Performance Grammar: a Declarative Definition
... special demands on the design of grammar formalisms claiming psychological plausibility. In order to meet these demands, PG generates syntactic structures in a two-stage process. In the rst and most important ‘hierarchical’ stage, unordered hierarchical structures (‘mobiles’) are assembled out of ...
... special demands on the design of grammar formalisms claiming psychological plausibility. In order to meet these demands, PG generates syntactic structures in a two-stage process. In the rst and most important ‘hierarchical’ stage, unordered hierarchical structures (‘mobiles’) are assembled out of ...
Thursday, August 19 (PowerPoint Format)
... • “Nor” is very flexible, too, but rules of English make it a bit less flexible than “and” and “or.” Frequently, it is used with “neither,” which is also classed as a conjunction since it helps “nor” join words. – John doesn’t sing, nor does he dance. – Neither Bill nor Joe likes coffee. ...
... • “Nor” is very flexible, too, but rules of English make it a bit less flexible than “and” and “or.” Frequently, it is used with “neither,” which is also classed as a conjunction since it helps “nor” join words. – John doesn’t sing, nor does he dance. – Neither Bill nor Joe likes coffee. ...
Revision of English III Grammar
... could be easily treated appeased community leaders, but they requested further assurances that the authorities were doing everything within their control to contain (4)the spread/outbreak/bug. The hospital authority has announced (5) a thorough investigation into the causes of this epidemic. As (6)a ...
... could be easily treated appeased community leaders, but they requested further assurances that the authorities were doing everything within their control to contain (4)the spread/outbreak/bug. The hospital authority has announced (5) a thorough investigation into the causes of this epidemic. As (6)a ...
english 11 grammar packet
... UNIT 1: SENTENCE FAULTS AND PUNCTUATION LESSON TWO: SENTENCE FRAGMENTS (FRAG) A sentence fragment is a group of words that pretends to be a sentence, but does not contain one of the requirements of a complete sentence – either a subject, a verb, or a completed thought. Most fragments are phrases or ...
... UNIT 1: SENTENCE FAULTS AND PUNCTUATION LESSON TWO: SENTENCE FRAGMENTS (FRAG) A sentence fragment is a group of words that pretends to be a sentence, but does not contain one of the requirements of a complete sentence – either a subject, a verb, or a completed thought. Most fragments are phrases or ...
english - Ressursmateriell: Introducing English Grammar
... a. 1 We need to book our tickets. (Book is a verb – it occurs after to.) 2 I bought him a book about butterflies. (Book is a noun – it occurs after the article a.) b. 1 They saluted the American flag. (American is an adjective – it describes flag, which is a noun.) 2 They saluted the ...
... a. 1 We need to book our tickets. (Book is a verb – it occurs after to.) 2 I bought him a book about butterflies. (Book is a noun – it occurs after the article a.) b. 1 They saluted the American flag. (American is an adjective – it describes flag, which is a noun.) 2 They saluted the ...
Dowty - Princeton University
... One could still try to treat aspectual class as a syntactic property of sentences in spite of these complications; in fact Verkuyl (1972) employs this syntactic approach. To carry out this method, Verkuyl finds it necessary to subcategorize a large variety of syntactic categories for aspectual class ...
... One could still try to treat aspectual class as a syntactic property of sentences in spite of these complications; in fact Verkuyl (1972) employs this syntactic approach. To carry out this method, Verkuyl finds it necessary to subcategorize a large variety of syntactic categories for aspectual class ...
acctg 527 -- comma usage – basics
... Don’t try to join independent clauses with only a comma. This is a comma splice. Refer to Sentence 1, p. 1. Final note. Don’t rely on Word’s grammar-check! On the previous page, Word picked up the error only in sentence number 6. It identified none of the others. ...
... Don’t try to join independent clauses with only a comma. This is a comma splice. Refer to Sentence 1, p. 1. Final note. Don’t rely on Word’s grammar-check! On the previous page, Word picked up the error only in sentence number 6. It identified none of the others. ...
Relativization in English and Embosi
... In addition to their postnominal position, English RC are accessible via an overt or covert marker/operator. Put otherwise, the RC is visible lexically by the presence of a relative operator which confirms the syntactic property of RC. (5) a- The baby who/that is foxy b- The house which is opposite ...
