Passive and passive-like constructions in English and Polish
... Although part of the present discussion will concern the form and the function of the constructions in question, I will argue that neither of these notions provide an appropriate basis for a construction inventory. Only a classification based on morphosyntax enables us to distinguish the constructio ...
... Although part of the present discussion will concern the form and the function of the constructions in question, I will argue that neither of these notions provide an appropriate basis for a construction inventory. Only a classification based on morphosyntax enables us to distinguish the constructio ...
An On-Line Computational Model of Human Sentence Interpretation
... Sal’s architecture is consistent with a large number of psycholinguistic results. The interpreter embodies a number of strong claims about sentence processing. One claim is uniformity, with respect to both representation and process. In the grammar, a single kind of knowledge structure, the grammati ...
... Sal’s architecture is consistent with a large number of psycholinguistic results. The interpreter embodies a number of strong claims about sentence processing. One claim is uniformity, with respect to both representation and process. In the grammar, a single kind of knowledge structure, the grammati ...
An On-line Computational Model of Human Sentence Interpretation
... Sal’s architecture is consistent with a large number of psycholinguistic results. The interpreter embodies a number of strong claims about sentence processing. One claim is uniformity, with respect to both representation and process. In the grammar, a single kind of knowledge structure, the grammati ...
... Sal’s architecture is consistent with a large number of psycholinguistic results. The interpreter embodies a number of strong claims about sentence processing. One claim is uniformity, with respect to both representation and process. In the grammar, a single kind of knowledge structure, the grammati ...
Cornetto user documentation
... The Cornetto lexical resource for Dutch covers the most generic and central part of the language. Cornetto combines the structures of the Princeton Wordnet, some of the features from the FrameNet for English and the information on morphological, syntactic, semantic and combinatorial features of lexe ...
... The Cornetto lexical resource for Dutch covers the most generic and central part of the language. Cornetto combines the structures of the Princeton Wordnet, some of the features from the FrameNet for English and the information on morphological, syntactic, semantic and combinatorial features of lexe ...
Sundanese complementation - LingBuzz
... having to be away from my family, this work has been rewarding and has challenged me by requiring an immeasurable amount of time perusing and trying to comprehend complicated linguistic proposals, some of which have been incredibly abstract or even arcane. During many hours spent on the fifth floor ...
... having to be away from my family, this work has been rewarding and has challenged me by requiring an immeasurable amount of time perusing and trying to comprehend complicated linguistic proposals, some of which have been incredibly abstract or even arcane. During many hours spent on the fifth floor ...
Sundanese complementation - Iowa Research Online
... having to be away from my family, this work has been rewarding and has challenged me by requiring an immeasurable amount of time perusing and trying to comprehend complicated linguistic proposals, some of which have been incredibly abstract or even arcane. During many hours spent on the fifth floor ...
... having to be away from my family, this work has been rewarding and has challenged me by requiring an immeasurable amount of time perusing and trying to comprehend complicated linguistic proposals, some of which have been incredibly abstract or even arcane. During many hours spent on the fifth floor ...
Diachrony in Clause Linkage and Related Issues By Toshio Ohori
... Fujii Yamaguchi, and finally Yuka Yoshimura, who also offered last-minute computer assistance. These people have inspired my work up to the present, while all the remaining faults are of course my own. Prior to my arrival in the Bay Area, I had also learned a great deal from quite a few linguists in ...
... Fujii Yamaguchi, and finally Yuka Yoshimura, who also offered last-minute computer assistance. These people have inspired my work up to the present, while all the remaining faults are of course my own. Prior to my arrival in the Bay Area, I had also learned a great deal from quite a few linguists in ...
valency - Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
... Otec mi řekl, že nic neví. / My father told me that he knows nothing. Snom – VF – Sdat – Sak / že SENT obligatory / potential / facultative positions ...
... Otec mi řekl, že nic neví. / My father told me that he knows nothing. Snom – VF – Sdat – Sak / že SENT obligatory / potential / facultative positions ...
Semi-Compositional Noun + Verb Constructions
... The distribution of actants on the deep syntactic level . . . . . . . . ...
... The distribution of actants on the deep syntactic level . . . . . . . . ...
