Bilingual Complex Verbs - Linguistic Society of America
... followed by a light verb such as do which bears inflections and turns the N+V construction into a verb. For example, bikri kᴐra ‘sale do’ is an N+do construction in Bengali, which means ‘sell’. The V+V structure consists of two or more predicational elements, where the main verb provides the main se ...
... followed by a light verb such as do which bears inflections and turns the N+V construction into a verb. For example, bikri kᴐra ‘sale do’ is an N+do construction in Bengali, which means ‘sell’. The V+V structure consists of two or more predicational elements, where the main verb provides the main se ...
Reflexive Verbs and Pronouns
... raise the book (non-reflexive) raise your arm (reflexive) put the baby to bed (non-reflexive) go to bed (reflexive) wake up your son (non-reflexive) wake up yourself (reflexive) …and so on ...
... raise the book (non-reflexive) raise your arm (reflexive) put the baby to bed (non-reflexive) go to bed (reflexive) wake up your son (non-reflexive) wake up yourself (reflexive) …and so on ...
Propbank-Br - Association for Computational Linguistics
... Propbank-Br faced several challenges. In spite of following Propbank guidelines as often as possible, there are differences and the major of them are due to the parser output. The Penn Treebank, used by Propbank, has “traces” of suppressed syntactic elements. This is very important to deal with elli ...
... Propbank-Br faced several challenges. In spite of following Propbank guidelines as often as possible, there are differences and the major of them are due to the parser output. The Penn Treebank, used by Propbank, has “traces” of suppressed syntactic elements. This is very important to deal with elli ...
Tense, Time, Aspect and the Ancient Greek Verb
... does not happen with the present or future tenses. For example, as we Some verbs by their very meaning have seen, different tenses are used and the inherent nature of the for ‘he saw’ (aorist) and ‘he watched’ activity they denote will incline to (imperfect). But there are not one aspect rather than ...
... does not happen with the present or future tenses. For example, as we Some verbs by their very meaning have seen, different tenses are used and the inherent nature of the for ‘he saw’ (aorist) and ‘he watched’ activity they denote will incline to (imperfect). But there are not one aspect rather than ...
Tense, Time, Aspect and the Ancient Greek Verb
... does not happen with the present or future tenses. For example, as we Some verbs by their very meaning have seen, different tenses are used and the inherent nature of the for ‘he saw’ (aorist) and ‘he watched’ activity they denote will incline to (imperfect). But there are not one aspect rather than ...
... does not happen with the present or future tenses. For example, as we Some verbs by their very meaning have seen, different tenses are used and the inherent nature of the for ‘he saw’ (aorist) and ‘he watched’ activity they denote will incline to (imperfect). But there are not one aspect rather than ...
English Grammar Fundamentals for Non
... 1. Personal pronouns. We use these pronouns in place of the names of people, animals, and things. The personal pronouns include he, she, you, it, they, etc. And when we use one of these personal pronouns, we use it in different forms: (a) Person. The person refers to whom the subject is about. We hav ...
... 1. Personal pronouns. We use these pronouns in place of the names of people, animals, and things. The personal pronouns include he, she, you, it, they, etc. And when we use one of these personal pronouns, we use it in different forms: (a) Person. The person refers to whom the subject is about. We hav ...
DISTRIBUTION OF INFINITIVE MARKERS IN ChAUCER`S
... covered that all semantic groups of verbs, with the exception of modal verbs and verbs of perception, appear on all three lists, and assumed that the variation must be accounted for on syntactic grounds. Comparing the nominal and the infinitival complementation of verbs, Callaway concluded that verb ...
... covered that all semantic groups of verbs, with the exception of modal verbs and verbs of perception, appear on all three lists, and assumed that the variation must be accounted for on syntactic grounds. Comparing the nominal and the infinitival complementation of verbs, Callaway concluded that verb ...
