Inner aspect and telicity
... point, makes the meaning of the VP correspond to a real world phenomenon that we can describe as an event. If none of these two components are involved, the meaning of a VP describes a state. For this reason, many linguists use the terms events and states to refer to the corresponding types of meani ...
... point, makes the meaning of the VP correspond to a real world phenomenon that we can describe as an event. If none of these two components are involved, the meaning of a VP describes a state. For this reason, many linguists use the terms events and states to refer to the corresponding types of meani ...
The Syntax of Inner Aspect
... dissertation in their own way. Richard is clear about what he likes and what he does not, and he tells you. This is helpful for hardening the soft spots, and it has done so. The results of many of his suggestions have made for a more focused and clearly presented dissertation. John has supplied me w ...
... dissertation in their own way. Richard is clear about what he likes and what he does not, and he tells you. This is helpful for hardening the soft spots, and it has done so. The results of many of his suggestions have made for a more focused and clearly presented dissertation. John has supplied me w ...
Adverbs of time
... category is not as easy to define as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, since adverbs have many kinds meaning and form, and their grammar is quite complex. In meaning, adverbs express such ideas as manner, time and place (location or destination). Only manner adverbs have a recognizable form, most of the ...
... category is not as easy to define as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, since adverbs have many kinds meaning and form, and their grammar is quite complex. In meaning, adverbs express such ideas as manner, time and place (location or destination). Only manner adverbs have a recognizable form, most of the ...
Copyright by Ulf Hermjakob 1997 - Information Sciences Institute
... The parsing of unrestricted text, with its enormous lexical and structural ambiguity, still poses a great challenge in natural language processing. The diculties with traditional approaches, which try to master the complexity of parse grammars with hand-crafted rules, have led to a trend towards mo ...
... The parsing of unrestricted text, with its enormous lexical and structural ambiguity, still poses a great challenge in natural language processing. The diculties with traditional approaches, which try to master the complexity of parse grammars with hand-crafted rules, have led to a trend towards mo ...
Concepts of tense
... I chose tense as my research topic for very pragmatic reasons. During one of his typology classes – which I took during my first year of study – Seppo Kittilä, who would later become my supervisor, said that there has not been that much typological research on tense. I jotted down this information a ...
... I chose tense as my research topic for very pragmatic reasons. During one of his typology classes – which I took during my first year of study – Seppo Kittilä, who would later become my supervisor, said that there has not been that much typological research on tense. I jotted down this information a ...
Savchenko-master - DUO
... This research originated from the observation that cognates of even closely related languages such as Norwegian and English are far from stable in translation across the languages. The existence of close formal and semantic correspondences, such as from and fra, might give one the feeling that these ...
... This research originated from the observation that cognates of even closely related languages such as Norwegian and English are far from stable in translation across the languages. The existence of close formal and semantic correspondences, such as from and fra, might give one the feeling that these ...
Applying the Constraint Grammar Parser of English to the Helsinki
... recognising fixed syntagms in the BETA programming language (cf. Brodda 1990). The morphological analyser’s main component is a morphosyntactic lexicon designed according to Koskenniemi’s famous Two-level Model (Koskenniemi 1983). At present, the English lexicon ENGTWOL, which contains about 84,000 ...
... recognising fixed syntagms in the BETA programming language (cf. Brodda 1990). The morphological analyser’s main component is a morphosyntactic lexicon designed according to Koskenniemi’s famous Two-level Model (Koskenniemi 1983). At present, the English lexicon ENGTWOL, which contains about 84,000 ...
Lietuvių kalbos būtųjų laikų reikšmės ir jų atitikmenys anglų
... motion can be proceeded or discontinued; whereas, that is not possible with time. The change or the motion can continue faster or more slowly; and the speed of the action may be estimated by time; still, it is obvious that time can never be estimated by time. Even though time is typical to motion, i ...
... motion can be proceeded or discontinued; whereas, that is not possible with time. The change or the motion can continue faster or more slowly; and the speed of the action may be estimated by time; still, it is obvious that time can never be estimated by time. Even though time is typical to motion, i ...
