He tries to bring a poetic touch to his lines by jumbling the syntax of the sentences. |
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My friends, being incredibly nerdy linguists, decided to make fun of the syntax. |
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My rationale was, if you can enunciate densely rhymed verse, and understand the syntax, you can speak the language. |
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No doubt such garbled syntax does great things for policymakers sitting on committees. |
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In my syntax seminar the other day we were discussing grammaticalisation in French negation. |
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Like a language, the military art has its own lexicon, grammar, and syntax. |
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The syntax itself is hard to follow in places, in which case Wolfe provides elucidatory notes. |
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Phillips's syntax does the same thing, deferring predication so that we will be drawn to the end of the poem. |
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By studying that language, by learning its grammar and syntax, one can unlock its subtle mysteries and gain a better understanding of the world. |
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The syntax of the poem is complex and its convolutedness is so extreme that it disrupts semantic expectations. |
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The syntax of the first half of the poem creates a double image for the speaker, the praiser. |
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On the contrary, syntax is indispensable for a pragmatic language and pragmatics is indispensable for a syntactic language. |
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Deskbound in the yellow room during the crepuscular hour, I'm typing scientific syntax, window flung open. |
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I also get the sense that some lawyers think baffling legal jargon and tortured syntax will impress their clients. |
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It is assumed that you already know the syntax of Ada and have a rudimentary understanding of the semantics. |
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The syntax tells us which diagrams are acceptable, that is, which are well-formed, and which manipulations are permissible in each system. |
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It was a Judaisation of Middle High German, and certainly the structure of Western Yiddish is German in its syntax basically. |
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At the most literal level, a juxtapositional diction and syntax are primary to her poetics. |
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It appears to be the case that no language has its word order or anything about its syntax determined by facts of pronunciation. |
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The difficulty and complexity of the play's plotting is matched by an unusual density and knottiness of syntax. |
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But in the following passage the syntax is such that the referent of the word lap is ambiguous. |
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The error lies in assuming that the syntax is the domain of the fully regular and predictable. |
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The serpentine syntax of legal language is often used to obfuscate meaning and confuse those outside the law. |
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Finally, this Sunday strip has no connection to syntax or prosody, but does highlight the inadequacy of modern lexicography. |
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This grammar is the first pedagogic grammar to integrate syntax and lexis using corpus data. |
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It is through an unexpected blending of rhythm and syntax that his prose yields the remarkable or compelling image. |
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This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc. |
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Some linguists classify the Gullah language, spoken in the North Carolina islands, as a pidgin that is based on West African syntax. |
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This imperative, exposed through syntax, pervades the eight poems chosen here to represent Paul Celan's twenty-five-year arc of work. |
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Several varieties of Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara are spoken, and all have influenced one another in vocabulary, phonology, syntax, and grammar. |
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And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. |
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The Scandinavian languages of the Viking settlers penetrated much more deeply into English vocabulary, syntax, morphology, and phonology. |
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The tone of the site is bang on target, from the over-excited use of exclamation marks to the mangled syntax and personal trivia. |
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Kay presents overwhelming evidence of the distinctive vocabulary, syntax and grammar of Scots. |
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First the Gulf, then the Balkan campaigns honed the syntax of 24-hour reporting almost to the point of banality. |
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It was printed in hard-to-read Gothic font, and is reproduced with all its original barbarisms, spellings and syntax. |
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It has seven vowels, it has no perfect tenses, it is chock-a-block with suffixes and its syntax is baroque. |
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Left-dislocations and topicalizations lie at the interface between syntax and discourse, but little is known about how they are processed. |
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Powell's formalism is not only distended and sonic, but also the product of subtly tailored typography and syntax. |
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The voice is Kelly's throughout, down to the lack of punctuation, eccentric spellings and curious syntax. |
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By pulling these observations together with some mathematical syntax, a theorem is formed relating to the expansion of binomial terms. |
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But grammar and syntax and a horror of cliches and mixed metaphors were the least things he taught me. |
