Chapter 19: Lexical-Functional Grammar
... The first fifteen chapters of this textbook are an introduction to syntactic theory from one particular perspective. That is the perspective of the Chomskyan Principles and Parameters (P&P) approach (and its descendant: Minimalism). While a large number of syntacticians (perhaps even a majority) ope ...
... The first fifteen chapters of this textbook are an introduction to syntactic theory from one particular perspective. That is the perspective of the Chomskyan Principles and Parameters (P&P) approach (and its descendant: Minimalism). While a large number of syntacticians (perhaps even a majority) ope ...
Grammar Challenge
... 1. I shouted at my little sister this morning. I feel bad about it now. a. I wish I had shouted at my little sister - WRONG b. I wish I hadn't shouted at my little sister - CORRECT 2. I didn't go to the library yesterday. It's closed today. a. I wish I had gone to the library - CORRECT b. I wish I h ...
... 1. I shouted at my little sister this morning. I feel bad about it now. a. I wish I had shouted at my little sister - WRONG b. I wish I hadn't shouted at my little sister - CORRECT 2. I didn't go to the library yesterday. It's closed today. a. I wish I had gone to the library - CORRECT b. I wish I h ...
unif
... – Assume that constituents are objects which have feature-structures associated with them – Associate sets of unification constraints with grammar rules – Constraints must be satisfied for rule to be satisfied ...
... – Assume that constituents are objects which have feature-structures associated with them – Associate sets of unification constraints with grammar rules – Constraints must be satisfied for rule to be satisfied ...
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... preposition, for codes, according to various dictionaries, up to thirty different meanings, while as a conjunction, it is usually considered a synonym of because. The purpose of the analyses conducted in this work is to fill the gap that exists in the systematic study on the English prepositions. Ca ...
... preposition, for codes, according to various dictionaries, up to thirty different meanings, while as a conjunction, it is usually considered a synonym of because. The purpose of the analyses conducted in this work is to fill the gap that exists in the systematic study on the English prepositions. Ca ...
Valence Creation and the German Applicative
... bivalent applicative verbs with monovalent base forms (e.g. bedudeln). The latter class of verbs includes not only beschummeln in (2) but also applicatives formed from other verbs of deception, including mogeln ('cheat'), schwindeln ('fib'), flunkern ('lie') and liigen ('lie'). Moreover, the more ge ...
... bivalent applicative verbs with monovalent base forms (e.g. bedudeln). The latter class of verbs includes not only beschummeln in (2) but also applicatives formed from other verbs of deception, including mogeln ('cheat'), schwindeln ('fib'), flunkern ('lie') and liigen ('lie'). Moreover, the more ge ...
Building a lexicon for a categorial grammar of the
... Celem pracy jest konwersja Składnicy, polskiego banku drzew rozbioru składniowego, do formatu wywodów rozszerzonej wersji CCG (Combinatory Categorial Grammar). CCG jest gramatyką leksykalną, która umożliwia pozyskanie informacji składniowych ze zdania za pomocą małej liczby uniwersalnych reguł oraz ...
... Celem pracy jest konwersja Składnicy, polskiego banku drzew rozbioru składniowego, do formatu wywodów rozszerzonej wersji CCG (Combinatory Categorial Grammar). CCG jest gramatyką leksykalną, która umożliwia pozyskanie informacji składniowych ze zdania za pomocą małej liczby uniwersalnych reguł oraz ...
An Updated Typology of Causative Constructions: Form
... The one instance of a solid correlation among parameter values (with a sample of more than 10 relevant pairing events) was that between parameters 3 (causee control) and 4 (causee willingness). These two parameters were correlated: they were encoded together at particular values (both low or both hi ...
... The one instance of a solid correlation among parameter values (with a sample of more than 10 relevant pairing events) was that between parameters 3 (causee control) and 4 (causee willingness). These two parameters were correlated: they were encoded together at particular values (both low or both hi ...
Involuntary state constructions in Polish: a case of semantic
... for the function from an argument to its truth value, and the other for the argument belonging to the domain of this function. A further consequence of the above system is that language structures are predicted to be, at most, binary. In other words, all structures that might look different are in f ...