Serial Verb Constructions
... 16 Serial Verb Constructions: Conspectus and Coda R. M. W. Dixon 1 Conspectus 2 Coda—does Dyirbal have SVCs? References ...
... 16 Serial Verb Constructions: Conspectus and Coda R. M. W. Dixon 1 Conspectus 2 Coda—does Dyirbal have SVCs? References ...
NGUYEN THI THUY MA THESIS
... abstract to Vietnamese learners. The problems come from the fact that passive voice is related to different areas from syntax, semantics and pragmatics as well. Such questions really encourage me to do a comprehensive research on the differences related to passive voice in English and the “so - call ...
... abstract to Vietnamese learners. The problems come from the fact that passive voice is related to different areas from syntax, semantics and pragmatics as well. Such questions really encourage me to do a comprehensive research on the differences related to passive voice in English and the “so - call ...
NGUYEN THI THUY MA THESIS-2006
... abstract to Vietnamese learners. The problems come from the fact that passive voice is related to different areas from syntax, semantics and pragmatics as well. Such questions really encourage me to do a comprehensive research on the differences related to passive voice in English and the “so - call ...
... abstract to Vietnamese learners. The problems come from the fact that passive voice is related to different areas from syntax, semantics and pragmatics as well. Such questions really encourage me to do a comprehensive research on the differences related to passive voice in English and the “so - call ...
A Typology of Verbal Borrowings
... Similarly, a few helpful members of the “linguaphiles” community at livejournal.com1 will have to remain anonymous, since I only know their pseudonyms. However, I am not less thankful to them. While this work and my collection of loan verb data undoubtedly benefited very much from the kind support a ...
... Similarly, a few helpful members of the “linguaphiles” community at livejournal.com1 will have to remain anonymous, since I only know their pseudonyms. However, I am not less thankful to them. While this work and my collection of loan verb data undoubtedly benefited very much from the kind support a ...
Master`s Thesis - Nikhil Krishnaswamy
... for a larger process 9x9y(florentine omelette(y)^make(x,y)), where x is some agent making a florentine omelette. The telic quale of a verb is the purpose for which the process was undergone. Simply put, it is the answer to the question ”why am I doing this?” This means that for verbs with intention ...
... for a larger process 9x9y(florentine omelette(y)^make(x,y)), where x is some agent making a florentine omelette. The telic quale of a verb is the purpose for which the process was undergone. Simply put, it is the answer to the question ”why am I doing this?” This means that for verbs with intention ...
bardi verb morphology in historical perspective
... This dissertation is an investigation into the structure of verbal predicates in Bardi, a Nyulnyulan language from the North-Western Australian coast. I examine possible synchronic analyses and reconstruct the history of the systems between Proto-Nyulnyulan and the modern attested languages. There h ...
... This dissertation is an investigation into the structure of verbal predicates in Bardi, a Nyulnyulan language from the North-Western Australian coast. I examine possible synchronic analyses and reconstruct the history of the systems between Proto-Nyulnyulan and the modern attested languages. There h ...
Lecture 12: Semantics and Pragmatics
... The grounding problem and circularity The boundaries of meaning: linguistic vs encyclopedic knowledge Individual variation in meaning: idiolects Words can be combined to form an infinite number of expressions ∗ This building up of meaning is referred to as composition ∗ If the meaning of the whole c ...
... The grounding problem and circularity The boundaries of meaning: linguistic vs encyclopedic knowledge Individual variation in meaning: idiolects Words can be combined to form an infinite number of expressions ∗ This building up of meaning is referred to as composition ∗ If the meaning of the whole c ...
Discontinuous reciprocals Abstract 1 Introduction
... To the above list we may add the “covert reciprocals” of English. By this I mean symmetric transitive verbs such as meet, kiss and marry, which are interpreted as reciprocal when used intransitively with a plural subject. Many such verbs, too, allow the discontinuous construction. Verbs that cannot ...
... To the above list we may add the “covert reciprocals” of English. By this I mean symmetric transitive verbs such as meet, kiss and marry, which are interpreted as reciprocal when used intransitively with a plural subject. Many such verbs, too, allow the discontinuous construction. Verbs that cannot ...
