Spidey Notes
... If all of the three major networks broadcast the same statement, television will be superficial. In other words, it's not correct to use can after if (in the context of what we've been talking about). Let's look at a simpler example: If the temperature drops below 0 degrees celsius, distilled water ...
... If all of the three major networks broadcast the same statement, television will be superficial. In other words, it's not correct to use can after if (in the context of what we've been talking about). Let's look at a simpler example: If the temperature drops below 0 degrees celsius, distilled water ...
Comma Notes
... Set off with commas any words that are unnecessary for the grammatical completeness of the sentence and that interrupt its natural flow. A partial listing of these parenthetical expressions are: ...
... Set off with commas any words that are unnecessary for the grammatical completeness of the sentence and that interrupt its natural flow. A partial listing of these parenthetical expressions are: ...
Welcome to Unit 1
... Writing is a form of self-expression A way to liberate yourself from all oppression It could be a teacher’s plans for next day’s lesson Or a novelist who loves to keep you guessing Writing helps you use imagination Whether you’re in school or on vacation I make music in planes and train stations The ...
... Writing is a form of self-expression A way to liberate yourself from all oppression It could be a teacher’s plans for next day’s lesson Or a novelist who loves to keep you guessing Writing helps you use imagination Whether you’re in school or on vacation I make music in planes and train stations The ...
FNLP Lecture 8 Part-of-speech tagging and HMMs What is part of
... – Words we haven’t seen before (at all, or in this context) – Word-Tag pairs we haven’t seen before (e.g., if we verb a noun) ...
... – Words we haven’t seen before (at all, or in this context) – Word-Tag pairs we haven’t seen before (e.g., if we verb a noun) ...
Grammar Tweets - Queen`s University
... November 10, 2013 .................................................................................................................................................. 20 November 12, 2013 – Remembrance not Rememberance ................................................................................... ...
... November 10, 2013 .................................................................................................................................................. 20 November 12, 2013 – Remembrance not Rememberance ................................................................................... ...
Chapter 6 Syntax: Words in Combination
... words into phrases and sentences. As with other aspects of language, syntactic structures are principled and systematic, with the potential for detailed analysis and description. Words that occur in phrases and sentences can be shown not only to have semantic, or meaningful, relationships to each ot ...
... words into phrases and sentences. As with other aspects of language, syntactic structures are principled and systematic, with the potential for detailed analysis and description. Words that occur in phrases and sentences can be shown not only to have semantic, or meaningful, relationships to each ot ...
Discovering Light Verb Constructions and their Translations from
... to other language pairs and MWE categories, specially those MWE translated as single words. In this case, we are still investigating solutions but one of them consists in using monolingual word embeddings and similarity measures in order to define if the translation should be an MWE or a single word ...
... to other language pairs and MWE categories, specially those MWE translated as single words. In this case, we are still investigating solutions but one of them consists in using monolingual word embeddings and similarity measures in order to define if the translation should be an MWE or a single word ...
Lists
... Short sentences are an index of good writing style. Word processing programs allow you to do word counts. sentence = input('Enter a sentence: ') words = sentence.split() count = len(words) print('There are', count, 'words in your sentence.') ...
... Short sentences are an index of good writing style. Word processing programs allow you to do word counts. sentence = input('Enter a sentence: ') words = sentence.split() count = len(words) print('There are', count, 'words in your sentence.') ...
Passive and impersonal se in the history of Portuguese Ana
... But one crucial difference between historical syntax and other types of comparative syntax is that the central empirical data of the former is E[xternal]-language, the data of the historical texts, whereas the essential objects of the latter is I-language, the internal grammar. (2000:9) Leaving asid ...
... But one crucial difference between historical syntax and other types of comparative syntax is that the central empirical data of the former is E[xternal]-language, the data of the historical texts, whereas the essential objects of the latter is I-language, the internal grammar. (2000:9) Leaving asid ...
