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 ...
Automatic Detection of Grammar Elements that Decrease Readability
... Figure 2: Automatically detected grammar elements The first test is a closed test, where we examine whether grammar elements in example sentences of TCS are detected correctly. TCS gives 840 example sentences, and there are 802 sentences from which their grammar elements are detected correctly. From ...
... Figure 2: Automatically detected grammar elements The first test is a closed test, where we examine whether grammar elements in example sentences of TCS are detected correctly. TCS gives 840 example sentences, and there are 802 sentences from which their grammar elements are detected correctly. From ...
Toward a balanced formal-functional grammatical description
... hands, yet the sentence does not mention WHICH of "her hands" the subject is holding. In fact, if the speaker did specify "her right hand" it may be a potential distraction. The hearer may legitimately wonder why the speaker is mentioning her right hand. There must be some relevance to that detail, ...
... hands, yet the sentence does not mention WHICH of "her hands" the subject is holding. In fact, if the speaker did specify "her right hand" it may be a potential distraction. The hearer may legitimately wonder why the speaker is mentioning her right hand. There must be some relevance to that detail, ...
(2002), "An on-line look at sentence processing in the second
... second than native language were more prone to interference from homophones when processing semantically anomalous sentences (e.g. "The weather was fare.") than were bilinguals were read equally fast in their two languages. While second language reading may indeed suffer from a lesser degree of auto ...
... second than native language were more prone to interference from homophones when processing semantically anomalous sentences (e.g. "The weather was fare.") than were bilinguals were read equally fast in their two languages. While second language reading may indeed suffer from a lesser degree of auto ...
topic fronting, focus positioning and the nature of the verb phrase in
... In these examples, the main verb is il "to die", "to kill", zan is the 3rd pers. sing. past intransitive auxiliary, and atzo is an adverb meaning "yesterday". In transitive sentences, both the subject (in the ergative case) and the object (in the absolutive case) may either precede or follow the ver ...
... In these examples, the main verb is il "to die", "to kill", zan is the 3rd pers. sing. past intransitive auxiliary, and atzo is an adverb meaning "yesterday". In transitive sentences, both the subject (in the ergative case) and the object (in the absolutive case) may either precede or follow the ver ...
sciwri1(2012)
... NOUN -- A noun is a naming word, a word that identifies a person, place, thing, or abstract idea. The name of a specific person or place--such as Jane Doe, Abraham Lincoln, New York, or England--is called a proper noun. A few common nouns: house, boss, dogs, football, mother, kitchen, King George, b ...
... NOUN -- A noun is a naming word, a word that identifies a person, place, thing, or abstract idea. The name of a specific person or place--such as Jane Doe, Abraham Lincoln, New York, or England--is called a proper noun. A few common nouns: house, boss, dogs, football, mother, kitchen, King George, b ...
Open full syllabus overview
... are grouped into 4 categories: Building Grammar, Building Vocabulary, Listening Development and ...
... are grouped into 4 categories: Building Grammar, Building Vocabulary, Listening Development and ...
Tailoring a broad coverage grammar for the analysis of dictionary
... 1. Resolution of ambiguous assignment. The default strategy for attachment ambiguity, namely attachment to the closest possible head, should sometimes be changed for dictionary text, bi this way, some attachments which would remain ambiguous in ordinary texts can be disambiguated in the context of d ...
... 1. Resolution of ambiguous assignment. The default strategy for attachment ambiguity, namely attachment to the closest possible head, should sometimes be changed for dictionary text, bi this way, some attachments which would remain ambiguous in ordinary texts can be disambiguated in the context of d ...
Emily Dickinson: Master of Literary Form
... pulls her pieces together is that it exemplifies the unlimited amount of knowledge that Dickinson had (Miller 27). Emily Dickinson also uses parataxis throughout her poetry. She placs sentences, phrases, or clauses together without the use of a conjunctive word (Miller 30). Dickinson uses parataxis ...
... pulls her pieces together is that it exemplifies the unlimited amount of knowledge that Dickinson had (Miller 27). Emily Dickinson also uses parataxis throughout her poetry. She placs sentences, phrases, or clauses together without the use of a conjunctive word (Miller 30). Dickinson uses parataxis ...
PERT Review Guide - Valencia College
... Defined: Verb tense is the form of a verb used to indicate a point in time. ...
... Defined: Verb tense is the form of a verb used to indicate a point in time. ...
View - Ministry of Education, Guyana
... It is acknowledged that thorough planning is essential for effective teaching and learning. Such planning is even more critical today when one considers the limited resources, both human and material which are available. The Ministry of Education, through the Secondary School Reform Project (SSRP), ...
... It is acknowledged that thorough planning is essential for effective teaching and learning. Such planning is even more critical today when one considers the limited resources, both human and material which are available. The Ministry of Education, through the Secondary School Reform Project (SSRP), ...
Sentence Types
... the punctuation (comma use) that is part of each sentence type. Review what a fragment, a run on and a comma splice is. Practice writing one sentence of each type. Check your sentences with ...
... the punctuation (comma use) that is part of each sentence type. Review what a fragment, a run on and a comma splice is. Practice writing one sentence of each type. Check your sentences with ...
Catenae in Morphology
... idioms to compounding leads to the straightforward assumption that the units involved in these types of compound must qualify as catenae if they are to be retained in the lexicon. But the lexicon, as understood in construction grammar, also contains constructions, which is why Goldberg (1995) calls ...
... idioms to compounding leads to the straightforward assumption that the units involved in these types of compound must qualify as catenae if they are to be retained in the lexicon. But the lexicon, as understood in construction grammar, also contains constructions, which is why Goldberg (1995) calls ...
