Semantic affix rivalry: the case of Portuguese nominalisers
... 6 CONCLUSIONS Unless there are other orders of constraints, in terms of semantic operations in word formation, it is not possible to state that only a certain kind of verbs will select a certain affix, since many affixes occur with the same base. This is possible because affixes have semantic featur ...
... 6 CONCLUSIONS Unless there are other orders of constraints, in terms of semantic operations in word formation, it is not possible to state that only a certain kind of verbs will select a certain affix, since many affixes occur with the same base. This is possible because affixes have semantic featur ...
The syntax of verb complements and the loss of the
... Bantu point of view and then give a tentative explanation for the differences between Eton and what may be called here the Eastern prototype. The first morphosyntactic characteristic to be discussed (Section 2) is a very productive dative shift-like construction, which allows verbs to take a bene/ma ...
... Bantu point of view and then give a tentative explanation for the differences between Eton and what may be called here the Eastern prototype. The first morphosyntactic characteristic to be discussed (Section 2) is a very productive dative shift-like construction, which allows verbs to take a bene/ma ...
Workshop on Nominalization
... - What does it mean to be nominal? - Why would this property hold of nominals? 2. What does it mean to be a nominal? Part of theory of syntactic categories: Distributive Morphology (Halle and Marantx 1993, Marantz 1997, etc.): Lexical roots are category neutral, they are assigned a category X by mer ...
... - What does it mean to be nominal? - Why would this property hold of nominals? 2. What does it mean to be a nominal? Part of theory of syntactic categories: Distributive Morphology (Halle and Marantx 1993, Marantz 1997, etc.): Lexical roots are category neutral, they are assigned a category X by mer ...
Contrastive Linguistics, Translation, and Parallel Corpora
... Halliday's (e.g. 1994) three metafunctions of language, and writes: “For two sentences from different languages to be translationally equivalent they must convey the same ideational and interpersonal and textual meanings” (James 1980: 178).1 The present article looks at translations to see what they ...
... Halliday's (e.g. 1994) three metafunctions of language, and writes: “For two sentences from different languages to be translationally equivalent they must convey the same ideational and interpersonal and textual meanings” (James 1980: 178).1 The present article looks at translations to see what they ...
Applied verbs in Bantu languages have often been analysed as
... entitled to construct a concept which is ‘stronger’ than a potential concept constructed from a corresponding base verb. While the syntactic change of valency associated with applied verbs may count as concept strengthening, the more important evidence comes from cases where applied verbs do not cha ...
... entitled to construct a concept which is ‘stronger’ than a potential concept constructed from a corresponding base verb. While the syntactic change of valency associated with applied verbs may count as concept strengthening, the more important evidence comes from cases where applied verbs do not cha ...
SUBJECT + VERB
... NEXT… find the VERB! To f i n d t h e p r e d i ca te : A s k w h a t i s t h e s u b j e c t d o i n g ? ( a c t i o n v e r b , l i n k i n g v e r b , o r v e r b phrase) A s e n te n c e m ay h a v e a D I R E C T O B J E C T, I N D I RE C T O B J E C T, o r B OT H ! To f i n d t h e d i r e ...
... NEXT… find the VERB! To f i n d t h e p r e d i ca te : A s k w h a t i s t h e s u b j e c t d o i n g ? ( a c t i o n v e r b , l i n k i n g v e r b , o r v e r b phrase) A s e n te n c e m ay h a v e a D I R E C T O B J E C T, I N D I RE C T O B J E C T, o r B OT H ! To f i n d t h e d i r e ...
this PDF file - Open Access journals at UiO
... It is a known fact that animal sounds are used metaphorically with reference to human beings. A question arises: just which human sounds are rendered as “animal”, “avian” or “insect”? The simple answer to this question is: inarticulate sounds. In fact, sounds that animals make may be likened to huma ...
... It is a known fact that animal sounds are used metaphorically with reference to human beings. A question arises: just which human sounds are rendered as “animal”, “avian” or “insect”? The simple answer to this question is: inarticulate sounds. In fact, sounds that animals make may be likened to huma ...
Propbank-Br - Association for Computational Linguistics
... for annotation of German Framenet, but its resources were adequate for our annotation purposes not requiring tool customization (we customized only the use). A facility of SALTO that we have extensively used is the sentence flag. For example, we have flagged as Wrongsubcorpus all sentences that pres ...
