Questions tagged [phrases]
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Identifying clauses (including finite and non finite) and analysing internal structure of the clauses
An example of how to do this is from the sentence
"I was on holiday, but when I saw the pictures I went straight away"
I / was / on holiday
S:NP / V / SC:PP
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Under which entry should example phrases be included in a bilingual dictionary?
I am currently working on a thematic bilingual dictionary and I'm having trouble deciding under which entry the sample phrases I find in my corpus should be listed.
For instance, should translations ...
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Can one word form a phrase?
Can one word form a phrase?
For example:
Man is mortal.
There is no modifier. So, here is there any phrase?
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Why is P the head of PP?
I was wondering what arguments there were to know that P is the head of a phrase [P + N].
As far as adjunct phrases are concerned, we can clearly see that as Ps select Ns (*during the rock; *in the ...
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Is there a linguistic term for a term in a language refering to a specific technology, outliving said technology?
In language, phrases and various semantic expressions referring to technologies often make their way into the language, even if that technology is mostly obsolete.
Examples of this could include "...
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The difference between headwords and main words
Not while ago, I was provided with a handout adressing types of phrases and in the very beginning, my lecturer stated this :
Now, what I'm basically trying to know is, first: whether the info is valid ...
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What are the structure and meaning of this sentence a lie is a lie is a lie is a lie?
There is a special sentence in English, e.g. a lie is a lie is a lie, or a dollar is a dollar is a dollar. This kind of structure does not have a verb center. that a dollar is a dollar is a dollar ...
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Detached Predicative with NONFINITE Clauses
I have just stumbled upon a sentence:
Dressed in a white dress, Stella looked breathtakingly beautiful.
I was wondering if the very first part of the sentence (Dressed in a white dress-nonfinite "...
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Is it more correct to use the minor and major foot groups in the IPA than commas and periods?
I transcribed some phrases from TV. This is casual American connected speech:
As you can notice I'm using the | and || symbols instead of the commas and periods. Also, I do not show the question mark,...
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What are lexeme, word and phrase in HPSG?
In “Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook” by Abeillé and Borsley, it says:
lexeme, word, and phrase have a complex system of subtypes. The type lexical-sign, its subtypes, and the ...
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How to treat adverbial phrases in X-bar theory
My question is about how to represent so-called adverbial phrases like "last night" or "all day". My confusion arises because there seems to be a consensus that these phrases are ...
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What is the syntactic function (if there is any) of the prefix in some German verbs?
Consider the following sentence:
"Ich rufe dich an".
It is a very simple Standard German sentence with the verb "anrufen", the unusual thing about it is this prefix that comes ...
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Are these "phrases" or "clauses" before a noun a modifier adjective?
In these clauses or sentences "I love those "I love you" messages" or "I hate those "I love you" messages",
Is this "phrase" or "clause", &...
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"It is ___ that/who + verb." pleonasm vs. "___ + verb."
Is there a name for the following type of pleonasm:
"It is John who runs." (instead of: "John runs.")
"It was congress that legislated." (instead of: "Congress ...
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Analysis of adverbial phrases composed of NOUN and NOUN
There is a certain adverbial pattern composed of "[NOUN] and [NOUN]".
We work day and night.
It's raining cats and dogs.
They're arguing / going at it hammer and tongs.
I've seen that &...
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Detect egoistical emotion [closed]
I'm working on sentiment analysis and currently struggling with egoistical emotion detection on a phrase level. So far, I detect the following phrases:
"I'm the best"
"I'm rich/powerful/beautiful/...
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Is "bien décidés" an adjectival phrase?
Mais il me faut quelques volontaires bien décidés.
in that sentence, décidés is considered as an adjective right? So does the phrase bien décidés an adjectival phrase or adverbial phrase?
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Why do swear words mean the same thing in both English and Spanish (possibly more languages)
Earlier today, I was talking about swearing in other languages with some friends (this is a serious question, bear with me), so I decided to look up some lists of Spanish swear words for fun. This ...
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Metalanguage to describe expressing an idea in many different ways
I am looking for a term to describe expressing an idea in many different forms yet the meaning remains the same in each rendition.
An example of this:
The Australians, Australians, the Australian ...
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Phraseology definition
What's difference between free-phrase and fixed phrase?
Because for some linguist differentiate phraseme (fixed phrase) into 3 part, vollidiomatizität, teilidiomatizität und nichtidiomatizität.