... In addition to their postnominal position, English RC are accessible via an overt or covert marker/operator. Put otherwise, the RC is visible lexically by the presence of a relative operator which confirms the syntactic property of RC. (5) a- The baby who/that is foxy b- The house which is opposite ...
PROCESSING COMPLEX SENTENCES FOR INFORMATION
... signal transduction pathways cited in peer-reviewed publications for evidence. Though scientists in the field are aided by many databases of biochemical interactions available for use online, a majority of these databases are curated by domain experts, often from literature. Information extraction f ...
... signal transduction pathways cited in peer-reviewed publications for evidence. Though scientists in the field are aided by many databases of biochemical interactions available for use online, a majority of these databases are curated by domain experts, often from literature. Information extraction f ...
Fix-It Student Pages
... Welcome to Fix-It! This document contains the student pages for the Frog Prince, or Just Desserts Fix-Its. They are formatted for two-sided printing but may be printed single-sided. Each student will need his own copy of the student pages. If you are a classroom teacher, you are welcome to make copi ...
... Welcome to Fix-It! This document contains the student pages for the Frog Prince, or Just Desserts Fix-Its. They are formatted for two-sided printing but may be printed single-sided. Each student will need his own copy of the student pages. If you are a classroom teacher, you are welcome to make copi ...
The Participle Phrase
... A participle phrase will begin with a present or past participle. If the participle is present, it will dependably end in ing. Likewise, a regular past participle will end in a consistent ed. Irregular past participles, unfortunately, conclude in all kinds of ways [Check a dictionary for help]. Sinc ...
... A participle phrase will begin with a present or past participle. If the participle is present, it will dependably end in ing. Likewise, a regular past participle will end in a consistent ed. Irregular past participles, unfortunately, conclude in all kinds of ways [Check a dictionary for help]. Sinc ...
3. @ The Clause
... What is interesting here is that while each of the subjectless infinitive strings (172b,d) may appear to be of a phrasal classification, their substitution counterparts show a potential subject slot within the constituency--promoting its status from a single constituent phrase to a multi-constituent ...
... What is interesting here is that while each of the subjectless infinitive strings (172b,d) may appear to be of a phrasal classification, their substitution counterparts show a potential subject slot within the constituency--promoting its status from a single constituent phrase to a multi-constituent ...
The Participle Phrase
... A participle phrase will begin with a present or past participle. If the participle is present, it will dependably end in ing. Likewise, a regular past participle will end in a consistent ed. Irregular past participles, unfortunately, conclude in all kinds of ways [Check a dictionary for help]. Sinc ...
... A participle phrase will begin with a present or past participle. If the participle is present, it will dependably end in ing. Likewise, a regular past participle will end in a consistent ed. Irregular past participles, unfortunately, conclude in all kinds of ways [Check a dictionary for help]. Sinc ...
An Incremental Procedural Grammar for Sentence Formulation
... such provisional (sub)trees in parallel and throw away those which, for whatever reason, turn out to be unsuitable? Or why not arbitrarily choose one possibility and take the risk of having to revise that choice at a later point in time? The answer is that both these proposals violate the Determinis ...
... such provisional (sub)trees in parallel and throw away those which, for whatever reason, turn out to be unsuitable? Or why not arbitrarily choose one possibility and take the risk of having to revise that choice at a later point in time? The answer is that both these proposals violate the Determinis ...
Subject, Topic and Topic Chain in Chinese
... by the topic that appears at the first clause in the same chain. g. Topic, except in clauses in which it is also subject, plays no role in such processes as reflexivization, passivization, Equi-NP deletion, and imperativization. ...
... by the topic that appears at the first clause in the same chain. g. Topic, except in clauses in which it is also subject, plays no role in such processes as reflexivization, passivization, Equi-NP deletion, and imperativization. ...
An Incremental Proceduml Grammar for Sentence Formulation GERARD KEMPEN
... such provisional (sub)trees in parallel and throw away those which, for whatever reason, turn out to be unsuitable? Or why not arbitrarily choose one possibility and take the risk of having to revise that choice at a later point in time? The answer is that both these proposals violate the Determinis ...
... such provisional (sub)trees in parallel and throw away those which, for whatever reason, turn out to be unsuitable? Or why not arbitrarily choose one possibility and take the risk of having to revise that choice at a later point in time? The answer is that both these proposals violate the Determinis ...
