PPT_week_8
... How would you form a noun from these adjectives meaning ‘the state of being X’ (where X refers to the quality expressed in the adjective) choosing between one of the suffixes -th, -ness, and -ity. Did you use one of the three far more or far less often than the other(s)? Can you come up with an expl ...
... How would you form a noun from these adjectives meaning ‘the state of being X’ (where X refers to the quality expressed in the adjective) choosing between one of the suffixes -th, -ness, and -ity. Did you use one of the three far more or far less often than the other(s)? Can you come up with an expl ...
NEW SECOND STEPS IN LATIN
... In New Second Steps, the student’s syntactical horizon expands. The various pronouns, complementary infinitives, and indirect statement make longer, more complex, and more idiomatic sentences possible. Additional genitive, dative, and ablative constructions and subordinating conjunctions also allow t ...
... In New Second Steps, the student’s syntactical horizon expands. The various pronouns, complementary infinitives, and indirect statement make longer, more complex, and more idiomatic sentences possible. Additional genitive, dative, and ablative constructions and subordinating conjunctions also allow t ...
Preposition doubling in Flemish and its implications for the syntax of
... probe upstairs: PDir has a feature [directional], which PLoc does not have (directionality versus non-directionality is a privative opposition). PDir is thus a proper featural superset of its complement: it subsumes the features that its complement has, and adds directionality to it. The defecti ...
... probe upstairs: PDir has a feature [directional], which PLoc does not have (directionality versus non-directionality is a privative opposition). PDir is thus a proper featural superset of its complement: it subsumes the features that its complement has, and adds directionality to it. The defecti ...
Case Selection for the Direct Object in Russian Negative Clauses. Part
... As stylistic factors seem to have an influence on case usage, it is important that the material should contain typologically different texts. We selected texts representing four styles (cf. Zasorina 1977): plays, prose fiction, journalistic texts, and scholarly texts (for further details, see 1.4. b ...
... As stylistic factors seem to have an influence on case usage, it is important that the material should contain typologically different texts. We selected texts representing four styles (cf. Zasorina 1977): plays, prose fiction, journalistic texts, and scholarly texts (for further details, see 1.4. b ...
Extraction with deep anaphora?
... Extraction with deep anaphora? The role of VP external orphans Enrico Boone and Anikó Lipták (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) 1. The issue Since Hankamer and Sag (1976), anaphora is classified in two basic types: syntactically atomic deep anaphora and fully articulated surface anaphora con ...
... Extraction with deep anaphora? The role of VP external orphans Enrico Boone and Anikó Lipták (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) 1. The issue Since Hankamer and Sag (1976), anaphora is classified in two basic types: syntactically atomic deep anaphora and fully articulated surface anaphora con ...
Test Packet - Veritas Press
... Most of the chapter tests require students to provide a complete dictionary entry for each of the vocabulary words. This means that students will need to supply endings, gender, and translation as appropriate. Students may provide derivatives that vary from what is provided in the answer key. To che ...
... Most of the chapter tests require students to provide a complete dictionary entry for each of the vocabulary words. This means that students will need to supply endings, gender, and translation as appropriate. Students may provide derivatives that vary from what is provided in the answer key. To che ...
On the syntax of locative and directional adpositional phrases
... thinking about adpositions.1 By showing that there is quite a bit more to the structure of the PP than had previously been assumed,2 giving P a full-fledged functional extended projection, Koopman explicitly assimilated P to the uncontroversial lexical categories A, N and V, thereby making P a thoro ...
... thinking about adpositions.1 By showing that there is quite a bit more to the structure of the PP than had previously been assumed,2 giving P a full-fledged functional extended projection, Koopman explicitly assimilated P to the uncontroversial lexical categories A, N and V, thereby making P a thoro ...
FLOATING QUANTIFIERS, PARTITIVES AND DISTRIBUTIVITY
... quantifiers such as every student or most teachers on a par with prototypical argument expressions such as proper names and pronouns (following Montague's (1973) innovation to employ 'lifted' types <,t> for proper names and other referring terms). At the same time,
it must also be acknowledged ...
... quantifiers such as every student or most teachers on a par with prototypical argument expressions such as proper names and pronouns (following Montague's (1973) innovation to employ 'lifted' types <
Feature Mismatches: Consequences for Syntax, Morphology and
... much of an injustice that is to various other people, who have all contributed but without getting any of the credit.1 I must first thank the members of my committee, who have guided me through not just the dissertation, but the entirety of the last five years. Jonathan has been a fantastic major ad ...