... for the function from an argument to its truth value, and the other for the argument belonging to the domain of this function. A further consequence of the above system is that language structures are predicted to be, at most, binary. In other words, all structures that might look different are in f ...
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... that their speech is impromptu and oral made on the spot. Speakers try to transmit the information ignoring strict formal rules of grammar and syntax. They are inclined to shape their ideas in the way that best fits the situation. Moreover, as speakers strive for spontaneity during communication, th ...
... that their speech is impromptu and oral made on the spot. Speakers try to transmit the information ignoring strict formal rules of grammar and syntax. They are inclined to shape their ideas in the way that best fits the situation. Moreover, as speakers strive for spontaneity during communication, th ...
Reconsidering the Dative Shift Szabóné Papp Judit
... cognitive theory of metaphorical extension is applied in Chapter 5 to give an explanation for the participation of certain semantically delineated verb classes in the dative shift. It is also claimed by cognitive grammar that language would not be able to exist as a means of communication without m ...
... cognitive theory of metaphorical extension is applied in Chapter 5 to give an explanation for the participation of certain semantically delineated verb classes in the dative shift. It is also claimed by cognitive grammar that language would not be able to exist as a means of communication without m ...
DeQue: A Lexicon of Complex Prepositions and Conjunctions
... C2: Autonomous Lexical Units We require that the individual words composing a CPRE/CCONJ are autonomous lexical units. This means that they have their own distribution, cooccurring with other words in other contexts. Criterion C2 aims at excluding constructions that are surely not ambiguous. For ins ...
... C2: Autonomous Lexical Units We require that the individual words composing a CPRE/CCONJ are autonomous lexical units. This means that they have their own distribution, cooccurring with other words in other contexts. Criterion C2 aims at excluding constructions that are surely not ambiguous. For ins ...
Limitations on metonymic uses of –ion nominalizations
... should be studied within grammar because they are derived from clauses by transformation rules, whereas the latter regarded them as part of lexicon and considered that they should be listed in it as such. In functional grammar, Matthiessen and Halliday (1997) and Givón (1993) in his functional-typol ...
... should be studied within grammar because they are derived from clauses by transformation rules, whereas the latter regarded them as part of lexicon and considered that they should be listed in it as such. In functional grammar, Matthiessen and Halliday (1997) and Givón (1993) in his functional-typol ...
On expletive subject pronoun drop in Colloquial French
... arbitrary lexical gaps: combined forms which ‘do not exist at all’ such as ∗ mayn’t and ∗ amn’t. According to Zwicky and Pullum (1983), then, arbitrary lexical gaps are instances in which one element categorically fails to combine with another one, and this on no principled grounds. Against this bac ...
... arbitrary lexical gaps: combined forms which ‘do not exist at all’ such as ∗ mayn’t and ∗ amn’t. According to Zwicky and Pullum (1983), then, arbitrary lexical gaps are instances in which one element categorically fails to combine with another one, and this on no principled grounds. Against this bac ...
What is Syntax? - Columbia University
... • At birth of formal language theory (comp sci) and formal linguistics • Major contribution: syntax is cognitive reality • Humans able to learn languages quickly, but not all languages universal grammar is biological • Goal of syntactic study: find universal principles and languagespecific paramet ...
... • At birth of formal language theory (comp sci) and formal linguistics • Major contribution: syntax is cognitive reality • Humans able to learn languages quickly, but not all languages universal grammar is biological • Goal of syntactic study: find universal principles and languagespecific paramet ...
Fulltext: english,
... by their central derivatives is claimed to arise from a combination of factors including the semantic category of the base and the positions in the affixal skeleton with which the base argument is co-indexed (the type of polysemy that Copestake and Briscoe refer to as constructional polysemy). This ...
... by their central derivatives is claimed to arise from a combination of factors including the semantic category of the base and the positions in the affixal skeleton with which the base argument is co-indexed (the type of polysemy that Copestake and Briscoe refer to as constructional polysemy). This ...