Vilniaus universitetas Saulė Petronienė LIETUVIŲ KALBOS
... motion can be proceeded or discontinued; whereas, that is not possible with time. The change or the motion can continue faster or more slowly; and the speed of the action may be estimated by time; still, it is obvious that time can never be estimated by time. Even though time is typical to motion, i ...
... motion can be proceeded or discontinued; whereas, that is not possible with time. The change or the motion can continue faster or more slowly; and the speed of the action may be estimated by time; still, it is obvious that time can never be estimated by time. Even though time is typical to motion, i ...
DEICTIC AND ANAPHORIC TENSE IN KOREAN: A TWO
... situations have no bounds. In the same way, as Comrie (1985:H) points out, all human languages have ways of locating events in time,even though they may differ from one another. Cross-linguistically. the concept of time is represented by three main classes of expressions: 1) grammatical expressions ...
... situations have no bounds. In the same way, as Comrie (1985:H) points out, all human languages have ways of locating events in time,even though they may differ from one another. Cross-linguistically. the concept of time is represented by three main classes of expressions: 1) grammatical expressions ...
Syntax and Compositional Semantics of the Clause
... but not forms of verbs: broken, running Adverb (RB, RBR, RBS): rapidly, faster, fastest; often “____-ly” “It does it ______” Plus some special words: very, not, ... ...
... but not forms of verbs: broken, running Adverb (RB, RBR, RBS): rapidly, faster, fastest; often “____-ly” “It does it ______” Plus some special words: very, not, ... ...
(Popescu), Roxana-Iuliana, Coordination and
... logical - linguistic phenomena. The purpose of this thesis is to prove that there is an adequate common framework related to the description of the syntactic relations between sentences in language and that there are completions/adjuncts of some nuclei of a sentence which follow the logical structur ...
... logical - linguistic phenomena. The purpose of this thesis is to prove that there is an adequate common framework related to the description of the syntactic relations between sentences in language and that there are completions/adjuncts of some nuclei of a sentence which follow the logical structur ...
The semantics of existence
... commitment’.7 More precisely, there-sentences can quantify over past, merely possible, and merely intentional objects, objects that the predicate exist (or other existence predicates) could not be true of. This is particularly clear with NPs containing intensional or intentional adjectival or relati ...
... commitment’.7 More precisely, there-sentences can quantify over past, merely possible, and merely intentional objects, objects that the predicate exist (or other existence predicates) could not be true of. This is particularly clear with NPs containing intensional or intentional adjectival or relati ...
Using Conjunctions
... I am a highly motivated and diligent worker, so I should be considered for the job. Correlative conjunctions come in pairs and function like coordinating conjunctions to connect equal elements. The most common correlative conjunctions are either . . . or, neither . . . nor, not only . . . but also, ...
... I am a highly motivated and diligent worker, so I should be considered for the job. Correlative conjunctions come in pairs and function like coordinating conjunctions to connect equal elements. The most common correlative conjunctions are either . . . or, neither . . . nor, not only . . . but also, ...
对英语中歧义的初步研究
... Chapter one The Brief Introduction of Ambiguity 1.1 The definition of ambiguity Ambiguity is a common characteristic property of human language institute. Many people know the word –ambiguity and can realize the ambiguity phenomenon, but few people are able to clarify the definition of ambiguity exa ...
... Chapter one The Brief Introduction of Ambiguity 1.1 The definition of ambiguity Ambiguity is a common characteristic property of human language institute. Many people know the word –ambiguity and can realize the ambiguity phenomenon, but few people are able to clarify the definition of ambiguity exa ...
existence - Semantics Archive
... quantified sentences. There-sentences and quantificational sentences may involve a significantly greater domain of entities than what exist could be true of. This may suggest that exist is on a par with the adjectival predicate real, but in fact the two expressions are fundamentally different lingui ...
... quantified sentences. There-sentences and quantificational sentences may involve a significantly greater domain of entities than what exist could be true of. This may suggest that exist is on a par with the adjectival predicate real, but in fact the two expressions are fundamentally different lingui ...
