Verbal morphology in Mawayana
... In order to delimit the scope of this thesis, it is necessary to define what constitutes a verb in Mawayana. According to Dixon (2010: 38) verbs can cross-linguistically be said to be the class whose members are always able to be the head of a predicate, and which always includes words for actions. ...
... In order to delimit the scope of this thesis, it is necessary to define what constitutes a verb in Mawayana. According to Dixon (2010: 38) verbs can cross-linguistically be said to be the class whose members are always able to be the head of a predicate, and which always includes words for actions. ...
Complex Clauses in Chipaya: Main Strategies of
... related) events. From a functional/cognitive view, linguists looking at this phenomenon, such as Givón (1985, 2001) and Haiman (1985), for example, have claimed that clausecombining constructions may be considered examples of iconicity and non-arbitrary structures in language under the general assum ...
... related) events. From a functional/cognitive view, linguists looking at this phenomenon, such as Givón (1985, 2001) and Haiman (1985), for example, have claimed that clausecombining constructions may be considered examples of iconicity and non-arbitrary structures in language under the general assum ...
Subjects and Verbs
... 3. Many park visitors have complained about the new regulations. Have complained (complained plus the helping verb have) is what the sentence says the park visitors did. ...
... 3. Many park visitors have complained about the new regulations. Have complained (complained plus the helping verb have) is what the sentence says the park visitors did. ...
Comprehensive and Consistent PropBank Light Verb Annotation
... LVC guidelines, which define LVCs more narrowly as constructions wherein the verb does not assign semantic roles to the arguments of the construction, but merely syntactically licenses arguments, including the subject argument. This difference in views results in a very different data set of TTree S ...
... LVC guidelines, which define LVCs more narrowly as constructions wherein the verb does not assign semantic roles to the arguments of the construction, but merely syntactically licenses arguments, including the subject argument. This difference in views results in a very different data set of TTree S ...
DEFINITE REFERENTIAL NULL OBJECTS IN ANCIENT GREEK
... and aÃkousan, ‘they heard’, we find occurrences of definite referential NO’s. In English, a language which does not allow NO’s under these conditions, one must add pronominal objects to make the translation grammatical. Note that the omitted constituents play a syntactic role, similar to phonologica ...
... and aÃkousan, ‘they heard’, we find occurrences of definite referential NO’s. In English, a language which does not allow NO’s under these conditions, one must add pronominal objects to make the translation grammatical. Note that the omitted constituents play a syntactic role, similar to phonologica ...
Lesson #4: Other inflections on verbs
... • All whales are mammals. (only a lexical verb,a form of BE) • The whales are playing in the shallows. (a verb phrase with more than one verb) • The whales have been playing for hours. (a verb phrase with more than one verb) • Whales will suckle their young for years. (a verb phrase with more than o ...
... • All whales are mammals. (only a lexical verb,a form of BE) • The whales are playing in the shallows. (a verb phrase with more than one verb) • The whales have been playing for hours. (a verb phrase with more than one verb) • Whales will suckle their young for years. (a verb phrase with more than o ...
What paradox? A response to Naigles (2002)
... Tomasello (1997) we used a new method. We did not really teach the verb at all in any construction. What we did was teach the activity that one does with an apparatus and two characters: on repeated occasions one character acted in a particular way on another on this apparatus, with the characters b ...
... Tomasello (1997) we used a new method. We did not really teach the verb at all in any construction. What we did was teach the activity that one does with an apparatus and two characters: on repeated occasions one character acted in a particular way on another on this apparatus, with the characters b ...
(SUBJECT + VERB). - St. Agatha Catholic School
... 2. Find three examples of this pattern (SUBJECT + VERB). Tr y to find a variety of subjects and verbs. ...
... 2. Find three examples of this pattern (SUBJECT + VERB). Tr y to find a variety of subjects and verbs. ...
subject completer
... is receiving the direct object c) Something that indirectly tells when something is happening d) The object of the preposition that indirectly explains the preposition ...
... is receiving the direct object c) Something that indirectly tells when something is happening d) The object of the preposition that indirectly explains the preposition ...
