
Grammar
... • A predicate adjective follows a linking verb and describes the subject. • A demonstrative adjective points out something and tells which one or which ones. • A proper adjective is formed from a proper noun. Begin a proper adjective with a capital letter. Put brackets [ ] around the adjectives in t ...
... • A predicate adjective follows a linking verb and describes the subject. • A demonstrative adjective points out something and tells which one or which ones. • A proper adjective is formed from a proper noun. Begin a proper adjective with a capital letter. Put brackets [ ] around the adjectives in t ...
1 Introduction 2 Indirect objects in Greek
... In the examples presented in the previous section, clitics do not alternate freely with full NP complements. Datives of possession must be expressed with a clitic (and optional doubled NP); indirect objects in NG can appear in the periphrastic dative, but accusative NP objects must obligatorily be d ...
... In the examples presented in the previous section, clitics do not alternate freely with full NP complements. Datives of possession must be expressed with a clitic (and optional doubled NP); indirect objects in NG can appear in the periphrastic dative, but accusative NP objects must obligatorily be d ...
Projecting Grammatical Features in Nominals
... • Adjectives, Numerals, Nouns and Verb Participles often function as pre-head modifiers ...
... • Adjectives, Numerals, Nouns and Verb Participles often function as pre-head modifiers ...
Dative Clitics and Case Licensing in Standard and Macedonian Greek
... In the examples presented in the previous section, clitics do not alternate freely with full NP complements. Datives of possession must be expressed with a clitic (and optional doubled NP); indirect objects in NG can appear in the periphrastic dative, but accusative NP objects must obligatorily be d ...
... In the examples presented in the previous section, clitics do not alternate freely with full NP complements. Datives of possession must be expressed with a clitic (and optional doubled NP); indirect objects in NG can appear in the periphrastic dative, but accusative NP objects must obligatorily be d ...
The Story of Preposition Addition: The Transition from RyanJ.
... noun, part of a count noun, and part of a whole or group, however, obscure the concept of partitiveness common to all three. The genitive of time denoted a period of time not fully occupied by an event. That is, the action occurred at some point within the period of time denoted by the genitive, but ...
... noun, part of a count noun, and part of a whole or group, however, obscure the concept of partitiveness common to all three. The genitive of time denoted a period of time not fully occupied by an event. That is, the action occurred at some point within the period of time denoted by the genitive, but ...
The Tamil Case System
... The Tamil Case system is analyzed in native and missionary grammars (henceforth NMG) as consisting of a finite number of cases1 (realized morphologically as nominal or pronominal suffixes), to some of which postpositional suffixes may be added. In these traditional analyses there is always a clear d ...
... The Tamil Case system is analyzed in native and missionary grammars (henceforth NMG) as consisting of a finite number of cases1 (realized morphologically as nominal or pronominal suffixes), to some of which postpositional suffixes may be added. In these traditional analyses there is always a clear d ...
subject/time
... the equal sign to write true number sentences. 3. TSW will complete independently using RDW for 5 minutes; then as a whole class discuss the student’s solution. ...
... the equal sign to write true number sentences. 3. TSW will complete independently using RDW for 5 minutes; then as a whole class discuss the student’s solution. ...
Adjectives: revision Unlike in many other languages, adjectives in
... Adjectives: revision Unlike in many other languages, adjectives in English do not change (agree) with the noun that they modify: All new foreign students are welcome to join the clubs and societies. Not: All new foreigns students … Every room was painted in different colours. Not: … in differents co ...
... Adjectives: revision Unlike in many other languages, adjectives in English do not change (agree) with the noun that they modify: All new foreign students are welcome to join the clubs and societies. Not: All new foreigns students … Every room was painted in different colours. Not: … in differents co ...
Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Nouns, Pronouns , Pronouns , Pronouns and
... names and common nouns (§4.4). On the noun phrase level there are the numerous case clitics and other nominal clitics like the topic clitic and focus clitics (§4.5). Different sets of pronouns are used in different positions (§4.6). There are the ‘citation pronouns’ which are used in topic/ subject ...
