... dictionary.
1 Introduction
The goal of the project is to enhance the database
of the
Oxford Dictionary of English
(a forthcoming
new edition of the 1998
New OxfordDictionary of
English)
so that it ... computational
applications.
The
Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE)
is a
high-level dictionary intended for fluent English
speakers (especially native speakers) rather than
for learners. Hence ... Nevertheless,
the process demonstrates the richness of a large
natural-language dictionary in providing cues and
flagging exceptions. The stylistic regularity of a
dictionary like ODE supports the enumeration...
... struck at
the sight of them and cried out to the other ladies in the bath: ‘Come
hither, and see how cruelly the poor English ladies are used by their
husbands. You need boast indeed of the superior ... their acting out of character, in fact,
as of their having two characters– the one who writes the books, and the
one who gets through the rest of the day. And while the one who gets
through the ... that they should then have
their ears cut and noses. After their delivery, he banqueted all his
friends; there was Camden, Selden and others. At the midst of the
feast, his old mother drank to him,...
... THEME
PREDICATION
(major
clause)
18
THEME
SELECTION
predicated theme
+ 'be' + theme
unpredicated themQ THEME
SUBSTIT-
UTION
Subject theme
Complement
theme
\ Complement
initial
real theme
Subject
initial
substitute
theme
Subject
discontinuous
(initial ... and on the other by the attitude of
the speaker towards the message and the addressee.
"Thus into the domain of the organization of utterance
pertains all that is connected with the processual
aspect ... language. The two
hypotheses and their respective sub-hypotheses are listed below:
A. The unmarked clause relation in Arabic is the Matching
Relation whereas the unmarked clause relation in English
is...