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As these heraldic arms became more elaborate, their description or blazon came to acquire its own rules, arcane vocabulary, and concise syntax. |
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The translation sentence is to have the syntax of the original, and to differ only morphemically. |
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And this looseness and blowsiness is not anything as simple and scandalous as abrupt and disordered syntax. |
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Despite similarity in syntax, vocabulary, and grammar, the contemporary languages are mutually unintelligible. |
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This was not a constructed language, but a secret vocabulary which uses the grammar and syntax of English as well as most of its core vocabulary. |
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It's disconcertingly riddled with inconsistent spellings, clunky syntax and other editing botches. |
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Nowhere did one find any of the sloppy grammar and syntax so much loved by today's pseudo intellectuals. |
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Its expansive, often elusive syntax was conveyed with finely graduated dynamics, and an inwardness that infused each element with significance. |
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The Broca's area of our brain was originally identified for its role in processing the syntax and meaning of sentences. |
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El Greco was like a writer, sometimes a poet and sometimes a versifier, who had little command of syntax. |
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There's at least one major error of spelling, punctuation, syntax, grammar or construction in every sentence. |
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There have been a number of 20c scholarly grammars of English characterized by a decidedly descriptive approach and a focus on syntax. |
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Successful nonsense verse must respect the structure and syntax of a language. |
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Similarly, in our writing, cadences are stress points, moments where syntax and substance team up to convey special meaning. |
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Through the syntax of misery and desperation shines no light, only more of the same. |
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Short-term language therapy was recommended to help with grammar, syntax, and auditory discrimination. |
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The chapters that follow deal with vocabulary, syntax, onomastics, phonology, English grammar and usage and, finally, literary language. |
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Paradise Lost is also, of course, filled with mimetic sound effects, onomatopoeia and mimetic syntax, which only work if the poem is sounded. |
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Assessment was based on instrumental fluency, musical syntax, creativity and overall musical quality. |
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The Third Part relates to grammar, syntax, orthography, vowels and consonants. |
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But Rayner also readily acknowledges that orthography, semantics and syntax are important in reading. |
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His remarks on French, focus on syntax and semantics, all but omitting phonology, phonetics and orthography. |
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Though the poems were in a European habit, Bialik imbues them with Biblical strophes, as well as prophetic metaphor, syntax, and meter. |
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You will see a slight variation on this syntax when we actually use it in the dynamic style sheet. |
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The second stage is characterized as a period of change in syntax and morphology yet stability in lexicon and fluency. |
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The sentence is an example of the author's tendency to overwrite, and to let his thoughts get obscured by mixed metaphors and convoluted syntax. |
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As you've correctly stated, all parsers enforce XML syntax to ensure that they are well formed. |
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I suspect that the error is due to the differing difficulty of the syntax of the two sentences. |
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To get facility with Italian as a third language, you would need only to grasp minor changes in word forms and syntax. |
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Avoid translating prompts word for word because syntax and common word usage vary widely among languages. |
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The other thing that they're learning about is syntax, phrase boundaries and clause boundaries. |
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The word choice and syntax are mine, the allusions part of my mental framework. |
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He spent eight years teaching high school Latin, which perhaps explains the purity of his syntax and word choices. |
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It's too bad that linguists who study syntax, semantics and pragmatics have not been involved in this enterprise to any significant extent. |
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He then gives you the three variants in syntax for the various UNIX systems the book covers. |
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In terms of grammar, syntax, and spelling there are no important differences between the two, but the pronunciation and sound are different. |
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The command syntax to do so is very similar to that of the familiar mount command. |
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Furthermore, you may need a similar macro using Java syntax for programming Java. |
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Barnes accurately captures the cliches, lack of punctuation, and poor syntax that reveal his derivative mind. |
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This form of syntax represents a shift from an earlier preference for hypotactic and paratactic syntax. |
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It is, moreover, written with an attention to syntax commensurate with the author's historical perspicacity. |
