English Absolute phrase

... SOLUTION 21 of the noun phrase? and (2) If there is an inectional head of the noun phrase, is the determiner its lexical instantiation? In the rst part of the thesis, though I use the symbol \D" ... syntactic 9 Abney (1986). 3. THE DP-ANALYSIS 41 same position as AGR in the noun phrase (assuming there is an AGR in the noun phrase) . For the purposes of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 20:22

... 'rare' types, defined in terms of rate of occurrence relative to the rate of occurrence of the commonest type, will crop up fairly often in naturally occurring samples of NPs. For ins- tahoe, if ... to syntactic description. Syntactic categories are feature complexes and unification is employed as the method of grammatical combination. Syntactic generalisatio...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 01:20

... their definition of agentivity. Thus, the Routledge Dictio- nary of Language and Linguistics (Bussmann 1996: 11) defines ‘agent’ as the “semantic role (thematic relation) of the volitional initiator ... explain those concepts and distinctions that underlie our description of the function of tense in English discourse. We provide definitions of basic linguistic terms su...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 02:18

... dem Zeitplan voraus, frỹher als vorgesehen, vorzeitig - planmọòig, pỹnktlich, nach Plan - hinter dem Zeitplan, später als geplant dem Zeitplan voraus, früher als vorgesehen - verhindert -, ... betreuen, Verantwortung haben, Zuständig sein Haben Sie schon

Ngày tải lên: 09/06/2014, 22:00

... Cappelle. p. cm. − (The grammar of the English verb phrase ; v. 1) (Topics in English linguistics ; 60 .1) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN -13 : 978-3 -11 - 018 589-8 (hardcover : ... paper) ISBN -10 : 3 -11 - 018 589-X (hardcover : acid-free paper) 1. English language − Tense. 2. English language − Grammar. I. Reed, Susan, 19 59− II. Cappelle, Be...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... verb forms 22 A. Tense 22 1.14 Introduction 22 1.15 The formation of the present tense 23 1.16 The formation of the past tense 23 1.17 The formation of the other tenses 24 1.18 The meanings of ... 25 1.19 Special uses of tenses 27 B. Aspect 28 1 .20 Introduction 28 1 .21 Perfective aspect 30 1 .22 Imperfective aspect 31 1 .23 Habitual aspect 33 1...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... speak of a noun phrase (NP) (e. g. all those beautiful houses built in the sixties). If the head is a verb, the phrase is a verb phrase (VP). In the following sentence the VP is in italics and the verb ... with the past tense and the present perfect. Chapters 13 and 14 look at the semantics of the temporal adverbs when, before and after and the consequenc...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... having eaten). The point is that the time of orientation to which they relate the time of their situation does not have to be the temporal zero-point. It is criterial of tensed forms that they encode ... consisting of the initial letters of the terms negation, inversion, code and emphasis. The reference is to the four cases in which the English VP requires an aux...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... form of will.) 1. 15 The formation of the present tense The forms of the present tense of all verbs except be and have are homopho- nous with the stem of the verb (e. g. underline), except in the ... underlines). (The stem is that part of the verb that remains con- stant in the different forms of the verb, e. g. unravel in unravels, unravelled, unrav...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... Introduction pairing of a meaning and a particular form of the verb. In English the second of these two elements is lacking when ingressive meaning is expressed. 1.22.3 The same is true where the expression of egressive’ ... describe the situation as characteristic of the referent of the subject NP over a certain period of time. English has a special form to ex...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... situation-template denoted by walk .The denotation of such a complex predicate constituent is determined in the first instance by the meanings of the verb and of the other components of the predi- cate constituent ... as consisting of a subject NP and a predicate constituent. The latter consists of the verb phrase (VP) and the optional adverbial(s), if any....

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... (and to the clauses denoting them), the literature also applies these labels to the verbs or verb phrases which typically refer to a particular group of situations. We read of ‘punctual verbs’, ‘durative ... Using the term verb phrase (VP) Strictly speaking, a verb phrase is a phrase (group of words) with a verb as head. Thus, the clause John presumably left the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... of situation that is characteristic of the referent of the subject NP over an extended period of time Ϫ see 1.23). This static interpretation is due to the use of the nonprogressive form of the ... example, the features [( dynamic] and [( agentive] help to deter- mine the possibility of using the verb phrase in the progressive form. The distinction [( tel...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... make the situation durative.) One after the other, the ramblers reached the top of the hill. (The idea of repetition is induced by the plurality of the subject NP and the duration-implying phrase ... ashes.] The fact that the transition cannot form part of the ‘middle part of the situa- tion referred to by the progressive form is due to the fact tha...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20

... according to the length of the book or the size of the wall and is unspecified when the verb phrase write a book or build a wall is used). The other kind of measuring VP consists of verb phrases which ... characteristic of sen- tences (since the nature of the subject does not play a part in making the distinction) 20 but of verbs and verb phrases. In...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 23:20