... names and common nouns (§4.4). On the noun phrase level there are the numerous case clitics and other nominal clitics like the topic clitic and focus clitics (§4.5). Different sets of pronouns are used in different positions (§4.6). There are the ‘citation pronouns’ which are used in topic/ subject ...
A Practical grammar of the pali language
... Locative: Of, relating to, or being a grammatical case in certain inflected languages that indicates place in or on which or time at which, as in Latin domì, 'at home.' Nominative: Of, relating to, or belonging to a case of the subject of a finite verb (as I in I wrote the letter) and of words ident ...
... Locative: Of, relating to, or being a grammatical case in certain inflected languages that indicates place in or on which or time at which, as in Latin domì, 'at home.' Nominative: Of, relating to, or belonging to a case of the subject of a finite verb (as I in I wrote the letter) and of words ident ...
COMPARATIVES and SUPERLATIVES
... • Many adjectives are formed from present or past participles. Participle adjectives have only comparative forms with more. When she heard that the plane was overdue, she became even more worried. The game turned out to be more exciting than we had anticipated. ...
... • Many adjectives are formed from present or past participles. Participle adjectives have only comparative forms with more. When she heard that the plane was overdue, she became even more worried. The game turned out to be more exciting than we had anticipated. ...
lesson 1 - Fas Harvard
... Nouns, adjectives, and pronouns can be of three genders (masculine = masc., feminine = fem., neuter = neut.). There are three numbers (singular, dual, plural) and six cases (nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive-dative, instrumental-ablative, locative). Nouns and adjectives are classed in vocal ...
... Nouns, adjectives, and pronouns can be of three genders (masculine = masc., feminine = fem., neuter = neut.). There are three numbers (singular, dual, plural) and six cases (nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive-dative, instrumental-ablative, locative). Nouns and adjectives are classed in vocal ...
Proto-Austronesian Genitive Determiners
... genitive NP with na, I proposed in Pawley and Reid (1979) that *na and *ni were respectively PAN common and personal genitive determiners. Further support for this position came from Formosan languages where Atayal and Paiwan, representing respectively the Northern and Southern subgroups, show na as ...
... genitive NP with na, I proposed in Pawley and Reid (1979) that *na and *ni were respectively PAN common and personal genitive determiners. Further support for this position came from Formosan languages where Atayal and Paiwan, representing respectively the Northern and Southern subgroups, show na as ...
Lecture 03 - ELTE / SEAS
... Why is it ungrammatical for a noun to have a nonpronominal object? It can’t be because the noun does not assign Case if we assume that such objects don’t have Case But the fact that the preposition makes it grammatical suggests that this is to do with Case Therefore we conclude that all nominals hav ...
... Why is it ungrammatical for a noun to have a nonpronominal object? It can’t be because the noun does not assign Case if we assume that such objects don’t have Case But the fact that the preposition makes it grammatical suggests that this is to do with Case Therefore we conclude that all nominals hav ...
Example
... Example: Mount Everest, Mount Fuji except with ranges of mountains like the Andes or the Rockies or unusual names like the Matterhorn names of continents Example: Asia, Europe names of islands Example: Easter Island, Maui, Key West except with island chains like the Aleutians, the Hebrides, or t ...
... Example: Mount Everest, Mount Fuji except with ranges of mountains like the Andes or the Rockies or unusual names like the Matterhorn names of continents Example: Asia, Europe names of islands Example: Easter Island, Maui, Key West except with island chains like the Aleutians, the Hebrides, or t ...
Chapter XII: The Reflexive Pronoun & Adjective
... The words causā and grātiā take the gerund in the genitive to express purpose. In this construction, the gerund is always placed before causā and grātiā. causā and grātiā are both translated as “for the sake of” ...
... The words causā and grātiā take the gerund in the genitive to express purpose. In this construction, the gerund is always placed before causā and grātiā. causā and grātiā are both translated as “for the sake of” ...
Slavic Morphology - SeeLRC
... Attempts to accommodate suppletion in the morphology component of the grammar have been various, but they all reject the assumption that the lexicon pairs sound and meaning. Stratificational Grammar (Lamb 1964) proposes “strata”, which are related to one another by realization rules. At the lexemic ...
