journal of linguistics
... Bally's 'syntagme bloque'. She exemplifies them in the Serbo-Croatian verb system, where the present is the 'unmarked category'. 'This means that, in principle, the present form may be used for denoting the time being as well as the past or future. In the standard SC (Serbo-Croatian) grammars, which ...
... Bally's 'syntagme bloque'. She exemplifies them in the Serbo-Croatian verb system, where the present is the 'unmarked category'. 'This means that, in principle, the present form may be used for denoting the time being as well as the past or future. In the standard SC (Serbo-Croatian) grammars, which ...
Progressive Aspect - Západočeská univerzita
... This bachelor thesis deals with the progressive aspect. Its main aim is to study the progressive aspect and its use in the English language. It also analyses the occurrence of this aspect in different selected texts and compares these texts with each other concerning the progressive aspect. Four typ ...
... This bachelor thesis deals with the progressive aspect. Its main aim is to study the progressive aspect and its use in the English language. It also analyses the occurrence of this aspect in different selected texts and compares these texts with each other concerning the progressive aspect. Four typ ...
The Use of Frameworks in Teaching Tense
... Whatever the approach, be it Behaviourist or Functional/Notional, whether argued for or against, Grammar seems to be a central issue. Although it can go under different names, there is a real fascination, both on the teacher’s and the student’s behalf, for its enigmas. Not only do we as teachers sen ...
... Whatever the approach, be it Behaviourist or Functional/Notional, whether argued for or against, Grammar seems to be a central issue. Although it can go under different names, there is a real fascination, both on the teacher’s and the student’s behalf, for its enigmas. Not only do we as teachers sen ...
Irish English Habitual `DO BE`: More on Origins and Use
... 1. Defining the topic of present habitual marking Present habitual marking [in Irish English] has been investigated and described by numerous researchers over the years. Amongst these are Henry (1957), Harris (1986), Kallen (1989), Filppula (1999), Fiess (2003) and Hickey (2007). Throughout this pap ...
... 1. Defining the topic of present habitual marking Present habitual marking [in Irish English] has been investigated and described by numerous researchers over the years. Amongst these are Henry (1957), Harris (1986), Kallen (1989), Filppula (1999), Fiess (2003) and Hickey (2007). Throughout this pap ...
Vietnamese is a perfect
... year 1980 Obi-Wan ∅ say that Luke ∅ live on Tatooine year 1977 ‘In 1980, Obi-Wan said that Luke lived on Tatooine in 1977.’ (Lit.: ‘In 1980, Obi-Wan says / said that Luke lives / lived on Tatooine in 1977.’) This is one of the cases showing that the presence of da is not obligatory in Vietnamese cla ...
... year 1980 Obi-Wan ∅ say that Luke ∅ live on Tatooine year 1977 ‘In 1980, Obi-Wan said that Luke lived on Tatooine in 1977.’ (Lit.: ‘In 1980, Obi-Wan says / said that Luke lives / lived on Tatooine in 1977.’) This is one of the cases showing that the presence of da is not obligatory in Vietnamese cla ...
Laura A. Michaelis University of Colorado at Boulder Proceedings of
... The progressive main clause in (5) entails that card playing was going on prior to her arrival. This entailment is analogous to that of the stative main clause in (6): sleeping was going on prior to her arrival. Sentence (7) contains a perfective main clause. Accordingly, it does not denote a situat ...
... The progressive main clause in (5) entails that card playing was going on prior to her arrival. This entailment is analogous to that of the stative main clause in (6): sleeping was going on prior to her arrival. Sentence (7) contains a perfective main clause. Accordingly, it does not denote a situat ...
Chapter 4: THE PRESENT PERFECT AND THE PAST PERFECT
... introductory overview of the two tenses. Some students may not be familiar with the use of have as an auxiliary verb. Most students at this level find these two verb tenses difficult to understand and use. ANSWERS: 2. am 3. am studying 4. have been 5. arrived 6. began 7. came 8. have done [If studen ...
... introductory overview of the two tenses. Some students may not be familiar with the use of have as an auxiliary verb. Most students at this level find these two verb tenses difficult to understand and use. ANSWERS: 2. am 3. am studying 4. have been 5. arrived 6. began 7. came 8. have done [If studen ...
To be or not to be elided: VP ellipsis revisited
... A-Ha PERF PROG PASS mother put.up hair ‘A-Ha is having her hair put up (on her) by her mother.’ ...