Language acquisition without an acquisition device
... Han et al. propose the structures in Figure 2 for English and Korean. (Do not be alarmed by the abstractness of these structures; the only thing of relevance here is whether the negative is higher than the universal quantifier.) Matters in English are straightforward: the negative is higher in synta ...
... Han et al. propose the structures in Figure 2 for English and Korean. (Do not be alarmed by the abstractness of these structures; the only thing of relevance here is whether the negative is higher than the universal quantifier.) Matters in English are straightforward: the negative is higher in synta ...
Language Acquisition
... think, not just learning to talk. This is an intriguing hypothesis, but virtually all modern cognitive scientists believe it is false (see Pinker, 1994a). Babies can think before they can talk (Chapter X). Cognitive psychology has shown that people think not just in words but in images (see Chapter ...
... think, not just learning to talk. This is an intriguing hypothesis, but virtually all modern cognitive scientists believe it is false (see Pinker, 1994a). Babies can think before they can talk (Chapter X). Cognitive psychology has shown that people think not just in words but in images (see Chapter ...
Language Acquisition - Electronics and Computer Science
... different ways. Language acquisition, then, would be learning to think, not just learning to talk. This is an intriguing hypothesis, but virtually all modern cognitive scientists believe it is false (see Pinker, 1994a). Babies can think before they can talk (Chapter X). Cognitive psychology has show ...
... different ways. Language acquisition, then, would be learning to think, not just learning to talk. This is an intriguing hypothesis, but virtually all modern cognitive scientists believe it is false (see Pinker, 1994a). Babies can think before they can talk (Chapter X). Cognitive psychology has show ...
Language Acquisition
... that people think not just in words but in images (see Chapter X) and abstract logical propositions (see the chapter by Larson). And linguistics has shown that human languages are too ambiguous and schematic to use as a medium of internal computation: when people think about "spring," surely they ar ...
... that people think not just in words but in images (see Chapter X) and abstract logical propositions (see the chapter by Larson). And linguistics has shown that human languages are too ambiguous and schematic to use as a medium of internal computation: when people think about "spring," surely they ar ...
Language Acquisition - Electronics and Computer Science
... different ways. Language acquisition, then, would be learning to think, not just learning to talk. This is an intriguing hypothesis, but virtually all modern cognitive scientists believe it is false (see Pinker, 1994a). Babies can think before they can talk (Chapter X). Cognitive psychology has show ...
... different ways. Language acquisition, then, would be learning to think, not just learning to talk. This is an intriguing hypothesis, but virtually all modern cognitive scientists believe it is false (see Pinker, 1994a). Babies can think before they can talk (Chapter X). Cognitive psychology has show ...
The interaction of focus particles and information structure in
... This study investigates how German speaking 6-year-old children interpret sentences with the focus particle (FP) nur ‘only’. Challenging previous accounts, our results show that children’s difficulties with FPs are caused by the specific information structure of FP-sentences rather than by syntactic ...
... This study investigates how German speaking 6-year-old children interpret sentences with the focus particle (FP) nur ‘only’. Challenging previous accounts, our results show that children’s difficulties with FPs are caused by the specific information structure of FP-sentences rather than by syntactic ...
TIƠP CËN HÖ THèNG TRONG Tæ CHøC L•NH THæ
... ‘Delight’ (n) first as a non-count noun denotes the feeling of great pleasure. Examples are the restricted collocations ‘give delight to somebody’ and ‘To one’s (great) delight’ or prepositional phrases with ‘in’ and ‘with’, either post-modified by prepositional phrases with ‘at’ or not, as in: I as ...
... ‘Delight’ (n) first as a non-count noun denotes the feeling of great pleasure. Examples are the restricted collocations ‘give delight to somebody’ and ‘To one’s (great) delight’ or prepositional phrases with ‘in’ and ‘with’, either post-modified by prepositional phrases with ‘at’ or not, as in: I as ...
Child language acquisition: Why Universal Grammar doesn*t help
... analysis (the prosodic bootstrapping account, discussed below, is a possible exception). For example, as Yang (2008: 206) notes “[Chomsky’s] LSLT [Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory] program explicitly advocates a probabilistic approach to words and categories ‘through the analysis of clustering ...
... analysis (the prosodic bootstrapping account, discussed below, is a possible exception). For example, as Yang (2008: 206) notes “[Chomsky’s] LSLT [Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory] program explicitly advocates a probabilistic approach to words and categories ‘through the analysis of clustering ...
1. Linguistic processing
... Most of the existing search methods employ search by key words, they do not take into account the possibility of semantic search containing language processing tools and being an alternative type of search. Search by key words often does not satisfy the main requirement of the user, namely the requi ...
... Most of the existing search methods employ search by key words, they do not take into account the possibility of semantic search containing language processing tools and being an alternative type of search. Search by key words often does not satisfy the main requirement of the user, namely the requi ...
Egenéto he basileia tou kosmou tou kyríou hêmon kai tou
... We might wish for more examples of Quenya infinitives and their uses. When an infinitive is used to complete the meaning of another verb, it would seem that the simple, uninflected aorist stem is used (polin quetë “I can speak”, PE17:181, ecë nin carë sa, “I can do it”, VT49:34).1 There is also the ...
... We might wish for more examples of Quenya infinitives and their uses. When an infinitive is used to complete the meaning of another verb, it would seem that the simple, uninflected aorist stem is used (polin quetë “I can speak”, PE17:181, ecë nin carë sa, “I can do it”, VT49:34).1 There is also the ...