Download or read book Basics for Communicating Effectively written by Garry J. Moes and published by Christian Liberty Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays a foundation for effective communication with the English language. The student will learn the basics of English grammar, including the definition and usage of the eight parts of speech. In addition, the student will examine how these are to be properly used in phrases, clauses, and sentences. Correct sentence structure, diagramming, pronoun usage, and forming good paragraphs are also emphasized. Grade 7."
Download or read book Theoretical Aspects of Passivization in the Framework of Applicative Grammar written by Jean-Pierre Desclés and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passivization is explained by using the formalism of combinatory logic. The agented passive is derived from the agentless as follows: a term denoting an agent is transposed into a predicate modifier and applied to the passive predicate of the agentless construction. The passive predicate consists of two parts: 1) the two-place converse of the active predicate and 2) a zero unspecified term to which the converse predicate is applied. The passive is not derived from but is related to the active. The modifier of the passive predicate is the functional counterpart of the subject in the active. The proposed hypothesis gives an adequate solution to problems arising from various types of passive constructions. Passivization and antipassivization are defined as instances of a general cross-linguistic process involving conversion.
Download or read book Construction Grammar and its Application to English written by Martin Hilpert and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.
Download or read book A Grammar of Bardi written by Claire Bowern and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bardi language is currently spoken by fewer than 10 people. The language is a member of the Nyulnyulan family, a small non-Pama-Nyungan family in northwest Australia. This book is a reference grammar of the language. The 16 chapters include information on phonetics and phonology, nominal and verbal morphology, and syntax, as well as an ethnographic sketch of traditional life. A selection of texts is also included. It is the first published full study of a Nyulnyulan language.
Download or read book Applicative Constructions written by David A. Peterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first systematic typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and East Asian languages. It is also the first to address their functions in discourse, the derivation of their semantic and syntactic properties, and how and why they have changed over time. Applicative constructions are typically described as transitivizing because they allow an intransitive base verb to have a direct object. The term originates from the seventeenth-century missionary grammars of Uto-Aztecan languages. Constructions designated as prepositional, benefactive, and instrumental may refer to the same or similar phenomena. Applicative constructions have been deployed in the development of a range of syntactic theories which have then often been used to explain their functions, usually within the context of Bantu languages. Dr Peterson provides a wealth of cross-linguistic information on discourse-functional, diachronic, and typological aspects of applicative constructions. He documents their unexpected synchronic variety and the diversity of diachronic sources about them. He argues that many standard assumptions about applicatives are unfounded, and provides a clear guide for future language-specific and cross-linguistic research and analysis.
Download or read book A Grammar of Kakataibo written by Roberto Zariquiey and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashibo-Kakataibo is the westernmost Panoan language and, therefore, the one closest to the Andes Mountains. In terms of its typological profile, Kashibo-Kakataibo is a (mainly) postpositional and agglutinating language with a highly synthetic verbal morphology, which includes a highly complex tense system with several markers, some of which also express aspectual meanings. Kashibo-Kakataibo presents a mixed prosodic system, which combines stress and tone features. In addition, like with other Pano languages, Kashibo-Kakataibo exhibits a number of transitivity-related issues of high typological interest. First of all, the language shows an extremely complex system of grammatical relations, which includes tripatite, ergative, accusative, neutral and one horizontal alignment types. In addition, the language exhibits a fascinating interaction between syntactic case and pragmatic function. There are two fixed syntactic classes of verbs: transitive and intransitive. A verb root/base can only change its class by means of explicit morphological derivation (with only 4 ambitransitive verbs in the whole language). As in other Panoan languages, the transitivity class of the main verb is morphologically indicated throughout the clause, by means of complex systems of agreement and harmony (some of which are totally new even from a Panoan perspective)
Download or read book Applications of Grammar written by Annie Lee Sloan and published by Christian Liberty Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grammar workbook concentrates upon a review of grammar skills and vocabulary development. students will learn how to identify and utilize personal pronouns, relative pronouns, demonstrative and indefinite pronouns, present and past participials, dangling and misplaced modifiers, gerunds, infinitives, hyphens, apostrophes and parallelism. Grade 10.