... A-Ha PERF PROG PASS mother put.up hair ‘A-Ha is having her hair put up (on her) by her mother.’ ...
On the aspectual uses of the prefix be- in lithuanian
... base, cf. atidaryti langą ‘open a window’ ~ atidar‑inė‑ti langus ‘to open windows one after another’. The crucial difference between verbs I call ‘telic’ and those I call ‘punctual with a presupposed process’ lies in the fact that only the former, but not the latter, are able to express the process ...
... base, cf. atidaryti langą ‘open a window’ ~ atidar‑inė‑ti langus ‘to open windows one after another’. The crucial difference between verbs I call ‘telic’ and those I call ‘punctual with a presupposed process’ lies in the fact that only the former, but not the latter, are able to express the process ...
On Nigerian Pidgin - Michigan State University
... language seem to engender more questions than answers. Nonetheless, what cannot be disputed is the idea that NP is a bona fide Nigerian language (Mafeni 1971, Omamor 1982). According to Elugbe and Omamor (1991), there is a standard NP spoken in Warri and Sapele areas of former Bendel state, now Edo ...
... language seem to engender more questions than answers. Nonetheless, what cannot be disputed is the idea that NP is a bona fide Nigerian language (Mafeni 1971, Omamor 1982). According to Elugbe and Omamor (1991), there is a standard NP spoken in Warri and Sapele areas of former Bendel state, now Edo ...
Situation entity types (annotation manual).
... In the literature on linguistics and in the literature on the grammar of the English language, several terms are used with different meanings in various contexts. This section aims to provide for a common understanding of terminology among the annotators involved in this project. Utterance An uttera ...
... In the literature on linguistics and in the literature on the grammar of the English language, several terms are used with different meanings in various contexts. This section aims to provide for a common understanding of terminology among the annotators involved in this project. Utterance An uttera ...
verbal prefixes and suffixes in nominalization - FRITT
... This Corpus was used to form two research samples of nominalizations, based on different principles: Sample 1 “from verb to nominalization”, and Sample 2 “nominalizations as they are”. In both cases I chose only event nominalizations, i.e. deverbal nominals referring to more or less the same situati ...
... This Corpus was used to form two research samples of nominalizations, based on different principles: Sample 1 “from verb to nominalization”, and Sample 2 “nominalizations as they are”. In both cases I chose only event nominalizations, i.e. deverbal nominals referring to more or less the same situati ...
ENGLISH GRAMMAR, TENSES Tenses
... The present perfect tense is a rather important tense in English, but it gives speakers of some languages a difficult time. That is because it uses concepts or ideas that do not exist in those languages. In fact, the structure of the present perfect tense is very simple. The problems come with the u ...
... The present perfect tense is a rather important tense in English, but it gives speakers of some languages a difficult time. That is because it uses concepts or ideas that do not exist in those languages. In fact, the structure of the present perfect tense is very simple. The problems come with the u ...
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... Irish appears to be essentially an SVO language, like French. Verbs and auxiliaries raise past the subject to yield VSO. We can analyze the Irish pattern as being minimally different from our existing analysis of French— just one difference, which we hypothesize is another parametric difference betw ...
... Irish appears to be essentially an SVO language, like French. Verbs and auxiliaries raise past the subject to yield VSO. We can analyze the Irish pattern as being minimally different from our existing analysis of French— just one difference, which we hypothesize is another parametric difference betw ...
Translating English Perfect Tenses into Arabic
... The two translations of all the sentences are compared and analyzed in terms of syntactic and semantic features. A frequency count of the various translations of English perfect tenses and their percentages is performed to explain the ways in which these tenses are rendered into Arabic. Then, the co ...
... The two translations of all the sentences are compared and analyzed in terms of syntactic and semantic features. A frequency count of the various translations of English perfect tenses and their percentages is performed to explain the ways in which these tenses are rendered into Arabic. Then, the co ...
Chapter 3: PERFECT AND PERFECT PROGRESSIVE TENSES
... • Compare the examples with the present progressive. (See Chart 2-2.) Explain that both tenses deal with actions in progress, but that the present progressive simply states that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking, while the present perfect progressive gives the duration up to now of ...
... • Compare the examples with the present progressive. (See Chart 2-2.) Explain that both tenses deal with actions in progress, but that the present progressive simply states that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking, while the present perfect progressive gives the duration up to now of ...
