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Natural Language Processing with ThoughtTreasure: The understanding agency Now that the target grid and assertions have been created, a target object which is an instance of the class of object originally sought by the planning agent is obtained by consulting the analogy map. routine to find an object near the actor: for example, the sleep planning agent invokes this routine to find a bed, the shower planning agent invokes it to find a shower, or the grocer planning agent invokes it to find the checkout counter. A vocative followed by a verb-object-object directive: Charlotte, get Corinne dessert. www.signiform.com /tt/book/UA.html   (15108 words)

Exploring Language: Bringing It Together: Phrases [English Online] SVO (subject + verb + object): Kath caught a trout. The understanding of passive verbs is a later development in language acquisition and might not occur until the child is over six. Passive verbs are commonly used in academic writing and scientific writing, where we need to know what happened but not necessarily who made it happen. english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/resources/exp_lang/phrases.html   (1638 words)

Guilford College - Subject-Verb-Object Sometimes the sentence will have only a subject and verb but no object, in which case we're talking about the relationship between subject and verb. In this example, the subject, verb, and object line up just the way we expect them to in an English sentence: S-V-O. No problem. The true subject, or agent, of the action has been taken out of the subject position, which will cause a momentary--though unconscious--blip for the reader as s/he launches into the reading assuming that the word in the subject position is the subject of an active construction. www.guilford.edu /services/index.cfm?ID=700003710   (446 words)

Tokana 5 (part 1) When a possessor or the object of a preposition is acting as the topic, the verb phrase-internal position which that topic corresponds to is generally filled by a determiner. In a typical Tokana sentence, the topic field is filled by one of the noun phrase arguments of the verb (subject, direct object, indirect object, etc.) - specifically, the noun phrase denoting that entity with which the sentence as a whole is concerned. Note finally that whenever two noun phrases occur before the verb, it is always possible to tell which is the topic and which is the focused element by the order they occur in, given that topics always precede focused elements. cs-people.bu.edu /dgd/tokana/tok.5.1.html   (3417 words)

Ergativity in Suleimaniye Kurdish In the past tense, agreement is split along lines of transitivity: in a past-tense intransitive sentence, a Set 1 clitic on the verb indicates agreement with the subject; however, in a past-tense transitive sentence, a Set 1 clitic on the verb refers to the direct object of the verb, and not to the agent. The verb /wâ lê kirdin/ obviously treats subject and agent as a single category, with these two relations able to delete, but not to control deletion, and the relation of object able to control deletion, but not to delete. That is, in the case of subject and agent, a clitic is required to appear on the verb (and then move off, in the case of past transitive verbs) regardless of whether or not an explicit subject or agent noun phrase is present in the sentence. www.home.earthlink.net /~rcfriend/ESK.htm   (7249 words)

Vilani Grammar This is called the "antipassive": the Agent of the transitive verb is converted into the Subject of an intransitive verb, and the Object of the transitive verb goes into a peripheral case -- usually, as here, the dative. In such constructions, the object of a transitive verb is deleted and its agent is converted to the subject role -- in effect, making a transitive verb into an intransitive verb. Vilani grammar assumes that Flavia, having been the object of the transitive verbs "sing something" and "prefer something the most", keeps the S/O role and will be the O of a following transitive verb "sell something" unless explicitly stated otherwise. home.comcast.net /~downport/rules/Vilani_Grammar.html   (7249 words)

HF ENG 111 Grammar: Lecture 14 Clauses with monotransitive verbs can be passivized: the Verb is then marked for passive voice, the original dO becomes the S, and the original S is either dropped (The ambassador was bitten) or incorporated in an agent prepositional phrase (The ambassador was bitten by the police dog). lecture 10), but also by the Subject (The lecture started five minutes late) or the direct Object of some other verb (They remembered the concert). Typically, the subject represents an agent and the direct object an affected entity (The police dog bit the ambassador), but other combinations of participants can also be represented (the dO can represent e.g. www.hf.ntnu.no /engelsk/staff/johannesson/111gram/lect14.htm   (7249 words)

Ergative-absolutive language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An ergative-absolutive language (or simply ergative) is one that treats the agent of transitive verbs distinctly from the argument of intransitive verbs and the object of transitive verbs. The distinguishing feature of an ergative language is that it maintains an equivalence between the object of a transitive verb and the argument of an intransitive verb, while treating the agent of a transitive verb differently. In Urdu and Hindi, ergative case is marked on agents in the perfective aspect for transitive and ditransitive verbs, while in other situations agents appear in the nominative case. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ergative-absolutive_language   (1230 words)

balinese Verbs are sorted into agentive voice (syntactically accusative) and objective voice (syntactically ergative): canon-verb -> AV-verb v OV-verb In a syntactically accusative verb stem (as in English, or Balinese AV verbs), the value of ARG-S is canonically the append of the values of SUBJ and COMPS, in that order. Hence with an OV verb, the complement Agent can bind into a subject: (16) Ragan idane cingakin ida. (high register) self OV.see him/her '(S)he saw himself/herself.' But the opposite binding relation, where the Theme subject binds an Agent object, is not possible: (17) a. Balinese is a 'syntactically ergative' language in the sense that the unmarked form of a monotransitive verb has a Theme subject and Agent complement. uts.cc.utexas.edu /~wechsler/balinese   (2880 words)

