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... agent , for such nouns because , al- though a being who experiences a sensation might logically be said to be the agent , in fact , the semantics of sensation predicates in English ( hereafter EPs , " experiencer predicates " ) requires ...
... agent , for such nouns because , al- though a being who experiences a sensation might logically be said to be the agent , in fact , the semantics of sensation predicates in English ( hereafter EPs , " experiencer predicates " ) requires ...
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... Agent - Verb - Object . In passive sentences , the agent and object NPs exchange positions , becoming : Object - Verb- ( by ) Agent . For every passive sentence , there is an active , and vice versa . We know this without consciously ...
... Agent - Verb - Object . In passive sentences , the agent and object NPs exchange positions , becoming : Object - Verb- ( by ) Agent . For every passive sentence , there is an active , and vice versa . We know this without consciously ...
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... agent of said makes the reference multiply ambiguous . The agent might be Lessing , but we could equally well read it as an appeal to universality or consensus , and interpret the deleted agent as " all right - thinking people ...
... agent of said makes the reference multiply ambiguous . The agent might be Lessing , but we could equally well read it as an appeal to universality or consensus , and interpret the deleted agent as " all right - thinking people ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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