Language‚ ablity to speak & write and communicate is one of the most fundamental aspects of human behaviour. As the study of human-languages developed the concept of communicating with non-human devices was investigated. This is the origin of natural language processing (NLP). The idea of natural language processing is to design and build a computer system that will analyze ‚ understand and generate natural human-languages. Natural language communication with computers has long been a major goal
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A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF A SELECTED CAMPAIGN SPEECH OF PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN BALOGUN OLUWAFUNMILAYO DORCAS 07/15CD069 AN ESSAY SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONS) IN ENGLISH TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH‚ FACULTY OF ARTS‚ UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN‚ ILORIN. MAY 2011. CERTIFICATION THIS ESSAY HAS BEEN READ AND APPROVED AS MEETING PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE (HONS) IN
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*A noun is a part of speech typically denoting a person‚ place‚ thing‚ animal‚ or idea. Examples | * The cat sat on the mat. * Please hand in your assignments by the end of the week. * Cleanliness is next to godliness. * Plato was an influential philosopher in ancient Greece. * Please complete this assignment with black or blue pen only‚ and keep your eyes on your own paper.A noun can co-occur with an article or an attributive adjective. Verbs and adjectives can’t. In the following
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(“Lexis” – word‚ “logos” – science). It studies words and expressions in respect to their structure‚ meaning and origin. In other words the structure of words is studied in morphology‚ the meaning in semantics and origin in etymology. Lexicology Lexis Logos Structure (Morphology) Meaning (Semantics) Origin (Etymology) Lexicology is based on the general principles of linguistics. The word is the basic unit of a language. 1) Language is
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babysitter‚ ethnic cleansing‚ motel‚ perestroika) and at the same time other words are becoming dead because of the lack of need. Contacts with other nations and languages frequently cause new loanword in vocabulary‚ rarely there are phonology‚ morphology and syntax borrowings. In the situation of linguistic contacts there are substratum (linguistic influence of the inferior language) and superstratum (linguistic influence of the dominant language). For example‚ French is based on Latin in general
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COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES Content Introduction………………………………………………………………….………………....2 Comparison of Adjectives...........................................................................................................3 -er‚ -est comparison…………………………….………………………………..............3 more/most comparison….………………….....................................................................5 as ... as and not as/so ... as comparison...........................................................................
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and analytic language‚ A.C. Baugh writes that “Modern English in an analytic‚ Old English a synthetic language.” Similarly‚ Dan McIntyre writes that “The main difference between Old English and Present Day English is that OE is a synthetic (or inflectional) language whereas PDE is an analytic (or isolating) language.”1 Statements such as these are frequently demonstrated using examples in Present Day English. In McIntyre ’s case the example used is the sentence “Oswyn shot Sigbert”2‚ which in turn
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A History of the English Language Before the Germanic tribes arrived‚ the Celts were the original inhabitants of Britain. When the Germanic tribes invaded England‚ they pushed the Celt-speaking inhabitants out of England into what is now Scotland‚ Wales‚ Cornwall‚ and Ireland. The Celtic language survives today in the Gaelic languages‚ and some scholars speculate that the Celtic tongue might have influenced the grammatical development of English‚ though the influence would have been minimal
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Chapter 2 THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF DETRANSITIVE VERBS THE PREPOSITIONAL DATIVE CONSTRUCTION AND THE DOUBLE OBJECT CONSTRUCTION 0.1. Introduction The de-transitive verbs we are concerned with in this chapter are verbs of the type give‚ send‚ promise‚ bring‚ etc.‚ which take two internal objects realized either as a DP ^ PP sequence or as a DP ^ DP sequence: (1) a. Sue gave a book to Bill b. Sue gave Bill a book The construction illustrated in (1a) is called the to-dative construction
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Adjectives What are they? In Spanish as well as in English‚ an adjective describes the person‚ things‚ etc. that a noun refers to. We use adjectives to say what a person is like or seems like Adjectives can give us information about: • Quality • Size • Age • Temperature • Shape • Colour • Origin An adjective can also describe the idea(s) contained in a whole group of words -Robert’s ideas about the future are absurd They can give general or precise information -What ’s the car like
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