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I've gotten such emails quite regularly and they are almost always filled with misspellings, fractured syntax and incoherencies. |
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They will create a new pidgin language that has a Spanish syntax, just as English is based on an Anglo-Saxon syntax. |
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More complex sentences are manipulated, and the goal is not syntax studies as much as a tool to facilitate clear thinking. |
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His diatribes preserve the syntax of logical argument but are devoid of sense, which I think is symptomatic of a form of mental illness. |
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They care about grammar, syntax, usage, denotation, connotation, etymology. |
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The language's highly flexible syntax and concise regular expression operators, make densely written PERL code indecipherable to the uninitiated. |
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There's a new urgency and a thematic concentration to the poems, and the syntax is often sustained with a great fluency over long periods. |
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So no random isomorphism or pattern somewhere is going to count, and hence syntax is not observer-relative. |
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Because the source and target languages are different in vocabulary, syntax, and grammar, it involves compromises. |
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Butler's syntax sometimes gets in the way of understanding what she's asserting as fact. |
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From the syntax, it's a separate item, as if the requirement for the loyalty oath is law. |
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If you did learn to read it, you would discover the alienness of the syntax and structure. |
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The style is stuffy, the syntax is antique, and the conceit is never really convincing. |
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That's an original idea, toss out SVO syntax and let the hyperbatons roll! |
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But the essential reasons for the ascendancy of English lie in the internationality of its words and the relative simplicity of its grammar and syntax. |
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But the grasp she had on the written word, on the inner springs and impulses of the language, made grammar and syntax and diction resemble the laws of physics. |
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I keep trying, maybe one day I'll get the secret, until then you'll just have to put up with this poorly constructed, grammatically inept, syntax challenged journal. |
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Consequently it has provided a testing ground for a number of competing hypotheses concerning the relationship between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in linguistic theory. |
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His philosophy, his syntax, his lifestyle are all cast in a Biblical mold. |
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The world of the book is the percolation into articulate consciousness, into graphemes and syntax, of the manifold silences, the teeming capillary life of nature. |
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Although it is open to a court in limited circumstances to conclude that the words or syntax used is wrong, the purpose remains to construe the words used. |
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Some of his corrections really did have to do with grammar or syntax, such as his insistence on maintaining consistent parallel structure and pronominal reference. |
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Verhoeven identified the effect of the first language on the second language in literacy, vocabulary, and language fluency, but not in morphology and syntax. |
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This at least seems true in the limited sense that all human tribes, classes and even professions instinctively create their own vocabularies, phrases and even syntax. |
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Like other adverbial words and phrases, nevertheless floats around under the joint influence of meaning, syntax and style, but it usually washes up at the start of a clause. |
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Use it to implement a parser for Python's expression syntax. |
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Her Scandinavian English is sharp, heavily accented, the grammar and syntax strange in some places, but the emotions are palpable, resonant, honest. |
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Additionally, he is criticized for overuse of complex words and syntax. |
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Milton showers his poem with thousands of allusions to Hebraic, medieval, and renaissance culture, and his syntax may strike a modern reader as twisted. |
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It comes as a surprise to most beginners in contemporary mainstream linguistics when they find that, instead, the central component of language is presented as syntax. |
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They worked their way through many features of language, from words to syntax to speech, that they argued show signs of adaptation in humans specifically for language. |
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Yet the syntax and sense of the poems belie the filiation of the rhyme scheme, as Meredith revises the amatory sonnet tradition, expanding the scope of lyric toward narrative. |
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The meaning of a word varies when syntax is arranged differently. |
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And John, I hope my grammar and syntax meet your very high standards. |
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Beneath the surface grinds the invisible machinery of grammar, language, syntax and rhetoric, the gears of making meaning, the hardware of the trade. |
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To understand writing requires knowledge of English grammar and syntax. |
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Thus, as we each make meaning out of language, we do far more than compute an interpretation deriving from the interaction of syntax and word meaning. |
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Using strangulated syntax instead of plain English means that the real meaning can be concealed from all save the magic circle of fellow-professionals who are in on the act. |
