CHAPTER FOUR: A CASE STUDY OF HAPPY, SAD, and UNHAPPY
... workers and/or a job which he has enjoyed. If the sentence is changed to On his last day of work, he said he felt unhappy about retiring, the interpretation changes. In this case, the speaker may be unhappy because he is being forced to retire against his wishes, or he may be feeling worried or unea ...
... workers and/or a job which he has enjoyed. If the sentence is changed to On his last day of work, he said he felt unhappy about retiring, the interpretation changes. In this case, the speaker may be unhappy because he is being forced to retire against his wishes, or he may be feeling worried or unea ...
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... This chapter will discuss nominal °projections that contain two nouns without it being obvious which of the two nouns is to be considered the head of the construction. Section 4.1 will discuss noun phrases of the type een paar boeken ‘a couple of books’, in which two nouns may occur adjacently, with ...
... This chapter will discuss nominal °projections that contain two nouns without it being obvious which of the two nouns is to be considered the head of the construction. Section 4.1 will discuss noun phrases of the type een paar boeken ‘a couple of books’, in which two nouns may occur adjacently, with ...
English suffixes: Stress-assignment properties, productivity
... Sp. Spanish Sw. Swedish US American English ...
... Sp. Spanish Sw. Swedish US American English ...
CONJUNCTIONS AND GRAMMATICAL AGREEMENT WHEN
... Corpus data and sentence production experiments were used to test hypotheses about the mechanisms involved in producing agreement. A search of American English sentences from the World Wide Web revealed that speakers often produce singular verbs with conjoined subjects (28% singular verbs overall), ...
... Corpus data and sentence production experiments were used to test hypotheses about the mechanisms involved in producing agreement. A search of American English sentences from the World Wide Web revealed that speakers often produce singular verbs with conjoined subjects (28% singular verbs overall), ...
Russian Deverbal Nouns - Dipòsit Digital de la UB
... Abstract This thesis presents a descriptive empirical study of deverbal nominalizations. Very often what can be expressed by means of a deverbal noun can also be expressed by means of a verbal construction and vice-versa. Deverbal nouns are hybrid categories that have a mixture of verbal and nomina ...
... Abstract This thesis presents a descriptive empirical study of deverbal nominalizations. Very often what can be expressed by means of a deverbal noun can also be expressed by means of a verbal construction and vice-versa. Deverbal nouns are hybrid categories that have a mixture of verbal and nomina ...
Ancient North Arabian
... and Safaitic. The discussion below will therefore concentrate mainly on these, with details from the others where they are available. The principal resource in the interpretation of the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions has always been the grammar and vocabulary of Classical Arabic and this has bee ...
... and Safaitic. The discussion below will therefore concentrate mainly on these, with details from the others where they are available. The principal resource in the interpretation of the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions has always been the grammar and vocabulary of Classical Arabic and this has bee ...
Feature Mismatches: Consequences for Syntax, Morphology and
... Grammatical gender systems are a famous place where the semantics of a noun does not match its morphological shape. As is well known, certain languages categorize nouns into distinct classes. These classes are more or less arbitrary, but often do have some internal semantic coherence. Systems of gra ...
... Grammatical gender systems are a famous place where the semantics of a noun does not match its morphological shape. As is well known, certain languages categorize nouns into distinct classes. These classes are more or less arbitrary, but often do have some internal semantic coherence. Systems of gra ...
Polish numerals and quantifiers: A syntactic analysis of subject‐verb
... Agreement is defined as the relationship between two elements in a sentence, where one of these elements determines the form of the second (controller and target, respectively, in Corbett (2006)’s system); a core example is subject-verb agreement, in which the verb manifests the features of the subj ...
... Agreement is defined as the relationship between two elements in a sentence, where one of these elements determines the form of the second (controller and target, respectively, in Corbett (2006)’s system); a core example is subject-verb agreement, in which the verb manifests the features of the subj ...
