is that speakers use complement-taking verb c ...