Grade 7 Claim 2 Target 9 - Curriculum-Instruction
... for grade 7students. However, because the error is underlined, the student does not need to know the term itself to make the appropriate correction. o A student wants to revise part of a story for correct verbs. Read the following sentences and then answer the question that follows. I went to the ma ...
... for grade 7students. However, because the error is underlined, the student does not need to know the term itself to make the appropriate correction. o A student wants to revise part of a story for correct verbs. Read the following sentences and then answer the question that follows. I went to the ma ...
What is Syntax?
... • At birth of formal language theory (comp sci) and formal linguistics • Major contribution: syntax is cognitive reality • Humans able to learn languages quickly, but not all languages ⇒ universal grammar is biological • Goal of syntactic study: find universal principles and language‐ ...
... • At birth of formal language theory (comp sci) and formal linguistics • Major contribution: syntax is cognitive reality • Humans able to learn languages quickly, but not all languages ⇒ universal grammar is biological • Goal of syntactic study: find universal principles and language‐ ...
Where the Past is in the Perfect
... other languages, including English, use have uniformly. In this article I will seek to identify the syntactic source of the past tense meaning associated with the perfect construction. Because of the problem posed by the cross-linguistic variation in perfect semantics mentioned above, it is perhaps ...
... other languages, including English, use have uniformly. In this article I will seek to identify the syntactic source of the past tense meaning associated with the perfect construction. Because of the problem posed by the cross-linguistic variation in perfect semantics mentioned above, it is perhaps ...
Information structure and grammaticalization
... therefore no straightforward matter. Two entirely different kinds of interdependence of the two domains may be deduced from their nature. As seen in section 2.1, information structure is a notion that has both functional/semantic and structural aspects, just as grammatical categories like tense and ...
... therefore no straightforward matter. Two entirely different kinds of interdependence of the two domains may be deduced from their nature. As seen in section 2.1, information structure is a notion that has both functional/semantic and structural aspects, just as grammatical categories like tense and ...
(2005). Some thoughts on Balto-Finnic passives and impersonals
... 2.1 Personal and impersonal passives Languages that have passives may have more than one type of passive construction. For example, Keenan (1985) talks about a ‘basic’ passive, while Siewierska (1984) distinguishes between ‘personal’ and ‘impersonal’ passives. Personal passives are in many languages ...
... 2.1 Personal and impersonal passives Languages that have passives may have more than one type of passive construction. For example, Keenan (1985) talks about a ‘basic’ passive, while Siewierska (1984) distinguishes between ‘personal’ and ‘impersonal’ passives. Personal passives are in many languages ...
Introduction with a State of the Art in Generative Slovenian Syntax
... In the context of this underlying structure with a VP-internal subject, Žaucer (2009) also briefly touches on the problem of VP-internal-subject and unaccusativity diagnostics in Slovenian. While (17) may be identified as having a VP-internal subject through the fact that some such pre-prefixed verb ...
... In the context of this underlying structure with a VP-internal subject, Žaucer (2009) also briefly touches on the problem of VP-internal-subject and unaccusativity diagnostics in Slovenian. While (17) may be identified as having a VP-internal subject through the fact that some such pre-prefixed verb ...
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... alternations, most o f which posit minimally specified verbal valence structures along with general principles (‘linking rules’) governing the interface between verbal thematic structure and surface syntax. While the general principles are typically based upon some version o f Fillmore’s (1968) sema ...
... alternations, most o f which posit minimally specified verbal valence structures along with general principles (‘linking rules’) governing the interface between verbal thematic structure and surface syntax. While the general principles are typically based upon some version o f Fillmore’s (1968) sema ...
On the Distinctions between Semantics and Pragmatics
... based on. As far as the distinction between syntax and semantics goes the prevailing view is that syntax disregards meaning in favor of the study of "purely formal phenomena". When it comes to the distinction between semantics and pragmatics this seems mostly to be seen as an abstraction of meaning ...
... based on. As far as the distinction between syntax and semantics goes the prevailing view is that syntax disregards meaning in favor of the study of "purely formal phenomena". When it comes to the distinction between semantics and pragmatics this seems mostly to be seen as an abstraction of meaning ...