Logical and typological arguments for Radical
... find. The reason that this illegitimate practice often is used is because there is no a priori means to decide which constructions should be used as the diagnostics for a given syntactic category. The other option is to deny that the language in question has the category noun or subject, although En ...
... find. The reason that this illegitimate practice often is used is because there is no a priori means to decide which constructions should be used as the diagnostics for a given syntactic category. The other option is to deny that the language in question has the category noun or subject, although En ...
effects of concord errors in the essays of students in selected senior
... There are a number of people whom I wish to thank for the help and encouragement they gave me in my effort to produce this work. First of all, I am eternally grateful to God Almighty for making it possible for me to undertake this study. A special thank you goes to my broad-minded former supervisor, ...
... There are a number of people whom I wish to thank for the help and encouragement they gave me in my effort to produce this work. First of all, I am eternally grateful to God Almighty for making it possible for me to undertake this study. A special thank you goes to my broad-minded former supervisor, ...
a Sample - Rainbow Resource
... like the way its sound rolls off your tongue. Maybe you use it as often as you can, or maybe you save it for special occasions. We want to share one of our favorite words with you. You probably know what it means already, but you may not have thought of it as an exceptional word. Probably few people ...
... like the way its sound rolls off your tongue. Maybe you use it as often as you can, or maybe you save it for special occasions. We want to share one of our favorite words with you. You probably know what it means already, but you may not have thought of it as an exceptional word. Probably few people ...
Spoken Language Translator: Phase Two Report (Draft)
... and SRI International. We would like to thank Christer Samuelsson for making available to us the LR compiler described in Chapter 6, and Steve Pulman and Christer Samuelsson for helpful comments on the material in 6. The work described in Appendix A was partly funded by the Defence Research Agency, ...
... and SRI International. We would like to thank Christer Samuelsson for making available to us the LR compiler described in Chapter 6, and Steve Pulman and Christer Samuelsson for helpful comments on the material in 6. The work described in Appendix A was partly funded by the Defence Research Agency, ...
start with the word “Although” start with a rhetorical question start
... For example: “My Chihuahua, Hercules…” ...
... For example: “My Chihuahua, Hercules…” ...
View Extract - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... point to the problem with its classification and definition. Non-cognitive grammar defines and describes the preposition only through its relationship to other grammatical categories, failing to provide the ultimate definition of what it is itself. The question of whether prepositions constitute a c ...
... point to the problem with its classification and definition. Non-cognitive grammar defines and describes the preposition only through its relationship to other grammatical categories, failing to provide the ultimate definition of what it is itself. The question of whether prepositions constitute a c ...
Year 7 sentence level bank
... ‘Staggering, she made her way up the front path.’ There, you can hear that we use a comma to mark off the word ‘staggering’. ◆ Discuss the use of punctuation and various options, relating this to sentence construction and the impact on the reader. ◆ Experiment with different ways of sequencing a sen ...
... ‘Staggering, she made her way up the front path.’ There, you can hear that we use a comma to mark off the word ‘staggering’. ◆ Discuss the use of punctuation and various options, relating this to sentence construction and the impact on the reader. ◆ Experiment with different ways of sequencing a sen ...
NP Movement into Theta-positions and Unexpected Behavior of
... Whether an NP moves into theta position or not has been controversial. Chomsky (1986, 1995) claims that such a movement is disallowed. While Pesetsky (1992) and Bošković (1997) argue that such a movement is possible in ECM construction. Saito (2001), analyzing resultative constructions of English, c ...
... Whether an NP moves into theta position or not has been controversial. Chomsky (1986, 1995) claims that such a movement is disallowed. While Pesetsky (1992) and Bošković (1997) argue that such a movement is possible in ECM construction. Saito (2001), analyzing resultative constructions of English, c ...
Writing Matters
... • audience: students must determine the purpose of the assignment, the intended audience, and the approach to be taken in order to match written piece with intended audience. The skills included in this scope and sequence involve knowledge in four stages. A student has achieved “mastery” only when ...
... • audience: students must determine the purpose of the assignment, the intended audience, and the approach to be taken in order to match written piece with intended audience. The skills included in this scope and sequence involve knowledge in four stages. A student has achieved “mastery” only when ...
Clause processing in complex sentences
... (1)That the girl refused the flowers / surprised the boy / who was trying to be nice. This investigation proposes to approach the problem of clause resolution by exploiting one of its basic properties that is, the ability of clauses to be ultimately reduced to a noun, an adjective, or an adverb, n ...
... (1)That the girl refused the flowers / surprised the boy / who was trying to be nice. This investigation proposes to approach the problem of clause resolution by exploiting one of its basic properties that is, the ability of clauses to be ultimately reduced to a noun, an adjective, or an adverb, n ...
volume 15 - wecol 2003
... second conjunct is actually derived via verb movement. Second, for LPD-type constructions to result, the verb must raise in ATB fashion at least as high as the v position. A prediction thus follows: languages where the verb does not raise out of VP will lack LPD constructions; this prediction bears ...
... second conjunct is actually derived via verb movement. Second, for LPD-type constructions to result, the verb must raise in ATB fashion at least as high as the v position. A prediction thus follows: languages where the verb does not raise out of VP will lack LPD constructions; this prediction bears ...
THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF AND
... This study examined the nature of and-coordination in Kaonde. In order to meet this goal, the study sought, firstly, to identify conjuncts that are coordinated by and-equivalent in Kaonde. Secondly, the study sought to identify and-coordinators in Kaonde. That is, it tried to identify coordinators i ...
... This study examined the nature of and-coordination in Kaonde. In order to meet this goal, the study sought, firstly, to identify conjuncts that are coordinated by and-equivalent in Kaonde. Secondly, the study sought to identify and-coordinators in Kaonde. That is, it tried to identify coordinators i ...
