Verb Extensions in Abo (Bantu, A42)
... forms and the historical and comparative implications of the findings. Reflexes of Proto-Bantu extensions in Abo are shown to be very reduced in form and integrated with the root, similar to what is seen in Basaá, a related language. Two extensions that are not clear reflexes of Proto-Bantu extensio ...
... forms and the historical and comparative implications of the findings. Reflexes of Proto-Bantu extensions in Abo are shown to be very reduced in form and integrated with the root, similar to what is seen in Basaá, a related language. Two extensions that are not clear reflexes of Proto-Bantu extensio ...
subject + verb + what? or who? = direct object
... Recognize an appositive when you see one. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words. Look at these examples: The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table. The insect, a large cockroac ...
... Recognize an appositive when you see one. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words. Look at these examples: The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table. The insect, a large cockroac ...
"it" AS A FORMAL OBJECT
... a direct object (I take it that everything is O.K.) , or an indirect non-recipient object (She objected to it that her husband should go and fetch them from the station). This use is not only common in Modern English, but was also used in Old, Middle and Early Modern English period, especially in su ...
... a direct object (I take it that everything is O.K.) , or an indirect non-recipient object (She objected to it that her husband should go and fetch them from the station). This use is not only common in Modern English, but was also used in Old, Middle and Early Modern English period, especially in su ...
Object Shift with Raising Verbs
... (16) involves a passive matrix verb, a standard case covered by the Burzio Generalization (3). Thus, passive verbs do not express an external argument, and fail to assign accusative Case. In the current framework, this is most elegantly described if we assume that passive verbs lack vP. Again, the o ...
... (16) involves a passive matrix verb, a standard case covered by the Burzio Generalization (3). Thus, passive verbs do not express an external argument, and fail to assign accusative Case. In the current framework, this is most elegantly described if we assume that passive verbs lack vP. Again, the o ...
Unit 3: Verbs
... Without verbs, these sentences would make no sense, as the actors (the subjects in sentences) would not have anything to do or to be. Verbs describe what the subject of a sentence does or what the subject of the sentence is. To better understand the difference between verbs that denote action and ve ...
... Without verbs, these sentences would make no sense, as the actors (the subjects in sentences) would not have anything to do or to be. Verbs describe what the subject of a sentence does or what the subject of the sentence is. To better understand the difference between verbs that denote action and ve ...
Lecture 7 - Linguistics and English Language
... If so, we know what a defining characteristic of raising verbs must be. Despite being active verbs, they must have deficient Case-properties; they are not able to assign Accusative to the subject of their non-finite complement, like an Exceptional Case Marking verb can. (Nor can the subject of a non ...
... If so, we know what a defining characteristic of raising verbs must be. Despite being active verbs, they must have deficient Case-properties; they are not able to assign Accusative to the subject of their non-finite complement, like an Exceptional Case Marking verb can. (Nor can the subject of a non ...
the flatmates
... These phrasal verbs take a direct object (they are transitive): I turned off the water I cut off the water He picked up Spanish easily You can separate the two parts of the phrasal verb with the object: I turned the water off I cut the water off He picked Spanish up easily If you use an object prono ...
... These phrasal verbs take a direct object (they are transitive): I turned off the water I cut off the water He picked up Spanish easily You can separate the two parts of the phrasal verb with the object: I turned the water off I cut the water off He picked Spanish up easily If you use an object prono ...
Athens conference proceedings
... 24) The story gave comfort TO the grieving child 24a) The story comforted Ø the grieving child 25) Teachers may give advice TO their students 26) Teachers may advice Ø their students This phenomenon seems to occur naturally for the SVCs in English and French. However, our data in Ewe does not seem t ...
... 24) The story gave comfort TO the grieving child 24a) The story comforted Ø the grieving child 25) Teachers may give advice TO their students 26) Teachers may advice Ø their students This phenomenon seems to occur naturally for the SVCs in English and French. However, our data in Ewe does not seem t ...
Lexical Semantics … cont`d
... how the meanings of sentences are derived from them. Semantics is based largely on the study of logic in philosophy. ...
... how the meanings of sentences are derived from them. Semantics is based largely on the study of logic in philosophy. ...