... much of an injustice that is to various other people, who have all contributed but without getting any of the credit.1 I must first thank the members of my committee, who have guided me through not just the dissertation, but the entirety of the last five years. Jonathan has been a fantastic major ad ...
Morphosyntactic Convergence and Integration in Finland
... with the verb morphology ..................................................................136 4.1.3. The Finnish partitive and the Russian genitive as subject ...........137 The Finnish partitive of the subject in affirmation.............................137 Some language-specific cases of external ...
... with the verb morphology ..................................................................136 4.1.3. The Finnish partitive and the Russian genitive as subject ...........137 The Finnish partitive of the subject in affirmation.............................137 Some language-specific cases of external ...
University of Groningen Data-driven identification of fixed
... component lexemes. The idiomatic meaning of Pat spilled the beans is not the result of combining the meaning of the words in the sentence in a cumulative way. Provided spill and beans occur within the appropriate syntactic context, the idiomatic meaning ‘to reveal the secret’ is ‘triggered’, and not ...
... component lexemes. The idiomatic meaning of Pat spilled the beans is not the result of combining the meaning of the words in the sentence in a cumulative way. Provided spill and beans occur within the appropriate syntactic context, the idiomatic meaning ‘to reveal the secret’ is ‘triggered’, and not ...
2 The Dative Case
... some words, so you suggest flowerpot, mud puddle, and refrigerator. Then the leader of the game reads the story: “Philanthropists are people who like to help flowerpots. Some of them are very gullible and will believe every mud puddle they meet. These do-gooders will even give a refrigerator their l ...
... some words, so you suggest flowerpot, mud puddle, and refrigerator. Then the leader of the game reads the story: “Philanthropists are people who like to help flowerpots. Some of them are very gullible and will believe every mud puddle they meet. These do-gooders will even give a refrigerator their l ...
The pronominal clitic of quantified noun phrases in Slovenian
... restricted with parameter (2). While Slovenian clitics can either procliticize or encliticize to their host, as exemplified in (3), Serbo-Croatian clitics only encliticize, (4). At PF, the Slovenian pronominal clitic jim in (3a) merges with the preceding phonological word jaz, satisfying both requir ...
... restricted with parameter (2). While Slovenian clitics can either procliticize or encliticize to their host, as exemplified in (3), Serbo-Croatian clitics only encliticize, (4). At PF, the Slovenian pronominal clitic jim in (3a) merges with the preceding phonological word jaz, satisfying both requir ...
Case Typology and Case Theory* 1. Overview of the Issues 2
... is an obligatory Case in every language. It is not clear, however, what it means to say that there is an obligatory Case in a three-way language like Antekerrepenhe. In such languages, where intransitive clauses have nominative arguments and transitive clauses have ergative and accusative arguments, ...
... is an obligatory Case in every language. It is not clear, however, what it means to say that there is an obligatory Case in a three-way language like Antekerrepenhe. In such languages, where intransitive clauses have nominative arguments and transitive clauses have ergative and accusative arguments, ...
The Personal Dative in Appalachian English as a Reflexive Pronoun
... However, (14a) does not have this interpretation, it only means that the stick went to me in the end, requiring a transfer of possession to the direct object. 14. a. I whittled myself a stick b. I whittled me a stick 15. I whittled Bob a stick Notice that the SELF anaphor, while requiring a transfe ...
... However, (14a) does not have this interpretation, it only means that the stick went to me in the end, requiring a transfer of possession to the direct object. 14. a. I whittled myself a stick b. I whittled me a stick 15. I whittled Bob a stick Notice that the SELF anaphor, while requiring a transfe ...
The Latvian dative and genitive: A Cognitive Grammar - DUO
... My first encounter with the Latvian case system was in August 1991, when I arrived in Riga to spend a year in Latvia as an exchange student. As I gradually mastered the language, I was struck by what I saw as the simplicity and logic of the Latvian case system. The fact that my fascination for the s ...
... My first encounter with the Latvian case system was in August 1991, when I arrived in Riga to spend a year in Latvia as an exchange student. As I gradually mastered the language, I was struck by what I saw as the simplicity and logic of the Latvian case system. The fact that my fascination for the s ...
Semantics of Nouns and the Specification of
... When I started my PhD studies, I was aware of the fact that it was going to be a serious task. What I did not know was it would require much more effort, time, determination and dedication than I initially thought. After a period of five years during which I literally put my life on hold, I am so ha ...