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In other analyses of Cariban languages it has been claimed that the oblique marking of the agent of a transitive verb is indicative of ergative syntax. |
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The word is borrowed by analogy from the terminology of linguistic syntax. |
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The journey here is as much in the rhythmic ricochet of assonance, produced by colliding syntax, as it is in the actual varying terrain the words themselves represent. |
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The section on markers discusses rhyme and alliteration, oppositions, word repetition, paradox, metaphor, pithiness and aspects of the syntax of proverbs. |
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It presents valuable, precise programming syntax and advice for every Linux programmer, whether you are a novice, intermediate or expert programmer. |
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Both poets share a frequent use of inversion and play with syntax. |
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This thesis deals with phonology, morphology, syntax and the meanings related to the syntactic structures. |
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What marks the consecutive is its special morphology and syntax indicating the temporal succession of actions. |
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English syntax relies on auxiliary verbs for many functions including the expression of tense, aspect and mood. |
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Because of the strict SVO syntax, the topic of a sentence generally has to be the grammatical subject of the sentence. |
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However, Plato reports that syntax was devised before him, by Prodicus of Ceos, who was concerned by the correct use of words. |
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Lineation is very much a matter of syntax, organizing the poem's grammar across its lines in ways significant and central to the poem's meaning. |
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Because XHTML 1 only defines an XML syntax for the language defined by HTML 4, the same differences apply to XHTML 1 as well. |
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It also lends itself to elaboration, because its tight syntax holds even the longest and most complex sentence together as a logical unit. |
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Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar. |
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Inflectional suffixes in the morphology of Bengali vary from region to region, along with minor differences in syntax. |
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Tolkien have argued that Celtic has acted as a substrate to English for both the lexicon and syntax. |
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Its syntax is V2, with the finite verb always occupying the second slot in the sentence. |
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As Swedish is a Germanic language, the syntax shows similarities to both English and German. |
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What this means is that theories of syntax that take the constituent to be the fundamental unit of syntactic analysis are challenged. |
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The manner in which units of meaning are assigned to units of syntax remains unclear. |
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The words constituting idioms are stored as catenae in the lexicon, and as such, they are concrete units of syntax. |
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In the actual syntax, however, some idioms can be broken up by various functional constructions. |
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After a period of trial and error learning, the young birds learn the syntax and perfect the dances. |
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The rules by which signs can be combined to form words and phrases are called syntax or grammar. |
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Often, semantic concepts are embedded in the morphology or syntax of the language in the form of grammatical categories. |
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The rules of the internal structure of phrases and sentences are called syntax. |
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The grammatical rules for how to produce new sentences from words that are already known is called syntax. |
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Language change happens at all levels from the phonological level to the levels of vocabulary, morphology, syntax, and discourse. |
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In the absence of Lombardic texts, it is not possible to draw any conclusions about the language's morphology and syntax. |
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The syntax of Gothic is similar to that of other old Germanic languages such as Old English and Old Norse. |
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Gregory wrote in Late Latin which departed from classical usage frequently in syntax and spelling with relatively few changes in inflection. |
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The Grammar was continued in three volumes, treating principally derivation, composition and syntax, the last of which was unfinished. |
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The figures at Persepolis remain bound by the rules of grammar and syntax of visual language. |
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Another major difference between the syntax of Chinese and languages like English lies in the stacking order of modifying clauses. |
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The printed word also helped to unify and standardize the spelling and syntax of these vernaculars, in effect 'decreasing' their variability. |
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For the uses of these various verb forms, see English verbs and English clause syntax. |
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Most languages are not purely analytic but many rely primarily on analytic syntax. |
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The term syntax is also used to refer to the study of such principles and processes. |
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In mathematics, syntax refers to the rules governing the behavior of mathematical systems, such as formal languages used in logic. |
