External temporal specification in English verbs of motion
... individual kinetic quanta. Speed as the temporal interval between individual quanta only results from the respective character of the said physical structuration. This means that in the hierarchy of meaning components, speed assumes a secondary, derived status. In this sense it is an implicit meanin ...
... individual kinetic quanta. Speed as the temporal interval between individual quanta only results from the respective character of the said physical structuration. This means that in the hierarchy of meaning components, speed assumes a secondary, derived status. In this sense it is an implicit meanin ...
hierarchical lexical structure and interpretive mapping in machine
... tion that holds between mapping types and mapping patterns in disjunctive, since a mapping type contains different types of alternations, only one of which can be active at a given time for a particular verb. As a result, inheritance is performed in a different manner at these two levels in the hier ...
... tion that holds between mapping types and mapping patterns in disjunctive, since a mapping type contains different types of alternations, only one of which can be active at a given time for a particular verb. As a result, inheritance is performed in a different manner at these two levels in the hier ...
communicative constructions in written texts: verba dicendi
... establish relevant comparison between the uses of each other. I am particularly concerned with communicative construction, which presupposes interaction with others, and what I am trying to determine is how often do these constructions happen, is it common or isolated cases? Key words: Communicative ...
... establish relevant comparison between the uses of each other. I am particularly concerned with communicative construction, which presupposes interaction with others, and what I am trying to determine is how often do these constructions happen, is it common or isolated cases? Key words: Communicative ...
Beginnings in North Sámi* Marit Julien 1 Introduction Verbs that
... In North Sámi, inceptives can be formed with the inceptive verb álgit, with the morphologically bound form -goahtit, or by changing the theme vowel of the base verb. The syntactic properties of these inceptives indicate that -goahtit is an auxiliary, and so is álgit when it takes a verbal complement ...
... In North Sámi, inceptives can be formed with the inceptive verb álgit, with the morphologically bound form -goahtit, or by changing the theme vowel of the base verb. The syntactic properties of these inceptives indicate that -goahtit is an auxiliary, and so is álgit when it takes a verbal complement ...
The Preposing of Direct Object
... According to Tang’s analysis of ditransitives offered above, it seems that sometimes the order of the two objects is not necessarily restricted and sometimes the IO should precede the DO in the deep structure of a sentence, so the syntactic transposition of the two objects may be the lowering of the ...
... According to Tang’s analysis of ditransitives offered above, it seems that sometimes the order of the two objects is not necessarily restricted and sometimes the IO should precede the DO in the deep structure of a sentence, so the syntactic transposition of the two objects may be the lowering of the ...
APPLICATION OF FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS TO THE
... from newspaper texts, totaling two million words. When dealing with unrestricted texts there are several extra difficulties added to the problem of ambiguity, such as multiword lexical units, unknown words, proper names, spelling errors and long sentences (as each sentence contains an instance of th ...
... from newspaper texts, totaling two million words. When dealing with unrestricted texts there are several extra difficulties added to the problem of ambiguity, such as multiword lexical units, unknown words, proper names, spelling errors and long sentences (as each sentence contains an instance of th ...
Linguistic Models - Geert Booij`s Page
... participants are involved, indicated by the ordered pair of variables x and y (traditionally referred to as the logical subject and the logical object respectively). The concept EAT may be decomposable into smaller conceptual units, among which the concept ACTION. The minimal assumption that we make ...
... participants are involved, indicated by the ordered pair of variables x and y (traditionally referred to as the logical subject and the logical object respectively). The concept EAT may be decomposable into smaller conceptual units, among which the concept ACTION. The minimal assumption that we make ...
Case Assignment in Basque - University of the Basque Country
... verbs to subject position will, therefore, not be forced by the Case Filter. The problem is then to account for the subject properties that the single argument of verbs like etorri display. As ...
... verbs to subject position will, therefore, not be forced by the Case Filter. The problem is then to account for the subject properties that the single argument of verbs like etorri display. As ...
LOCATIVE PHRASES AND ALTERNATIVE CONCORD IN TSHILUBA
... different classes with respect to the types of NPs required or permitted to accompany them. Verbs such as -teka 'put', in (10), rarely surface without objects. Verbs such as -bala 'read', in (11), often surface without objects. Verb requiring direct objects are here labeled strongly transitive verbs ...