A Semantic Argument for Complex Predicates*
... any. This seems equally wrong, since it does not explain why replacing for example denied by admitted in (10c) yields a less acceptable sentence. A third option is that the verbs in (10) are downward-entailing functions of a special kind, perhaps taking arguments of type. This would disallow
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... any. This seems equally wrong, since it does not explain why replacing for example denied by admitted in (10c) yields a less acceptable sentence. A third option is that the verbs in (10) are downward-entailing functions of a special kind, perhaps taking arguments of type
No Slide Title
... When we use verbs, we use them in a certain TENSE and a certain MOOD. • The MOOD reflects the attitude of the speaker or the subject toward the action. The INDICATIVE and the SUBJUNCTIVE are moods. The INDICATIVE MOOD is objective. It is used to describe facts. It states what is considered to be cer ...
... When we use verbs, we use them in a certain TENSE and a certain MOOD. • The MOOD reflects the attitude of the speaker or the subject toward the action. The INDICATIVE and the SUBJUNCTIVE are moods. The INDICATIVE MOOD is objective. It is used to describe facts. It states what is considered to be cer ...
Complete French Grammar
... Also known as the perfect, the passé composé is the tense you use to say what happened. You use it to talk about something that happened just once in the past (e.g. I went to the cinema, I have eaten an apple), rather than something you regularly used to do in the past. The passé composé means compo ...
... Also known as the perfect, the passé composé is the tense you use to say what happened. You use it to talk about something that happened just once in the past (e.g. I went to the cinema, I have eaten an apple), rather than something you regularly used to do in the past. The passé composé means compo ...
Christiane Fellbaum, How and when to add a new concept and how
... A definition should be a phrase that --belongs to the same POS as the headword e.g., the definition of a noun should be a phrase headed by a noun --a relative/subordinate clause specifying the difference with the superordinate (i.e., the differentiating properties that distinguish it from its parent ...
... A definition should be a phrase that --belongs to the same POS as the headword e.g., the definition of a noun should be a phrase headed by a noun --a relative/subordinate clause specifying the difference with the superordinate (i.e., the differentiating properties that distinguish it from its parent ...
Document
... The Rules of Subject-verb agreement . Rules of Agreement with Special Subjects(cont’): + Nouns of Amount: When a noun of amount refers to a total that is considered as one unit, it is singular. When it refers to a number of individual units, it is plural. - Four dollars is a fare price. (one amount ...
... The Rules of Subject-verb agreement . Rules of Agreement with Special Subjects(cont’): + Nouns of Amount: When a noun of amount refers to a total that is considered as one unit, it is singular. When it refers to a number of individual units, it is plural. - Four dollars is a fare price. (one amount ...
Nomina sunt odiosa: A critique of the converb as
... Haspelmath discusses in his paper two definitional criteria regarding the converb’s function: adverbiality and subordination. The first criterion is explicitly introduced to exclude verbal nouns and participles, the former being specialized for complementation and the latter for adnominal subordinat ...
... Haspelmath discusses in his paper two definitional criteria regarding the converb’s function: adverbiality and subordination. The first criterion is explicitly introduced to exclude verbal nouns and participles, the former being specialized for complementation and the latter for adnominal subordinat ...
The grammar of hitting and breaking in Kimaragang Dusun
... lacking on intransitive verbs.3 Many verbal roots occur in both transitive and intransitive forms, as illustrated in (3) with the root patay „die; kill‟. In the most productive pattern, and the one of interest to us here, the intransitive form has an inchoative (change of state) meaning while the tr ...
... lacking on intransitive verbs.3 Many verbal roots occur in both transitive and intransitive forms, as illustrated in (3) with the root patay „die; kill‟. In the most productive pattern, and the one of interest to us here, the intransitive form has an inchoative (change of state) meaning while the tr ...
Why it is hard to label our concepts
... When the subjects were limited to the information of their senses, that is, when they had to acquire the mappings of sounds (here, beeps) onto meanings solely via inspection of the extralinguistic contingencies for their use, they were able to identify 45% of the nouns but only 15% of the verbs, a d ...
... When the subjects were limited to the information of their senses, that is, when they had to acquire the mappings of sounds (here, beeps) onto meanings solely via inspection of the extralinguistic contingencies for their use, they were able to identify 45% of the nouns but only 15% of the verbs, a d ...
16 Subject-Verb Agreement 16.1
... Roberto Clemente, a Baseball Hero 1. The first baseball team to hire Roberto Clemente (was/were) the Santurce Cangrejeros of Puerto Rico. 2. When Clemente joined the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1954, fifty thousand dollars (was/were) considered a princely salary. 3. Clemente’s family (was/were) eager to s ...