IRREGULAR VERBS
... friend/relative’, bereft is possible but it means ‘sad and lonely because you have lost sb’. Typically, bereaved is used before a noun or in the phrase the bereaved, bereft is used after a verb. In other meanings: bereft is used: The bereaved mother stood by her son's grave. His death in 1990 left h ...
... friend/relative’, bereft is possible but it means ‘sad and lonely because you have lost sb’. Typically, bereaved is used before a noun or in the phrase the bereaved, bereft is used after a verb. In other meanings: bereft is used: The bereaved mother stood by her son's grave. His death in 1990 left h ...
RELATIONAL NOUNS, PRONOUNS, AND RESUMPTIONw
... resumptive puzzle – a fact that is noticed and discussed by Jacobson herself (Jacobson 1999, p. 130). The difference between the two theories in this respect is traced to differing assumptions that they make about grammatical architecture. In particular, Glue Semantics assumes a level of semantic repr ...
... resumptive puzzle – a fact that is noticed and discussed by Jacobson herself (Jacobson 1999, p. 130). The difference between the two theories in this respect is traced to differing assumptions that they make about grammatical architecture. In particular, Glue Semantics assumes a level of semantic repr ...
Constructions with and without articles Henriëtte de Swart
... nouns that can appear in configurations like (7d), as long as it can get a ‘unit’ interpretation that per builds on to deliver the ‘each unit’ interpretation. The ‘with/without’ bare PPs in (7e, 8d) are a subclass of P-based bare PPs that establish a ‘have’ relation between the head noun and the com ...
... nouns that can appear in configurations like (7d), as long as it can get a ‘unit’ interpretation that per builds on to deliver the ‘each unit’ interpretation. The ‘with/without’ bare PPs in (7e, 8d) are a subclass of P-based bare PPs that establish a ‘have’ relation between the head noun and the com ...
Arabic in contact witih other languages
... analyses. Among other things, this problem affects discussions of the numbers and variable phonological nativization of loanwords, and it also hinders attempts to discover structural interference in those (relatively few) cases where one might expect to find some. But the lack of definitive answers ...
... analyses. Among other things, this problem affects discussions of the numbers and variable phonological nativization of loanwords, and it also hinders attempts to discover structural interference in those (relatively few) cases where one might expect to find some. But the lack of definitive answers ...
- 1 - Adpositions from nouns, one way or another Das war `ne heiße
... modifiability and determinability, loss of aspects of lexical (concrete, particular) meaning. The dependent within this phrase remains an NP, but its relationship to the head is reanalysed as that of a “complement”, from having been that of an “attribute”: one concomitant of this change is that com ...
... modifiability and determinability, loss of aspects of lexical (concrete, particular) meaning. The dependent within this phrase remains an NP, but its relationship to the head is reanalysed as that of a “complement”, from having been that of an “attribute”: one concomitant of this change is that com ...
PROBLEMS OF ADJECTIVE SEQUENCING IN ENGLISH
... excellent guidance, valuable remarks and his encouragement, have all been very significant to this study. It is through my supervisor that I was first introduced to the study and translation of adjective ordering, and subsequently became interested in this field of study. Special thanks must go to P ...
... excellent guidance, valuable remarks and his encouragement, have all been very significant to this study. It is through my supervisor that I was first introduced to the study and translation of adjective ordering, and subsequently became interested in this field of study. Special thanks must go to P ...
Cultural and linguistic guidelines for language evaluation of Arab
... children raised in the U.S. and the Arab world. Such differences may include but are not limited to: a child’s amount of exposure to Arabic, available formal teaching of Arabic, exposure to one or more of the various Arabic spoken dialects, and identity differences. In the first part of this resour ...
... children raised in the U.S. and the Arab world. Such differences may include but are not limited to: a child’s amount of exposure to Arabic, available formal teaching of Arabic, exposure to one or more of the various Arabic spoken dialects, and identity differences. In the first part of this resour ...
Semantics of Nouns and the Specification of
... to lexical category distinctions in the language. It is important to look at these issues since they form the basis of most of the earlier work done on this particular topic in Turkish. Then I turn to previous studies on the lexical categories in Turkish, paying particular attention to lexical expre ...
