on finiteness - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
... this will be discussed in section 2. There are also many ‘fully-fledged’ languages without verb inflection, such as Chinese or Vietnamese. What is ‘finiteness’ in these languages? The same question may be asked for languages with a very rich inflection, such as all polysynthetic languages. The forme ...
... this will be discussed in section 2. There are also many ‘fully-fledged’ languages without verb inflection, such as Chinese or Vietnamese. What is ‘finiteness’ in these languages? The same question may be asked for languages with a very rich inflection, such as all polysynthetic languages. The forme ...
Blocking of Phrasal Constructions by Lexical Items Introduction
... elided by the process referred to as O-Ellipsis.8 In the transitive case this can readily be determined by the case-marking of the object: accusative in the case of a true incorporated periphrastic but genitive in the case of an unincorporated periphrastic that has undergone O-Ellipsis. Another diag ...
... elided by the process referred to as O-Ellipsis.8 In the transitive case this can readily be determined by the case-marking of the object: accusative in the case of a true incorporated periphrastic but genitive in the case of an unincorporated periphrastic that has undergone O-Ellipsis. Another diag ...
Effects of indefinite pronouns and traces on verb stress
... alternative stress-pattern with the verb stressed. I believe this may be because of the following reason. It seems to me that in the domain of optionality where the syntax does not determine the stress, subtle preferences arise due to expectability of the predicates involved. These may be more intri ...
... alternative stress-pattern with the verb stressed. I believe this may be because of the following reason. It seems to me that in the domain of optionality where the syntax does not determine the stress, subtle preferences arise due to expectability of the predicates involved. These may be more intri ...
Chapter The Many Facets of the Cause-Effect Relation
... kind B to occur if, when A occurs, B always follows, but when A does not occur, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not. On the other hand, if when A does not occur, B never occurs, but when A occurs, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not, then A is a necessary though not a sufficient condition for B to ...
... kind B to occur if, when A occurs, B always follows, but when A does not occur, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not. On the other hand, if when A does not occur, B never occurs, but when A occurs, B sometimes occurs and sometimes not, then A is a necessary though not a sufficient condition for B to ...
Graded representations in the acquisition of English and German
... One type of explanation for this method-dependence in empirical findings is to claim that previous novel verb elicited production studies have been inadequate in revealing underlying child knowledge of the transitive because these tasks are essentially too difficult for young twoyear-olds (Fisher, 2 ...
... One type of explanation for this method-dependence in empirical findings is to claim that previous novel verb elicited production studies have been inadequate in revealing underlying child knowledge of the transitive because these tasks are essentially too difficult for young twoyear-olds (Fisher, 2 ...
1 10. Hortative (Excerpt from Eggleston, 2013) The hortative is the
... potential modes. Note that this only occurs with Ø conjugation verbs, and never with na, ga, or ga conjugation verbs. These are notated in the verb theme in parentheses, following the verb’s conjugation prefix and verb type as: CVV Imp/Hort/Pot. For example, the theme for the first example given bel ...
... potential modes. Note that this only occurs with Ø conjugation verbs, and never with na, ga, or ga conjugation verbs. These are notated in the verb theme in parentheses, following the verb’s conjugation prefix and verb type as: CVV Imp/Hort/Pot. For example, the theme for the first example given bel ...
A Brief History of Icelandic Weather Verbs
... the search engine Google. This search aimed at verifying the attestation of the relevant verbs in Modern Icelandic, as well as their syntactic behavior and their ability to occur with an NP. The verbs are shown in Table 1, where they are classified according to semantic field, with additional inform ...
... the search engine Google. This search aimed at verifying the attestation of the relevant verbs in Modern Icelandic, as well as their syntactic behavior and their ability to occur with an NP. The verbs are shown in Table 1, where they are classified according to semantic field, with additional inform ...
Present Progressive
... أنا سأدعو كل أصدقائي لرحلة الى.هذه السنة أنا أخطط لشيئ مختلف . امل أنهم سوف يأتون. أنا أكتب الدعوات, االن.القدس Alnjah JHS ...
... أنا سأدعو كل أصدقائي لرحلة الى.هذه السنة أنا أخطط لشيئ مختلف . امل أنهم سوف يأتون. أنا أكتب الدعوات, االن.القدس Alnjah JHS ...
The lexical category auxiliary in Sinhala
... never occurs outside this construction, it is unclear what part of speech it derives from, or what its own lexical meaning would be. The 55ehaviour of gannə differs from the grammaticization paths that have been taken by yannə ‘go’ and dennə ‘give’. While the latter take non-finite complements of an ...
