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Paradigmatics Paradigmatic relations are relations of opposition and functional identity of linguistic elements (“OR - OR”), i.e. the paradigm combines sets of linguistic units that are similar accor …

Malay/Indonesian is like that, and I guess other neighboring Austronesian languages also have this feature. Malay can use and quite usually does use nouns designating a person as pronouns. It has no n …

There are many differences between the time adverbials (like yesterday) and "adverbials like always". Time adverbials are very much like place adverbials (home, there), both of them specify a particu …

On the other hand, it can well be done for the EASL class use for the most standard meanings of such sentences where the grammar is prescriptive. … Still, there's too much variety even here, and not only grammar, but also some semantic and context analysis is needed, and that makes it much harder. …

If you abstragate from the formal grammar and look at the meaning of the words and at the situation described in the sentence, it is easy to find out what the action is directed at and who it is intended …

The Malagasy language has a verb–object–subject (VOS) word order, so in the sentence “This is blue” the subject “this” is the last word in the corresponding Malagasy sentence: English: This is blue. …

The main reason for the phrases in the Paragraph 1 to be in the Genitive case, and the phrases in the Paragraph 2 to have "c + the Instrumental case" pattern is that all those phrases are elliptical, …

Do is found in all the Slavic languages as a preposition with the meanings “[up] to” and “before”. In all the Slavic languages which have cases, this preposition governs only the genitive case, so it' …

In the dictionaries, the Sanskrit name राम (Rāma), together with most other Sanskrit words, is given in the form of the stem. राम (Rāma) is the stem, and in a sentence it can be used only as a direct …

The direct address is not a part of the sentence and, as far as I know, it is not included into syntactic trees. Some languages like Sanskrit, Latin, Ukrainian, Georgian, etc. have a special Vocative …

Indeed, English Language Learners Stack Exchange is really the right place to ask such questions: https://ell.stackexchange.com/ Also, you can ask it at English Language & Usage SE: https://english.s …

In Wolof, a language spoken in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania, the verbs never change their form, it is the pronouns that have the tense. In Wolof there is I-which-is-now, I-that-will-be, I-that-was, …

Lojban is designed to express complex logical constructs precisely, it has no irregularities or ambiguities in spelling and grammar (although word derivation relies on arbitrary variant forms). …

Here is Quran word for word – every word is written separately, translated, explained grammatically, and recited audio by a professional reciter. If you click a word, you are redirected to a more det …

So, you got it wrong, the infinitives can change after the grammar categories. …