double case constructions in Koine Greek - Journal of Greco
... understand how these constructions are derived, we must first recognize how participles work in double case constructions. The standard grammars typically acknowledge that participles can occur in double case constructions. 15 They do not, however, tend to highlight how common such constructions are ...
... understand how these constructions are derived, we must first recognize how participles work in double case constructions. The standard grammars typically acknowledge that participles can occur in double case constructions. 15 They do not, however, tend to highlight how common such constructions are ...
Quantification in German
... and midfield, and in particular of the various constituents within the midfield correspond to notions of scope and c-command (as evidenced e.g. by binding possibilities): i.e. in general, material more to the left takes scope over and binds into material more to the right. In a neutral sentence, the ...
... and midfield, and in particular of the various constituents within the midfield correspond to notions of scope and c-command (as evidenced e.g. by binding possibilities): i.e. in general, material more to the left takes scope over and binds into material more to the right. In a neutral sentence, the ...
The Double-O Constraints in Japanese* William J. Poser
... be the direct object of “beat” or the causee. But in fact, only one interpretation is possible, that on which the missing NP is the causee. This is because the missing NP can be taken to be dative, which is a possible case for the causee. For the missing NP to be the direct object of “beat”, it woul ...
... be the direct object of “beat” or the causee. But in fact, only one interpretation is possible, that on which the missing NP is the causee. This is because the missing NP can be taken to be dative, which is a possible case for the causee. For the missing NP to be the direct object of “beat”, it woul ...
Partitives A workshop at SLE 43
... nominative.We argue that the opposition between the partitive and the accusative or the nominative does not coincide with the opposition between definite and indefinite NPs, since the accusative and the nominative can give rise to both interpretations. The genitive NP emphasises quantity, while the ...
... nominative.We argue that the opposition between the partitive and the accusative or the nominative does not coincide with the opposition between definite and indefinite NPs, since the accusative and the nominative can give rise to both interpretations. The genitive NP emphasises quantity, while the ...
Phonological and Phonetic Effects of Minor Phrase
... 2.1. The experimental materials Experimental materials involved 5-word sentences in which the third noun varied in length from 3 to 7 syllables/moras; the syllables were all monomoraic CV. All other nouns in the sentence were consistently 5 moras long. N3 appeared in two distinct syntactic contexts: ...
... 2.1. The experimental materials Experimental materials involved 5-word sentences in which the third noun varied in length from 3 to 7 syllables/moras; the syllables were all monomoraic CV. All other nouns in the sentence were consistently 5 moras long. N3 appeared in two distinct syntactic contexts: ...
Topics in Corpus-Based Dutch Syntax Beek, Leonoor Johanneke
... order of the arguments,2 Dutch has two separate alternations: one between NP and PP recipients and one between the canonical and non-canonical word order. This results in a total of four different realizations for ditransitive verbs, which give us the opportunity to study the two alternations separa ...
... order of the arguments,2 Dutch has two separate alternations: one between NP and PP recipients and one between the canonical and non-canonical word order. This results in a total of four different realizations for ditransitive verbs, which give us the opportunity to study the two alternations separa ...
Commentary on Historia Apollonii regis Tyri
... exerrauerat: "had been at fault" (intensive form of errauerat). nisi quod: "except (for the fact) that." statuerat: "it had constituted, it had made." 3.Quae: connecting relative. The relative is .the equivale�t of a demonstrative pronoun or adjective plus weak connecuve sense (which can rarely be r ...
... exerrauerat: "had been at fault" (intensive form of errauerat). nisi quod: "except (for the fact) that." statuerat: "it had constituted, it had made." 3.Quae: connecting relative. The relative is .the equivale�t of a demonstrative pronoun or adjective plus weak connecuve sense (which can rarely be r ...
The use of gaan+ infinitive in narratives of older bilingual children of
... In this paper, I will focus on the use of the verbal cluster gaan+infinitive ‘go’ in Dutch jokes told by bilingual children aged between 6 and 13 years of Turkish and Moroccan descent. The children told these jokes at the so-called Salaam Lombok, a multicultural market which is held every year aroun ...
... In this paper, I will focus on the use of the verbal cluster gaan+infinitive ‘go’ in Dutch jokes told by bilingual children aged between 6 and 13 years of Turkish and Moroccan descent. The children told these jokes at the so-called Salaam Lombok, a multicultural market which is held every year aroun ...
