Parts of speech
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This article investigates prototypically attributive versus predicative adjectives in English in terms of the phonological properties that have been associated especially with nouns versus verbs in a substantial body of psycholinguistic... more
Text-type determines the linguistic and paralinguistic means for convey-ing the message. The present study investigates how to discriminate between text-types and which types should be focused on in language teaching. One of the... more
Ces douze pages décrivent, puis explorent, en onze petits chapitres des points essentiels de la « question » de l'arbitraire du signe. A partir du chapitre 6, on montre comment les noms ont joué un rôle abusif dans cette affaire, et... more
Resumo: A tradição gramatical luso-brasileira dá vital importância ao estudo das classes de palavras. Diferentes teorias gramaticais atuais continuam a revisitar o tópico, que também é matéria de ensino na Educação Básica (nos ensinos... more
Adverbs are undoubtedly the most disputable class of Japanese lexicon, which may be recognized mainly to the fact the there are not too many specialized (regular, pure, strong) adverbs in Japanese, as this author puts it. In this paper,... more
This paper examines the process of conversion in English in the context of Functional Discourse Grammar. Although conversion has traditionally been considered to be morphological in nature (zeroderivation), different authors have... more
Language is a mean of communication which is used by living beings to communicate with each other. There are many important components in language to create a successful communication, such as sound, sentence, meaning, and etc. One of the... more
Abstract: a textbook used for an undergraduate course. It provides Syllabi for the Lectures, Examples and Exercises. It is the second part of the four volume (four semester) English Grammar course which consists of a) English Morphology... more
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to: 1. State the eight (8) parts of speech, namely, the noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. 2. Recognize the different uses of the eight... more
Positional classes are based on the positions occupied by the form-classes, which we have studied in the chapter entitled "Parts of Speech: Form-Classes" in the book An Introductory English Morphology. The members of these classes may be... more
In this thesis, I propose that the distribution of nominal phrases is constrained by the relative positions of phi-features that nominal phrases contain. More specifically, I propose a condition according to which two syntactic nodes... more
This chapter is a survey of word classes in indigenous North American languages, with the aim of providing an introduction to the study of parts of speech, and of highlighting the unique place and contribution of North American indigenous... more
Talk given in the University of Newcastle Linguistic Seminar Series, March 25, 2014.
Основная проблема, рассматриваемая в монографии, – основания для выделения синтаксических частей речи в даргинском языке, точнее, в двух его диалектах –ицаринском и тантынском. В работе приводится несколько частеречных классификаций,... more
The present paper considers how prosodic analysis can assist in the investigation of the status of Tiberian Hebrew (TH) constituents with respect to their position on the grammatical-lexical cline. The introduction presents one area of... more
In today’s digital world automated Machine Translation of one language to another has covered a long way to achieve different kinds of success stories. Whereas Babel Fish supports a good number of foreign languages and only Hindi from... more
This is a student-centered learning activity that asks students to become "experts" in one content area and then share that knowledge with classmates who are "experts" on other topics.
This article raises the possibility that several grammarians classified ʾilā as a noun (ism), at least in certain constructions. First, we discuss the view attributed by later grammarians to ʾAbū Bakr Ibn al-ʾAnbārī, according to which... more
The present study was an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of two types of classroom test practice procedures (individual versus collaborative conditions) on enhancing Iranian intermediate EFL learners' knowledge of parts of... more
ʾAsmāʾ al-fiʿl (lit. ‘verb’s names’) are interjections conveying meanings characteristic to verbs. This article explores medieval grammarians’ views on ʾasmāʾ al-fiʿl, focusing on strategies used by the grammarians to accommodate these... more
Описывается разработанный автором аппарат представления элементарных предикативных конструкций, состоящих из одного предиката и зависимых от него референтов. Даются правила соединения двух элементарных семантических формул в сложные при... more
Asmāʾ al-fiʿl (also called asmāʾ al-ʾafʿāl and asmāʾ li-l-fiʿl) are a heterogeneous category of interjections that convey meanings equivalent to those of certain (mostly imperative) verbs. Arab grammarians consider asmāʾ al-fiʿl nouns.... more
The Danish word øv is traditionally categorized as an interjection. However, in a set of data primarily from chat conversations, several instances of øv do not match any traditional definition of interjections: It is syntactically... more
Ponsonnet (2014) has shown that Dalabon, a Gunwinyguan language of northern Australia (non-Pama-nyungan) has very few emotion nouns – instead, its emotion lexicon contains mostly verbs and adjectives. The language has only two emotion... more
Where do adverbs come from that is why it is easier to describe adverbials than adverbs The central problem in this article is the way in which the adverb exists: Is its status similar to the status of verbs, nouns, adjectives or maybe –... more
Glazunova O. I. The actualization of meanings and grammatical functions of the word (on the question of philosophical studies of language). Part II // Vestnik St. Petersburg University. Ser. 9. 2013. Issue 4. P. 137–150. ABSTRACT The... more
Invited online lecture to the event ARCANUM International Festival (IntFest) organized annually by the Ateneo Lingua Ars Cultura (ALAC) student organization, the student arm of the Modern Languages Department of the School of Humanities,... more
Due to modern trends of applied linguistics, statistical linguistics in particular, every text has its own statistical parameters [Köhler, Altmann 2005: 16], such as the number of word-forms and words, text richness, index of... more
Anaphora and deixis are widespread notions in linguistic analysis. Traditionally considered to be related to each other, they indicate the processes according to which a linguistic unit derive its interpretation from, respectively,... more
In this paper I submit the hypothesis that Pre-Basque had two distinct verbal lexical categories, i.e. two distinct parts of speech both of which were related to the Standard Average European concept of verb. Following the literature on... more