... Roberto Clemente, a Baseball Hero 1. The first baseball team to hire Roberto Clemente (was/were) the Santurce Cangrejeros of Puerto Rico. 2. When Clemente joined the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1954, fifty thousand dollars (was/were) considered a princely salary. 3. Clemente’s family (was/were) eager to s ...
Verbs in spoken sentence processing Goede, Dieuwke de
... structure, but nevertheless contribute to the overall meaning of the sentence, for example by stating where, when, how, or why something happened. These constituents are called adjuncts. In (8), only John and book are arguments of the verbs read; all other phrases are adjuncts. ...
... structure, but nevertheless contribute to the overall meaning of the sentence, for example by stating where, when, how, or why something happened. These constituents are called adjuncts. In (8), only John and book are arguments of the verbs read; all other phrases are adjuncts. ...
Doubled and Hamzated Verbs
... XF +=`= (< a .) ` (to continue to be) which unassimilated would have read (= a .) ` like (! , > .) ! ,5 . The first person is b ` (I continued to be) like b ...
... XF +=`= (< a .) ` (to continue to be) which unassimilated would have read (= a .) ` like (! , > .) ! ,5 . The first person is b ` (I continued to be) like b ...
Sorani grammar
... time should be learned actively. Words are glossed after the first instance only if they are considered rare enough to warrant being ignored for acquisition. Because Sorani Kurdish dictionaries are not easily obtainable, I have made the vocabulary as large as possible. It contains around 4,000 words ...
... time should be learned actively. Words are glossed after the first instance only if they are considered rare enough to warrant being ignored for acquisition. Because Sorani Kurdish dictionaries are not easily obtainable, I have made the vocabulary as large as possible. It contains around 4,000 words ...
this PDF file - Open Access journals at UiO
... However, the world of sounds is extremely variegated (which implies that my imagined future project will be rather large). Indeed, there are sounds made by human beings (e.g. the Russian verb šarkat’ (‘to shuffle’)) and those made by animals (e.g. ryčat’ (‘to bellow’)); and then there are sounds pro ...
... However, the world of sounds is extremely variegated (which implies that my imagined future project will be rather large). Indeed, there are sounds made by human beings (e.g. the Russian verb šarkat’ (‘to shuffle’)) and those made by animals (e.g. ryčat’ (‘to bellow’)); and then there are sounds pro ...
CP - Princeton University
... The serial complex as a whole cannot contain duplicate roles. There cannot be two agts, two patients, two instruments, etc. ``This is one of the most important ways in which verb series act like single verbs." Multiple objects are sometimes allowed, but not if they have the same semantic role. Somet ...
... The serial complex as a whole cannot contain duplicate roles. There cannot be two agts, two patients, two instruments, etc. ``This is one of the most important ways in which verb series act like single verbs." Multiple objects are sometimes allowed, but not if they have the same semantic role. Somet ...
Gustar with Infinitives
... A. To tell how someone does something B. To tell why someone does something C. To tell what someone likes to do ...
... A. To tell how someone does something B. To tell why someone does something C. To tell what someone likes to do ...
Latin II topics review
... We have seen present participles several times, and I have been alluding to them for quite some time now. They are honestly easier to deal with than the perfect passive participle, so I do not suspect you to have difficulty with them. As the book will tell you, participles are verbal adjectives. Tha ...
... We have seen present participles several times, and I have been alluding to them for quite some time now. They are honestly easier to deal with than the perfect passive participle, so I do not suspect you to have difficulty with them. As the book will tell you, participles are verbal adjectives. Tha ...
Writing a Summary using an IVF Statement and Informal Outline (IO)
... Identify includes the title, author, and genre of what you are summarizing o (The story, entitled Back to the Zoo by Fred Smith) Verb includes strong action verbs o (describes) Finish the thought includes the main idea of the entire passage o (how Bobby became a zookeeper). ...
... Identify includes the title, author, and genre of what you are summarizing o (The story, entitled Back to the Zoo by Fred Smith) Verb includes strong action verbs o (describes) Finish the thought includes the main idea of the entire passage o (how Bobby became a zookeeper). ...