Locally Bound 3rd-Person Pronouns in Afrikaans
... why local binding of (3rd-person) pronouns is crosslinguistically rare, but is not ruled out entirely. This is the theory adopted in this thesis and my goal is to see whether the binding behavior of pronouns in Afrikaans can be explained within this theory. This thesis is organized as follows: In se ...
... why local binding of (3rd-person) pronouns is crosslinguistically rare, but is not ruled out entirely. This is the theory adopted in this thesis and my goal is to see whether the binding behavior of pronouns in Afrikaans can be explained within this theory. This thesis is organized as follows: In se ...
`Genitive Absolute` in New Testament/Hellenistic Greek
... going to introduce the noun/pronoun of the GA later in the sentence.15 This is unlikely, given the many examples we have from written work that obviously was done carefully. If this happened to an author, he or she had only to make a small correction. It appears more likely that authors actually int ...
... going to introduce the noun/pronoun of the GA later in the sentence.15 This is unlikely, given the many examples we have from written work that obviously was done carefully. If this happened to an author, he or she had only to make a small correction. It appears more likely that authors actually int ...
is case a functional unit: latin genitive
... noun phrase, which is obviously impossible. In brief to set up a unitary theory, we must not implicitly change criteria and surreptitiously switch from a syntactic relationship to a semantic relationship. If Benveniste is right to say that “the relationship set up between aedes and regis remains un ...
... noun phrase, which is obviously impossible. In brief to set up a unitary theory, we must not implicitly change criteria and surreptitiously switch from a syntactic relationship to a semantic relationship. If Benveniste is right to say that “the relationship set up between aedes and regis remains un ...
Covert nominative and dative subjects in Faroese∗
... There were three sentence pairs in the judgment task involving the verbs dáma ‘like’ and mangla ‘lack’. The informants were presented with three examples of the first verb, shown in (3) below, one with a nominative subject and two with a dative subject. The first dative example was without agreement ...
... There were three sentence pairs in the judgment task involving the verbs dáma ‘like’ and mangla ‘lack’. The informants were presented with three examples of the first verb, shown in (3) below, one with a nominative subject and two with a dative subject. The first dative example was without agreement ...
Case checking vs. case assignment and the case of adverbial NPs
... The descriptive generalization is that GQ overrides structural (2), but not inherent Case (4). There are many analyses of the basic GQ paradigm in the literature. Most authors assume that the reason why GQ overrides structural accusative in constructions like (2) is that the GQ assigner, the numeral ...
... The descriptive generalization is that GQ overrides structural (2), but not inherent Case (4). There are many analyses of the basic GQ paradigm in the literature. Most authors assume that the reason why GQ overrides structural accusative in constructions like (2) is that the GQ assigner, the numeral ...
CLITICS, SCRAMBLING, AND HEAD MOVEMENT IN DUTCH
... stressed, modified, conjoined, used in isolation, or topicalized appears to be related to their status as ‘weak' elements, since the English reduced pronouns behave exactly like special clitics in these tests.7 Nevertheless, it may very well turn out to be the case that the weak pronouns in French a ...
... stressed, modified, conjoined, used in isolation, or topicalized appears to be related to their status as ‘weak' elements, since the English reduced pronouns behave exactly like special clitics in these tests.7 Nevertheless, it may very well turn out to be the case that the weak pronouns in French a ...
Possessives and relational nouns
... edge of a full DP ([the man]’s hat, [every man]’s hat, [the Queen of England ]’s hat, [the person I was just talking to]’s hat, etc.). Because a possessive is itself a DP, possessives can be nested arbitrarily deep (John’s friend’s mother’s ... lawyer’s brother ). Although English once had a robust ...
... edge of a full DP ([the man]’s hat, [every man]’s hat, [the Queen of England ]’s hat, [the person I was just talking to]’s hat, etc.). Because a possessive is itself a DP, possessives can be nested arbitrarily deep (John’s friend’s mother’s ... lawyer’s brother ). Although English once had a robust ...
The Latin Alphabet
... because English does not make much use of inflection. Still, improper inflection hinders meaning and sounds funny ("All our base are belong to us"). Latin, on the other hand, uses inflection very effectively, and this is the major thing you will have to learn. Welsh, you might be interested in knowi ...
... because English does not make much use of inflection. Still, improper inflection hinders meaning and sounds funny ("All our base are belong to us"). Latin, on the other hand, uses inflection very effectively, and this is the major thing you will have to learn. Welsh, you might be interested in knowi ...