... Attempts to accommodate suppletion in the morphology component of the grammar have been various, but they all reject the assumption that the lexicon pairs sound and meaning. Stratificational Grammar (Lamb 1964) proposes “strata”, which are related to one another by realization rules. At the lexemic ...
Agreement in Slavic languages poses a serious problem for
... Agreement in Slavic languages poses a serious problem for linguists seeking to establish a set of syntactic rules that would generate appropriate agreement forms in appropriate positions. It seems that the alternative forms, one strictly syntactic, another more semantic, allowed in certain agreement ...
... Agreement in Slavic languages poses a serious problem for linguists seeking to establish a set of syntactic rules that would generate appropriate agreement forms in appropriate positions. It seems that the alternative forms, one strictly syntactic, another more semantic, allowed in certain agreement ...
Polish Grammar in a Nutshell by
... Masculine nouns usually end in a consonant, for example: nos (nose), stół (table), hotel (hotel), piec (stove), mąż (husband). Some masculine names of persons end in -a, for example, kolega (colleague), dentysta (dentist), and even mężczyzna (man). Often masculine nouns show different stems when the ...
... Masculine nouns usually end in a consonant, for example: nos (nose), stół (table), hotel (hotel), piec (stove), mąż (husband). Some masculine names of persons end in -a, for example, kolega (colleague), dentysta (dentist), and even mężczyzna (man). Often masculine nouns show different stems when the ...
PDF file: Spanish reference grammar
... thumb here is to use 'tú' if you would call a person by their first name. 'Vosotros', which has the feminine form 'vosotras' which is used for more than one feminine subject, is the plural of 'tú' and is a second person plural. It is used when talking to more than one person whom you know. 'Usted' i ...
... thumb here is to use 'tú' if you would call a person by their first name. 'Vosotros', which has the feminine form 'vosotras' which is used for more than one feminine subject, is the plural of 'tú' and is a second person plural. It is used when talking to more than one person whom you know. 'Usted' i ...
Grammaticalization of the Masculine and Non
... only to masculine personal forms,11 and that endings that were becoming obsolete were substituted with endings that were originally feminine. The domination of the initially feminine ending -e in all forms with the exception of masculine personal forms distinguishes the whole group as a non-masculin ...
... only to masculine personal forms,11 and that endings that were becoming obsolete were substituted with endings that were originally feminine. The domination of the initially feminine ending -e in all forms with the exception of masculine personal forms distinguishes the whole group as a non-masculin ...
MSR-JNU-Sanskrit
... MSRI Indic languages tagset and the Sanskrit tagset by Dr. R. Chandrashekar (2007). We are thankful to these two sources. The objective of the guidelines is to provide clear instructions for tagging Sanskrit text. This tagset consists of categories, types, and their attributes which are the three di ...
... MSRI Indic languages tagset and the Sanskrit tagset by Dr. R. Chandrashekar (2007). We are thankful to these two sources. The objective of the guidelines is to provide clear instructions for tagging Sanskrit text. This tagset consists of categories, types, and their attributes which are the three di ...
General Number and the Semantics and Pragmatics of Indefinite
... the question exactly what the difference is between bare nouns with general number and indefinite full DPs. The second half of the paper is devoted to answering this question. One way in which indefinite bare nouns differ from indefinite full DPs is in their scope, a well-known issue since Carlson’ ...
... the question exactly what the difference is between bare nouns with general number and indefinite full DPs. The second half of the paper is devoted to answering this question. One way in which indefinite bare nouns differ from indefinite full DPs is in their scope, a well-known issue since Carlson’ ...
Collective nouns
... from verbs by the addition of -ing, nouns formed from verbs using other suffixes such as organization and discovery, agent nouns formed from verbs usually with the suffix -er or -or, as in actor and worker, feminine forms of nouns such as actress, lioness, nouns formed from adjectives such as happin ...
... from verbs by the addition of -ing, nouns formed from verbs using other suffixes such as organization and discovery, agent nouns formed from verbs usually with the suffix -er or -or, as in actor and worker, feminine forms of nouns such as actress, lioness, nouns formed from adjectives such as happin ...