The Bisecting CP Hypothesis
... nicely with LF movement. However, he points out that nearly any kind of word-string can be focused, so focus “movement” does not seem to behave like a syntactic phenomenon. If focus were somehow mediated by features on constituent heads triggering movement, then focus movement would obey or violate ...
... nicely with LF movement. However, he points out that nearly any kind of word-string can be focused, so focus “movement” does not seem to behave like a syntactic phenomenon. If focus were somehow mediated by features on constituent heads triggering movement, then focus movement would obey or violate ...
Reflexive and Reciprocal Constructions in Modern Irish
... Irish does not lend itself to a binary tree structural account of grammatical relations without substantial re-arrangement of the constituents to enable the c-command machinery to work. Such transformations operate with a base word order of SVO upon which the transformations are applied in a procedu ...
... Irish does not lend itself to a binary tree structural account of grammatical relations without substantial re-arrangement of the constituents to enable the c-command machinery to work. Such transformations operate with a base word order of SVO upon which the transformations are applied in a procedu ...
The Characteristics of English Linking Adverbials
... - His farther, who was very unhappy about his report card, decided to raise his allowance; but he decided not to give him the extra money immediately. 4. Finally, if the writer desires to throw emphasis on the second sentence, he may use a period before the conjunction, e.g. : - The firemen struggle ...
... - His farther, who was very unhappy about his report card, decided to raise his allowance; but he decided not to give him the extra money immediately. 4. Finally, if the writer desires to throw emphasis on the second sentence, he may use a period before the conjunction, e.g. : - The firemen struggle ...
Great Grammar Commas - The Described and Captioned Media
... a series, after a dependent clause, after introductory elements, before a conjunction, and with nonessential information. Each rule is discussed separately and several examples are given for the correct use of commas. The video also provides the viewer with strategies to see when a comma is necessar ...
... a series, after a dependent clause, after introductory elements, before a conjunction, and with nonessential information. Each rule is discussed separately and several examples are given for the correct use of commas. The video also provides the viewer with strategies to see when a comma is necessar ...
Full Text - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
... (Here g 0 ∼x g means that g 0 is the same assignment as g except for the possible difference that g 0 (x) 6= g(x) ). Since it obviously is not always possible to calculate the truth value of ∃xφ (for a given g) from the truth value of φ (for the same g), a compositional approach to predicate logic r ...
... (Here g 0 ∼x g means that g 0 is the same assignment as g except for the possible difference that g 0 (x) 6= g(x) ). Since it obviously is not always possible to calculate the truth value of ∃xφ (for a given g) from the truth value of φ (for the same g), a compositional approach to predicate logic r ...
CAPITALIZATION
... object receives the action of the verb. (her, him, it, me, them, us, whom, whomever) My father drove us to the mall. 3. Possessive case: The pronoun shows possession. (her/hers, his, its, my/mine, our/ours, their/theirs, whose) The dog found his bone. Indefinite pronouns take singular verbs- some ...
... object receives the action of the verb. (her, him, it, me, them, us, whom, whomever) My father drove us to the mall. 3. Possessive case: The pronoun shows possession. (her/hers, his, its, my/mine, our/ours, their/theirs, whose) The dog found his bone. Indefinite pronouns take singular verbs- some ...
Slide 1
... Introduction Imagine a culture with no word or sentence rules, a culture in which people could just make up their own rules. Such a culture would be headed for ruin. We must adhere to certain basic rules if we hope to communicate effectively. The following lesson includes two sections: (a) Word cla ...
... Introduction Imagine a culture with no word or sentence rules, a culture in which people could just make up their own rules. Such a culture would be headed for ruin. We must adhere to certain basic rules if we hope to communicate effectively. The following lesson includes two sections: (a) Word cla ...
Transformation of Idioms and Transparency
... Why do some idioms allow certain lexical variations and others — not? Why do some idioms allow certain grammatical changes in particular linguistic environment and others — not? Many aspects of metaphor use need to be clarified. Our approach to the study of idioms combines contextual analysis as idi ...
... Why do some idioms allow certain lexical variations and others — not? Why do some idioms allow certain grammatical changes in particular linguistic environment and others — not? Many aspects of metaphor use need to be clarified. Our approach to the study of idioms combines contextual analysis as idi ...