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Theoretical approaches to syntax that are based upon probability theory are known as stochastic grammars. |
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This is one of the fundamental systems which a language is considered to comprise, like its syntax and its vocabulary. |
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Analytic languages use syntax to convey information that is encoded via inflection in synthetic languages. |
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Latin has a complex affixation and simple syntax, while Chinese has the opposite. |
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New Zealand English, while sharing some words and syntax with Australian English, follows British usage. |
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However, there are several unique characteristics that mark out Northern syntax from neighbouring dialects. |
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Its simpler word structure and syntax, while detracting from the raw information standpoint, can make the information easy to understand. |
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Some languages code very little through morphology and are more dependent on syntax to encode meaning and grammatical relationships. |
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In this regard, theories of syntax tend to explain discontinuities in one of two ways, either via movement or via feature passing. |
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Many English nouns can be used in either mass or count syntax, and in these cases, they take on cumulative reference when used as mass nouns. |
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However, this may confuse syntax and semantics, by presupposing that words which denote substances are mass nouns by default. |
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The allowability, form and position of these elements depend on the syntax of the language in question. |
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While periphrasis concerns all categories of syntax, it is most visible with verb catenae. |
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For more general information about English verb inflection and auxiliary usage, see English verbs and English clause syntax. |
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Because of this difference of syntax, ought is sometimes excluded from the class of modal verbs, or is classed as a semimodal. |
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The history of English syntax is thus seen as a process of losing the constraint. |
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Language syntax treats adpositional phrases as units that act as arguments or adjuncts. |
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Like with all other types of phrases, theories of syntax render the syntactic structure of adpositional phrases using trees. |
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A dummy pronoun, also called an expletive pronoun or pleonastic pronoun, is a pronoun used for syntax without explicit meaning. |
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This way, translators are able to use potential translated neologisms in sentences and test them with different structures and syntax. |
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By 1566, Aldus Manutius the Younger was able to state that the main object of punctuation was the clarification of syntax. |
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Some of these exceptions may have originated with changed syntax, as Devonshire Parish may originally have been The Parish of Devonshire. |
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The syntax, which lacks subordinating conjunctions, creates static sentences. |
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So it starts with the sensical, and through shifts in syntax and cadence, goes completely abstract. |
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The snakingly complex, ductile, and extended syntax of Yeats's 'While I, from that reed-throated whisperer' is in the mix here, also. |
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All Wikis share common features such as editing, syntax, versioning, linkages, and unrestricted access. |
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This approach to communication tends to follow more closely the syntax and word order of English. |
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Sentential word order is one of the most studied topics in linguistic typology and generally in syntax. |
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With its characteristic Yinglish syntax, this last remark represents the older generation's bemusement with the military parade. |
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One suspects that some translators have perhaps smoothed out the jaggedness of Akin's syntax that other translators are at pains to preserve. |
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Singlish or Singapore English is a patois blending English with smatterings of Chinese and Malay syntax and grammar. |
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Another marker of the poem's modernity is Rossetti's disregard for the convention of matching a poem's syntax to its stanzaic form. |
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Helle Metslang's main research interests have been Estonian morphosyntax and syntax, language change, contrastive and typological studies. |
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Stanford's syntax varies, though he favors parataxis and cataloguing techniques propelled by bluesy or biblical anaphora. |
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Neither the uniform resource locator link addressing scheme or the page pathname syntax is needed. |
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The assumption of the autonomy of syntax that minimalists have adopted reminds me of the American distributionists. |
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Rynell, Alarik 1952 Parataxis and hypotaxis as a criterion of syntax and style, especially in Old English poetry. |
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Despite the ample supply of new information, however, Harris' story bogs down in a swamp of pumped-up prose and mangled syntax. |
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On-line error checking for syntax and logic is desirable, as is validating punched tapes. |
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InfoMaker 8 software supports both left and right outer joins in graphics mode and full outer and inner joins in syntax mode. |
