Genitive case
Adpositions and Case: Alternative Realisation and Concord
... assign genitive case to the noun phrase in their complement, as ee-standing postpositions generally do in the language: in (18b), the complement of eest ‘for’ bears genitive ...place’). ...
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Against Covert A-Movement in Russian Unaccusatives
... the Genitive of Negation ...the genitive case when licensed by ...the genitive of the direct object in (2a) is impossible because there is no negation but, in the negative (2b), the accusative ...
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Misconceptions about Article Use in English
... Saxon Genitive phrase, not a Saxon Genitive ...the genitive case, with the whole lot (be it one word or more) representing one single ...Saxon Genitive phrase ...
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oa Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics - Collapse of genitive and benefactive case in Ecuadorian Quechua? - beyond Germanic and Africa - puzzles ancient and modern
... In Ecuador, there have been a number of changes in the syntactic and morphological features of in particular the genitive case marker. 3 Most importantly, the possessor agreement marker has been lost in ...
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Interplay between Case, Animacy and Number: Interpretations of Grammatical Role in Estonian
... of genitive singular inanimate nouns were interpreted as the direct object of a transitive verb (what some would analyse as accusative), which may seem surprisingly low, considering that genitive marks ...
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The Development of Finnish Comparative Partitives from the Ablative of Comparison
... Accusative/Genitive case and definiteness/indefiniteness in Slavic languages inclines me to the view that a covert determiner is present in languages which do not have ...Accusative case is ...
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Towards a multi layered dependency annotation of Finnish
... the case. As detailed in Section 2.2, case markers and adpositions can be either functional or meaning-bearing, and each of them should be treated ...hand, case markers and adpositions (Haverinen, ...
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Non-autonomous Accusative Case in Estonian
... assigned genitive and partitive, it will surface as ...one case that is potentially a problem for treating this as a divide between structural and lexical/inherent cases, and that is genitive ...
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Learning a morphological system without a default: the Polish genitive
... test case for theories of language ...Polish genitive. The genitive case has three different markers, each restricted to a different subset of nouns, in both the singular and the ...The ...
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A Gymnasium Inventory from the Athenian Agora
... These details make it clear that the names listed in the genitive case are not the names of donors, but the names of sculptors, and that the building that housed this i[r] ...
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MoL 2005 09: The Lattice of Case and Agentivity
... The least frequent type of core case-marking considered gives the most thorough demonstration of the utility of the agentivity lattice for core case-marking. It will be recalled that in agentive marking ...
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Overgeneralization and Under-generalization in SLA: Evidence from Japanese
... English uses a possessive clitic’s, a preposition of and pronominal form my, your to encode the possession. Semantically, a possessive relationship is used to refer to kinship relations (my brother) body parts (the ...
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The Thematic Nominal Stems in Anatolian and Indo-European
... Regarding the Anatolian material itself, it should be kept in mind that the weight that is going to be given to each of the languages is not equal. Hittite is going to be the main working language for several reasons: ...
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(Lack of) Person agreement in Finnish: Imposters, possessives and bound variables
... Prior work on Finnish has reached divergent conclusions regarding the status of the possessive suffix in standard Finnish. Some researchers – myself included – have analyzed the suffix as an agreement marker licensed by ...
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Ukrainian Linguistics in Canada: Second Half of the Twentieth Century and Beyond
... Early in his teaching career at the University of Alberta, Professor Terence R. Carlton (b. 1934) wrote a number of small but extremely useful works for the student of modern Ukrainian. In A Student’s Guide to the ...
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Rebanking CCGbank for Improved NP Interpretation
... This analysis allows recovery of verbal argu- ments of nominalised raising and control verbs, a construction which both Gildea and Hockenmaier (2003) and Boxwell and White (2008) identify as a problem case when ...
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Neuter heteroclisis in Asia Minor Greek: Origin and development
... the case of inanimate nouns such as Phloïtá Cappadocian μύλος or Pontic αυλή, which were already more saliently related to the neuter than animate nouns by virtue of their ...
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Morphosyntactic discrepancies in representing the adjective equivalent in African WordNet with reference to Northern Sotho
... The genitive or possessive construction in general serves two semantic ...or genitive construction may serve as the cognitive-semantic equivalent of the English ...general genitive/possessive ...
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An outline of clause and phrase structure in Bahasa Indonesia
... 110 Preceding Head Following Head Negative Possessive Genitive Quantity Possessive Topic Number Possessive Subject Predeterminer Possessive Object Certain Attributives Appositive Attribu[r] ...
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Investigating Embedded Question Reuse in Question Answering
... each case the corresponding head noun; capital, capital, medicine in rows 1 to 3, respectively; and modifier noun; China, China, anthrax in rows 1 to 3, respectively; is extracted to build a new frame and use ...
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