
Lingua - ScienceDirect
... Minimality (section 2). We then go on to argue that – in contrast to our own previous assumptions – Minimality is not in fact a basic principle of online processing in and of itself, but that it rather appears to be a special case of a more general ‘‘distinctness’’ requirement (section 3). This requ ...
... Minimality (section 2). We then go on to argue that – in contrast to our own previous assumptions – Minimality is not in fact a basic principle of online processing in and of itself, but that it rather appears to be a special case of a more general ‘‘distinctness’’ requirement (section 3). This requ ...
What is Syntax? - Columbia University
... • Choose constituents so each one has one non-bracketed word: the head • Group words by distribution of constituents they head (part-ofspeech, POS): – Noun (N), verb (V), adjective (Adj), adverb (Adv), determiner (Det) ...
... • Choose constituents so each one has one non-bracketed word: the head • Group words by distribution of constituents they head (part-ofspeech, POS): – Noun (N), verb (V), adjective (Adj), adverb (Adv), determiner (Det) ...
full text
... counterpart (e.g. happy) together form a contrary pair where the scale cannot simply be divided into two. But there are some unclear cases; Mettinger (1990) argues that when the prefix appears with a base formed by a particle or suffix -able, their antonymous relationship is exceptionally interprete ...
... counterpart (e.g. happy) together form a contrary pair where the scale cannot simply be divided into two. But there are some unclear cases; Mettinger (1990) argues that when the prefix appears with a base formed by a particle or suffix -able, their antonymous relationship is exceptionally interprete ...
PETRARCH Documentation
... the parse tree that occurs when the parsed material starts with a dateline such as “Beirut:” or “Beijing (Xinhua News Agency):” rather than the actual start of the sentence. We probably aren’t catching all dateline errors with this pattern but it gets a lot of them, and if you are seeing frequent oc ...
... the parse tree that occurs when the parsed material starts with a dateline such as “Beirut:” or “Beijing (Xinhua News Agency):” rather than the actual start of the sentence. We probably aren’t catching all dateline errors with this pattern but it gets a lot of them, and if you are seeing frequent oc ...
Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface
... Standard Theory, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and traditional Construction Grammar with Neo-Construction Grammar and RRG. While the former approaches assume that the syntactic and semantic properties of words are specified in their lexical entries, the latter approaches regard the syntacti ...
... Standard Theory, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and traditional Construction Grammar with Neo-Construction Grammar and RRG. While the former approaches assume that the syntactic and semantic properties of words are specified in their lexical entries, the latter approaches regard the syntacti ...
Practice - TeacherLINK
... 2. Did you watch last night’s game on TV 3. Although they were losing the Mets never gave up 4. Then two men walked and the next batter hit a home run 5. That was some ending B. Rewrite the sentences, using the correct punctuation. If there are two clauses, combine them to make one sentence. 6. Do y ...
... 2. Did you watch last night’s game on TV 3. Although they were losing the Mets never gave up 4. Then two men walked and the next batter hit a home run 5. That was some ending B. Rewrite the sentences, using the correct punctuation. If there are two clauses, combine them to make one sentence. 6. Do y ...
a corpus-based description GLEDHILL
... constraints of natural languages. The resulting symbolic systems of science were later termed artificial languages (the term can apply to the terminology of chemistry to the notation of mathematics: Swales 1990). This term was applied later on to universal language projects, although some adherents ...
... constraints of natural languages. The resulting symbolic systems of science were later termed artificial languages (the term can apply to the terminology of chemistry to the notation of mathematics: Swales 1990). This term was applied later on to universal language projects, although some adherents ...
3 purpose of writing
... When writing, remember that once something is in written form, it cannot be taken back. There is less room for errors than when one uses spoken language, but the great advantage of written work is that you can think about the message you want to convey before writing it down. You can also check that ...
... When writing, remember that once something is in written form, it cannot be taken back. There is less room for errors than when one uses spoken language, but the great advantage of written work is that you can think about the message you want to convey before writing it down. You can also check that ...