(syntactic) relations versus semantic roles within relational framework
... is active, (1.2) is passive. There are, then, different types of relations holding between a predicate and its arguments in a sentence: grammatical relations like subject, direct object, and semantic roles like agent and patient. As there is no agreement regarding the correct set of semantic roles, ...
... is active, (1.2) is passive. There are, then, different types of relations holding between a predicate and its arguments in a sentence: grammatical relations like subject, direct object, and semantic roles like agent and patient. As there is no agreement regarding the correct set of semantic roles, ...
Argument Structure in the Verb Phrase (VP)
... (we call them thematic roles, or theta-roles) to its arguments (the role players). According to the type of event referred to, the verb is combined with a number of arguments (including complements and the subject) that goes from zero to three (rarely four). For each verb the information specified i ...
... (we call them thematic roles, or theta-roles) to its arguments (the role players). According to the type of event referred to, the verb is combined with a number of arguments (including complements and the subject) that goes from zero to three (rarely four). For each verb the information specified i ...
Polysemy of verbal prefixes in Russian
... I address the problem of widespread polysemy of Russian verbal prefixes and argue that different uses of a single prefix share a core meaning, specified in the lexicon. Syntax may combine the prefix with the verb in a variety of syntactic configurations. Then the conceptual meaning combines with the ...
... I address the problem of widespread polysemy of Russian verbal prefixes and argue that different uses of a single prefix share a core meaning, specified in the lexicon. Syntax may combine the prefix with the verb in a variety of syntactic configurations. Then the conceptual meaning combines with the ...
Energize Business Writing With Action Verbs
... Tips for an Action Verb Orientation Following are tips to develop an action verb orientation: Develop a list of common action verbs to substitute for linking verbs Strive to include action verbs 80% of the time in all business communications Focus on what the reader should do as a result of reading ...
... Tips for an Action Verb Orientation Following are tips to develop an action verb orientation: Develop a list of common action verbs to substitute for linking verbs Strive to include action verbs 80% of the time in all business communications Focus on what the reader should do as a result of reading ...
The Conjunctive Participle in Tshangla
... I.Erg stone throw-CP1 bird-Dat hit-Inf 'I will throw a stone and hit a bird' or 'I threw a stone and it will hit a bird' Jigi lum thrup-than kha-ga khe-le I.Erg stone throw-CP2 bird-Dat hit-Inf 'I will throw a stone and it will hit a bird' *'I threw a stone and it will hit a bird' ...
... I.Erg stone throw-CP1 bird-Dat hit-Inf 'I will throw a stone and hit a bird' or 'I threw a stone and it will hit a bird' Jigi lum thrup-than kha-ga khe-le I.Erg stone throw-CP2 bird-Dat hit-Inf 'I will throw a stone and it will hit a bird' *'I threw a stone and it will hit a bird' ...
CAS LX 502
... eligible), then it follows that Pat is a man, that Pat is unmarried but eligible to be married. So, we have learned something about the meaning of bachelor and its relation to the meaning of man. • Pat is a bachelor entails that Pat is a man. • Entailment: X entails Y if there can be no situation in ...
... eligible), then it follows that Pat is a man, that Pat is unmarried but eligible to be married. So, we have learned something about the meaning of bachelor and its relation to the meaning of man. • Pat is a bachelor entails that Pat is a man. • Entailment: X entails Y if there can be no situation in ...
4 basic sentence structures
... S V IO DO sentence structure These verbs have 2 objects, an Indirect object and a Direct object. What’s the difference? Most ditransitive verbs involve transferring something TO a person, or doing it FOR a person. The Direct object is the thing that gets transferred or done or made. The Indirect ob ...
... S V IO DO sentence structure These verbs have 2 objects, an Indirect object and a Direct object. What’s the difference? Most ditransitive verbs involve transferring something TO a person, or doing it FOR a person. The Direct object is the thing that gets transferred or done or made. The Indirect ob ...
Linking Verbs
... follows a linking verb and renames or identifies the subject. *they are NOT in prepositional phrases* Ex: A lizard is a reptile. Predicate Noun = reptile because it tells what the subject (lizard) is. ...