Dave's Language Creation Notebook Finally, the ergative case is the name for a case that marks the subject of a transitive verb (not necessarily the agent) in ergative-absolutive languages. Thus, the case assigned to both the subject and object of a transitive verb is the duative, and the case assigned to the single argument of an intransitive verb is the unitive. No language marks the agent of a transitive verb differently from the agent of a ditransitive verb. dedalvs.free.fr /notes.html#ergativity   (13069 words)

VISL - Portuguese Syntax Transitive verbs with agent subjects and patient objects (abrir, fechar, comer) can be used both after ter, ser and estar, ergative verbs with patient subjects without objects (chegar, desaparecer, nascer) only after ter and estar, and intransitive verbs with agent subjects without objects (trabalhar, rir, brincar) only after ter. The latter function as adjunct predicatives (fC), the former as adjunct adverbials (fA). In this analysis, the accusative pronoun functions as direct object in the matrix clause, and the subclause functions as object complement. visl.hum.ou.dk /visl/pt/syntaxmanual_7.html?&print=1   (13069 words)

Intransitive verb: Encyclopedia topic See also transitive verb (transitive verb: A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical) and ditransitive verb (ditransitive verb: in grammar, a ditransitive verb is a verb which takes a subject and two objects.... In grammar (grammar: Studies of the formation of basic linguistic units), an intransitive verb is an action verb (verb: A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence) that takes no object. Although logical inference may imply that a direct object is involved with the alternating intransitives, it is not part of the syntactic representation of the sentence; it is part of either the discourse context, the nature of the verb, or both. www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/intransitive_verb   (356 words)

Argument Assignment If a verb assigns an agent and a theme, the theme is assigned to the complement (direct object) position of the verb--the position that is immediately to the right of the verb to the internal argument position (the internal argument position). Perhaps the verb is focusing on the movement (theme) here as in (5), not on the source of locomotion (agent). The verb go normally assigns agent to its main argument, yet (4) is perfectly fine. www.sfu.ca /person/dearmond/322/322.argument.assignment.htm   (376 words)

THE SYNTAX OF TENSE, MODE, VOICE, & ASPECT The agent of the active verb would be understood; the grammatical subject is still a logical object. In these cases the verb is [+Ergative] and the quondam subject may be object in an adverb phrase of benefactor, instrument, etc. It is usually possible to make the quondam subject into an object in an adverb phrase of manner. userpages.burgoyne.com /bdespain/grammar/gram173.htm   (661 words)

Verb argument -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article In both cases the semantic arguments are she (the agent) and a cake (the patient), but the first sentence has the syntactic arguments subject and object, while the second has subject and (optional) agentive complement. Every (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) language marks the core arguments of verbs using (A portable container for carrying several objects) case, (The order of words in a text) word order or a mixture of both, though some rely heavily on context for disambiguation. Typical syntactic arguments are the (The subject matter of a conversation or discussion) subject and the direct (A tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow) object, which are usually termed "core arguments". www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/ve/verb_argument.htm   (503 words)

Croft Abstracts Croft then applies this hypothesis to grammatical relations between the verb and its dependent subject, object and oblique noun phrases, arguing that one cannot account for cross-linguistic patterns of marking using semantic roles such as "agent" or "instrument". Instead, the universals that we use the names 'noun', 'verb', 'subject' and 'object' for are patterns in the topography of conceptual space (an approach that represents a significant contribution from cognitive linguistics to typology, incidentally). Different verbs may be defined from the same force-dynamic conceptual semantic structure of an event, depending on what segment(s) of the causal (force-dynamic) chain is actually denoted by the verb. lings.ln.man.ac.uk /Info/staff/WAC/WACabst.html   (12147 words)

Sk'op Sotz'leb: Chapter Eight There is a construction that combines a transitive verb (with both a subject and an object) with an intransitive "auxiliary" root, which adds a sense of motion (or lack of motion) and intention to the action denoted by the transitive verb. The use of these roots as intransitive verbs has been called the middle-voice, because the grammatical subject of the verb is the semantic patient, and because there is no specific agent. In this case, it is the agentive subject as final constituent which gives the verb its ergative prefix. www.zapata.org /Tzotzil/Chapters/chapt8a.html   (4179 words)

10 Passive In both cases, a noun phrase (the subject of the complement clause with subject raising, the object with passive) originates in a position in which case can't be checked. The reason that the chains in (31) are analogous is that the passive participle of the ECM verb and the subject raising verb both obey Burzio's generalization. In other words, although the licensing relationship differs in both cases (spec-predicate for subject raising, head-comp for passive), the passive is analogous to subject raising in that both constructions exhibit the extension of an otherwise very strict local licensing relationship. www.ling.upenn.edu /~beatrice/syntax-textbook/ch10.html   (4179 words)

FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book. www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=transitive   (97 words)

Syn_sli9.doc Properties of the mystery verb: It assigns the (-role agent, having the same meaning as ‘make’: The cat rolled the armadillo down the road = The cat made the armadillo roll down the road It is phonetically empty. Extend vp-shell analysis to transitive verbs with double object: she loaded the trunk with shoes Unergatives: incorporation of a noun into a light verb. Examples: causative ‘make’ - adds (-role agent Chichewa (a Buntu language) mtsuko u-na-gw-a waterpot sp-past-fall-asp ‘The waterpot fell’ mtsikana u-na-u-gw-ets-a mtsuko girl sp-past-op-fall-caus-asp waterpot ‘The girl made the waterpot fall’ Chichewa causative is an affix. www.let.uu.nl /~Rene.Kager/personal/Syntax/Syn_sli9.doc   (97 words)

verb on Encyclopedia.com Verbs are also classified as transitive (requiring a direct object) or intransitive. Agent-less indirect adjectival verb forms in Egyptian and Arabic: the case of jrrw n.f. English verbs are inflected for person, number, tense and partially for mood; compound verbs formed with auxiliaries (e.g., be, can, have, do, will) provide a distinction of voice. www.encyclopedia.com /html/v1/verb.asp   (547 words)

Reflexive verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia verb whose semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the subject and the direct object) are the same. Spanish, for example, the particle se is cliticized to the verb ( lavarse "to wash oneself"), while in Romanian, the particle precedes the verb ( a se spăla "to wash oneself"). In many languages, reflexive constructions are rendered by transitive verbs followed by a reflexive pronoun, as in English -self (e. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reflexive_verb   (547 words)

vim1: impersonal verbs & expressions: il faut, il est important ... The impersonal pronoun il ('it') is used in French when an action has no agent, that is, when there is no person or animate being responsible for the action. Falloir may be followed by an infinitive as in (d), by a noun as in (c), or by a subordinate clause introduced by que as in (a); note that the verb in the subordinate clause in (a) requires the subjunctive mood. Weather conditions are also expressed in French using the verb faire followed by an adjective or noun. www.laits.utexas.edu /tex/gr/vim1.html   (547 words)

Linguistics 550, Syntax I, Notes 8 However, in contrast to active verb forms, their passive counterparts are incapable of (i) assigning oblique case to their objects and (ii) assigning the semantic role of agent to the subject. Rather, the lexical analysis holds that passive is a process that modifies an active verb's treelet by eliminating the subject as an argument and turning the erstwhile object into a subject, thereby changing the active verb's subcategorization frame from transitive to intransitive. From a superficial point of view, the difference between the verbs break, drown, roll and sink in the (i) and (ii) examples is that they are transitive in the (i) examples and intransitive in the (ii) examples. www.ling.upenn.edu /courses/Fall_1998/ling550/notes8.html   (1335 words)

Deep Structure in English divides the thought into Two Constituents: the Noun Phrase the the Verb Phrase. The first noun "cat" in the sentence is the agent, and the first noun after the verb "mouse" is the object. Deep Structure in English divides the thought into Two Constituents: the Noun Phrase the the Verb Phrase. Take for example the first level of constituents after the deep structure which, we will call "S." This includes a Noun Phrase (NP) and the Verb Phrase (VP). www.csun.edu /~vcoao0el/de361/de361s61_folder/tsld026.htm   (135 words)

tepaword.htm This attachment is evidenced by the phonology; lenition will operate on the initial consonant of an incorporated noun, but not on the initial consonant of a noun which simply follows the verb as an object. However, for the ditransitives, not all of the arguments can be encoded by means of argument prefixes; only the agent of the predicate and the (ultimately) affected argument are considered. In others, the category will not change, but a new root is formed of the same category, such as process which derives causative, benefactive, or applicative verb roots from existing verbal bases. www.langmaker.com /featured/tepaword.htm   (135 words)

Englishman's Greek, Chapter 8, The Greek Verb You (subject) were sealed (passive verb) [by God] (Agent understood, not stated] with the Holy Spirit (instrumental phrase). His disciples (subject) were baptizing (active verb) many disciples (direct object). A deponent verb is either passive or middle in form, but it is active in meaning. www.middletownbiblechurch.org /egreek/egreek08.htm   (135 words)

Alabama Dictionary first person singular (noncontrol) subject/object verb prefix Var: a- before the dative prefix im- (PlImp) suffix on verbs with the shape...CVV-li, CVC-li,...VCV] verb prefix indicating cislocative Var: il- before consonants [prob. davinci.cascss.unt.edu /~montler/Alabama/Dictionary/afx.htm   (135 words)

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