In this section I show first that nouns are subject to morphological
... to state that there are two types of features (CONCORD and INDEX features in the sense of the Halloway King and Dalrymple (2004)) which give rise to the patterns found in Yaqui. Some of these constraints in table (25) will be used in the final part of this section where agreement patterns are analyz ...
... to state that there are two types of features (CONCORD and INDEX features in the sense of the Halloway King and Dalrymple (2004)) which give rise to the patterns found in Yaqui. Some of these constraints in table (25) will be used in the final part of this section where agreement patterns are analyz ...
Remarks on Nominalizationl
... insight into universal grammar — specifically, into the nature of an evaluation measure — that bears on this question, which is a purely empirical one. The problem is to find empirical evidence that supports one or the other of the alternatives. It is, furthermore, quite possible to imagine a compro ...
... insight into universal grammar — specifically, into the nature of an evaluation measure — that bears on this question, which is a purely empirical one. The problem is to find empirical evidence that supports one or the other of the alternatives. It is, furthermore, quite possible to imagine a compro ...
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
... The Plural of Abbreviations, Numbers and Letters of the Alphabet These categories act like nouns in some cases and they form plurals in a specific way: 1.1.9. abbreviations: bro.(brother)/bros.(brothers 1.1.10. numbers : the 1980's or the 1980s 1.1.11. letters: i's ...
... The Plural of Abbreviations, Numbers and Letters of the Alphabet These categories act like nouns in some cases and they form plurals in a specific way: 1.1.9. abbreviations: bro.(brother)/bros.(brothers 1.1.10. numbers : the 1980's or the 1980s 1.1.11. letters: i's ...
Mastering Modifiers
... modifying "writer”) David skillfully plays guitar. ("Skillfully" is an adverb modifying "plays”) Figure 1. Many students find themselves asking this question – Why? – if they don't understand the role of adjectives and adverbs as modifiers. Image of “Why?” © 2011 Jupiterimages Corporation. ...
... modifying "writer”) David skillfully plays guitar. ("Skillfully" is an adverb modifying "plays”) Figure 1. Many students find themselves asking this question – Why? – if they don't understand the role of adjectives and adverbs as modifiers. Image of “Why?” © 2011 Jupiterimages Corporation. ...
Morphology and Linguistic Typology
... simply crosslinguistic, i.e. juxtaposing acquisition studies of each single language without comparing them in the sense of comparative typological linguistics or, if at all, only according to one contrastive variable each time (e.g. word order), with the notable exceptions of Peters (1997) and part ...
... simply crosslinguistic, i.e. juxtaposing acquisition studies of each single language without comparing them in the sense of comparative typological linguistics or, if at all, only according to one contrastive variable each time (e.g. word order), with the notable exceptions of Peters (1997) and part ...
Prepositional Phrases
... A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and usually ends with a noun or pronoun, called the object of the preposition. I voted against the idea. [Idea is the object of the preposition against.] The elevator is necessary for us. [Us is the object of the preposition f ...
... A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and usually ends with a noun or pronoun, called the object of the preposition. I voted against the idea. [Idea is the object of the preposition against.] The elevator is necessary for us. [Us is the object of the preposition f ...
ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE COMPOUNDING
... Another aspect of this hyphenated form is about spelling of compound plurals and possessives. For this form, the –s is usually added to the component that is the base element of the term and supposed to be the significant part, mostly the noun. Some examples are daughters-in-law, lieutenant-generals ...
... Another aspect of this hyphenated form is about spelling of compound plurals and possessives. For this form, the –s is usually added to the component that is the base element of the term and supposed to be the significant part, mostly the noun. Some examples are daughters-in-law, lieutenant-generals ...
A group of subject-verb agreements: finding quantity in group and
... Also emergent in data examined from Ascoli (2013) is the apparent lack of patterns with the quantification noun group of NP. The study revealed no distinct pattern of subject verb agreement: some verbs apparently agreed with group, others agreed with the second noun in the phrase. This study looked ...
... Also emergent in data examined from Ascoli (2013) is the apparent lack of patterns with the quantification noun group of NP. The study revealed no distinct pattern of subject verb agreement: some verbs apparently agreed with group, others agreed with the second noun in the phrase. This study looked ...
writer`s guide for engineers
... This chapter focuses on three essential principles that will make your writing more readerfriendly: • According to the given-new principle(section 1.1), sentences should begin with something that has already been mentioned, or is otherwise familiar to the reader, before introducing new information. ...