... for annotation of German Framenet, but its resources were adequate for our annotation purposes not requiring tool customization (we customized only the use). A facility of SALTO that we have extensively used is the sentence flag. For example, we have flagged as Wrongsubcorpus all sentences that pres ...
PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN VERBAL SYNTAX In 1901 C. C.
... in the literature, probably because he limited himself to a typological comparison with Circassian and did not adduce any historical evidence in support of his view. Against Pedersen's identification of the flexion in -mi with the transitive conjugation Knobloch objects that the distribution of Hitt ...
... in the literature, probably because he limited himself to a typological comparison with Circassian and did not adduce any historical evidence in support of his view. Against Pedersen's identification of the flexion in -mi with the transitive conjugation Knobloch objects that the distribution of Hitt ...
Semantic and syntactic properties of verbs
... corresponding speech act (telefonieren and schreiben). There seems to be a relation between a verb’s properties with respect to the speaker’s attitudes on the one hand and its behaviour concerning event structure on the other: those verbs of communication which are specified with respect to the spea ...
... corresponding speech act (telefonieren and schreiben). There seems to be a relation between a verb’s properties with respect to the speaker’s attitudes on the one hand and its behaviour concerning event structure on the other: those verbs of communication which are specified with respect to the spea ...
DEFINING TRANSITIVITY AND INTRANSITIVITY: SPLIT
... the traditional form of the X-bar model, subject is considered to be generated in Spec. of IP where it is assigned nominative case by the tense and agreement features of INFL. This research deals with a proposal which has recently been gaining ground in the literature through a number of studies by ...
... the traditional form of the X-bar model, subject is considered to be generated in Spec. of IP where it is assigned nominative case by the tense and agreement features of INFL. This research deals with a proposal which has recently been gaining ground in the literature through a number of studies by ...
J93-2002 - ACL Anthology Reference Corpus
... 2.1 Finding Verbs Lerner identifies verbs in two stages, each carried out on a separate pass through the corpus. First, strings that sometimes occur as verbs are identified. Second, occurrences of those strings in context are judged as likely or unlikely to be verbal occurrences. The second stage is ...
... 2.1 Finding Verbs Lerner identifies verbs in two stages, each carried out on a separate pass through the corpus. First, strings that sometimes occur as verbs are identified. Second, occurrences of those strings in context are judged as likely or unlikely to be verbal occurrences. The second stage is ...
Translation of the predicative element of a sentence
... arguments, their semantic features and their syntactic realization. The linguistics data we have examined put forward the additional monolingual lexical information4: - for a predicative noun Npred, its neuter support verb and the aspectual, diathetic and modal variants of this support verb (if any ...
... arguments, their semantic features and their syntactic realization. The linguistics data we have examined put forward the additional monolingual lexical information4: - for a predicative noun Npred, its neuter support verb and the aspectual, diathetic and modal variants of this support verb (if any ...
Chapter 6 Conclusion
... To come back to the main point, what exactly is the nature of the meaning-behaviour relationship? (a) Already a purely syntactic verb description allows a verb clustering clearly above the baseline. The result is a successful (semantic) classification of verbs which agree in their syntactic frame de ...
... To come back to the main point, what exactly is the nature of the meaning-behaviour relationship? (a) Already a purely syntactic verb description allows a verb clustering clearly above the baseline. The result is a successful (semantic) classification of verbs which agree in their syntactic frame de ...
PROJECTING INFLECTED VERBS* Eric Reuland and Wim
... independently show that in GOV languages the doeains of INFL and V may overlap, whereas in the SVO languages they are strictly separated. The issue is important in the light of the theoretical developeents in the last few years, leading to a theory in which phrase structure properties are projected ...
... independently show that in GOV languages the doeains of INFL and V may overlap, whereas in the SVO languages they are strictly separated. The issue is important in the light of the theoretical developeents in the last few years, leading to a theory in which phrase structure properties are projected ...
Meaning representation, semantic analysis, and lexical semantics
... – It is a specification of a conceptualization of a knowledge domain – It is a controlled vocabulary that describes objects and the relations between them in a formal way, and has strict rules about how to specify terms and relationships. ...
... – It is a specification of a conceptualization of a knowledge domain – It is a controlled vocabulary that describes objects and the relations between them in a formal way, and has strict rules about how to specify terms and relationships. ...