... to lexical category distinctions in the language. It is important to look at these issues since they form the basis of most of the earlier work done on this particular topic in Turkish. Then I turn to previous studies on the lexical categories in Turkish, paying particular attention to lexical expre ...
The Bamunka Noun Phrase
... research and with transcribing and interlinearising the texts that were used. I would also like to thank him for his contribution to the Introduction to this paper and for the significant giving of his time. I also wish to thank other colleagues and friends Kubenyi Victorine, Henry Bene Ntombong, Pa ...
... research and with transcribing and interlinearising the texts that were used. I would also like to thank him for his contribution to the Introduction to this paper and for the significant giving of his time. I also wish to thank other colleagues and friends Kubenyi Victorine, Henry Bene Ntombong, Pa ...
gradable and ungradable adjectives
... Little is mostly used in attributive position. We can say A nice little house, but we would probably say The house is small, not *The house is little. Compound adjectives like one-eyed are usually used attributively, and adjectives made from nouns (like sports, in a sports car) are also mostly used ...
... Little is mostly used in attributive position. We can say A nice little house, but we would probably say The house is small, not *The house is little. Compound adjectives like one-eyed are usually used attributively, and adjectives made from nouns (like sports, in a sports car) are also mostly used ...
1 - World Arabic Translators Association
... serving the learner of Arabic, should include both syntactical information and information based on parts of speech. Unless contextual information is given, a user must for example know if a given noun will be the object or the subject of the verb that collocates with it. It was also decided to trea ...
... serving the learner of Arabic, should include both syntactical information and information based on parts of speech. Unless contextual information is given, a user must for example know if a given noun will be the object or the subject of the verb that collocates with it. It was also decided to trea ...
Bare nouns in Persian: Interpretation, Grammar and
... objects. So, this existential closure would provide the necessary quantificational force for bare noun subjects as well. It is proposed that both subject and object originate within the VP, and can move out to the VP-external domain. The motivation for these movements are informational-structural in ...
... objects. So, this existential closure would provide the necessary quantificational force for bare noun subjects as well. It is proposed that both subject and object originate within the VP, and can move out to the VP-external domain. The motivation for these movements are informational-structural in ...
Lesson 12 | NTGreek In Session
... speech. Greek adjectives are inflected for each of the five cases, the three genders, and the two numbers. This makes it possible for any adjective to agree in grammatical concord with the substantive it modifies in case, gender, and number—like the article. The good news is that, because Greek adje ...
... speech. Greek adjectives are inflected for each of the five cases, the three genders, and the two numbers. This makes it possible for any adjective to agree in grammatical concord with the substantive it modifies in case, gender, and number—like the article. The good news is that, because Greek adje ...
Quantification in German
... German can cooccur with a (primarily definite) determiner. In this case, they (immediately) follow the determiner. In no case can such a quantifier word be preceded by an adjective in its phrase (but see §2.1.3 for peculiarities of numeral expressions). ...
... German can cooccur with a (primarily definite) determiner. In this case, they (immediately) follow the determiner. In no case can such a quantifier word be preceded by an adjective in its phrase (but see §2.1.3 for peculiarities of numeral expressions). ...
The Translation of English Collocations into Arabic
... The results show that 70% of the testees have not achieved the pass mark, whereas 30% of them have achieved it. Therefore, the results go with the hypothesis of the current paper. The main problem for students is to find the proper Arabic equivalent collocations. The solution, however, is not diffic ...
... The results show that 70% of the testees have not achieved the pass mark, whereas 30% of them have achieved it. Therefore, the results go with the hypothesis of the current paper. The main problem for students is to find the proper Arabic equivalent collocations. The solution, however, is not diffic ...
PPT - Department of information engineering and computer science
... class that accepts the addition of new items, through such processes as compounding, derivation, coining, borrowing, etc. Typical open word classes are nouns, verbs and adjectives. ...
... class that accepts the addition of new items, through such processes as compounding, derivation, coining, borrowing, etc. Typical open word classes are nouns, verbs and adjectives. ...