... This chapter focuses on three essential principles that will make your writing more readerfriendly: • According to the given-new principle(section 1.1), sentences should begin with something that has already been mentioned, or is otherwise familiar to the reader, before introducing new information. ...
The Tamil Case System
... might want to examine there are a number of situations where case morphemes are in fact replaced by postpositions, or there is variation between the occurrence of one or another case ending, and/or one or another of the morphemes usually called postpositions. For example, NMG analyses fail to assign ...
... might want to examine there are a number of situations where case morphemes are in fact replaced by postpositions, or there is variation between the occurrence of one or another case ending, and/or one or another of the morphemes usually called postpositions. For example, NMG analyses fail to assign ...
The Syntax and Semantics of Tongan Noun Phrases
... language: Tongan’s lack of overt morphology makes an in-depth analysis of the grammar and lexicon difficult, and the relatively small body of previous literature on the language gave me a minimal foundation on which to build. In the fall of 2006, I spent a semester working on Tongan as part of a cla ...
... language: Tongan’s lack of overt morphology makes an in-depth analysis of the grammar and lexicon difficult, and the relatively small body of previous literature on the language gave me a minimal foundation on which to build. In the fall of 2006, I spent a semester working on Tongan as part of a cla ...
A Grammar of Ts’amakko Graziano Savà
... are performed approximately every forty years. Only the male individuals who belong to the senior age-grade may be part of the council of elders. The age grades are distinguished by six terms, which are attributed in sequence according to a fixed order. Individuals of the same age grade are expected ...
... are performed approximately every forty years. Only the male individuals who belong to the senior age-grade may be part of the council of elders. The age grades are distinguished by six terms, which are attributed in sequence according to a fixed order. Individuals of the same age grade are expected ...
Metonymy Interpretation Using X NO Y Examples
... sentence of “boku ga torusutoi wo yomu (I read Tolstoi),” the word “torusutoi (Tolstoi)” is a metonymic word. In this case, the word “torusutoi (Tolstoi)” means a book written by him “torusutoi no hon (Tolstoi’s book).” The actual meaning “torusutoi no hon (Tolstoi’s book)” is replaced by the abbrev ...
... sentence of “boku ga torusutoi wo yomu (I read Tolstoi),” the word “torusutoi (Tolstoi)” is a metonymic word. In this case, the word “torusutoi (Tolstoi)” means a book written by him “torusutoi no hon (Tolstoi’s book).” The actual meaning “torusutoi no hon (Tolstoi’s book)” is replaced by the abbrev ...
Distributional Parts of Speech
... Basic assumption: Word classes are only language-particular and based entirely on form and distribution 1.2.2 Propositional acts and discourse as basis for word classes Sapir (1921) advocates two different theories of word classes at the same time, a distributional (above) and a propositional one. “ ...
... Basic assumption: Word classes are only language-particular and based entirely on form and distribution 1.2.2 Propositional acts and discourse as basis for word classes Sapir (1921) advocates two different theories of word classes at the same time, a distributional (above) and a propositional one. “ ...
ANOTHER LOOK AT PARTICIPLES AND
... adjective. Then we could attempt to use some of the diagnostics discussed above. First of all, we could try un- prefixation (Test A). This might be considered the most direct and most ...
... adjective. Then we could attempt to use some of the diagnostics discussed above. First of all, we could try un- prefixation (Test A). This might be considered the most direct and most ...
CONTENT Introduction: __ _______3 Main part: __ ______14
... by a high degree of collocability and a complex variety of meanings in contrast with words of other structural types whose semantic structures are much poorer. Root- words also serve as parent forms for all types of derived and compound words[24,58]. In most cases the morphemic structure of words is ...
... by a high degree of collocability and a complex variety of meanings in contrast with words of other structural types whose semantic structures are much poorer. Root- words also serve as parent forms for all types of derived and compound words[24,58]. In most cases the morphemic structure of words is ...