Scientific Writing - The University of Sydney
... “You have been told, I daresay often enough, that the business of writing demands two – the author and the reader. Add to this what is equally obvious, that the obligation of courtesy rests first with the author, who invites the séance, and commonly charges for it. What follows, but that in speaking ...
... “You have been told, I daresay often enough, that the business of writing demands two – the author and the reader. Add to this what is equally obvious, that the obligation of courtesy rests first with the author, who invites the séance, and commonly charges for it. What follows, but that in speaking ...
English Medium
... The verbs give different shades of meanings when they are used with some most important adverbial particles like up, in, out, into, of, off, on Key: 1) My brother, 2) They, 3) proposal, 4) she, 5) they The 17th question may on direct and indirect speech For example: Direct and Indirect Speech: 'I de ...
... The verbs give different shades of meanings when they are used with some most important adverbial particles like up, in, out, into, of, off, on Key: 1) My brother, 2) They, 3) proposal, 4) she, 5) they The 17th question may on direct and indirect speech For example: Direct and Indirect Speech: 'I de ...
RELC Journal
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
... Singapore There have been a substantial number of studies on the acquisition of interrogative structures by children learning English both as a first and a second language. The present paper is yet another study of the same nature except that here the study is made in the Singapore context where man ...
Grade 8 Language structure - sentence construction
... The family can either make hamburgers at home or go out for a meal. My neighbour has invited us for a braai on the 28th but we have a prior engagement. My leg is sore and I need to put it up. Can you fetch me a beanbag or should I ask your brother? The nights are getting longer now, and the days are ...
... The family can either make hamburgers at home or go out for a meal. My neighbour has invited us for a braai on the 28th but we have a prior engagement. My leg is sore and I need to put it up. Can you fetch me a beanbag or should I ask your brother? The nights are getting longer now, and the days are ...
A Deterministic Parser With Broad Coverage
... contain "appeared", the second, "yesterday", and the third, "about". (More generally, a complete NP as discussed in (Marcus 1980) could reside in the second lookahcad cell, and the a PP in the third. Note that the type of the PP will determine whether it is a possible complement of the Subject NP.) ...
... contain "appeared", the second, "yesterday", and the third, "about". (More generally, a complete NP as discussed in (Marcus 1980) could reside in the second lookahcad cell, and the a PP in the third. Note that the type of the PP will determine whether it is a possible complement of the Subject NP.) ...
Supersense Tagging of Unknown Nouns using Semantic Similarity
... Caraballo and Charniak (1999) have explored determining noun specificity from raw text. They find that simple frequency counts are the most effective way of determining the parent-child ordering, achieving 83% accuracy over types of vehicle, food and occupation. The other measure they found to be su ...
... Caraballo and Charniak (1999) have explored determining noun specificity from raw text. They find that simple frequency counts are the most effective way of determining the parent-child ordering, achieving 83% accuracy over types of vehicle, food and occupation. The other measure they found to be su ...
Adverbs in the Sanskrit wordnet
... ◦ Ciram ‘for a long time’ If considered derived from cira: such word does not exist either as a noun or an adjective Non-derived: cannot be linked to any other synset ◦ Tūṣṇīm ‘silently’ Non-derived: cannot be linked to any other synset ◦ Yathāśakti ‘according to one’s power or ability’ Deri ...
... ◦ Ciram ‘for a long time’ If considered derived from cira: such word does not exist either as a noun or an adjective Non-derived: cannot be linked to any other synset ◦ Tūṣṇīm ‘silently’ Non-derived: cannot be linked to any other synset ◦ Yathāśakti ‘according to one’s power or ability’ Deri ...
Grammar Conjunctions - Neshaminy School District
... (independent clause) to show how it relates to the previous sentence. Some common conjunctive adverbs are also, consequently, finally, furthermore, however, meanwhile, nevertheless, next, still, therefore, and thus. Unlike subordinating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs do not make clauses dependent ...