2004 Larson, R.K. and F. Marusic. Indefinite pronoun structures with
... DⳭN form of indefinite pronouns and the obligatory postnominal position of adjectives occurring with them. It does so by claiming that the latter is actually an illusion: postnominal adjectives with indefinite pronouns are actually prenominal adjectives that have been stranded by N-movement. In this ...
... DⳭN form of indefinite pronouns and the obligatory postnominal position of adjectives occurring with them. It does so by claiming that the latter is actually an illusion: postnominal adjectives with indefinite pronouns are actually prenominal adjectives that have been stranded by N-movement. In this ...
pdf - Université de Genève
... The interest in clitic pronouns in the generative grammar tradition goes back to the analysis made by Kayne (1975) as well as to the analysis on different types of clitics given by Zwicky (1977) (Miller & Monachesi, 2003: 67). Since then, clitics have been the object of much discussion in the lingui ...
... The interest in clitic pronouns in the generative grammar tradition goes back to the analysis made by Kayne (1975) as well as to the analysis on different types of clitics given by Zwicky (1977) (Miller & Monachesi, 2003: 67). Since then, clitics have been the object of much discussion in the lingui ...
Chapter 19: Lexical-Functional Grammar
... As you might guess from its name, there are two driving forces in LexicalFunctional Grammar: the lexicon (which we explore in section 3 below) and functions. The notion of function is borrowed from math and computer science. A function is a rule that maps from one item to another.2 There are really ...
... As you might guess from its name, there are two driving forces in LexicalFunctional Grammar: the lexicon (which we explore in section 3 below) and functions. The notion of function is borrowed from math and computer science. A function is a rule that maps from one item to another.2 There are really ...
The persistence of optional complementizer
... dependent upon representations of individual words and how they are used (e.g., MacDonald, Pearlmutter, & Seidenberg, 1994; Tomasello, 2000). Importantly, such lexically based approaches attempt to explain much of the evidence for autonomous syntactic processing by assuming that syntactic influences, ...
... dependent upon representations of individual words and how they are used (e.g., MacDonald, Pearlmutter, & Seidenberg, 1994; Tomasello, 2000). Importantly, such lexically based approaches attempt to explain much of the evidence for autonomous syntactic processing by assuming that syntactic influences, ...
281 A FUNCTIONAL AND FORMAL COMPARISON ON ADJECTIVE
... changing the meaning of the sentence. In other words, “the omission of the adjective clause robs the sentence of a most essential fact. (Allen, 1995)”. However, when the subordinator which introduces the restrictive relative clause acts as object in the dependent clause, it can be omitted, creating ...
... changing the meaning of the sentence. In other words, “the omission of the adjective clause robs the sentence of a most essential fact. (Allen, 1995)”. However, when the subordinator which introduces the restrictive relative clause acts as object in the dependent clause, it can be omitted, creating ...
adverb_test - Bharat School Of Banking
... Rule: When there are two or more adverbs after a verb (and its object), the normal order is; adverb of manner, adverb of place, adverb of time. 14. Incorrect: she did not despise(hate) none of her lovers. Correct: She did not despise any of her lovers. Rule : Two negatives should not be used in the ...
... Rule: When there are two or more adverbs after a verb (and its object), the normal order is; adverb of manner, adverb of place, adverb of time. 14. Incorrect: she did not despise(hate) none of her lovers. Correct: She did not despise any of her lovers. Rule : Two negatives should not be used in the ...
Table of Contents - Brevard County Schools
... • This book was designed to provide quick daily lessons in grammar, conventions, and craft by noticing sentence patterns from literature and imitating those patterns in writing. • Each lesson works in conjunction with daily grammar lessons in the reading series. For example, Day 1 of Unit 1 may teac ...
... • This book was designed to provide quick daily lessons in grammar, conventions, and craft by noticing sentence patterns from literature and imitating those patterns in writing. • Each lesson works in conjunction with daily grammar lessons in the reading series. For example, Day 1 of Unit 1 may teac ...
25_chapter 13
... preposition and a gerund. Here the word 'winning* does not do any thing of qualifying other words. It does rather the work of a noun, although partly verb informal. Hence it is a gerund which is partly a verb and partly a noun. So in the combining of the set of given sentences we have used the prepo ...