... never occurs outside this construction, it is unclear what part of speech it derives from, or what its own lexical meaning would be. The 55ehaviour of gannə differs from the grammaticization paths that have been taken by yannə ‘go’ and dennə ‘give’. While the latter take non-finite complements of an ...
Verbal Inflectional Morphology in L1 and L2
... do they distinguish explicitly between idiosyncratic and rule-governed forms (Bley-Vroman, 1989; DeKeyser, 2003). However, the fact that Bley-Vroman (1989) takes a UG perspective (e.g., Chomsky, 1980) suggests the assumption of some sort of dual-system model for L1. DeKeyser has not to our knowledge ...
... do they distinguish explicitly between idiosyncratic and rule-governed forms (Bley-Vroman, 1989; DeKeyser, 2003). However, the fact that Bley-Vroman (1989) takes a UG perspective (e.g., Chomsky, 1980) suggests the assumption of some sort of dual-system model for L1. DeKeyser has not to our knowledge ...
Let Us All Learn About ---==”Subject and Verb Agreement”
... 19. The title of a book, magazine, or movie is considered singular and therefore requires singular verb. Examples: a. The Country Life Book of Fairy Tales is authored by P. Pierce. b. Men in Black is a science fiction movie. ...
... 19. The title of a book, magazine, or movie is considered singular and therefore requires singular verb. Examples: a. The Country Life Book of Fairy Tales is authored by P. Pierce. b. Men in Black is a science fiction movie. ...
2014-2015 LCHS French 2 Syllabus
... The second level course continues the emphasis on the communication skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Written work emphasizes vocabulary development, semantics, syntax, and composition with special attention to use of primary verb tenses. Vocabulary is taught in context, practiced ...
... The second level course continues the emphasis on the communication skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Written work emphasizes vocabulary development, semantics, syntax, and composition with special attention to use of primary verb tenses. Vocabulary is taught in context, practiced ...
Argument Realization: the role of constructions and discourse factors
... to corresponding nominal forms (spit, piss). However, the felicity of other examples (e.g. 2,3) undermines such an account since the verbs sneeze and blow do not have nominal morphological counterparts corresponding to their respective emissions. A proponent of a syntactic incorporation account migh ...
... to corresponding nominal forms (spit, piss). However, the felicity of other examples (e.g. 2,3) undermines such an account since the verbs sneeze and blow do not have nominal morphological counterparts corresponding to their respective emissions. A proponent of a syntactic incorporation account migh ...
Pseudo-Ergativity in Chukotko-Kamchatkan
... Capturing these facts is ultimately important for a complete description of Itelmen agreement, and while they are intriguing deviations from a “clean” pattern, it must be stressed that neither constitutes a counter-example to the claims that (a) the prefixes reference only the features of the subjec ...
... Capturing these facts is ultimately important for a complete description of Itelmen agreement, and while they are intriguing deviations from a “clean” pattern, it must be stressed that neither constitutes a counter-example to the claims that (a) the prefixes reference only the features of the subjec ...
S3 Sem 2, repaso
... denial, etc. is implied, use the present or past subjunctive perfect. Think about the following English sentences, and write present / pluperfect / future / conditional or present / past subjunctive on the blank to indicate the appropriate tense: 1) When the bus came, we 2) I ...
... denial, etc. is implied, use the present or past subjunctive perfect. Think about the following English sentences, and write present / pluperfect / future / conditional or present / past subjunctive on the blank to indicate the appropriate tense: 1) When the bus came, we 2) I ...
view - Association for Computational Linguistics
... broom’ and bros kešidan ‘to brush’ constitute a rather coherent paradigm. They all denote an action carried out using an instrument in its conventional way. However, it is impossible to assign a lexical meaning to kešidan. Indeed, kešidan does not mean ‘to use’, but to use in a specific manner, w ...
... broom’ and bros kešidan ‘to brush’ constitute a rather coherent paradigm. They all denote an action carried out using an instrument in its conventional way. However, it is impossible to assign a lexical meaning to kešidan. Indeed, kešidan does not mean ‘to use’, but to use in a specific manner, w ...
vytautas magnus university
... having different structures are involved, i.e. English and Lithuanian in this case, traditional grammar theory is unable to explain the specificity of language notions related to different traditions, lexis and analysis. Traditional grammar explores the grammatical concepts of subject, predicate, o ...