Bi-Lexical Rules for Multi-Lexeme Translation in Lexicalist MT 1
... Normally, generation involves a modi ed parser which ignores ordering information (Brew 1992; Popowich 1995) although other approaches are also possible (Poznanski et al. 1995). ...
... Normally, generation involves a modi ed parser which ignores ordering information (Brew 1992; Popowich 1995) although other approaches are also possible (Poznanski et al. 1995). ...
gems: a model of sentence production
... The meaning of a lexical entry is made up of four components. (a) T h e r e are first of all one or more propositional units with the same types of predicates that are found in ENC. The only difference is that the units which are found in a lexical entry have letter codes and not number codes on the ...
... The meaning of a lexical entry is made up of four components. (a) T h e r e are first of all one or more propositional units with the same types of predicates that are found in ENC. The only difference is that the units which are found in a lexical entry have letter codes and not number codes on the ...
Sentence diagram generation using dependency parsing
... parsers. In this paper, we propose a novel solution to the difficulty of converting between dependency models. The options that have previously been presented for comparing dependency models are either too specific to be accurate (relying on annotation schemes that are not adequately parallel for co ...
... parsers. In this paper, we propose a novel solution to the difficulty of converting between dependency models. The options that have previously been presented for comparing dependency models are either too specific to be accurate (relying on annotation schemes that are not adequately parallel for co ...
as a PDF
... clauses and sentences are matched. Our system, by contrast, takes advantage of top-down information provided by a characterization of German clause types in terms of topological fields2 . Topological fields describe sections in the German sentence with regard to the distributional properties of the ...
... clauses and sentences are matched. Our system, by contrast, takes advantage of top-down information provided by a characterization of German clause types in terms of topological fields2 . Topological fields describe sections in the German sentence with regard to the distributional properties of the ...
A Comparative Study of the Globally Ambiguous
... Sentence 7: Failing student looked hard. There are a number of explanations when we try to decode Sentence 7, and the main reasons of the multiple understandings lie in the polysemous meanings contained in the two key lexemes “falling” and “hard”. Grammatically speaking, the word “falling” can be ca ...
... Sentence 7: Failing student looked hard. There are a number of explanations when we try to decode Sentence 7, and the main reasons of the multiple understandings lie in the polysemous meanings contained in the two key lexemes “falling” and “hard”. Grammatically speaking, the word “falling” can be ca ...
Yu-ping
... structure, we will find that not all nouns require a determiner. Some Head N (e.g. book, car) require a determiner while others (e.g. Bill, Japan) do not. From this view, determiners seem to be optional and can be treated as an adjunct in an NP structure. In this way, treating the small clause in ex ...
... structure, we will find that not all nouns require a determiner. Some Head N (e.g. book, car) require a determiner while others (e.g. Bill, Japan) do not. From this view, determiners seem to be optional and can be treated as an adjunct in an NP structure. In this way, treating the small clause in ex ...
PART B - Academic Skills
... to have at least an independent (or main) clause. A complex sentence made up of several clauses can be co-joined to form one sentence (e.g. two independent clauses joined by ‘ and’, ‘ or’, ‘ but’). It can also be made up of an independent clause and several dependent ones. Dependent clauses cannot f ...
... to have at least an independent (or main) clause. A complex sentence made up of several clauses can be co-joined to form one sentence (e.g. two independent clauses joined by ‘ and’, ‘ or’, ‘ but’). It can also be made up of an independent clause and several dependent ones. Dependent clauses cannot f ...
Chapter 3
... So it is clearly dependent. However, it is often argued in the literature (e.g. Haiman 1980; Reesink 1983; Roberts 1988) that such clauses do not seem to be embedded and differ from clearly subordinate clauses in these languages. For example, they do not allow cataphoric pronominal reference, which ...
... So it is clearly dependent. However, it is often argued in the literature (e.g. Haiman 1980; Reesink 1983; Roberts 1988) that such clauses do not seem to be embedded and differ from clearly subordinate clauses in these languages. For example, they do not allow cataphoric pronominal reference, which ...
The linguistic string parser*
... daughter node to its parent by a vertical line, and connecting the other daughter nodes to the first by a horizontal line. This is really the natural convention for a string grammar, since it emphasizes the connection between the elements of a string definition. More interesting is the regular appea ...
... daughter node to its parent by a vertical line, and connecting the other daughter nodes to the first by a horizontal line. This is really the natural convention for a string grammar, since it emphasizes the connection between the elements of a string definition. More interesting is the regular appea ...