Photos The typology of clause linkage: status quo, challenges
... conceived of as the absence of syntactic, semantic or prosodic dependency between the clauses, i.e. a sentence can (i) stand by itself, (ii) be interpreted independently (disregarding matters relating to discourse such as the interpretation of cohesive elements in the sense of Halliday 1985), and (i ...
... conceived of as the absence of syntactic, semantic or prosodic dependency between the clauses, i.e. a sentence can (i) stand by itself, (ii) be interpreted independently (disregarding matters relating to discourse such as the interpretation of cohesive elements in the sense of Halliday 1985), and (i ...
Michelle Anne Long A Thesis - Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
... Argument language. Primarily, I account for the distinction between adjunct-like and complement-likeclauses, in a way which is not based upon their structural position. In configurational languages like English and French, complement and adjunct clauses are differentiated by the structural position ...
... Argument language. Primarily, I account for the distinction between adjunct-like and complement-likeclauses, in a way which is not based upon their structural position. In configurational languages like English and French, complement and adjunct clauses are differentiated by the structural position ...
Constructions with and without articles Henriëtte de Swart
... The three languages have a range of weakly referential constructions in common. Bare predication (6a, 7a, 8a) and reduplication (6e, 7h, 8f) are found in English, Dutch and French. The class of bare PPs is split into N-based and P-based bare PPs. In N-based bare PPs, bareness is driven by the noun, ...
... The three languages have a range of weakly referential constructions in common. Bare predication (6a, 7a, 8a) and reduplication (6e, 7h, 8f) are found in English, Dutch and French. The class of bare PPs is split into N-based and P-based bare PPs. In N-based bare PPs, bareness is driven by the noun, ...
OBLIQUE ARGUMENTS RAISED
... We follow Pylkkänen (2008) in assuming the High Applicatives link the argument they introduce to the event rather than to an internal argument, hence they appear with unergative verbs as well as with unaccusatives and transitives. We also assume that the High Applicative, which Davis identifies as D ...
... We follow Pylkkänen (2008) in assuming the High Applicatives link the argument they introduce to the event rather than to an internal argument, hence they appear with unergative verbs as well as with unaccusatives and transitives. We also assume that the High Applicative, which Davis identifies as D ...
1 Rise of the Auxiliaries: a case for auxiliary raising vs. affix
... being? Do they raise to a functional head to combine with their aspectual inflections in a way similar to their finite forms, or do they remain in their base positions and have these inflections somehow lowered onto them, similar to the lexical verb? This is essentially the debate of whether we have ...
... being? Do they raise to a functional head to combine with their aspectual inflections in a way similar to their finite forms, or do they remain in their base positions and have these inflections somehow lowered onto them, similar to the lexical verb? This is essentially the debate of whether we have ...
Insubordination and its ·uses • --
... these include· both types of nonfinite construction, such as infinitives, and those that are not normally considered to manifest nonfiniteness, such as subordinating conjunction, as well as categories that are intermediate or disputed. • To establish the range of functions that are served by insubor ...
... these include· both types of nonfinite construction, such as infinitives, and those that are not normally considered to manifest nonfiniteness, such as subordinating conjunction, as well as categories that are intermediate or disputed. • To establish the range of functions that are served by insubor ...
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... extremely small, skewed sample of Western European and East Asian languages (Hawkins 2007, Jaeger & Norcliffe 2009, Anand et al. 2011). Anand and colleagues (2011) estimated that just ten languages account ...
... extremely small, skewed sample of Western European and East Asian languages (Hawkins 2007, Jaeger & Norcliffe 2009, Anand et al. 2011). Anand and colleagues (2011) estimated that just ten languages account ...
Syntactic, semantic and phonological factors determining the
... 4. Theories of adverbial placement Generative theory provides at least two major alternative frameworks for the integration of adverbs and adverbial adjuncts into sentence structure. In the feature-checking theory elaborated by Alexiadou (1997) and Cinque (1999), adverbs are licensed as specifiers ...
... 4. Theories of adverbial placement Generative theory provides at least two major alternative frameworks for the integration of adverbs and adverbial adjuncts into sentence structure. In the feature-checking theory elaborated by Alexiadou (1997) and Cinque (1999), adverbs are licensed as specifiers ...