... follows a linking verb and renames or identifies the subject. *they are NOT in prepositional phrases* Ex: A lizard is a reptile. Predicate Noun = reptile because it tells what the subject (lizard) is. ...
University of Calgary Press
... intransitives, with indirect objects, just as with those in (288). Verbal morphology shows anti-passives to be intransitives in that indices shift into an intransitive pattern and most roots take an intransitive suffix /+a-/ in the anti-passive if they end in /a/. The English translations in (293) a ...
... intransitives, with indirect objects, just as with those in (288). Verbal morphology shows anti-passives to be intransitives in that indices shift into an intransitive pattern and most roots take an intransitive suffix /+a-/ in the anti-passive if they end in /a/. The English translations in (293) a ...
this PDF file
... marker causes the addition of causer argument of Ayah who is doing something to make the fence roboh. On the other hand, the addition of marker {- kan} on transitive verb membeli does not make any causer argument but the existence of the benefited argument Dina in data (10a). The addition of marker ...
... marker causes the addition of causer argument of Ayah who is doing something to make the fence roboh. On the other hand, the addition of marker {- kan} on transitive verb membeli does not make any causer argument but the existence of the benefited argument Dina in data (10a). The addition of marker ...
Active, Middle, and Passive: Understanding Ancient Greek Voice 1
... “middle” but “middle-passive” and indicative of the fact that the grammatical subject is entering into a state or condition or action either on his own initiative or in response to some external stimulus or cause or even spontaneously. In the case of this particular verb it is perhaps worth noting ...
... “middle” but “middle-passive” and indicative of the fact that the grammatical subject is entering into a state or condition or action either on his own initiative or in response to some external stimulus or cause or even spontaneously. In the case of this particular verb it is perhaps worth noting ...
Do-Support in English: Historical Roots and Modern Usage
... of causative do, from the West Germanic root, don and before that from the Proto-IndoEuropean root, dhe, which means to put, place, do or make (Ellegard, p. 208). What did written English look like before do-support? The following chart provides “old” and “new” versions of the five basic, English se ...
... of causative do, from the West Germanic root, don and before that from the Proto-IndoEuropean root, dhe, which means to put, place, do or make (Ellegard, p. 208). What did written English look like before do-support? The following chart provides “old” and “new” versions of the five basic, English se ...
PowerPoint
... If the verb assigns accusative Case, there is an AgrOP, and below that a vP (B’s G) assigning an external q-role. Transitive active verbs have vP and AgrOP. Intransitive verbs don’t have AgrOP (they don’t assign accusative Case—there’s no object). Intransitive verbs can have vP though, if they assig ...
... If the verb assigns accusative Case, there is an AgrOP, and below that a vP (B’s G) assigning an external q-role. Transitive active verbs have vP and AgrOP. Intransitive verbs don’t have AgrOP (they don’t assign accusative Case—there’s no object). Intransitive verbs can have vP though, if they assig ...
Nominal Complements: Subjective and Objective Complements
... (3) Verbs of discovery or perception of a relationship between an object and its complement bolu ‘find, come across’ deyu ‘leave’ ìnnā ‘see’ Most verbs of types (1) and (2) can (at least optionally) use a phrase headed by b˘ ‘in the capacity of, in the guise of’ as the objective complement. For verb ...
... (3) Verbs of discovery or perception of a relationship between an object and its complement bolu ‘find, come across’ deyu ‘leave’ ìnnā ‘see’ Most verbs of types (1) and (2) can (at least optionally) use a phrase headed by b˘ ‘in the capacity of, in the guise of’ as the objective complement. For verb ...
Danish there-constructions with transitive verbs
... The there-construction has traditionally been discussed within the context of unaccusativity, claiming that the verbs that allow there-insertion are unaccusative verbs, cf. Burzio (1986). However, due to the observation that in certain languages, e.g. Scandinavian languages, unergative verbs with ag ...
... The there-construction has traditionally been discussed within the context of unaccusativity, claiming that the verbs that allow there-insertion are unaccusative verbs, cf. Burzio (1986). However, due to the observation that in certain languages, e.g. Scandinavian languages, unergative verbs with ag ...