Dual Nominalisation in Yukaghir: structural ambiguity as semantic
... must be located on the head of the noun phrase, as in other constructions with clausal modifiers (in particular, in the construction with a transitive DN-modifier). Apart from the better agreement with the overall semantics of the possessive suffix, this analysis would account for the semantic const ...
... must be located on the head of the noun phrase, as in other constructions with clausal modifiers (in particular, in the construction with a transitive DN-modifier). Apart from the better agreement with the overall semantics of the possessive suffix, this analysis would account for the semantic const ...
Gillian Ramchand
... and these projections are left out even for English when the literal perfect or progressive forms are not expressed in the sentence. However, looking more carefully as auxiliary selection in English, we can see that it actually provides important evidence for zoning in the functional sequence. Spec ...
... and these projections are left out even for English when the literal perfect or progressive forms are not expressed in the sentence. However, looking more carefully as auxiliary selection in English, we can see that it actually provides important evidence for zoning in the functional sequence. Spec ...
Deponent verbs in Georgian
... recours à l’actif” (Flobert 1967: xi). (Flobert’s definition takes into account the fact that certain non-finite forms of Latin deponents are constructed like those of active verbs). The above-cited definitions cannot, however, be transferred in their present form to the Georgian verbs Shanidze labe ...
... recours à l’actif” (Flobert 1967: xi). (Flobert’s definition takes into account the fact that certain non-finite forms of Latin deponents are constructed like those of active verbs). The above-cited definitions cannot, however, be transferred in their present form to the Georgian verbs Shanidze labe ...
Locative and locatum verbs revisited
... configurational part of lexical decomposition. Their tenet is that these limits are dictated by very few well-established syntactic principles, and not by our intuitions on semantic interpretation. Moreover, the structural part of lexical decomposition is assumed to be basically carried out by takin ...
... configurational part of lexical decomposition. Their tenet is that these limits are dictated by very few well-established syntactic principles, and not by our intuitions on semantic interpretation. Moreover, the structural part of lexical decomposition is assumed to be basically carried out by takin ...
Grammar * Unit 1 Lessons 1-17
... instantaneous action (an instruction, a brief action), or a habit– an ongoing or repeated action (sneezing, editing, ...
... instantaneous action (an instruction, a brief action), or a habit– an ongoing or repeated action (sneezing, editing, ...
Morphological complexity as aparameter of linguistic typology
... number of distinctions relevant to the discussion of the data related to complexity. These distinctions and the general background are based on Dahl (2004). Section 3 takes the data presented in De Groot (2005a) as its input. For each morphological category, more detailed grammatical and typological ...
... number of distinctions relevant to the discussion of the data related to complexity. These distinctions and the general background are based on Dahl (2004). Section 3 takes the data presented in De Groot (2005a) as its input. For each morphological category, more detailed grammatical and typological ...
Aspects of the syntax of psychological verbs in Spanish A lexical
... its starting point: the thematic equivalence between these three kinds of psychological verbs can be explained if we postulate an equivalent or at least a similar deep structure for all of them (Belletti and Rizzi 1988).2 But a closer look at the semantic content of these verbs shows that there is a ...
... its starting point: the thematic equivalence between these three kinds of psychological verbs can be explained if we postulate an equivalent or at least a similar deep structure for all of them (Belletti and Rizzi 1988).2 But a closer look at the semantic content of these verbs shows that there is a ...
Aspects of the syntax of psychological verbs in Spanish A lexical
... its starting point: the thematic equivalence between these three kinds of psychological verbs can be explained if we postulate an equivalent or at least a similar deep structure for all of them (Belletti and Rizzi 1988).2 But a closer look at the semantic content of these verbs shows that there is a ...
... its starting point: the thematic equivalence between these three kinds of psychological verbs can be explained if we postulate an equivalent or at least a similar deep structure for all of them (Belletti and Rizzi 1988).2 But a closer look at the semantic content of these verbs shows that there is a ...
flexibility in the semantics and syntax of children`s early verb use
... And even in Western, middle-class culture parents only rarely explicitly teach words other than object labels. With verbs and other types of words, children must in almost all cases learn them within the ongoing flow of social interaction and discourseFon their own, so to speakFbased on their unders ...
