desempenham funções sintáticas
English translation: play a syntactic role / play syntactic roles
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|  Selected response from: Muriel Vasconcellos United States Local time: 19:28 | ||||||
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| 5 +1 | play a syntactic role OR; play syntactic roles |
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| 4 | perform syntactic functions/are used syntactically |
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perform syntactic functions/are used syntactically Explanation: I've been told that relative clauses do not perform a syntactic function vis-à-vis the verb, it doesn't rule them and therefore aren't given any. ... www.yourdictionary.com/cgi-bin/agora/agora.cgi?board=gramma... - 95k - Cached - Similar pages -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2006-07-15 12:14:44 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- inflected like feminines but are used syntactically as masculines (/2SM) or. either as masculines or as feminines (/2SMF) and for words that are inflected ... csli-publications.stanford.edu/koskenniemi-festschrift/15-vilkki.pdf - Similar pages |
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12 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1play a syntactic role OR; play syntactic roles Explanation: They can serve a function, or play/perform a role, but we don't usually say "perform a function." My preference, and what I've seen most often (51 refs), is the 'play a syntactic role', and I also prefer the singular (each of several plays the role). See the following examples of both play/perform a syntactic role: **Other reserved words play a syntactic role** at a more detailed level, for example: constant in out range Finally, seven of them are used as operators. ... archive.adaic.com/standards/83rat/html/ratl-02-01.html **Verbs play a syntactic role** in setting up the. argument structure of sentences, a role not played. by nouns. Lesion and fMRI studies suggest that the ... ccn.upenn.edu/~chatterjee/anjan_pdfs/langandspace.pdf Although in other contexts **the secondary properties of the preocupar-verbs seem to play a syntactic role** (for instance, in the formation of the middle ... csli-publications.stanford.edu/LFG/7/lfg02vanhoe.html The ‘k-’ words are not only interrogative; **they also introduce subordinate clauses in which they play a syntactic role**. ‘Mi konas la homon kiu loĝas tie’ ... www.owlnet.rice.edu/~wies301/Tabelvortoj.html My claim that **adjacency does not play a syntactic role** in coordination is based on the observation that adjacency does not seem to be the driving force. ... listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9402a&L=linguist&P=3916 Only one good example of the plural (it's really not necesary): **Each plays a different role in sentences, and some can even become headwords of phrases that go on to play syntactic roles ordinarily filled by single words** ... library.thinkquest.org/C004367/la7.shtml Examples of "perform a syntactic role": They are local word groupings (groupings of words **which can collectively perform a syntactic role** in a sentence), syntactic information and semantic tags. ... www.cdacmumbai.in/researchgroups/kbcs/vivek/issues/13.2/sum... Syntactic expletives are **words that perform a syntactic role but contribute nothing to meaning**. Expletive subjects are part of the grammar of many ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expletive |
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