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More information on these topics can be found at English clause syntax. |
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The relation of symbol to symbol forms a syntax of symbology that implies that it exists in and of itself, outside merely the mind of the perceiver. |
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Gertrude Stein was an exception in controverting syntax as well. |
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Opened to the dizzying possibilities of syntax and syllogism, the pornographic image may be heightened to the point where it metamorphizes into pure paralogism. |
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This latter format, called wikitext, is written by means of a simplified markup language and its style and syntax vary, depending on the different implementations. |
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Where the syntax of propositions is broken, we see a very general principle of tropology that grants a priori that things like texts are replacements of things like authors. |
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The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics. |
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In Irish and Scottish Gaelic, there are two copulas, and the syntax is also changed when one is distinguishing between states or situations and essential characteristics. |
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Some languages use different copulas, or different syntax, when denoting a permanent, essential characteristic of something and when denoting a temporary state. |
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His early work focused primarily on language teaching reform and on phonetics, but he is best known for his later work on syntax and on language development. |
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Such discontinuities challenge any theory of syntax, and any theory of syntax is going to have a component that can address these discontinuities. |
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Despite the fact that such data provide no obvious reason to assume movement, some theories of syntax maintain a movement analysis in the interest of remaining consistent. |
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The syntax of the Irish language is quite different from that of English. |
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When we say that we're speaking Standard English, what we're doing is transferring into our spoken vocabulary and syntax the elements of the written language. |
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Cajun French equally has been an oral language for generations and it is only recently that its syntax and features been adapted to French orthography. |
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This facilitated the expansion of English vocabulary, the regularisation of inflection and syntax, and a widening gap between the spoken and the written word. |
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The Latin brought by Roman soldiers to Gaul, Iberia, or Dacia was not identical to the Latin of Cicero, and differed from it in vocabulary, syntax, and grammar. |
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No clear line can be drawn, however, between syntax and morphology. |
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The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes phonology, morphology, and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics. |
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There are a number of theoretical approaches to the discipline of syntax. |
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For details of possible patterns, see English clause syntax. |
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The Spanish of Puerto Rico has evolved into having many idiosyncrasies in vocabulary and syntax that differentiate it from the Spanish spoken elsewhere. |
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Maurice Bloch argues that ritual obliges participants to use this formal oratorical style, which is limited in intonation, syntax, vocabulary, loudness, and fixity of order. |
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The simple sound change has affected both morphology and syntax. |
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A nonstandard dialect, like a standard dialect, has a complete vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, but is usually not the beneficiary of institutional support. |
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While Continental Celtic presents much substantiation for its phonology, and some for morphology, recorded material is too scanty to allow a secure reconstruction of syntax. |
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With the exception of plural forms of verbs and a slightly different syntax, particularly in the written language, the language was the same as the Swedish of today. |
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Variations in grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and pronunciation cut across geographical boundaries and can create a distinct dialect at the level of farm clusters. |
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In subordinate clauses, the syntax differs from that of main clauses. |
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Commonalities in syntax and vocabulary facilitated the adoption of Latin. |
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It was based on pictographic and ideographic elements, while later Sumerians developed syllables for writing, reflecting the phonology and syntax of the Sumerian language. |
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German dialects, traditional local varieties traced back to the Germanic tribes, are distinguished from varieties of standard German by their lexicon, phonology, and syntax. |
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This language has its own vocabulary, grammar and syntax, or rules governing word order, which becomes essential for comprehension when blazoning a complex coat of arms. |
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A number of historical phases of the language have been recognised, each distinguished by subtle differences in vocabulary, usage, spelling, morphology, and syntax. |
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Old English syntax was similar in many ways to that of modern English. |
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Other applications, such as the Text Encoding Initiative, are using the SGML syntax to embed full cataloging of electronic publications within the publication itself. |
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