... different classes with respect to the types of NPs required or permitted to accompany them. Verbs such as -teka 'put', in (10), rarely surface without objects. Verbs such as -bala 'read', in (11), often surface without objects. Verb requiring direct objects are here labeled strongly transitive verbs ...
Name that Verb
... "running", be on the lookout for a helping verb also. We are watching a movie today. A sentence may contain up to three helping verbs to the main verb. An example would be: The dog must have been chasing the cat. The helping verbs are: must, have, and been; the main verb is chasing. ...
... "running", be on the lookout for a helping verb also. We are watching a movie today. A sentence may contain up to three helping verbs to the main verb. An example would be: The dog must have been chasing the cat. The helping verbs are: must, have, and been; the main verb is chasing. ...
Words That Are True Linking Verbs
... A resultative verb can function as either a linking verb or an action verb. Here's a test you can use to help you decide: Replace the resultative verb with am, is, are, was, etc. For example, let's try the verbs 'grow' and 'look': The man grows flowers. => The man is flowers. (Not OK) ('grows' is no ...
... A resultative verb can function as either a linking verb or an action verb. Here's a test you can use to help you decide: Replace the resultative verb with am, is, are, was, etc. For example, let's try the verbs 'grow' and 'look': The man grows flowers. => The man is flowers. (Not OK) ('grows' is no ...
On the Auxiliary Status of Dare in Old English
... all modals originated as preterite-presents. Verbs that belonged to the preteritepresent category which did not become modals “either dropped out of the language altogether or were assimilated to another more regular class of verbs” (Lightfoot 2009: 30). The confusion between the two categories is f ...
... all modals originated as preterite-presents. Verbs that belonged to the preteritepresent category which did not become modals “either dropped out of the language altogether or were assimilated to another more regular class of verbs” (Lightfoot 2009: 30). The confusion between the two categories is f ...
the Persian Complex Predicate Construction
... and phrasal properties: they act in some ways as a single word, and in other ways like more than one word. They form a central part of the grammar of Persian and many other languages, including Hindi, Japanese and Hungarian.2 This paper offers an account in which the Persian CP is treated as a const ...
... and phrasal properties: they act in some ways as a single word, and in other ways like more than one word. They form a central part of the grammar of Persian and many other languages, including Hindi, Japanese and Hungarian.2 This paper offers an account in which the Persian CP is treated as a const ...
Parsing the Past – Identification of Verb Constructions in
... authors, genres and time periods, and even within the same text, due to the lack of spelling conventions. In addition to this, there is a shortage of annotated resources that can be used for the development and evaluation of new tools. The work presented in this paper has been carried out in coopera ...
... authors, genres and time periods, and even within the same text, due to the lack of spelling conventions. In addition to this, there is a shortage of annotated resources that can be used for the development and evaluation of new tools. The work presented in this paper has been carried out in coopera ...
Parsing the Past - Identification of Verb Constructions in Historical Text
... processing. We will mainly follow the methodology for verb extraction described in Pettersson and Nivre (2011), but adding the extraction of not only the verbs themselves, but also their adherent complements. It would perhaps have been desirable to use tools specifically trained for analysing histor ...
... processing. We will mainly follow the methodology for verb extraction described in Pettersson and Nivre (2011), but adding the extraction of not only the verbs themselves, but also their adherent complements. It would perhaps have been desirable to use tools specifically trained for analysing histor ...
IN DEFENSE OF PASSIVE Consider the following three sentences
... Visser, Jesperson). Since the analysis pursued here is based on the view that there exists in English a significant syntactic/semantic category of transitive verb phrases, it is important to give independent evidence for this assumption. Such evidence is given in Section 1,where I will also give a s ...
... Visser, Jesperson). Since the analysis pursued here is based on the view that there exists in English a significant syntactic/semantic category of transitive verb phrases, it is important to give independent evidence for this assumption. Such evidence is given in Section 1,where I will also give a s ...
The instrumental: dative and its double 1. Introduction. We take our
... account for the fact that formally identically genitive/dative DPs display different interpretive behaviours – as well as for the fact that cross-linguistically, syntactico-semantic differences may result in different lexicalization pattern. Manzini & Savoia (2011), starting from Albanian data, deal ...
