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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"word classes"”.
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Predication, reference and modification: Major word classes in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language
In this thesis, I investigate the word class system in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language from central Bhutan. Word classes form a fundamental part of basic linguistic analysis, as tasks like writing phrase structure rules or positing derivational affixes require assumptions about how words in a …
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Predication, reference and modification: Major word classes in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language
In this thesis, I investigate the word class system in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language from central Bhutan. Word classes form a fundamental part of basic linguistic analysis, as tasks like writing phrase structure rules or positing derivational affixes require assumptions about how words in a …
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A Morphological Study of the Antonymous Compounds in Chinese: How the Word Class Changes and Why
<p>The majority of Chinese words are compounds. Among compounds, there is a special kind of compounds. It is made up of two antonymous morphemes. The antonymous compounds undergo functional shift. In 40% percent of the cases, the compounds have different word classes from the morphemes. The thesis …
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A Description of the Phonology and Morphology of Kɔɖa, An Endangered Language of Bangladesh
… and explain the synchronic sound patterns and word classes of Kɔɖa. Chapter 2 provides a detailed description of the phonology of the language, including segmental and prosodic aspects of sound patterns. Chapter 3 presents a description of Kɔɖa word classes and word structure, including …
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The Underlying Grammar in a Language Course (with a special reference to Russian)
… describes and justifies a set of ideal syntactic wordclasses designed to facilitate the analysis of sentences of modern standard scientific and technical Russian by the setting up of chains of syntactic predictions designed to be derivable through a defined search procedure in a specially-prepared …
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Statistische Auswahl von Wortabhängigkeiten in der automatischen Spracherkennung
… statistical language modeling on perplexity and word error rate in automatic speech recognition. A trigram language model with a standard smoothing method is extended by complex state-of-the-art language modeling techniques, including: the comparison of different smoothing methods, namely linear …
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The mouthing of verbs in Japanese Sign Language
… Language roughly 20% of the time, whereas other word classes are mouthed roughly 46% of the time. More than half of mouthed verbs are always or nearly always mouthed as one of their lexical properties. Abstract verbs tend to be mouthed more frequently than concrete verbs. When a Japanese Sign …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… described in chapter 3. Chapters 4 and 5 survey word classes and sentence types respectively. The following four chapters are concerned with nominals. Nominal inflection is described in chapter 6 and the different types of free pronouns are discussed in chapter 7. In chapter 8 there is a …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… described in chapter 3. Chapters 4 and 5 survey word classes and sentence types respectively. The following four chapters are concerned with nominals. Nominal inflection is described in chapter 6 and the different types of free pronouns are discussed in chapter 7. In chapter 8 there is a …
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Comparing incidental learning of nouns and verbs using eye movements
… affect the ease or likelihood of learning a new word from written context. Findings from various areas of cognitive science suggest that part of speech should be one such factor. Nouns and verbs differ in their syntactic and semantic roles. As a result of these differences, verbs are generally …
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English-derived words in Sierra Leone Krio
… Two discusses the Phonology of English-derived words in Krio. It examines the eclectic nature of the British' influence, discussing the systemic, phonotactic and phonetic features of the various British accents that may have contributed to the formation of modern Krio phonological structure. The …
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Selected topics in Limos Kalinga grammar
… the language. This survey includes a chapter on word classes, including the distinction between nouns and verbs, a hazy area in Philippine linguistics. Then the noun phrase is described, with the focus on the complex deictic component of the determiner. The third chapter introduces the structure …
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Syntactic Tones of Nouns in Bemba
… was intended to be done on the nouns; but, other word classes were studied to give more conclusive findings. In addition, one may wish to say that this study was also primarily concerned with the phonological evidence. It apparently was relevant that the morphological and syntactic levels were to …
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Syntactic Tones of Nouns in Bemba
… was intended to be done on the nouns; but, other word classes were studied to give more conclusive findings. In addition, one may wish to say that this study was also primarily concerned with the phonological evidence. It apparently was relevant that the morphological and syntactic levels were to …
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Komnzo: A language of Southern New Guinea
… the well-established order: phonology (2), word classes (3), nominal morphology (4), verb morphology (5) and TAM marking (6), noun phrase syntax (7), clausal syntax (8), interclausal syntax (9) and information structure (10). These chapters are supplemented by an anthropological, historical …
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Komnzo: A language of Southern New Guinea
… the well-established order: phonology (2), word classes (3), nominal morphology (4), verb morphology (5) and TAM marking (6), noun phrase syntax (7), clausal syntax (8), interclausal syntax (9) and information structure (10). These chapters are supplemented by an anthropological, historical …
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Investigating the effect of spaced versus massed practice on vocabulary retention in the EFL classroom
… in initial learning and retention between word classes, the role of individual factors in spaced learning compared with massed learning, and whether the four levels of vocabulary strength additionally constituted an implicational scale. With these aims, year-one Saudi EFL university …
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Marrithiyel : a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory
… Chapter Two then reviews the phonology, word classes, and the nominal case marking system. These matters are not treated exhaustively, but are rather presented as preliminaries to a study of the verb, the topic to which the major part of this thesis is devoted. Chapter Three is primarily …
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Marrithiyel : a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory
… Chapter Two then reviews the phonology, word classes, and the nominal case marking system. These matters are not treated exhaustively, but are rather presented as preliminaries to a study of the verb, the topic to which the major part of this thesis is devoted. Chapter Three is primarily …
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An investigation into deviant morphology : issues in the implementation of a deep grammar for Indonesian
… we face is the claim that all open class words in Indonesian, at least as it is spoken in some varieties (Gil 1994; Gil 2010), cannot linguistically be analysed as being distinct from each other. That is, there is no distiction between nouns, verbs or adjectives in Indonesian, and all word …
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