Hi Bokeh, Becasue of your reply, it made me take a second look at the original question. I also did some research and found this paper written on the subject of Semantic Composition of Subjunctive Conditionals by Michela Ippolito of

Forbes wrote: I am at something of a disadvantage as I do not know Chinese, only what I have read about it. I always used to read that Chinese was monosyllabic, but apparently this is a misconception. The misconception here is in what is

Anonymous wrote: Although Chinese syllable structure is as you suggest, this is completely different from the importance of word structure. Words in Chinese are composed of a single syllable, whereas words in English and Spanish can be composed

.... -0- ok, let's put it this way: GB is nothing more than a module in the generative grammar, to be put on a par with such other modules of the theory as X', Case theory or the Theta Theory, although it has been quite incorrectly treated as

... under the entry "AUXILIARIES, AUXILIARY VERBS," in his *Columbia Guide to Standard American English," Kenneth G. Wilson includes "be" in ... verbs at all, since they behave differently from verbs: most of them have no

Dylan Nicholson wrote on 03 Jun 2004: Most grammar books will identify more than two tenses because ... each verb has only two indicative forms: present and past. So who gets to decide that a tense is identified solely by a 'verb ending'?

EVOLUTION, NOT REVOLUTION: A paradigm of urban upgrading in Arab villages and refugees' cores in Israel PROLOGUE Like most of Arab localities in Israel, Kabul village has its unique history since Canaanite period. It is located fifteen

@corp.supernews.com: Either are acceptable in the objective case. Interesting issue of terminology as well. Morphologically, only "whom" is in the objective case. I dunno.. Seems to me that if "who" comes to be used regularly

have estimated a progression rate was 0.5 kilometres per 1000 years(Clary 1984). For the Caribbean

Dio (Email Removed) writes: What about these idioms? Are them in fashion or out of fashion? Most of these are not idioms. An idiom is a phrase that is not compositional. "Compositional" means you can figure out the meaning by putting