... (independent clause) to show how it relates to the previous sentence. Some common conjunctive adverbs are also, consequently, finally, furthermore, however, meanwhile, nevertheless, next, still, therefore, and thus. Unlike subordinating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs do not make clauses dependent ...
An Analysis of the Suffixes –Er and –Zi in Mandarin
... in the words in which they appear. See, for example, the following words: hái-zi 孩子 / hái-er 孩儿1 ‘child’, and, zhuō-zi 桌子/ zhuō-er 桌儿 ‘table’; both variants for each have the same meaning. At the same time, some words are often encountered with only either one of the two suffixes, while other words ...
... in the words in which they appear. See, for example, the following words: hái-zi 孩子 / hái-er 孩儿1 ‘child’, and, zhuō-zi 桌子/ zhuō-er 桌儿 ‘table’; both variants for each have the same meaning. At the same time, some words are often encountered with only either one of the two suffixes, while other words ...
Here
... We have explained the distribution of indefinite subjects in non-generic constituent questions in terms of information structure. We have started from the generalization that any sentence needs a topic and from the classical observation that if the subject is definite or specific, the topic of the s ...
... We have explained the distribution of indefinite subjects in non-generic constituent questions in terms of information structure. We have started from the generalization that any sentence needs a topic and from the classical observation that if the subject is definite or specific, the topic of the s ...
Thai Linguistic Analysis
... grammatical marker in Thai for the perfective/imperfective aspect. Past tense is expressed by adding a separate time word. When a verb is reduplicated, the action indicated by the verb is intensified. Thai nouns do not have a grammatical gender. Thai does not have an associative plural. In a noun ph ...
... grammatical marker in Thai for the perfective/imperfective aspect. Past tense is expressed by adding a separate time word. When a verb is reduplicated, the action indicated by the verb is intensified. Thai nouns do not have a grammatical gender. Thai does not have an associative plural. In a noun ph ...
Distributional Parts of Speech
... Problem: How can dependency relations be established without word classes? Basic assumption: Word classes are only language-particular and based entirely on form and distribution 1.2.2 Propositional acts and discourse as basis for word classes Sapir (1921) advocates two different theories of word cl ...
... Problem: How can dependency relations be established without word classes? Basic assumption: Word classes are only language-particular and based entirely on form and distribution 1.2.2 Propositional acts and discourse as basis for word classes Sapir (1921) advocates two different theories of word cl ...
Rule-Based Detection of Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis
... This belongs to me and that to you demonstrates the ellipsis in question, namely gapping. The Constraint Grammar rules are made for a Finnish parsebank, FinnTreeBank. The FinnTreeBank project is building a parsebank in the dependency syntactic framework in which verbs are central since other sentenc ...
... This belongs to me and that to you demonstrates the ellipsis in question, namely gapping. The Constraint Grammar rules are made for a Finnish parsebank, FinnTreeBank. The FinnTreeBank project is building a parsebank in the dependency syntactic framework in which verbs are central since other sentenc ...
Adverbs from Adjectives
... created by adding the suffix – mente to the end of an adjective. When you see a Spanish word that ends in – mente, try picturing “–ly” on the end of the word and you may recognize a simple cognate that looks very similar to its English equivalent. In both languages, there are some adverbs that are s ...
... created by adding the suffix – mente to the end of an adjective. When you see a Spanish word that ends in – mente, try picturing “–ly” on the end of the word and you may recognize a simple cognate that looks very similar to its English equivalent. In both languages, there are some adverbs that are s ...
Null Subjects and the EPP. Towards a unified account of pro
... predict, however, that if subject pronouns should ever become optional in Icelandic, they would be unlikely to become obligatory again, without concomitant loss of agreement morphology, which perhaps provides insight into why languages of this type are comparatively uncommon. Discourse pro-drop It i ...
... predict, however, that if subject pronouns should ever become optional in Icelandic, they would be unlikely to become obligatory again, without concomitant loss of agreement morphology, which perhaps provides insight into why languages of this type are comparatively uncommon. Discourse pro-drop It i ...