... preposition and a gerund. Here the word 'winning* does not do any thing of qualifying other words. It does rather the work of a noun, although partly verb informal. Hence it is a gerund which is partly a verb and partly a noun. So in the combining of the set of given sentences we have used the prepo ...
studies in basque syntax: relative clauses
... similating such accounts may help to free the student from his linguistic prejudices, be it the prejudice that all languages are basically like English, or the prejudice that languages differ in generally unpredictable ways. Moreover, since J. H. Greenberg's well-known typological study, we know tha ...
... similating such accounts may help to free the student from his linguistic prejudices, be it the prejudice that all languages are basically like English, or the prejudice that languages differ in generally unpredictable ways. Moreover, since J. H. Greenberg's well-known typological study, we know tha ...
Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head
... THL is mostly used in narratives and procedural texts3 and one of its primary functions is maintaining coherence – participant coherence and event coherence4 – between subsequent sentences in discourse.5 There appear to be different kinds of THL constructions. One of the parameters of variation is t ...
... THL is mostly used in narratives and procedural texts3 and one of its primary functions is maintaining coherence – participant coherence and event coherence4 – between subsequent sentences in discourse.5 There appear to be different kinds of THL constructions. One of the parameters of variation is t ...
Object Ellipsis as Topic Drop
... restrictive (d-linked ) set or contrastive set. The first type of topic is also referred to as a continued topic. The latter two, which introduce ‘new’ topics which have not been employed as topics in the preceding discourse, are referred to as shifted topics. It has been claimed that dropped topic ...
... restrictive (d-linked ) set or contrastive set. The first type of topic is also referred to as a continued topic. The latter two, which introduce ‘new’ topics which have not been employed as topics in the preceding discourse, are referred to as shifted topics. It has been claimed that dropped topic ...
ENGLISH SYNTAX: THE coMpoSITE SENTENcE. THE Mood
... This teaching aid, a follow-up to The Basics of English Syntax: the Simple Sentence, is meant, first and foremost, for 2nd year bachelor students of English as well as for in-service teachers of English at the Competence Development Centre of Vilnius Pedagogical University. Other readers interested ...
... This teaching aid, a follow-up to The Basics of English Syntax: the Simple Sentence, is meant, first and foremost, for 2nd year bachelor students of English as well as for in-service teachers of English at the Competence Development Centre of Vilnius Pedagogical University. Other readers interested ...
Scrambling and Processing: Dependencies
... 2. Scrambling and Theory of Sentence Processing One of the crucial concepts in the theory of sentence processing is processing complexity. On the one hand, processing complexity is closely related to psychological approaches to complexity (Just, Carpenter, and Hemphill, 1996; Jonides and Smith, 199 ...
... 2. Scrambling and Theory of Sentence Processing One of the crucial concepts in the theory of sentence processing is processing complexity. On the one hand, processing complexity is closely related to psychological approaches to complexity (Just, Carpenter, and Hemphill, 1996; Jonides and Smith, 199 ...
paper
... Eve and John went for a walk. This comitative construction is analogous to the Russian examples discussed in the previous sections. The difference is that in Polish the picture becomes more complicated due to gender agreement. Only nominative-marked NPs can be controllers of gender agreement in Poli ...
... Eve and John went for a walk. This comitative construction is analogous to the Russian examples discussed in the previous sections. The difference is that in Polish the picture becomes more complicated due to gender agreement. Only nominative-marked NPs can be controllers of gender agreement in Poli ...
Grace Theological Journal 9.2 (1988) 233
... here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are not, and should not be, classified as conditional sentences.10 The situation is much the same with the so-called "relative purpose clau ...
... here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are not, and should not be, classified as conditional sentences.10 The situation is much the same with the so-called "relative purpose clau ...
Boyer`s Relative Clauses in the Greek New Testament: A Statistical
... here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are not, and should not be, classified as conditional sentences.10 The situation is much the same with the so-called "relative purpose clau ...
... here but are not). I have previously discussed "conditional relative c!auses," and concluded that, while the clauses may contain a suggestion of condition, they are not, and should not be, classified as conditional sentences.10 The situation is much the same with the so-called "relative purpose clau ...