english grammar verbs nouns adjectives

... he distinguishes nouns from adjectives and verbs in that only the latter are intrinsically relational [i.e. pred- icative], whereas he distinguishes verbs from adjectives and nouns in that they tend ... and verbalization 159 3.9 Are nouns universal? 169 4Adjectivesasneithernounsnorverbs190 4.1 The essence of having no essence 190 4.2 Attributive modification 192 4.3 Adjectives and degree heads ... 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 of the grammar...

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... to 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 ... ADJ. MODIFIES She helpful has been children restless grew 74 PARTS OF SPEECH REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 63 When to add S : A. To most nouns: book—books. (See Rule 1, page 28.) A–X. Exceptions to A: man—men ... job. ADJ. modifies Proper Adjectives Recall from Lesson 4, page 24, that proper nouns (Canada, Shakespeare, etc.) are cap- italized. The adjectives formed from proper nouns (Canadian, Shakespearean,...

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... classifiers in, 119n. Tzutujil adjectives in, 144, 192 degree heads in, 218 derivation in, 161 linkers in, 193n. Uesaka, Miwako, 74 unaccusative verbs, 63 compared to adjectives and nouns, 8, 13, 69, 72–74, ... subject agreement in, 27 plurality in, 108 restructuring in, 29n. verbs versus adjectives in, 88, 249–50, 264 Mojave adjectives versus verbs in, 10, 255–56 tense and copula in, 47 morphological well-formedness ... deriving verbs from nouns, 166, 168 limiting the range of categories, 190, 304 statement of, 165 referential index, 97–98, 104–06, 153, 290 adjectives as not having, 190, 248 as defining property of nouns, ...

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... 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 adjectives in the language they are ... have verbs but not adjectives. Upon closer examination, the verbs that correspond to adjectives in all of these languages have subtle grammatical properties that distinguish them from true verbs. ... stative verbs on the surface in Vata, these verbs contain roots that have special derivational possibilities that show them to be inherently adjectives. She concludes that a class of adjectives...

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... correspond to adjectives in English being grouped either with the nouns or with the verbs ((86c,d)). 33 (86) Transitory situations Permanent situations a X— (verbs) —X———-(Adjs)————X— (nouns) —X (English) b ... as six lexical cat- egories, ranging from true verbs, to adjectival verbs, to verby adjectives, to nouny adjectives, to adjectival nouns, to true nouns. ) Alternatively, some lan- guages could ... two-category system: a system that has verbs and “substantives,” the latter being usable as either nouns or adjectives. ) 248 Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs (100) M-kango ndi w-a u-kulu. 3-lion PRED...

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... as nouns in Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. For this reason, the distinction between nouns and adjectives was usually not noticed before the Middle Ages. 202 Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs (17) PredP Pred´ ... is ruled out by the theory. 4 Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs 4.1 The essence of having no essence In chapter 2, I considered what distinguishes verbs from nouns and adjectives. The difference, ... that nouns can only combine with other noun projections by way of nonsyntactic root compounding, whereas adjectives can combine with nouns by syntactic merge. 214 Adjectives as neither nouns...

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... predicate nouns resist verbalization in English and many other languages, such verbalization is not completely impossible. For example, the morpheme –ize in English derives verbs from adjectives ... inchoative verbs; and –wa, which forms causative verbs. Heath observes that both of these morphemes attach produc- tively to adjectives but not to nouns, as shown in (138c,d). 3.9 Are nouns universal? ... consequence is that Universal Grammar contains no fourth lexical category that completes the space of logicalpossibilitiesdefinedbytheexistence of nouns, verbs, and adjectives (Schachter [1985];...

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... NPs. Prima facie, this seems to be true: virtually every grammar has an index entry for pronouns, but very few mention pro -adjectives or pro -verbs. It is also perfectly possible to work on a language ... should be no such thing as “pro -adjectives or “pro -verbs in languages of the world that take part in anaphoric relationships with APs and VPs in the same way that pronouns enter into anaphoric relationships ... 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...

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... mass nouns co-occur with measure phrases, whereas comparable adjectives and verbs do not. The paradigm in (i) illustrates within the mass domain the same fundamental contrast between nouns and adjectives ... 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 phrase ... that any type of noun can be used in this frame, including singular count nouns, plural nouns, mass nouns, and abstract nouns. (14) a That is the same man as you saw yesterday. b Those are the...

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... well adapted to causativizing adjectives and nouns, but not verbs. Because the theta-role assigning properties of verbs are signif- icantly different from those of nouns and adjectives, a single morpheme ... 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 ... directly to nouns and adjectives as well as to verbs in this language, whereas the others (continua- tive, aorist, future, necessitive, and optative) need a verbal copula when they co-occur with nouns...

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... proposal is that verbs take subjects directly and nouns and adjectives do not, as a universal definition of these categories. Thus, Pred is present with predicate nouns and predicate adjectives in ... distinguishing verbs from other categories, and why it is more promising than some of the obvious alternativ es (section 2.2). Next I explore (1)’s implication that predicate nouns and adjectives, unlike verbs, ... It also accounts for the fact that certain verbs behave like unac- cusative predicates, in contrast to corresponding adjectives and nouns, which 23 30 Verbs as licensers of subjects beautifully...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 02:20

... because there is a very big exhibition there. have have to had English Grammar Tests-Elementary Level's archive Modal Verbs 1.I go to see the doctor last week because I was very ill....

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