C16-1116 - Association for Computational Linguistics
... We use types to create a rough approximation of Concepts. We achieve this by manually picking specific synsets within WordNet and associating them and all their hyponyms to a particular QC based on where in a question they appear. Revisiting the first example in Section 3, the Concept “occupation” i ...
... We use types to create a rough approximation of Concepts. We achieve this by manually picking specific synsets within WordNet and associating them and all their hyponyms to a particular QC based on where in a question they appear. Revisiting the first example in Section 3, the Concept “occupation” i ...
Grammatical Sketch - Llacan
... Yes/No questions are characterized by suspension of downdrift and key raising (↑) of the last H tone and all following L tones5. Sympathetic address is an intonation pattern associated with units beginning with tôː / habà, ‘well’, followed by the name of addressee. They are characterized by a fl ...
... Yes/No questions are characterized by suspension of downdrift and key raising (↑) of the last H tone and all following L tones5. Sympathetic address is an intonation pattern associated with units beginning with tôː / habà, ‘well’, followed by the name of addressee. They are characterized by a fl ...
Review of The Slavic Languages. Cambridge Language Surveys, R
... and ä. This makes it harder to understand the change of diphthongal ai > ä, which can be seen as a simple coalescence of front and low vowel features, but which remains incomprehensible if treated as oi > ě. (See Feldstein, 2003:258–259 for details.) On p. 36, the authors present a traditional de ...
... and ä. This makes it harder to understand the change of diphthongal ai > ä, which can be seen as a simple coalescence of front and low vowel features, but which remains incomprehensible if treated as oi > ě. (See Feldstein, 2003:258–259 for details.) On p. 36, the authors present a traditional de ...
Chapter 3 PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES A preposition is a word that
... often the equivalent of an adjective, as you will see from the following examples: The man at the gate sold us the tickets. We followed the path near the river. In the first sentence, the prepositional phrase is at the gate. It is an adjective phrase because it modifies the noun man. The phrase, at ...
... often the equivalent of an adjective, as you will see from the following examples: The man at the gate sold us the tickets. We followed the path near the river. In the first sentence, the prepositional phrase is at the gate. It is an adjective phrase because it modifies the noun man. The phrase, at ...
Chapter 2: Pluractionality in Hausa
... TAM paradigms can be divided into three (syntactically determined) categories: general (affirmative clauses and yes-no questions), relative (focus, relativization and whquestions) and negative (both general and focus negative clauses).10 The basic division is between imperfective and other than impe ...
... TAM paradigms can be divided into three (syntactically determined) categories: general (affirmative clauses and yes-no questions), relative (focus, relativization and whquestions) and negative (both general and focus negative clauses).10 The basic division is between imperfective and other than impe ...
Exercise Set 3.5
... Give the person, number, tense, and voice for all verbs. For each noun, give its function, case, and number. Finally translate each sentence into Latin. 1. With the advice of the girl, the boy had led his father to the fields. 2. The Romans were running out of the town with the soldiers. 3. Cotta’s ...
... Give the person, number, tense, and voice for all verbs. For each noun, give its function, case, and number. Finally translate each sentence into Latin. 1. With the advice of the girl, the boy had led his father to the fields. 2. The Romans were running out of the town with the soldiers. 3. Cotta’s ...
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
... were no full grade 1st and 10th class presents at this stage). The original athematic i-presents are reflected in Latin capiō ‘take’, Old Irish gaibid, Gothic hafjan, and the Balto-Slavic i-presents. Slavic verbs in -ěti (Lith. -ėti) with an i-present continue four different formations: o-grade perf ...
... were no full grade 1st and 10th class presents at this stage). The original athematic i-presents are reflected in Latin capiō ‘take’, Old Irish gaibid, Gothic hafjan, and the Balto-Slavic i-presents. Slavic verbs in -ěti (Lith. -ėti) with an i-present continue four different formations: o-grade perf ...
An Introduction to Old English
... Germanic is the term used to describe a group of languages which share a particular set of characteristics unique to them. We shall shortly see some examples of this, but here we need only list the more important present-day languages which are of Germanic origin: English, Frisian, Dutch, German, Da ...
... Germanic is the term used to describe a group of languages which share a particular set of characteristics unique to them. We shall shortly see some examples of this, but here we need only list the more important present-day languages which are of Germanic origin: English, Frisian, Dutch, German, Da ...
first language - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
... instances of a syntactic construction in a picture-naming game, when it is their turn to name a picture they are not influenced by the prime if there is not substantial lexical overlap between the prime and the utterance they want to produce; in other words, there is no structural priming until afte ...