Negative quantification and existential sentences
... the question of why this extended use of niente should be restricted almost exclusively to verbless sentences. The literature does not offer an explanation for this behaviour. As we will see shortly, a previous analysis treats (2) as a case of verb ellipsis, hence it puts it together with tensed cla ...
... the question of why this extended use of niente should be restricted almost exclusively to verbless sentences. The literature does not offer an explanation for this behaviour. As we will see shortly, a previous analysis treats (2) as a case of verb ellipsis, hence it puts it together with tensed cla ...
A Lexical Theory of Phrasal Idioms
... PHON ology, ARG - ST (argument-structure), SYN tax, SEM antics, and CONTEXT . The value of SYN is a feature structure that specifies a value for features like CAT egory, VALence, and MRKG (marking). CAT values are feature structures, assigned to various word-class types, that specify values for appr ...
... PHON ology, ARG - ST (argument-structure), SYN tax, SEM antics, and CONTEXT . The value of SYN is a feature structure that specifies a value for features like CAT egory, VALence, and MRKG (marking). CAT values are feature structures, assigned to various word-class types, that specify values for appr ...
4. Categorizing and Tagging Words
... 6. We went on the excursion. It is apparent that each of these forms is morphologically distinct from the others. What do we mean by saying that the morphological markings are correlated with syntactic role? Consider the form, goes. This cannot occur in all grammatical contexts, but requires, for in ...
... 6. We went on the excursion. It is apparent that each of these forms is morphologically distinct from the others. What do we mean by saying that the morphological markings are correlated with syntactic role? Consider the form, goes. This cannot occur in all grammatical contexts, but requires, for in ...
The Elements of Style - Academic Server| Cleveland State University
... "Omit needless words!" cries the author on page 23, and into that imperative Will Strunk really put his heart and soul. In the days when I was sitting in his class, he omitted so many needless words, and omitted them so forcibly and with such eagerness and obvious relish, that he often seemed in the ...
... "Omit needless words!" cries the author on page 23, and into that imperative Will Strunk really put his heart and soul. In the days when I was sitting in his class, he omitted so many needless words, and omitted them so forcibly and with such eagerness and obvious relish, that he often seemed in the ...
Chaucer`s Impact on the English Language: A Detailed Study
... the originator of English poetry, so that later scholars were greatly affected by this assumption rather than motivated to look at the language themselves. To show this statement he examined Chaucer’s vocabulary, a research method he defends by giving various motives. A study of words, he claims, is ...
... the originator of English poetry, so that later scholars were greatly affected by this assumption rather than motivated to look at the language themselves. To show this statement he examined Chaucer’s vocabulary, a research method he defends by giving various motives. A study of words, he claims, is ...
a syntactic analysis of the functions of to
... English consists of systems of rules called grammar. As a result, learning English as a second language is difficult for students in Indonesia. It needs time and effort since they are dealing with unfamiliar grammatical patterns and vocabulary that can be very different from their first language. Mo ...
... English consists of systems of rules called grammar. As a result, learning English as a second language is difficult for students in Indonesia. It needs time and effort since they are dealing with unfamiliar grammatical patterns and vocabulary that can be very different from their first language. Mo ...
9. Morphological Typology
... Typology is that branch of linguistics which is especially concerned with linguistic diversity and unity. The expectation (some would say realistic, others optimistic) is that diversity is not random and unlimited, because linguistic structures are subject to laws or law-like constraints (= universa ...
... Typology is that branch of linguistics which is especially concerned with linguistic diversity and unity. The expectation (some would say realistic, others optimistic) is that diversity is not random and unlimited, because linguistic structures are subject to laws or law-like constraints (= universa ...
Examining the relationship between
... place at sentence boundaries, as in example 1, and intrasentential switches occur within sentence boundaries, as in example 2 (in both examples, Spanish words appear in italics; the underlined portion comprises the switch). ...
... place at sentence boundaries, as in example 1, and intrasentential switches occur within sentence boundaries, as in example 2 (in both examples, Spanish words appear in italics; the underlined portion comprises the switch). ...
