... theory. They claim that verbsand prepositions take complements, and nounsandadjectives do not; this is like Jackendoff’s +/−obj feature. Theyalso claim that adjectivesand prepositions form ... nominals and verbalization 1593.9 Are nouns universal? 1694Adjectivesasneithernounsnorverbs1904.1 The essence of having no essence 1904.2 Attributive modification 1924.3 Adjectivesand degree ... only adjectivesand adpositions can modify nouns (the man inthe garden and the man responsible) and only they can be preceded by measurephrases (It is three yardslong and He went three yards into...
... York: Garland.Munro, Pamela and Lynn Gordon. 1982. Syntactic relations in Western Muskogean.Language 58: 81–115.Murasugi, Keiko. 1990. Adjectives, nominal adjectivesand adjectival verbs in ... Willem, 181 adjectives, 2n., 107acquired late, 298 and determiners, 111–19, 121–23 and incorporation, 4, 152, 169n. and measure phrases, 106n. and morphological causatives, 53–56 and tense marking, ... in, 27plurality in, 108restructuring in, 29n. verbs versus adjectives in, 88, 249–50, 264Mojave adjectives versus verbs in, 10, 255–56tense and copula in, 47morphological well-formedness...
... assume thatobjects 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 ... certainly notrandom either. The words meaning ‘rock,’ ‘dog,’ ‘child,’ and ‘tree’ are nouns in every language, and the words meaning ‘buy,’ ‘hit,’ ‘walk,’ and ‘fall’ arealmost always verbs. Dixon ... showed long ago that even in languageswith very few adjectives ‘good’ and ‘bad,’ ‘big’ and ‘little,’ ‘old’ and ‘new,’‘black’ and white’ are adjectives. Thefact that each category has a stable...
... two-categorysystem: a system that has verbsand “substantives,” the latter being usable aseither nouns or adjectives. ) 248 Adjectives as neither nouns nor verbs (100) M-kango ndi w-a u-kulu.3-lionPRED ... X— (verbs) —X–(A1s)—X–(A2s)———X– (nouns) —–X (Japanese?)c X— (verbs) —X————————- (nouns) ————–X (Chichewa?Quechua?)d X———— (verbs) ————————–X— (nouns) —X (Mohawk?)Languages of all these types (and ... divide the space into three categories: nouns, verbs, and adjectives, as shownin (86a). One might, however, perfectly well expect some languages to di-vide the same continuum into four or more...
... readings that nouns zero-derived into verbs have in English: (184c) is like Hale’s and Keyser’s (1993) location verbs (tocorral the horses) and (184d) is like Hale’s and Keyser’s locatum verbs (to ... categories – Preds that make nouns look more verbal, and pronouns / determiners that make adjectivesandverbs look more nominal.In languages in which both Pred and pronouns are systematically null, ... 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 between nounsand adjectives...
... inchoative verbs; and –wa, which formscausative 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? ... →∗kirja-nta-a ‘to make into a book’d lavan ‘whiteA’ → hilbin ‘to whiten’ (Hebrew)‘avaq ‘dustN’ → #’ibeq ‘to remove dust from’ (not ‘to make into dust’)This difference between nounsandadjectives ... age.44In addition to Salish, Wakashan, and Austronesian, the Mundari language of India is often citedas having no distinction between nouns, verbs, andadjectives (Bhat 1994: ch. 11; Wetzer 1996;Stassen...
... oradjectival.203.4 Nouns in binding and anaphoraMy task now is to go on and show how nouns having a criterion of identity and a referential index can explain differences between nounsand other categoriesthat ... out. Nouns can certainly undergo headmovement, whether to determiner positions as in the Semitic languages (Ritter[1991] and others) or incorporating intoverbs as in Mohawk (Baker 1988a). Verbs ... agreement betweenattributive adjectivesand modified nouns, such as Italian and Chichewa, theadjective in a D+Adj construction typically shows agreement in gender and number with an understood...
... Mordor, and he leaves secretly to continue it alone.continuedREVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 65 Lesson 10Review of Verbs, Nouns, and PronounsREVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 61To ... he is home?3. My friends and I will help you.4. You have no time to lose.5. Terry will be there.they’reYou’reREVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 67 Lesson 11 Adjectives 68 PARTS OF SPEECHWhat ... Rembrandt and Picasso were ___________________.L.V.6. Iceland and Greenland are ___________________.L.V.In the exercise you have just done, you used six complements to complete six linking verbs. ...
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... form past tense past participle run into run into & runs into running into ran into run into 1. run into p.v. When you are driving and hit another vehicle or something near ... What did Sally do? 2. FOCUS ON: phrasal verbsand do, does, and did Like ordinary verbs, phrasal verbs form negatives and questions with do, does, and did. Present tense questions In ... them. Bump into is the same as run into. We ran into Karen and her new boyfriend at the supermarket yesterday. I owe Frank $300, so I hope I don't run into him. 3. run into p.v. When...
... tense -ing form past tense past participle run into run into & runs into running into ran into run into 1. run into p.v. When you are driving and hit another vehicle or something near the ... What did Sally do? 2. FOCUS ON: phrasal verbsand do, does, and did Like ordinary verbs, phrasal verbs form negatives and questions with do, does, and did. Present tense questions In ... them. Bump into is the same as run into. We ran into Karen and her new boyfriend at the supermarket yesterday. I owe Frank $300, so I hope I don't run into him. 3. run into p.v. When...