Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head
... favoring null arguments (zero anaphora). De Vries (2005: 367) notes that in spontaneous speech, and in particular when expressing sequences of events, speakers of Papuan languages use nominals (nouns or anaphoric pronouns) very infrequently. When they do so, they normally express no more than one no ...
... favoring null arguments (zero anaphora). De Vries (2005: 367) notes that in spontaneous speech, and in particular when expressing sequences of events, speakers of Papuan languages use nominals (nouns or anaphoric pronouns) very infrequently. When they do so, they normally express no more than one no ...
Language Arts Curriculum Guide Template
... forms of each of the adjectives they used on their mood drawings. List 4 adverbs on the board: carefully, loudly, slowly and well. Have students fold a piece of paper vertically in 3 sections and label them: “positive, comparative and ...
... forms of each of the adjectives they used on their mood drawings. List 4 adverbs on the board: carefully, loudly, slowly and well. Have students fold a piece of paper vertically in 3 sections and label them: “positive, comparative and ...
A typology of split conjunction
... In this paper, I study instances of noun phrase conjunction where the conjoined noun phrase is subject and the referents of the conjuncts are human, of the type ‘John and Mary are having lunch’. More specifically, I study different, possible splits that occur in such structures, which involve the di ...
... In this paper, I study instances of noun phrase conjunction where the conjoined noun phrase is subject and the referents of the conjuncts are human, of the type ‘John and Mary are having lunch’. More specifically, I study different, possible splits that occur in such structures, which involve the di ...
The Lord`s Prayer and Hail Mary
... and may well be considered one work. This is presently the sole known example of Tolkien rendering into one of his languages a text not originating with himself. Why did Tolkien translate these prayers? It seems quite unlikely that he actually used the Quenya versions in his own worship. In Vinyar T ...
... and may well be considered one work. This is presently the sole known example of Tolkien rendering into one of his languages a text not originating with himself. Why did Tolkien translate these prayers? It seems quite unlikely that he actually used the Quenya versions in his own worship. In Vinyar T ...
Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction
... paraphrases. But if you didn’t catch the second name, it would be far more natural to ask, Who did they see Pat with? than it would be to ask *Who did they see Pat and? Notice, by the way, that the only one of these two examples that sounds wellformed (or ‘grammatical’ in the linguist’s sense) is th ...
... paraphrases. But if you didn’t catch the second name, it would be far more natural to ask, Who did they see Pat with? than it would be to ask *Who did they see Pat and? Notice, by the way, that the only one of these two examples that sounds wellformed (or ‘grammatical’ in the linguist’s sense) is th ...
The meaning of the English present participle
... In what follows, we aim to present a much more detailed picture of the meanings expressed by English present participles. At the same time, we develop a framework that can explain when and why different semantic effects arise. The core assumption is that the meaning of participles can be best unders ...
... In what follows, we aim to present a much more detailed picture of the meanings expressed by English present participles. At the same time, we develop a framework that can explain when and why different semantic effects arise. The core assumption is that the meaning of participles can be best unders ...
Choices for Writers: Grammar and Style
... and write—and now text—in multiple languages. In addition to coming from diverse cultural backgrounds, English 100L students often use different languages at home, at work, at church, and among peers and friends than they use in the classroom. All of these are uniquely important languages and forms ...
... and write—and now text—in multiple languages. In addition to coming from diverse cultural backgrounds, English 100L students often use different languages at home, at work, at church, and among peers and friends than they use in the classroom. All of these are uniquely important languages and forms ...
LEXICAL AND FUNCTIONAL DECOMPOSITION IN SYNTAX: A
... Align (Lexmax, R; PPh, R) The right edge of a maximal phrase projected from a lexical head coincides with the right edge of a Prosodic Phrase. ...
... Align (Lexmax, R; PPh, R) The right edge of a maximal phrase projected from a lexical head coincides with the right edge of a Prosodic Phrase. ...
Gerunds as Subjects
... 3. Yes! It is a gerund; it ends in –ing, and it is acting as a noun. What is a baby’s way of communicating. Crying is! ...
... 3. Yes! It is a gerund; it ends in –ing, and it is acting as a noun. What is a baby’s way of communicating. Crying is! ...
Syntax 1
... Syntax 12 • A transduction is a set of sentence translation pairs or bisentences—just as a language is a set of sentences. The set defines a relation between the input and output languages. • In the generative view, a transduction grammar generates a transduction, i.e., a set of bisentences—just as ...
... Syntax 12 • A transduction is a set of sentence translation pairs or bisentences—just as a language is a set of sentences. The set defines a relation between the input and output languages. • In the generative view, a transduction grammar generates a transduction, i.e., a set of bisentences—just as ...
The ellipsis alternation: remnants with and without prepositions
... particular kind of wh-phrase. Given that COCA is not a parsed corpus, extracting all wh-phrases would have been quite a time-consuming process. YES/NO questions and elliptical responses to them are not part of the dataset. The constructions I extracted from the corpora include ordinary remnants for ...
... particular kind of wh-phrase. Given that COCA is not a parsed corpus, extracting all wh-phrases would have been quite a time-consuming process. YES/NO questions and elliptical responses to them are not part of the dataset. The constructions I extracted from the corpora include ordinary remnants for ...
CAN COMPUTERS HANDLE ADVERBS?
... perhaps also the most interesting part of speech. Past research in natural language processing, however, has not dealt seriously with adverbs, though linguists have done significant work on this word class. The current paper draws on this linguistic research to organize an adverbial lexicon which wi ...