... having different structures are involved, i.e. English and Lithuanian in this case, traditional grammar theory is unable to explain the specificity of language notions related to different traditions, lexis and analysis. Traditional grammar explores the grammatical concepts of subject, predicate, o ...
active_passive
... Now that you know the structure of active and passive sentences, you are ready to learn a simpler way to recognize a passive sentence. You can recognize a passive sentence by its verb structure. A passive sentence ALWAYS has a verb phrase containing a form of the verb “to be” AND the past participle ...
... Now that you know the structure of active and passive sentences, you are ready to learn a simpler way to recognize a passive sentence. You can recognize a passive sentence by its verb structure. A passive sentence ALWAYS has a verb phrase containing a form of the verb “to be” AND the past participle ...
gerúndio - CLUL - Universidade de Lisboa
... c. O timbre da sua voz, a fazer lembrar Maria Callas, é impressionante. [equivalent to (8); structure more common in EP] It must be stressed that not all instances of the «gerúndio» are at free variance with prepositioned infinitives in EP, though. For instance, sentence (7), unlike (8), cannot occu ...
... c. O timbre da sua voz, a fazer lembrar Maria Callas, é impressionante. [equivalent to (8); structure more common in EP] It must be stressed that not all instances of the «gerúndio» are at free variance with prepositioned infinitives in EP, though. For instance, sentence (7), unlike (8), cannot occu ...
Unit 7 - GFF3 - Modals Part 2 Interactive
... B. Bob would rather eat fish verb can be repeated than tofu. between the eat “than + object.” ...
... B. Bob would rather eat fish verb can be repeated than tofu. between the eat “than + object.” ...
Towards a structural typology of verb classes
... nominal arguments. (Verbs with zero valency are extremely rare – one possible semantic class of this kind are weather verbs, such as Latin pluit ‘it rains’, however, note that English uses here an expletive pronoun, which masks the verb to be intransitive.) Besides that, verbs are subclassified of w ...
... nominal arguments. (Verbs with zero valency are extremely rare – one possible semantic class of this kind are weather verbs, such as Latin pluit ‘it rains’, however, note that English uses here an expletive pronoun, which masks the verb to be intransitive.) Besides that, verbs are subclassified of w ...
Russian peripheral reciprocal markers and - CSSP
... characterizes prototypical patients, and not prototypical agents. Structurally, according to Perlmutter (1976), the subject of unaccusatives at some level of representation occupies the same place as the object of transitive verbs. In contrast, the core of the unergative class includes situations co ...
... characterizes prototypical patients, and not prototypical agents. Structurally, according to Perlmutter (1976), the subject of unaccusatives at some level of representation occupies the same place as the object of transitive verbs. In contrast, the core of the unergative class includes situations co ...
Adverb Notes
... • Adverbs of time and place: here, yesterday, then • Adverbs of relative time: recently, soon, already • Adverbs of degree: extremely, very, rather • Adverbs of quantity: few, a lot, much • Adverbs of attitude: fortunately, apparently, clearly Placement of Adverbs: • Adverbs are usually found after ...
... • Adverbs of time and place: here, yesterday, then • Adverbs of relative time: recently, soon, already • Adverbs of degree: extremely, very, rather • Adverbs of quantity: few, a lot, much • Adverbs of attitude: fortunately, apparently, clearly Placement of Adverbs: • Adverbs are usually found after ...
the three relative constructions in swahili (kisanifu)
... one of thèse two constructions could somehow hâve transformed (« il y avait un passage ») into Swahili type A relative constructions. I think this is very unlikely. The Ngazija example — and parallels could be cited from a wide range of Bantu languages — shows thé use of thé RC (PP-o) as an anaphori ...
... one of thèse two constructions could somehow hâve transformed (« il y avait un passage ») into Swahili type A relative constructions. I think this is very unlikely. The Ngazija example — and parallels could be cited from a wide range of Bantu languages — shows thé use of thé RC (PP-o) as an anaphori ...
The perfect aspect: syntactic interferences on the part of brazilian
... projects being carried out betv;een Polish and English in Poznan, SerboCroatian and English in Zagreb, Rumanian and English in Bucharest;Irish and English in An Teanglann; and German and English in Stuttgart. In fact, world meetings show that inguistcs are interestedin Constrative Linguistcs. The Ni ...
... projects being carried out betv;een Polish and English in Poznan, SerboCroatian and English in Zagreb, Rumanian and English in Bucharest;Irish and English in An Teanglann; and German and English in Stuttgart. In fact, world meetings show that inguistcs are interestedin Constrative Linguistcs. The Ni ...