PowerPoint
... English, didn’t know about the distinction between complements and adjuncts and the rules governing their use. Yet, if you agree with my assignment of grammaticality and ungrammaticality, you nevertheless knew the distinction and the structures. That is, there really is a system here hiding beneath ...
... English, didn’t know about the distinction between complements and adjuncts and the rules governing their use. Yet, if you agree with my assignment of grammaticality and ungrammaticality, you nevertheless knew the distinction and the structures. That is, there really is a system here hiding beneath ...
teaching english clause structure
... (iii) as subjective complement: The question is not who will pass but who will get a distinction. (iv) as adjective complement: I wasn't sure whose book had been misplaced, (v) prepositional complement: It all depends on what you mean. In principle we can say that that-clauses should be taught first ...
... (iii) as subjective complement: The question is not who will pass but who will get a distinction. (iv) as adjective complement: I wasn't sure whose book had been misplaced, (v) prepositional complement: It all depends on what you mean. In principle we can say that that-clauses should be taught first ...
Argument Structure: Grammar in Use - UCSB Linguistics
... explanation. It is not immediately obvious how discourse pragmatic influences are ...
... explanation. It is not immediately obvious how discourse pragmatic influences are ...
The Interpretation of English Sentences Containing Quantification
... Unlike in English, the object always precedes negation in Korean due to the SOV word order, which results in differences in surface vs. inverse scope configurations between the two languages: While English exhibits variable scope configurations depending on the position of the quantifier (object vs. ...
... Unlike in English, the object always precedes negation in Korean due to the SOV word order, which results in differences in surface vs. inverse scope configurations between the two languages: While English exhibits variable scope configurations depending on the position of the quantifier (object vs. ...
Run-on sentences and sentence fragments
... The following chapters will examine what the research says about run-ons and fragments, what students' errors reveal about the problems and solutions, and what handbooks present as explanation and remediation. ...
... The following chapters will examine what the research says about run-ons and fragments, what students' errors reveal about the problems and solutions, and what handbooks present as explanation and remediation. ...
english - Ressursmateriell: Introducing English Grammar
... Both sentences are complex sentences. Sentence 1 starts with a dependent clause and 2 starts with the main clause. There is a possible meaning difference: Sentence 1 Peter’s reading is a consequence of his smartness. In sentence 2 it may be the other way round; the reading makes him smart. c. 1 ...
... Both sentences are complex sentences. Sentence 1 starts with a dependent clause and 2 starts with the main clause. There is a possible meaning difference: Sentence 1 Peter’s reading is a consequence of his smartness. In sentence 2 it may be the other way round; the reading makes him smart. c. 1 ...
direct evidentiality
... get the opportunity to pay attention to some aspects of their semantics that were neglected earlier. In the literature devoted to evidentials their only implied subject is always the speaker, cf., e.g. Plungjan 2011: 449: “using an evidentiality marker the speaker tells us in which way (s)he learned ...
... get the opportunity to pay attention to some aspects of their semantics that were neglected earlier. In the literature devoted to evidentials their only implied subject is always the speaker, cf., e.g. Plungjan 2011: 449: “using an evidentiality marker the speaker tells us in which way (s)he learned ...
Te Quest for Cognates: A Reconstruction of Oblique Subject
... motivated by semantic considerations (cf. Barðdal, 2004) and not by the “object” character or an “object” origin of the subject-like argument. We present three different scenarios for the development of the construction and lay out the different predictions arising from each of these. First, if the co ...
... motivated by semantic considerations (cf. Barðdal, 2004) and not by the “object” character or an “object” origin of the subject-like argument. We present three different scenarios for the development of the construction and lay out the different predictions arising from each of these. First, if the co ...
CILLAII-draft9 - Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
... parallel corpus consisting of approximately 200,000 words of text and 120 hours of transcribed speech. Other products that have been developed or are still under development in the framework of the Avenue project are a spelling checker, an online dictionary and a machine translation prototype. ...
... parallel corpus consisting of approximately 200,000 words of text and 120 hours of transcribed speech. Other products that have been developed or are still under development in the framework of the Avenue project are a spelling checker, an online dictionary and a machine translation prototype. ...
Syntax I
... together with the second, which in the above terms suggests that the constituent structure of the VP is ambiguous: “a book give has he to John not” “to John give has he the book not” The correct conclusion seems to be that constituency is not as simple a matter as it initially looked. I know of two ...
... together with the second, which in the above terms suggests that the constituent structure of the VP is ambiguous: “a book give has he to John not” “to John give has he the book not” The correct conclusion seems to be that constituency is not as simple a matter as it initially looked. I know of two ...
Non-finite complements and modality in de-na `allow` in Hindi-Urdu
... indirect object with the embedded clause subject; see further discussion in section 7. Butt notes some syntactic similarities in c-structure between the complex predicate permissive described above and the instructive ‘tell’, which involves object control (3a). The similarities include scrambling, n ...
... indirect object with the embedded clause subject; see further discussion in section 7. Butt notes some syntactic similarities in c-structure between the complex predicate permissive described above and the instructive ‘tell’, which involves object control (3a). The similarities include scrambling, n ...
San Antonio College
... punctuation errors. 5. Edit basic grammar structures to develop writing accuracy. 6. Use appropriate vocabulary for the writing topic. 7. Type assignments using a word processing. In this course, students develop Upon successful completion of the course, students will writing fluency and vocabulary ...
... punctuation errors. 5. Edit basic grammar structures to develop writing accuracy. 6. Use appropriate vocabulary for the writing topic. 7. Type assignments using a word processing. In this course, students develop Upon successful completion of the course, students will writing fluency and vocabulary ...