... perhaps also the most interesting part of speech. Past research in natural language processing, however, has not dealt seriously with adverbs, though linguists have done significant work on this word class. The current paper draws on this linguistic research to organize an adverbial lexicon which wi ...
commas - Bucks County Community College
... Two adjectives that can be interchanged 16. The band stopped playing after the roof began to leak. Independent clause + no comma + dependent clause. 17. My car ran beautifully all the way to Buffalo, where it suddenly stalled. Independent clause + comma + dependent clause. 18. On July 24, 2007 anyon ...
... Two adjectives that can be interchanged 16. The band stopped playing after the roof began to leak. Independent clause + no comma + dependent clause. 17. My car ran beautifully all the way to Buffalo, where it suddenly stalled. Independent clause + comma + dependent clause. 18. On July 24, 2007 anyon ...
commas - Bucks County Community College
... Two adjectives that can be interchanged 16. The band stopped playing after the roof began to leak. Independent clause + no comma + dependent clause. 17. My car ran beautifully all the way to Buffalo, where it suddenly stalled. Independent clause + comma + dependent clause. 18. On July 24, 2007 anyon ...
... Two adjectives that can be interchanged 16. The band stopped playing after the roof began to leak. Independent clause + no comma + dependent clause. 17. My car ran beautifully all the way to Buffalo, where it suddenly stalled. Independent clause + comma + dependent clause. 18. On July 24, 2007 anyon ...
On the licensing and recovering of imperative subjects Melani Wratil
... this applies to the class of formally unmarked imperatives. In fact, those never demand the overt realization of their syntactic subject, neither in null subject languages nor in non-null subject languages. But how could we account for this peculiarity? Should we think of a structural deletion proce ...
... this applies to the class of formally unmarked imperatives. In fact, those never demand the overt realization of their syntactic subject, neither in null subject languages nor in non-null subject languages. But how could we account for this peculiarity? Should we think of a structural deletion proce ...
Kinds of Adverbs
... having different combinability1. In other words, quick — quickly might be regarded as an adjectival grammatical opposeme, and -ly as a grammatical morpheme of “adverbiality”. We must take issue with Prof. Smirnitsky over this theory. 1. The most typical feature of a grammatical morpheme distinguish ...
... having different combinability1. In other words, quick — quickly might be regarded as an adjectival grammatical opposeme, and -ly as a grammatical morpheme of “adverbiality”. We must take issue with Prof. Smirnitsky over this theory. 1. The most typical feature of a grammatical morpheme distinguish ...
Quantum Neural Network based Parts of Speech Tagger for Hindi
... The tagging is the process to identify the correct syntactic categories of words in corpus. The identification process is ambiguous during the mapping between words and its syntactic categories. The most important problem in POS tagging is to assign the most appropriate morpho-syntactic category to ...
... The tagging is the process to identify the correct syntactic categories of words in corpus. The identification process is ambiguous during the mapping between words and its syntactic categories. The most important problem in POS tagging is to assign the most appropriate morpho-syntactic category to ...
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... stylistic values as well. Even those who have recourse to the common term ieeg-form or ing cannot help admitting that there are many cases where each of the two categories is used with the function very distinct from that of the other. Beside these ordinary cases, those where the distinction seems d ...
... stylistic values as well. Even those who have recourse to the common term ieeg-form or ing cannot help admitting that there are many cases where each of the two categories is used with the function very distinct from that of the other. Beside these ordinary cases, those where the distinction seems d ...
Document
... and EBC constructions as phenomena in their own right, neither within one language nor cross-linguistically. The lack of interest in such constructions has led to the fact that important cross-linguistic, universal generalizations have remained hidden. In this book, we shall look at examples of UC c ...
... and EBC constructions as phenomena in their own right, neither within one language nor cross-linguistically. The lack of interest in such constructions has led to the fact that important cross-linguistic, universal generalizations have remained hidden. In this book, we shall look at examples of UC c ...
Up above as a Complex Preposition
... A prepositional phrase can be used as a sentence adverbial. Here are two examples from BNC: (7) It was good to be a flyer, up above it all, godlike in your vision. (BNC G0L 707) (8) My lad took me blackberryin' a month or two back, up above the quarry, and I seen'em.’ (BNC HTH 634) The string can be ...
... A prepositional phrase can be used as a sentence adverbial. Here are two examples from BNC: (7) It was good to be a flyer, up above it all, godlike in your vision. (BNC G0L 707) (8) My lad took me blackberryin' a month or two back, up above the quarry, and I seen'em.’ (BNC HTH 634) The string can be ...
The Top 250 Most Difficult SAT Words
... The Top 250 Most Difficult SAT Words◦ Week 10 Starting Monday, ___/___/______ Instructions: By the last day of the week, study the list of vocabulary words for that week and prepare for a quiz. In order to prepare, be sure to look up and study denotations, connotations, and uses of the terms. You m ...
... The Top 250 Most Difficult SAT Words◦ Week 10 Starting Monday, ___/___/______ Instructions: By the last day of the week, study the list of vocabulary words for that week and prepare for a quiz. In order to prepare, be sure to look up and study denotations, connotations, and uses of the terms. You m ...
Infinitive Phrase
... When infinitive phrases have an “actor,” they may be roughly characterized as the “subject” of the action or state expressed in the infinitive. Perhaps the denomination “pseudo-subject” is preferable. It is somewhat misleading to use the word “subject” since an infinitive phrase is not a full clause ...
... When infinitive phrases have an “actor,” they may be roughly characterized as the “subject” of the action or state expressed in the infinitive. Perhaps the denomination “pseudo-subject” is preferable. It is somewhat misleading to use the word “subject” since an infinitive phrase is not a full clause ...