... And even in Western, middle-class culture parents only rarely explicitly teach words other than object labels. With verbs and other types of words, children must in almost all cases learn them within the ongoing flow of social interaction and discourseFon their own, so to speakFbased on their unders ...
Semantic Encoding of Danish Verbs in SIMPLE
... language group has here been relatively free regarding how to analyse predicates. The Danish lexicon is based on the linguistic specifications developed within an EUgrammar project (LINDA – Linguistic Specifications for Danish (cf. Underwood et al. in press)). As regards ‘Selectional restrictions’, ...
... language group has here been relatively free regarding how to analyse predicates. The Danish lexicon is based on the linguistic specifications developed within an EUgrammar project (LINDA – Linguistic Specifications for Danish (cf. Underwood et al. in press)). As regards ‘Selectional restrictions’, ...
Phrasal verbs in a modular lexicon model
... come back to in Section 3. In the case of krydse, however, there are no problems in assigning the value ‘transition’. Event type is followed by the four Qualia Roles, (i) the formal role, which provides information that distinguishes an entity within a larger set (krydse ‘Is_a’ ændring (cross ‘Is_a’ ...
... come back to in Section 3. In the case of krydse, however, there are no problems in assigning the value ‘transition’. Event type is followed by the four Qualia Roles, (i) the formal role, which provides information that distinguishes an entity within a larger set (krydse ‘Is_a’ ændring (cross ‘Is_a’ ...
doc file - Paul McKevitt
... and visualisation of action verbs produced by different somatotopic effectors activate distinct parts of the cortex. Moveover, actions that share an effector are in general similar to each other in dimensions other than the identity of the effector. Recent studies (Bergen et al., 2003) investigate h ...
... and visualisation of action verbs produced by different somatotopic effectors activate distinct parts of the cortex. Moveover, actions that share an effector are in general similar to each other in dimensions other than the identity of the effector. Recent studies (Bergen et al., 2003) investigate h ...
first auxiliary verb
... which together make up every S; in fact, the basic structure of an English sentence is simply NP – VP. Both of these constructions have internal structure (that’s why they’re called constructions), and several different parts that have to come together in just the right way, ordinarily in just the r ...
... which together make up every S; in fact, the basic structure of an English sentence is simply NP – VP. Both of these constructions have internal structure (that’s why they’re called constructions), and several different parts that have to come together in just the right way, ordinarily in just the r ...
Infinitive and gerund in English versus overt and covert derived
... • To solve this problem Amer ( 2004) maintains that the semantics of verb behavior plays a major role in this infinitive-gerund dichotomy as objects. Therefore, he divides English verbs into four semantic categories: • 1. Emotive Verbs • Emotive verbs (Quirk 1985; Chalker and Weiner 1994; Amer 2004) ...
... • To solve this problem Amer ( 2004) maintains that the semantics of verb behavior plays a major role in this infinitive-gerund dichotomy as objects. Therefore, he divides English verbs into four semantic categories: • 1. Emotive Verbs • Emotive verbs (Quirk 1985; Chalker and Weiner 1994; Amer 2004) ...
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... In this paper we present some observations and results concerning an experiment of manual lexical-semantic tagging of a small Italian corpus performed within the framework of the ELSNET project. The ELSNET experimental project has to be considered as a feasibility study. It is part of a preparatory ...
... In this paper we present some observations and results concerning an experiment of manual lexical-semantic tagging of a small Italian corpus performed within the framework of the ELSNET project. The ELSNET experimental project has to be considered as a feasibility study. It is part of a preparatory ...
Grammaticalization in Germanic languages Martin Hilpert 1 Genetic
... the autonomous and the suffixed articles in complementary distribution, depending on the presence of an attributive adjective, Swedish allows their co-presence in what is called "double determination". Despite the vexing similarity of the indefinite autonomous article and the suffixed definite artic ...
... the autonomous and the suffixed articles in complementary distribution, depending on the presence of an attributive adjective, Swedish allows their co-presence in what is called "double determination". Despite the vexing similarity of the indefinite autonomous article and the suffixed definite artic ...