... instances of a syntactic construction in a picture-naming game, when it is their turn to name a picture they are not influenced by the prime if there is not substantial lexical overlap between the prime and the utterance they want to produce; in other words, there is no structural priming until afte ...
nominal composition, noun incorporation and non-finite
... predicates can only be built on a handful of verbal lexemes (cf. Haig 2002: 28–29). The few verbal lexemes involved in such compounds behave as (semi-) auxiliary verbs, also called ‘support verbs’ or ‘light verbs’.4 Rather, we are faced in such cases with denominative-like formations, meaning ‘be X’ ...
... predicates can only be built on a handful of verbal lexemes (cf. Haig 2002: 28–29). The few verbal lexemes involved in such compounds behave as (semi-) auxiliary verbs, also called ‘support verbs’ or ‘light verbs’.4 Rather, we are faced in such cases with denominative-like formations, meaning ‘be X’ ...
Document
... • The non-reflexive form occurs when the person is doing the action to someone or something else. • Simply drop the reflexive pronoun to get the non-reflexive form. Examples: • Lavo el coche frequentemente. I wash the car frequently. • Lavas el perro a veces. You sometimes wash the dog. • Me lavo el ...
... • The non-reflexive form occurs when the person is doing the action to someone or something else. • Simply drop the reflexive pronoun to get the non-reflexive form. Examples: • Lavo el coche frequentemente. I wash the car frequently. • Lavas el perro a veces. You sometimes wash the dog. • Me lavo el ...
Interrogating possessive have: a case study
... Another standard teaching aid for learners of English is Michael Swan’s Practical English Usage. This handbook discusses all three forms of possessive have in questions, noting that have got means exactly the same in this case. However, it is also noted that have got constructions are less common in ...
... Another standard teaching aid for learners of English is Michael Swan’s Practical English Usage. This handbook discusses all three forms of possessive have in questions, noting that have got means exactly the same in this case. However, it is also noted that have got constructions are less common in ...
Adjective
... Exercise Seven, page 471 (1) The tea ceremony at Hideko’s house was more like some I have seen in the movies than the one shown here. (2) Hideko said that in Japan people have special rooms for their tea ceremonies, but we used her family’s living room. (3) Hideko told me that the purpose of the te ...
... Exercise Seven, page 471 (1) The tea ceremony at Hideko’s house was more like some I have seen in the movies than the one shown here. (2) Hideko said that in Japan people have special rooms for their tea ceremonies, but we used her family’s living room. (3) Hideko told me that the purpose of the te ...
ARKA, I Wayan and Mary DALRYMPLE, 2016. `Number and plural
... in the complex number system of Marori (highly endangered; ISO 639-3: mok; subgrouplevel isolate, TNG/Papuan, 16 fluent speakers). The number system in Marori is quite different from that of well-studied Indo-European languages like English. Overall the system distinguishes ‘singular’, ‘dual’, and ‘ ...
... in the complex number system of Marori (highly endangered; ISO 639-3: mok; subgrouplevel isolate, TNG/Papuan, 16 fluent speakers). The number system in Marori is quite different from that of well-studied Indo-European languages like English. Overall the system distinguishes ‘singular’, ‘dual’, and ‘ ...
Bound nominal roots in Waorani
... In the texts I examined, roots with body-part meanings accounted for 107 out of the 125 times these morphemes occurred on verbs (85%). Looking at all syntactic environments together, the percentage drops a little—to 75%—but it is still a clear majority. Full nouns for body parts rarely occurred; I f ...
... In the texts I examined, roots with body-part meanings accounted for 107 out of the 125 times these morphemes occurred on verbs (85%). Looking at all syntactic environments together, the percentage drops a little—to 75%—but it is still a clear majority. Full nouns for body parts rarely occurred; I f ...
teaching hebrew noun patterns through general
... such as hifsik 'cease' and hikdim 'precede'. When the root is not the ideal "full root", i.e., it is a deficient root (usually having two consonants and one semi-vowel in one of the root's positions, or a guttural or n in the first position, or the same consonant in 2nd and 3rd position), the surfac ...
... such as hifsik 'cease' and hikdim 'precede'. When the root is not the ideal "full root", i.e., it is a deficient root (usually having two consonants and one semi-vowel in one of the root's positions, or a guttural or n in the first position, or the same consonant in 2nd and 3rd position), the surfac ...