HIERARCHIES AND COMPETING GENERALIZATIONS IN SERBO
... No conflicts arise in finite verbs, which do not agree in case, or in attributive adjectives, which cannot agree with an expression bearing a marked person value. Most prominent among the forms in which this conflict occurs are pronouns, which are the word classes in Serbo-Croatian that show both ca ...
... No conflicts arise in finite verbs, which do not agree in case, or in attributive adjectives, which cannot agree with an expression bearing a marked person value. Most prominent among the forms in which this conflict occurs are pronouns, which are the word classes in Serbo-Croatian that show both ca ...
German Grammar in English for International Students
... 4.3.4.1 Simple verbs indicating goal or location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.4.2 Static and dynamic verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.4.3 Ellipsis of the verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.4.4 Prepositional case with adj ...
... 4.3.4.1 Simple verbs indicating goal or location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.4.2 Static and dynamic verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.4.3 Ellipsis of the verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.4.4 Prepositional case with adj ...
NOMINATIVE
... Because words are marked with cases, there is no need for a nominative subject to be the first item in a sentence, as in English. The thing that identifies the subject is its nominative case, not its position; no matter where it is, it can be identified as nominative and therefore subject. As we wil ...
... Because words are marked with cases, there is no need for a nominative subject to be the first item in a sentence, as in English. The thing that identifies the subject is its nominative case, not its position; no matter where it is, it can be identified as nominative and therefore subject. As we wil ...
1998 - Henk van Riemsdijk
... connection between the categorial status of a head and that of the phrasal node characterizing the phrase that it is the head of. The first of these is problematic in certain ways, but that is not the topic of the present article.2 The second one is in dire need of reexamination in view of the intro ...
... connection between the categorial status of a head and that of the phrasal node characterizing the phrase that it is the head of. The first of these is problematic in certain ways, but that is not the topic of the present article.2 The second one is in dire need of reexamination in view of the intro ...
The Finnish Accusative: Long Distance Case Assignment by ϕ
... has three morphological variants: the true accusative suffix (-t or ACC(t)), the accusative lacking a suffix and thus identical to the nominative (-0 or ACC(0)), and the accusative that is homophonous with the genitive (-n or ACC(n)). An example of each is provided in (1a–c).3 ...
... has three morphological variants: the true accusative suffix (-t or ACC(t)), the accusative lacking a suffix and thus identical to the nominative (-0 or ACC(0)), and the accusative that is homophonous with the genitive (-n or ACC(n)). An example of each is provided in (1a–c).3 ...
Unmarked Case
... [i]t is a curious fact, hitherto overlooked by grammarians and logicians, that the definition of the noun applies strictly only to the nominative case. The oblique cases are really attribute-words, and inflexion is practically nothing but a device for turning a noun into an adjective or an adverb. ...
... [i]t is a curious fact, hitherto overlooked by grammarians and logicians, that the definition of the noun applies strictly only to the nominative case. The oblique cases are really attribute-words, and inflexion is practically nothing but a device for turning a noun into an adjective or an adverb. ...
Yearbook of Morphology
... urbs:urbem = one word, with forms semantically identical, syntactically different" (Kurytowicz 1964: 17) ...
... urbs:urbem = one word, with forms semantically identical, syntactically different" (Kurytowicz 1964: 17) ...
Lesson 12 | NTGreek In Session
... example, various adjectives can make the noun dog more specific. A speckled dog adds a quality. This young small speckled Dalmatian dog adds even more detail to differentiate it from possible other dogs. An adjective is identified by its function or position in a sentence. Most adjectives can come b ...
... example, various adjectives can make the noun dog more specific. A speckled dog adds a quality. This young small speckled Dalmatian dog adds even more detail to differentiate it from possible other dogs. An adjective is identified by its function or position in a sentence. Most adjectives can come b ...
The Case for Case - UC Berkeley Linguistics
... interpretations to the verb–object relation in these two sentences has no connection, we might feel, with a correct description of the specifically syntactical skills of a speaker of English. The distinction does have syntactic relevance, however. The effectum object, for example, does not permit in ...
... interpretations to the verb–object relation in these two sentences has no connection, we might feel, with a correct description of the specifically syntactical skills of a speaker of English. The distinction does have syntactic relevance, however. The effectum object, for example, does not permit in ...