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... The copy of V is adjoined to v. v The original v is replaced by the syntactic object formed by Adjoining the copy of V v to v. If v has a [uV*] feature, this puts V close enough to v to check that feature. This is v VP V why we move V. eat [uV*, …] Note: This appears to make a change NP
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... The copy of V is adjoined to v. v The original v is replaced by the syntactic object formed by Adjoining the copy of V v to v. If v has a [uV*] feature, this puts V close enough to v to check that feature. This is v VP V why we move V. eat [uV*, …] Note: This appears to make a change
Any student of Russian as a foreign language has been faced with
... Biaspectual Verbs and Their Implications for the Category of Aspect in Russian Verbal aspect is one of the most unique characteristics of the Slavic languages, and one of the most difficult concepts for non-native speakers to grasp. Conceptualizing this category within Russian (and other Slavic lan ...
... Biaspectual Verbs and Their Implications for the Category of Aspect in Russian Verbal aspect is one of the most unique characteristics of the Slavic languages, and one of the most difficult concepts for non-native speakers to grasp. Conceptualizing this category within Russian (and other Slavic lan ...
Temporal Anteriority of the Arabic Perfect in Relative Clauses
... Dahlgren‘s (2005:155) grammar include a paragraph on the Imperfect in relative clauses (‖Användning av imperfect i ...
... Dahlgren‘s (2005:155) grammar include a paragraph on the Imperfect in relative clauses (‖Användning av imperfect i ...
Time and Tense in English - Association for Computational Linguistics
... However, when Sunday is used in a sentence, we can determine whether we mean a past, present, or future Sunday. Durational adverbials can also be easily represented (somewhat like the definition of Sunday). There are other adverbials which like clock calendar adverbials are not interpretted with res ...
... However, when Sunday is used in a sentence, we can determine whether we mean a past, present, or future Sunday. Durational adverbials can also be easily represented (somewhat like the definition of Sunday). There are other adverbials which like clock calendar adverbials are not interpretted with res ...
University of Groningen Time reference decoupled from tense
... During the last couple of years, agrammatic speakers of several languages have been studied to test the PADILIH and the predictions of the PADILIH have been compared with findings from others. The data are summarized below. Experimental evidence for the PADILIH in agrammatism There is cross-linguist ...
... During the last couple of years, agrammatic speakers of several languages have been studied to test the PADILIH and the predictions of the PADILIH have been compared with findings from others. The data are summarized below. Experimental evidence for the PADILIH in agrammatism There is cross-linguist ...
Explaining the (A)telicity Property of English Verb Phrases
... the street) is best seen as a study of lexical aspect, that part of aspect that is determined by the verbal heads (Vendler; Dowty “Word Meaning”; Smith, Rothstein “Derived accomplishments”). It has also been argued that states and activities may be taken as atelic (unbounded) predicates and achievem ...
... the street) is best seen as a study of lexical aspect, that part of aspect that is determined by the verbal heads (Vendler; Dowty “Word Meaning”; Smith, Rothstein “Derived accomplishments”). It has also been argued that states and activities may be taken as atelic (unbounded) predicates and achievem ...
Inalienable Possession and Locative Aspect
... The difference between French and English with respect to IP would be reduced to a difference in the status of the definite article: the definite determiner in English is always [+R], whereas it is [±R] in French. In previous work, I proposed that the definite determiner is not a pronoun in English. ...
... The difference between French and English with respect to IP would be reduced to a difference in the status of the definite article: the definite determiner in English is always [+R], whereas it is [±R] in French. In previous work, I proposed that the definite determiner is not a pronoun in English. ...
Prefixes and the Delimitation of Events*
... Prefixes and the Delimitation of Events* Hana Filip ...
... Prefixes and the Delimitation of Events* Hana Filip ...
english verb tenses for spanish speakers
... In this course we are not focusing on verb conjugations because you can find them everywhere on the internet, but instead we are focusing on the 16 English verb tenses. But before we go on to the next verb tense, we will review the verb “to be” in English because you will need it when forming the ne ...
... In this course we are not focusing on verb conjugations because you can find them everywhere on the internet, but instead we are focusing on the 16 English verb tenses. But before we go on to the next verb tense, we will review the verb “to be” in English because you will need it when forming the ne ...