On the Semantics of Existence Predicates
... There is a significant debate of how to analyse negative existentials with singular terms, while treating exist as a first-order predicate. On one view, the subject term in negative existentials is an empty term, exist expresses the trivial property everything has, and negation is taken to be extern ...
... There is a significant debate of how to analyse negative existentials with singular terms, while treating exist as a first-order predicate. On one view, the subject term in negative existentials is an empty term, exist expresses the trivial property everything has, and negation is taken to be extern ...
Existence - Semantics Archive
... There is a significant debate of how to analyse negative existentials with singular terms, while treating exist as a first-order predicate. On one view, the subject term in negative existentials is an empty term, exist expresses the trivial property everything has, and negation is taken to be extern ...
... There is a significant debate of how to analyse negative existentials with singular terms, while treating exist as a first-order predicate. On one view, the subject term in negative existentials is an empty term, exist expresses the trivial property everything has, and negation is taken to be extern ...
Collocation
... expresses some abstract relation, such combinations, as a rule, are quite obviously non-self-dependent; they are as it was, stamped as artificially isolated from the context. Cf.: in a low voice; with difficulty; must finish; but a moment; and Jimmy; too cold; so unexpectedly. We call these combinat ...
... expresses some abstract relation, such combinations, as a rule, are quite obviously non-self-dependent; they are as it was, stamped as artificially isolated from the context. Cf.: in a low voice; with difficulty; must finish; but a moment; and Jimmy; too cold; so unexpectedly. We call these combinat ...
Chapter 2: The problems with prepositions 0 Introduction
... Prepositions are a problematic category for two fundamental reasons. The first is a problem central to the definition of the category itself: what are the members of the category? The second is central to defining the syntactic nature of the category: how do they fit into the categorization of synta ...
... Prepositions are a problematic category for two fundamental reasons. The first is a problem central to the definition of the category itself: what are the members of the category? The second is central to defining the syntactic nature of the category: how do they fit into the categorization of synta ...
Prepositions and ESL Learners: the Malaysian Scenario
... prepositions with their multiple meanings which have been proposed by scholars could cause confusions to ESL learners on the starting point to learn prepositions. Even though the prepositional meanings have been looked into in the interest of space, place or location, their meanings have been howeve ...
... prepositions with their multiple meanings which have been proposed by scholars could cause confusions to ESL learners on the starting point to learn prepositions. Even though the prepositional meanings have been looked into in the interest of space, place or location, their meanings have been howeve ...
Full Text - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
... connections must be found. This is not the case for the whole sentence (4); so (7) has another domain for the interpretation of pronouns than (4). For this reason, the statement made with (4) cannot be considered as just a conjunction of two independent statements: somehow the meaning of the first p ...
... connections must be found. This is not the case for the whole sentence (4); so (7) has another domain for the interpretation of pronouns than (4). For this reason, the statement made with (4) cannot be considered as just a conjunction of two independent statements: somehow the meaning of the first p ...
An Evaluation of Microsoft Word 97’s Grammar Checker
... agreement errors as other types of errors. In both of the following sentences, it detects a comma error, not a subject-verb agreement error. Grammar Checker incorrectly suggests removing the commas following the highlighted words. ...
... agreement errors as other types of errors. In both of the following sentences, it detects a comma error, not a subject-verb agreement error. Grammar Checker incorrectly suggests removing the commas following the highlighted words. ...
Robust Handling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words in
... Classifier accuracy over all verb tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Classifier accuracy over top-n verb types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 SVM-TK accuracy over top-n verb types, predicted features . . 93 Cumulative size of datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Accuracy of sequentia ...
... Classifier accuracy over all verb tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Classifier accuracy over top-n verb types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 SVM-TK accuracy over top-n verb types, predicted features . . 93 Cumulative size of datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Accuracy of sequentia ...
ENGLISH GRAMMAR, TENSES Tenses
... Present Perfect Tense I have sung 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 si ...
... Present Perfect Tense I have sung 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 si ...