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Infinitive clauses referring to an adjective before a noun [closed]
We know that infinitive clauses can sometimes refer to adjectives before nouns. I feel with what adjectives they can do that, but I don't have any reason for it.
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You can buy the best book ...
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Is there such thing as a 'hyperphrase'?
In linguistics there is a common hierarchy of words:
Hypernym (e.g. Colours)
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Hyponym (e.g. Brown, yellow)
Does such a hierarchy exist within phrases?
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How to extract meaning of colloquial phrases and expressions in English
I am looking into extracting the meaning of expressions used in everyday speaking. For an instance, it is apparent to a human that the sentence The meal we had at restaurant A tasted like food at my ...
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What is the term for the formation of word groups with single meaning/function (e.g. "in relation to which") in lingustics
Clearly - pharases "in relation to which" (subordinating conjunction) function as one word. How such process is named in linguistics. It would also be interesting to know how such formation is ...
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What kind of phrase is "until recently"?
I learned about prepositions:
they establish a relation with two words
the preposition is followed by an object
-the object of a prepositional phrase is made by a noun phrase
However, I don't know ...
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Is "down at the bar" an adjective phrase or adverb phrase?
There are three parts of speeches attributed to "down" in the dictionary: adjective, adverb and verb.
I understand , that at the bar is a sub phrase and a prepositional phrase.
I don't know the rules ...
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Which word is the head of the phrase "somewhere there"?
Robocop's catchphrase is
somewhere there is a crime happening
If the sentence was just a crime is happening it would be unproblematic for me:
a crime would be a noun phrase in the function of a ...
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Does each word category have a corresponding phrase category?
The word category noun has a corresponding phrase category noun phrase, adverb has adverb phrase, noun has noun phrase
Other word categories like, for instance, determiners and quantifiers seem to m ...
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Is there a chart showing all assignments of phrases to functions within a sentence?
For practical reasons, it is obvious to assume there is chart giving an overview which phrases can be assigned to which functions in a sentence.
For instance, one sentence function is called an ...
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Is the adverbial phrase and adverb phrase identical?
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I understand there are different theories of grammar. There is the a set of traditional pragmatic grammars aiming at teaching languages, which might not even have names for themselves. Then, ...
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What is the "headedness" of Germanic noun phrases?
Some casual reading of the literature shows that noun phrases in languages such as Afrikaans, English, Swedish, German etc. are more head-final than head-initial. While it is easy to show that non of ...
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What part of speech is "as their native"?
In the sentence:
The number of people who speak English as their native language will decline.
what part of speech is as their native?
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Having trouble with assigning stress degrees to a long compound
I need to give the stress degrees for each component in "compressed air powered fence post driver". If I want to argue that "compressed air powered fence post driver" is a compound, what are the ...
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The function of prepositional phrases
I'm looking at the function of prepositional phrases within a sentence, and particularly in this example as a part of a verb phrase. The example I have is:
I remember the precise moment, crouching ...
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"Have in view" - origin
The phrase "have in view" also exists in two other languages that I know, in Russian and in Armenian: иметь в виду, ի նկատի ունենալ. This means it could have a common origin, perhaps Latin. My ...
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Phrase suggestion model using a gold standard corpus
There are already spell checking models available which help us to find the suggested correct spellings based on a corpus of trained correct spellings. Can the granularity be increased to "word" from ...
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Is there a phrase for someone being ashamed of, or self-conscious about their accent when moving to another region?
I was reading a book about accents at a local library and there was a chapter where the author says "some varieties of a language are more aesthetically pleasing than others". Some accents are ...
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singular part of speech for multi-word units and expressions?
Part of speech assignment provides a pos to a word. In many pos systems this can occasionally produce errors due multi-word expressions of one form or another.
When 'we' look at the text, we may see ...
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Is there an objective definition of compound words?
I've always had difficulty in distinguishing phrases from compound words. To me, spelling a compound word without spaces between the constituents seem to be mostly arbitrary. For example the spelling ...
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Why do so many languages have a phase like "so-so"?
Many languages seem to have some sort of repeating and/or singsong equivalent of the phrase so-so:
Arabic: نصف نصف (nisf nisf)
Chinese: 馬馬虎虎 (mǎma hūhu)
Greek: έτσι κι έτσι
Hebrew: ככה ...
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Phrases and clauses used as an adverb, and hence don't take a preposition
He had been in precarious situations his entire life.
I know here in this sentence his entire life is used as an adverbial phrase and, hence there was no need of placing a preposition before that ...
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