Download or read book Theoretical Aspects of Passivization in the Framework of Applicative Grammar written by Jean-Pierre Desclés and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passivization is explained by using the formalism of combinatory logic. The agented passive is derived from the agentless as follows: a term denoting an agent is transposed into a predicate modifier and applied to the passive predicate of the agentless construction. The passive predicate consists of two parts: 1) the two-place converse of the active predicate and 2) a zero unspecified term to which the converse predicate is applied. The passive is not derived from but is related to the active. The modifier of the passive predicate is the functional counterpart of the subject in the active. The proposed hypothesis gives an adequate solution to problems arising from various types of passive constructions. Passivization and antipassivization are defined as instances of a general cross-linguistic process involving conversion.
Download or read book Applications of Grammar Book 3 written by Christian Libery Press and published by Christian Liberty Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tests for Applications of Grammar student workbook 3, grade 9.
Download or read book Applications of Grammar 3 written by Garry J. Moes and published by Christian Liberty Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this workbook is to teach students how to make the transition from practicing grammar rules to the actual process of writing. Students learn to select topics, make a master plan for composition activities, and the mechanics of good writing. In addition to learning how to write dynamic sentences and short stories, students learn how to write with a style that is colorful and appealing. A short unit on the topic of journalism is also provided. Grade 9.
Download or read book Applications of Grammar written by Annie Sloan and published by Christian Liberty Press. This book was released on 1994-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher Manual for Applications of Grammar student workbook 5, grade 11.
Download or read book A Grammar of Coastal Marind written by Bruno Olsson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grammar provides the first modern, comprehensive description of Coastal Marind. It is a Papuan language spoken by the coastal-dwelling Marind-Anim, formerly expansionistic head-hunters of the Southern New Guinea lowlands. Like the other languages of the poorly known Anim family, Coastal Marind features astonishingly complex verb morphology and a range of unusual phenomena, including indexing of up to four arguments on the verb, verbal marking of focus (the 'Orientation' system), engagement prefixes tracking the attention of the addressee, and a system of four genders realised by intricate agreement patterns. The structure of the language is examined in a detailed but accessible way, and its many complexities are brought to life by contextualised spontaneous data, drawn from a rich audio-visual corpus.
Download or read book Attribute Grammars Applications and Systems written by Henk Alblas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1991-10-23 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attribute grammars have shown themselves to be a useful formalism for specifying the syntax and the static semantics of programming languages. They are also useful for implementing syntax-directed editors, compilers, translator writing systems and compiler generators, and any application that has a strong syntactic base. However, no textbooks are available that cover the entire field. To redress this imbalance, anInternational Summer School on Attribute Grammars, Applications and Systems was held in Prague, Czechoslovakia in June 1991. The course aimed at teaching the state of the art in attribute grammars, and their relation to other language specification methods. This volume presents the proceedings of the school. The papers are well suited for self-study, and a selection of them can be used for introductory courses in attribute grammars.
Download or read book Graph Grammars and Their Application to Computer Science written by Janice Cuny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-05-08 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the functional properties and the structural organization of the members of the thrombospondin gene family. These proteins comprise a family of extracellular calcium binding proteins that modulate cellular adhesion, migration and proliferation. Thrombospondin-1 has been shown to function during angiogenesis, wound healing and tumor cell metastasis.
Download or read book Case Typology and Grammar written by Anna Siewierska and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a collection of fifteen original articles that include descriptive, typological and/or theoretical studies of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena, such as case, transitivity, grammaticalization, valency alternations, etc., in a variety of languages or language groups, and discussions concerning theoretical issues in specific grammatical frameworks. The collection, written in honor of the Australian linguist Barry J. Blake on his 60th birthday, thematically reflects the field that Professor Blake has worked in over the past three decades. The volume will be of special interest to researchers in morphosyntax, and linguistic typology. In addition, scholars in discourse grammar, historical linguistics, theoretical syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and language contact will find articles of interest in the book.
Download or read book Foundations of Cognitive Grammar written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of work that introduces a new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic investigation. This volume suggests how to use the theoretical tools presented in Volume One.
Download or read book Language and Automata Theory and Applications written by Alberto Leporati and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2021, held in Milan, Italy, in March 2021. The 26 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: algebraic structures; automata; complexity; learning; logics and languages; trees and graphs; and words and strings.
