Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The ECM-construction is licensed by a relatively small number of verbs in English (e.g., believe, judge, prove, want, let, etc.): Tim believes him to be innocent. – Exceptional case-marking of the object/subject him. We judge them to be ridiculous. – Exceptional case-marking of the object/subject them. The prosecutor proved her to be guilty.
Advice, Practice, Licence etc. (those with c) are nouns and Advise, Practise, License etc. are verbs. One way of remembering this is that the word ' n oun' comes before the word ' v erb' in the dictionary; likewise ' c' comes before ' s' , so the n ouns are 'practi c e, licen c e, advi c e' and the v erbs are 'practi s e, licen s e, advi s e'.
In linguistics, a polarity item is a lexical item that is associated with affirmation or negation.An affirmation is a positive polarity item, abbreviated PPI or AFF.A negation is a negative polarity item, abbreviated NPI or NEG.
A license (American English) or licence (Commonwealth English) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit). [1] A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreement between those parties.
A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...
This is a list of English ... (also verb) several (also adjective) ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Example Found in Absolutive case (1) patient, experiencer; subject of an intransitive verb and direct object of a transitive verb: he pushed the door and it opened Basque | Tibetan: Absolutive case (2) patient, involuntary experiencer: he pushed the door and it opened; he slipped active-stative languages: Absolutive case (3) patient ...
Many dictionaries have been digitized from their print versions and are available at online libraries. Some online dictionaries are organized as lists of words, similar to a glossary, while others offer search features, reverse lookups, and additional language tools and content such as verb conjugations, grammar references, and discussion ...