منابع مشابه
English Prepositional Passive Constructions
An empirical overview of the properties of English prepositional passives is presented, followed by a discussion of formal approaches to the analysis of the various types of prepositional passives in HPSG. While a lexical treatment is available, the significant number of technical and conceptual difficulties encountered point to an alternative approach relying on constructional constraints. The...
متن کاملEnglish prepositional passive constructions
As noted by Huddleston and Pullum (2002, p. 1433), prepositional passives can be divided into two classes, depending on the syntactic function of the PP. In Type I prepositional passives, the PP is a complement whose prepositional head is idiomatically selected by the verb, as in (1b); in Type II prepositional passives as in (1c), the preposition is not part of a verbal idiom. Huddleston and Pu...
متن کاملHandling of Infinitives in English to Sanskrit Machine Translation
The development of Machine Translation (MT) system for ancient language like Sanskrit is a fascinating and challenging task. In this paper, the authors handle the infinitive type of English sentences in the English to Sanskrit machine translation (EST) system. The EST system is an integrated model of a rule-based approach of machine translation with Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model that tr...
متن کاملSimulating the temporal reference of Dutch and English Root Infinitives
Hoekstra & Hyams (1998) claim that the overwhelming majority of Dutch children’s Root Infinitives (RIs) are used to refer to modal (not realised) events, whereas in English speaking children, the temporal reference of RIs is free. Hoekstra & Hyams attribute this difference to qualitative differences in how temporal reference is carried by the Dutch infinitive and the English bare form. Ingram &...
متن کاملTranslation of TO infinitives in Anusaaraka Platform: an English Hindi MT system
In this paper, we study the infinitive TO constructions of English which can be variedly translated into Hindi. We observe that there can be different equivalents of infinitive TO into Hindi. Factors such as numerous semantic variants in translated equivalents and the syntactic complexity of corresponding English expressions of infinitive TO cause great difficulties in the English-Hindi transla...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0918-3701,1884-3107
DOI: 10.9793/elsj1984.3.79