... account for the fact that formally identically genitive/dative DPs display different interpretive behaviours – as well as for the fact that cross-linguistically, syntactico-semantic differences may result in different lexicalization pattern. Manzini & Savoia (2011), starting from Albanian data, deal ...
Transitivity from a Cognitive Perspective
... excluded discussion of the expression of transitivity. We will depart from this trend by focusing on the various syntactic forms that transitivity can take in Russian. The advantage of this undertaking is that it will facilitate a more nuanced view of transitivity, as a linguistic category that enco ...
... excluded discussion of the expression of transitivity. We will depart from this trend by focusing on the various syntactic forms that transitivity can take in Russian. The advantage of this undertaking is that it will facilitate a more nuanced view of transitivity, as a linguistic category that enco ...
The polysemy of -ize derivatives and the ModGreek
... Jackendoff’s LCSs schema of the -ize derivatives. Instead, the second productive verbal suffix (equivalent to -ize) -`ono (e.g. spitono ‘put into a house’ in the sense of hospitalize is used. Finally, it will also be shown, in this study, that -pi`o derivatives are always transitive whereas the MG - ...
... Jackendoff’s LCSs schema of the -ize derivatives. Instead, the second productive verbal suffix (equivalent to -ize) -`ono (e.g. spitono ‘put into a house’ in the sense of hospitalize is used. Finally, it will also be shown, in this study, that -pi`o derivatives are always transitive whereas the MG - ...
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... 2, these additional accusatives can occur in positions in which normal direct objects are not allowed. Even more, this also holds the other way around: not only can additional accusatives occur in positions in which normal direct objects cannot occur, it also seems that additional accusatives canno ...
... 2, these additional accusatives can occur in positions in which normal direct objects are not allowed. Even more, this also holds the other way around: not only can additional accusatives occur in positions in which normal direct objects cannot occur, it also seems that additional accusatives canno ...
Listeners Exploit Syntactic Structure On
... Many experiments have shown that listeners actively build expectations about up-coming words, rather than simply waiting for information to accumulate. The online construction of a syntactic structure is one of the cues that listeners may use to construct strong expectations about the possible words ...
... Many experiments have shown that listeners actively build expectations about up-coming words, rather than simply waiting for information to accumulate. The online construction of a syntactic structure is one of the cues that listeners may use to construct strong expectations about the possible words ...
verb
... 3. Ask the question who or what after the subject and the verb to find the direct object. 4. Replace the direct object with a direct object pronoun (DOP). 5. Rewrite the sentence with DOP before the conjugated verb. ...
... 3. Ask the question who or what after the subject and the verb to find the direct object. 4. Replace the direct object with a direct object pronoun (DOP). 5. Rewrite the sentence with DOP before the conjugated verb. ...
Introducing Arguments - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
... melting, as in (1a), English grammar also allows the sentence in (1b), where the entity that melts is now the object of the sentence and the subject position is filled with a noun phrase describing a causer of the melting event. Further, it is possible to add yet another argument to this structure, ...
... melting, as in (1a), English grammar also allows the sentence in (1b), where the entity that melts is now the object of the sentence and the subject position is filled with a noun phrase describing a causer of the melting event. Further, it is possible to add yet another argument to this structure, ...
MadridvalenceJune2012NEW - VU-dare
... After sorting through much data, a series of yes–no questions to be answered concerning the context of a verb emerged. About the same time that these questions were becoming clear to me, my colleague, Reinoud Oosting, commented that two elements present in a construction are sufficient to determine ...
... After sorting through much data, a series of yes–no questions to be answered concerning the context of a verb emerged. About the same time that these questions were becoming clear to me, my colleague, Reinoud Oosting, commented that two elements present in a construction are sufficient to determine ...
Predicted errors in children’s early sentence comprehension
... (1) The boy is gorping the girl. However, this account also predicts telltale errors. Not all two-noun sentences are transitive. Sentence (2) shows an invented verb in an intransitive sentence with two nouns conjoined in subject position. Before learning much about English syntax and morphology, chi ...
... (1) The boy is gorping the girl. However, this account also predicts telltale errors. Not all two-noun sentences are transitive. Sentence (2) shows an invented verb in an intransitive sentence with two nouns conjoined in subject position. Before learning much about English syntax and morphology, chi ...