Verb
... a) I have done the work.(present perfect) b) He has left the school before the class was over (past perfect) c) It has been raining for fine days (present perfect conti) d)The work has been done(passive voice)(Nominative absolute) To have: To have may also be used as a principal verb. a) He has a re ...
... a) I have done the work.(present perfect) b) He has left the school before the class was over (past perfect) c) It has been raining for fine days (present perfect conti) d)The work has been done(passive voice)(Nominative absolute) To have: To have may also be used as a principal verb. a) He has a re ...
The role of abstract syntactic knowledge in language acquisition: a
... As evidence for this claim, Tomasello reviews laboratory elicitation experiments in which children learn new verbs and analyses of corpora of children’s spontaneous speech. Based on both kinds of data, he argues that there is little evidence for grammatical abstractions such as “verb” or “transitive ...
... As evidence for this claim, Tomasello reviews laboratory elicitation experiments in which children learn new verbs and analyses of corpora of children’s spontaneous speech. Based on both kinds of data, he argues that there is little evidence for grammatical abstractions such as “verb” or “transitive ...
Learnability (mostly)
... Chien and Wexler (1990 Language Acquisition) Methodology: Picture-judgment task Results: First, children ‘appear’ to violate Principle B in sentences like ‘Mama Bear is touching her’, allowing the prohibited meaning, i.e. Mama Bear is touching herself about 50% of the time However, the same children ...
... Chien and Wexler (1990 Language Acquisition) Methodology: Picture-judgment task Results: First, children ‘appear’ to violate Principle B in sentences like ‘Mama Bear is touching her’, allowing the prohibited meaning, i.e. Mama Bear is touching herself about 50% of the time However, the same children ...
Wortarten und Grammatikalisierung
... compounding pattern may also come to be used in different syntactic or semantic-pragmatic contexts (for example, when main clause word order gets used in subordinate clauses). These changes, however, are not considered instances of grammaticisation here, because the changing constructions do not inv ...
... compounding pattern may also come to be used in different syntactic or semantic-pragmatic contexts (for example, when main clause word order gets used in subordinate clauses). These changes, however, are not considered instances of grammaticisation here, because the changing constructions do not inv ...
Masako`s slides on Goldberg, Chapter 9
... (1) The tiger killed again. (2) The tiger killed someone/something again. Notice that the same scene can be described by either (1) or (2) and yet the number of overtly expressed NPs differs in the two examples. ...
... (1) The tiger killed again. (2) The tiger killed someone/something again. Notice that the same scene can be described by either (1) or (2) and yet the number of overtly expressed NPs differs in the two examples. ...
Teaching Phrasal Verbs to Lower Learners
... appropriately in course books. An example of this can be seen in New Cutting Edge Intermediate, where a ‘Wordspot’ exercise encourages learners to focus on a delexicalised verb. Some of the focus is appropriate, but the phrasal verb section of the focus merely lists some different particles that can ...
... appropriately in course books. An example of this can be seen in New Cutting Edge Intermediate, where a ‘Wordspot’ exercise encourages learners to focus on a delexicalised verb. Some of the focus is appropriate, but the phrasal verb section of the focus merely lists some different particles that can ...
Igbo Deverbative Nouns as Thematic Compounds
... the theme of the verb stems. Thus, the compounding follows two derivational stages, to be described in the course of this study. De-verbative Nominals in Igbo Study Igbo verb has recieved the greatest volume of analysis in derivational morphology, being the most sourced lexical category to other wor ...
... the theme of the verb stems. Thus, the compounding follows two derivational stages, to be described in the course of this study. De-verbative Nominals in Igbo Study Igbo verb has recieved the greatest volume of analysis in derivational morphology, being the most sourced lexical category to other wor ...
Cognitive Set and Lexicalization Strategy in Dogon Action Verbs
... for relatively tangible and recurrent lexicalization patterns, and “set” for the cognitive orientations that presumably underlie them. In this article, we describe a broad lexicalization strategy for Dogon action verbs that, we argue, reflects a cognitive set profiling manner and/or process (M/P) ra ...
... for relatively tangible and recurrent lexicalization patterns, and “set” for the cognitive orientations that presumably underlie them. In this article, we describe a broad lexicalization strategy for Dogon action verbs that, we argue, reflects a cognitive set profiling manner and/or process (M/P) ra ...