PArt one - Oxford University Press
... the bell. And I could wait. Of course I’d wait. I jiggled a little, shifted on my seat. Maybe I should ask, but the fact was, I didn’t want to. Didn’t want to ask for anything. Wished, suddenly, I never had to ask for anything again. So I waited, wriggling, a hot shiver running up my spine. ...
... the bell. And I could wait. Of course I’d wait. I jiggled a little, shifted on my seat. Maybe I should ask, but the fact was, I didn’t want to. Didn’t want to ask for anything. Wished, suddenly, I never had to ask for anything again. So I waited, wriggling, a hot shiver running up my spine. ...
COMPOUNDING IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH: SHAKESPEARE`S
... since the earliest instance in which we find them at all is only a year or two before he uses them and in a number of cases his is the earliest occurrence of the word in English. They also refer to the fact that Shakespeare’s pioneer role concerns not only the lexicon inventory but also the semantic ...
... since the earliest instance in which we find them at all is only a year or two before he uses them and in a number of cases his is the earliest occurrence of the word in English. They also refer to the fact that Shakespeare’s pioneer role concerns not only the lexicon inventory but also the semantic ...
new latin grammar
... known to us among all the branches of the Indo-European family. A conservative estimate places them as far back as 1500 B.C. Some scholars have even set them more than a thousand years earlier than this, i.e. anterior to 2500 B.C. The Sanskrit, in modified form, has always continued to be spoken in ...
... known to us among all the branches of the Indo-European family. A conservative estimate places them as far back as 1500 B.C. Some scholars have even set them more than a thousand years earlier than this, i.e. anterior to 2500 B.C. The Sanskrit, in modified form, has always continued to be spoken in ...
"SOME UNIVERSALS OF GRAMMAR WITH PARTICULAR
... 30 languages, 14 have postpositions, and in every one of these the genitive order is genitive followed by governing noun. Of the 14 prepositional languages, 13 have the genitive following the governing noun. The only exception is Norwegian, in which the genitive precedes. Thus, 29 of the 30 cases co ...
... 30 languages, 14 have postpositions, and in every one of these the genitive order is genitive followed by governing noun. Of the 14 prepositional languages, 13 have the genitive following the governing noun. The only exception is Norwegian, in which the genitive precedes. Thus, 29 of the 30 cases co ...
F. Plank, Morphology 1: 7. Boundaries 1
... Syntactic rules of construction tend to be fully productive (unconstrained), while morphological rules of construction are more or less productive (= more constrained in terms of form and/or meaning), and sometimes in morphology there are no construction rules at all. Example from syntax: The rule f ...
... Syntactic rules of construction tend to be fully productive (unconstrained), while morphological rules of construction are more or less productive (= more constrained in terms of form and/or meaning), and sometimes in morphology there are no construction rules at all. Example from syntax: The rule f ...
New Latin Grammar - The Language Realm
... as 1500 B.C. Probably they arrived in these districts much earlier. The earliest literary productions are the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, which very likely go back to the ninth century B.C. From the sixth century B.C. on, Greek literature is continuous. Modern Greek, when we consider its dist ...
... as 1500 B.C. Probably they arrived in these districts much earlier. The earliest literary productions are the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, which very likely go back to the ninth century B.C. From the sixth century B.C. on, Greek literature is continuous. Modern Greek, when we consider its dist ...
Categorization and Category Change
... Beyond the major lexical categories N, V and A, there is still a great deal of variability regarding the inventory. Items that don’t pertain to the main classes are either treated as mixed categories (e.g., gerunds, participles, infinitives), or as functional categories. Baker (2003) takes this latt ...
... Beyond the major lexical categories N, V and A, there is still a great deal of variability regarding the inventory. Items that don’t pertain to the main classes are either treated as mixed categories (e.g., gerunds, participles, infinitives), or as functional categories. Baker (2003) takes this latt ...
new first steps in latin teacher`s manual
... why write “Grammar” with a capital letter? Grammar (with a small g) is a description of how a particular language works, and in this sense we say that each language has its own grammar. In English, for example, it is ungrammatical to put a word strongly marked as an object before its verb if a word ...
... why write “Grammar” with a capital letter? Grammar (with a small g) is a description of how a particular language works, and in this sense we say that each language has its own grammar. In English, for example, it is ungrammatical to put a word strongly marked as an object before its verb if a word ...