Preposition collocations with nouns and verbs

... predication 219 4.5 Adjectives and adverbs 230 4.6 Are adjectives universal? 238 5Lexicalcategoriesandthenatureofthegrammar264 5.1 What has a category? 265 5.2 Categories and the architecture ... functional categories. (1) claims that this property subdivides the lexical categories too. Those lexical categories that take a specifier are verbs; those that do not are nouns an...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 08:21

... problems with nouns. The first is forming plurals. The second is forming possessives. When you have to form plural possessives, you are faced with both problems. This lesson provides some ex- tra ... practice for both. Plurals of Nouns Rules for forming plural nouns were given in Lessons 4 (pages 28–34) and 10 (page 63) in Part One. You may wish to review these before trying...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... continue it alone. continued REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 65 Lesson 10 Review of Verbs, Nouns, and Pronouns REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 61 To learn what part of speech a word is, ask ... home? 3. My friends and I will help you. 4. You have no time to lose. 5. Terry will be there. they’re You’re REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND P...

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Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 06:20

... of lexical categories, 15n., 36, 296–301 Adelaar, Willem, 181 adjectives, 2n., 107 acquired late, 298 and determiners, 111–19, 121–23 and incorporation, 4, 152, 169n. and measure phrases, 106 n. and ... 168, 306–07 nouns in, 51, 113–14, 116–17, 278 pleonastic subject agreement in, 27 plurality in, 108 restructuring in, 29n. verbs versus adjectives in, 88, 249–50, 264 Mo...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 02:20

... “adjectival” verbs differ from eventive verbs, for which the pleonastic agreement is normal, as Baker ( 199 6b: 315– 19) shows in detail: 5.3 Why are the lexical categories universal? 299 significance ... assume that objects are designated by nouns, actions by verbs, and properties by adjectives. They then jump tothe conclusion thatthereare a few nouns, verbs, and adjective...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 02:20

... into dis- tinct lexical categories at a semi-arbitrary number of places. English happens to divide the space into three categories: nouns, verbs, and adjectives, as shown in (86 a). One might, ... being usable as either nouns or adjectives. ) 2 48 Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs (100) M-kango ndi w-a u-kulu. 3-lion PRED 3-ASSOC 3-big ‘The lion is a big.’ These adje...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 02:20

... functional categories – Preds that make nouns look more verbal, and pronouns / determiners that make adjectives and verbs look more nominal. In languages in which both Pred and pronouns are systematically ... inflection, and adjectives happen to take the same range of number, gender, and case forms as nouns in Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. For this reason, the distinction...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 02:20

... Salish, Wakashan, and Austronesian, the Mundari language of India is often cited as having no distinction between nouns, verbs, and adjectives (Bhat 1994: ch. 11; Wetzer 19 96; Stassen 1997). ... fourth lexical category that completes the space of logicalpossibilitiesdefinedbytheexistence of nouns, verbs, and adjectives (Schachter [1985]; see the appendix for evidence that P i...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 02:20

... or adjectival. 20 3.4 Nouns in binding and anaphora My task now is to go on and show how nouns having a criterion of identity and a referential index can explain differences between nouns and other categories that ... the inference in (57 c) should be valid. (58 ) gives schematic representations for the corresponding sen- tences in (57 ), and (58 c) does follow from the conju...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 02:20

... see D´echaine and Tremblay (1996) and section 4. 5 below. 3 Nouns as bearers of a referential index 3.1 What is special about nouns? I turn now to consideration of what sets nouns apart from verbs and adjectives. Using ... meaningful if and only if the blank is filled by a noun. ( 14) shows that any type of noun can be used in this frame, including singular count nouns, pl...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 02:20

... attach to nouns and adjectives in a given language only if they also attach to verbs. This follows from the fact that verbs are structurally closer to tense than predicative nouns and adjectives ... –cha, and –chi appears on verbs, nouns, and adjectives (although less productively on the latter). 18 Such cases blunt the sharpness of almost all morphological generalizati...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 02:20

... as that of the v. 2 Verbs as licensers of subjects 2. 1 Introduction What is the essential property that makes verbs behave differently from nouns and adjectives in morphology and syntax? This ... different lexical categories, as shown in (35). 2. 2 Initial motivations 33 noun or adjective. They would say that the examples in (24 ) and (25 )donot contain prototypical us...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 02:20

... Errors in the use of nouns and verbs: exercise Each sentence given below contains one or more mistake. The mistakes are in the use of nouns or verbs. Find out the mistake and rewrite the ... clothes’ refers to the act of dressing. Once the act of dressing is over, we use the verb ‘to wear’ to express the act of carrying clothes on the body...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2015, 13:42

... Preposition collocations with nouns and verbs Prepositions cause a great deal of confusion. Most ESL students find it ... correct use of prepositions is to look at several examples illustrating usage. In English, there are a large number of collocations. These are words which are often used together with other words. Examples ... is the reason of her unhappiness?) The word rea...

Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2015, 20:34