In general, English gerunds such as (We were talking about) John having a sabbatical combine the internal characteristics of a clause with the external characteristics of a noun phrase. Previous analyses have tried to recognise the mixed character of gerunds by assigning them two separate nodes, one verbal and the other nominal, but all such analyses are problematic. This paper proposes an anal...

The study describes the acquisition of verb by typically developing Amharic-speaking children. It recruitedcross-sectional research design to gather speeches’ data from thirty-two children using picture description, spontaneous elicitation, and story-tellingtasks. Thedata were audio- recorded, transcribed IPA, analyzed. result showed that most ofAmharic speakingchildren’s verbs appeared as sing...

Metaphor is to express another thing through one thing, it not only a rhetorical means, but also embodies kind of analogical cognition and way thinking people. In recent years, metaphors have made more progress in Chinese language recognition, so their status has gradually risen. sentiment analysis relatively difficult problem processing. semantics ambiguous complex, great challenge construct E...

This paper presents a novel analysis of so-called gapless relative clause constructions such as Mandarin xiangpi ranshao de weidao (literally, ‘the smell that rubber burns’). Such constructions have been observed in East Asian languages. It is claimed that the Head noun of such relative clauses are relational nouns, and the clauses are their licensors. Syntactically, the Head nouns are predicat...

Parasitic Gaps (PGs) are now familiar objects on the syntactic landscape. A PG is an empty category in a Case-marked NP position that shares with Wh-trace the property of being A-bar bound but differs from Wh-trace insofar as it appears to bave the privilege of occuring in positions that are in some sense inaccessible to movement. Thus the PG in (1,2) (represented as ~) appears in a position th...

This study determined if a language-based approach using literary texts in teaching English will improve the grammatical competence of Grade 9 students verbals. To generate data on level proficiency and competence, pretest post-test were used to assess learning outcome subjects study. Based analysis data, results revealed that after implementation approach, respondents gerund infinitive is appr...

Errors of verbal complementation are among the most frequent and intractable types of grammatical error produced by ESL learners of all levels. Formal rules help only to a very slight degree, and most of the time one operates on intuition. One avoids constructions such as *Mary avoids to make mistakes. simply on the basis of feel—it sounds and looks odd. Many learners seem to operate on the ‘ec...