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

... 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