... When I started my PhD studies, I was aware of the fact that it was going to be a serious task. What I did not know was it would require much more effort, time, determination and dedication than I initially thought. After a period of five years during which I literally put my life on hold, I am so ha ...
Rhythm`s role in the genitive construction choice in spoken
... 1. Rhythm and its role in syntactic construction choice Rhythmicity is, as characterized by Abercrombie (1967), “the periodic occurrence of some sort of movement, [which produces] an expectation that the regularity of succession will continue.” This definition of rhythmicity forms one of the fundame ...
... 1. Rhythm and its role in syntactic construction choice Rhythmicity is, as characterized by Abercrombie (1967), “the periodic occurrence of some sort of movement, [which produces] an expectation that the regularity of succession will continue.” This definition of rhythmicity forms one of the fundame ...
UNIVERSITY OF TARTU FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
... appear in the same position. It is easily recognizable by š and ž in positions where in related languages s and z appear. Olonetz and Ludic do not share these features. They can be recognized by a less developed gradation system and the change of the word final a and ä to resp. u and ü in Olonetz an ...
... appear in the same position. It is easily recognizable by š and ž in positions where in related languages s and z appear. Olonetz and Ludic do not share these features. They can be recognized by a less developed gradation system and the change of the word final a and ä to resp. u and ü in Olonetz an ...
English version - Nederbooms
... 1.2.2 Setting up the CGN tagset In the CGN tagset word types are given two sets of morphosyntactic characteristics. The first group consists of lexical characteristics, such as the split into coordinate en subordinate conjunctions, or the difference between definite and indefinite articles. The seco ...
... 1.2.2 Setting up the CGN tagset In the CGN tagset word types are given two sets of morphosyntactic characteristics. The first group consists of lexical characteristics, such as the split into coordinate en subordinate conjunctions, or the difference between definite and indefinite articles. The seco ...
Polish numerals and quantifiers: A syntactic analysis of subject‐verb
... Chomsky (2000, 2001). In Polish, the presence of numerals and quantifiers leads to so-called “agreement mismatches” – the phi-features on the probe and the goal differ unexpectedly, i.e. there is a mismatch in features. Additionally, they lead to interesting patterns of case assignment, such as a sh ...
... Chomsky (2000, 2001). In Polish, the presence of numerals and quantifiers leads to so-called “agreement mismatches” – the phi-features on the probe and the goal differ unexpectedly, i.e. there is a mismatch in features. Additionally, they lead to interesting patterns of case assignment, such as a sh ...
41_NguyenThiHue_NA904 - Trường Đại học Dân lập Hải Phòng
... from English into Vietnamese ............................................................................. 41 2.1 Translation of idiomatic compound nouns ........................................... 41 2.2 The differences between the translation and the original ..................... 41 3. Common pro ...
... from English into Vietnamese ............................................................................. 41 2.1 Translation of idiomatic compound nouns ........................................... 41 2.2 The differences between the translation and the original ..................... 41 3. Common pro ...
Constructions with and without articles Henriëtte de Swart
... 2010) for the technicalities of the OT analysis, which constitutes the background of this investigation. The main aim of the current paper is to translate the intuitions about weak referentiality into a formal syntax-semantics interface for bare nominals in configurations different from regular subj ...
... 2010) for the technicalities of the OT analysis, which constitutes the background of this investigation. The main aim of the current paper is to translate the intuitions about weak referentiality into a formal syntax-semantics interface for bare nominals in configurations different from regular subj ...
Case and Agreement in Polish Predicates
... The aim of the present paper is twofold. The first, relatively minor aim is to conclusively show that the accusative case on the predicative NP in examples such as (3) is assigned by the preposition za, rather than as a result of agreement with the higher NP. Since this conclusion seems irreconcila ...
... The aim of the present paper is twofold. The first, relatively minor aim is to conclusively show that the accusative case on the predicative NP in examples such as (3) is assigned by the preposition za, rather than as a result of agreement with the higher NP. Since this conclusion seems irreconcila ...
12110/99
... It appears that the typical predicative adjective appears in a default case (instrumental) and can also optionally agree in case with its argument when the argument is a nominative subject in the same clause. Note that secondary predicates always agree in number and gender with their logical argumen ...
... It appears that the typical predicative adjective appears in a default case (instrumental) and can also optionally agree in case with its argument when the argument is a nominative subject in the same clause. Note that secondary predicates always agree in number and gender with their logical argumen ...