Language - Adventist Education
... The standards have been coded so that educators can easily refer to them in their curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices. The coding system that precedes each standard begins with the content area abbreviation in letters; all are identified with LA—Language Arts (LA.K.RF.1). The second pa ...
... The standards have been coded so that educators can easily refer to them in their curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices. The coding system that precedes each standard begins with the content area abbreviation in letters; all are identified with LA—Language Arts (LA.K.RF.1). The second pa ...
5 - Shurley Instructional Materials
... a word is a preposition, say the preposition word and ask What or Whom. If the answer is a noun or pronoun, then the word is a preposition. Prepositions are labeled with a P. An object of the preposition is a noun or pronoun after the preposition in a sentence. An object of the preposition is labele ...
... a word is a preposition, say the preposition word and ask What or Whom. If the answer is a noun or pronoun, then the word is a preposition. Prepositions are labeled with a P. An object of the preposition is a noun or pronoun after the preposition in a sentence. An object of the preposition is labele ...
a Teacher Guide
... a word is a preposition, say the preposition word and ask What or Whom. If the answer is a noun or pronoun, then the word is a preposition. Prepositions are labeled with a P. An object of the preposition is a noun or pronoun after the preposition in a sentence. An object of the preposition is labele ...
... a word is a preposition, say the preposition word and ask What or Whom. If the answer is a noun or pronoun, then the word is a preposition. Prepositions are labeled with a P. An object of the preposition is a noun or pronoun after the preposition in a sentence. An object of the preposition is labele ...
English 10 - Grammar Notes
... The problem with the protocol of uniform resource locators is now recognized by people who author web-pages as. . . . ...
... The problem with the protocol of uniform resource locators is now recognized by people who author web-pages as. . . . ...
Definiteness And Indefiniteness: A Contrastive Analysis Of The Use
... Celce-Murcia & Larsen-Freeman (1991: 19) describes 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), and possessive determiners (my, your, his, her, its, ...
... Celce-Murcia & Larsen-Freeman (1991: 19) describes 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), and possessive determiners (my, your, his, her, its, ...
A Proposal for a Part-of-Speech Tagset for the Albanian Language
... and Kabashi (2015), the other tools only cover the word forms without consideration of their articles or particles, i. e. only single graphical tokens in the sense of Cloeren (1999) and Grefenstette (1999). Word order in Albanian is fairly free, similar to German, which means that the same word form ...
... and Kabashi (2015), the other tools only cover the word forms without consideration of their articles or particles, i. e. only single graphical tokens in the sense of Cloeren (1999) and Grefenstette (1999). Word order in Albanian is fairly free, similar to German, which means that the same word form ...
HANDBOOK and GUIDE to LIFE - Catalyst
... In a Latin paragraph, as in any complex situation, you can achieve clarity by being aware of what you know, recognizing what you don’t know and investigating it further, and by thinking rigorously. How not to think rigorously about a Latin paragraph: Use the following perilously open-ended questions ...
... In a Latin paragraph, as in any complex situation, you can achieve clarity by being aware of what you know, recognizing what you don’t know and investigating it further, and by thinking rigorously. How not to think rigorously about a Latin paragraph: Use the following perilously open-ended questions ...
the feeling of great pleasure
... feeling - expressive meaning, thus being their descriptive synonyms. It can be modified by ‘absolutely’ in its restricted collocation ‘absolutely delighted’, and by ‘quite’ meaning “totally”. ‘Delighted’ can function as complement. When it is a subject complement, it can take complementation types o ...
... feeling - expressive meaning, thus being their descriptive synonyms. It can be modified by ‘absolutely’ in its restricted collocation ‘absolutely delighted’, and by ‘quite’ meaning “totally”. ‘Delighted’ can function as complement. When it is a subject complement, it can take complementation types o ...
Hyphen - Austin Peay State University
... Compounds that have verb and noun forms should appear as separate words when used as verbs and as one word when used as nouns. At that rate, the engine will break down soon. We suffered a breakdown in communication. Hyphenate a two-word modifier that begins with -ly if that modifier serves as a ...
... Compounds that have verb and noun forms should appear as separate words when used as verbs and as one word when used as nouns. At that rate, the engine will break down soon. We suffered a breakdown in communication. Hyphenate a two-word modifier that begins with -ly if that modifier serves as a ...