Introduction
... impossibility of inserting another word or word group between its elements. If, for example, speaking about a “sunbeam” (English) кўкйўтал we can insert some other word between the article and the article and the noun, e.g. a bright sunbeam, a bright and unexpected sunbeam, because the article a is ...
... impossibility of inserting another word or word group between its elements. If, for example, speaking about a “sunbeam” (English) кўкйўтал we can insert some other word between the article and the article and the noun, e.g. a bright sunbeam, a bright and unexpected sunbeam, because the article a is ...
colon – introductions
... 6.65 Some common misuses of colons Many writers assume—wrongly—that a colon is always needed before a series or a list. In fact, if a colon intervenes in what would otherwise constitute a grammatical sentence—even if the introduction appears on a separate line, as in a list (see 6.121–26)—it is prob ...
... 6.65 Some common misuses of colons Many writers assume—wrongly—that a colon is always needed before a series or a list. In fact, if a colon intervenes in what would otherwise constitute a grammatical sentence—even if the introduction appears on a separate line, as in a list (see 6.121–26)—it is prob ...
Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection
... manded by the 0-CRITERIONof GB: each NP argument of a predicate is assigned exactly one 0-role, and the same 0-role is not assigned to two NP arguments of the same predicate (Chomsky 1981:36, 139). By clear implication, the 0roles that Chomsky originally had in mind to fulfill this criterion were th ...
... manded by the 0-CRITERIONof GB: each NP argument of a predicate is assigned exactly one 0-role, and the same 0-role is not assigned to two NP arguments of the same predicate (Chomsky 1981:36, 139). By clear implication, the 0roles that Chomsky originally had in mind to fulfill this criterion were th ...
Hausa Grammar and Classical Logic: Transculturality of Sentential
... As there is an inseparable relation between mind and language, the question now is: does the learning of a language go together with the learning of a new logic? On this subject, it is interesting to compare the main points of the classical logic to the Hausa, a tonal language, whose syntax and phon ...
... As there is an inseparable relation between mind and language, the question now is: does the learning of a language go together with the learning of a new logic? On this subject, it is interesting to compare the main points of the classical logic to the Hausa, a tonal language, whose syntax and phon ...
Typological variation of the adjectival class
... Ask a layperson what they know about grammar and you are likely to get an answer that has something to do with parts of speech; ask a linguist what they know about parts of speech and the answer is quite likely to be much less enlightening. Parts of speech systems or, as I will refer to them here, l ...
... Ask a layperson what they know about grammar and you are likely to get an answer that has something to do with parts of speech; ask a linguist what they know about parts of speech and the answer is quite likely to be much less enlightening. Parts of speech systems or, as I will refer to them here, l ...
Содержание: Preface Chapter I. Grammar in the Systemic
... system. Only the unity of these three elements forms a language; without any one of them there is no human language in the above sense. The phonological system is the subfoundation of language; it determines the material (phonetical) appearance of its significative units. The lexical system is the w ...
... system. Only the unity of these three elements forms a language; without any one of them there is no human language in the above sense. The phonological system is the subfoundation of language; it determines the material (phonetical) appearance of its significative units. The lexical system is the w ...
A Grammar and Glossary of the Manange Language Kristine A. Hildebrandt
... others. For example, in the 1991 census, there is one category called ‘Rai/Kirant’. Although many Nepalese consider all people called Rai to be in the same ethnic group, there are actually dozens of clearly distinct Rai languages (Hansson (1991) lists 41). The census states that there are 439,000 Ra ...
... others. For example, in the 1991 census, there is one category called ‘Rai/Kirant’. Although many Nepalese consider all people called Rai to be in the same ethnic group, there are actually dozens of clearly distinct Rai languages (Hansson (1991) lists 41). The census states that there are 439,000 Ra ...
What is Syntax?
... • But individual words can’t always appear before verbs: – *little are going… – *blue are… – *and are • Must be able to state generalizations like: – Noun phrases occur before verbs ...
... • But individual words can’t always appear before verbs: – *little are going… – *blue are… – *and are • Must be able to state generalizations like: – Noun phrases occur before verbs ...