Examples of singular

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The evidence suggests, therefore, that won has no subject-number feature at all, rather than that it is ambiguous between singular and plural.
Conversely, in (21b), plural these cannot be construed with singular woman and therefore woman's functions unambiguously as a nondetermining genitive.
The figure shows that all personal pronouns except for the third-person singular ones have increased.
The third-person-singular present tense in this dialect is characterized by a -zero marker, which is in variation with the standard -s marker.
There is, however, a problem with a singular model.
We consider a competition-diffusion system and study its singular limit as the interspecific competition rate tend to infinity.
Collections are 'typically inanimate', they occur 'readily in the plural, but when singular cannot contract plural concord with the verb'.
Such a functional relationship, if not linear, is singular at the origin in strain-rate space.
Psychopathology in these women is complex, and depression tends not to be a singular problem.
They are also involved in singular experiences such as posttraumatic stress disorder.
We show that for a large class of infinitely renormalizable maps, the maximal automorphic factor is an odometer with an ergodic non-singular measure.
Essentially, they are branched covering maps which are locally expanding at all regular points and locally expanding within wedges at singular points.
Thinking of a divergence-free flow as a (singular) one-dimensional foliation with a holonomy-invariant transverse measure, we recover the construction of [1, 14].
In their definition, a smooth map is tame if there is a triangulation of the singular set that extends to a neighbourhood.
A partial hyperbolic set is singular hyperbolic if it has singularities (all of them hyperbolic) and it has volume expanding central direction [16].
On the other hand, v is usually not invertible, because a singular point will typically have several preimages.
A singular-hyperbolic attractor for vector fields is a partially hyperbolic attractor with singularities (that are hyperbolic) and volume expanding central direction.
The equations yield an unreal singular solution (see (24) below).
First, the algebraically singular form of 0 4.1 seems out of the question here.
A singular-hyperbolic set is a partially hyperbolic set whose singularities are hyperbolic and whose central subbundle is volume expanding.
Clearly the problem has to be solved by double expansion, which is partly singular and partly regular.
The solution is valid throughout the finite physical plane although the limit process is singular.
Of course, where there is agreement in number, there is no simple correlation of verb forms with singular and plural number.
Does these mean, as has been argued above, that the plural forms are examples of code-switching and the singular forms of code-mixing?
In the first place, the singular is the unmarked form.
The singular form of the word formula has an occurrence of 28.
Here, the verb is plural although the subject is singular.
Notionally, then, in the writer's mind, there is presumably only one thing present, hence the singular verb.
The numerical integration is started at the singular point r = 0 by using asymptotic expression of the solutions.
In our solution the vorticity is not singular, even at the stagnation point.
According to the last section, we expect that a singular perturbation is required.
Consequently, an equal amount of fluid moving towards the singular point (sink position) flows out elsewhere.
However, on doing so one would run very soon into severe difficulties, which are caused by the singular behaviour of (11) a t 7 = 7;.
Six singular points of (13) can be recognized and will be examined in turn.
The high initial acceleration, which is singular in the inviscid self-similar model, acts almost like an impact.
The boundary condition (ii) (see 2.4) at r = 0 are that be non-singular.
Since the limit is singular inside the integral, it has to be treated with care.
In this paper we extend results in (1) and (2) above to diffeomorphisms with singular splitting.
A saddle-node is a singular point of a planar vector field at which exactly one eigenvalue is zero.
A dimension invariant for isomorphism of non-singular ergodic integer actions is presented.
A dynamical 2-complex is a 2-complex equipped with a set of combinatorial properties which allow one to define non-singular semi-flows on the complex.
Mixing of all orders and pairwise independent joinings of systems with singular spectrum.
The subject of this sentence (any listener) is grammatically singular, but the pronoun, which refers back to it, is plural (their).
Singular admissibility is implied by the following hypothesis on the families of nonlinearities in damped wave equations.
We introduce sections transversal to the graphics in the neighbourhood of the singular points.
We think to clarify the meaning of the characteristic mapping of the foliation given by a non-singular vector field is important.
The factor measure on the odometer is non-singular but not necessarily invariant.
The existence of a global 1-form and its uniqueness implies that these singular holonomy groups are also solvable.
We exclude = 1 and = 0 from our consideration, as the singular set 1,0 of the corresponding billiard table coincides with its boundary.
Two such billiard tables will be called geodesically equivalent if they are geodesically equivalent in the complement of the union of the corresponding singular sets.
We will need the following singular convergence result proved in [1].
We have met such a series when solving a singular perturbation problem inside a circle.
In this way we get fewer and less singular equations.
What the husband gives is a unilateral or singular donation.
In contrast, in spontaneous speech, some of the children's third singular -s use reflected commentary on a present action.
The genitive case has three different markers, each restricted to a different subset of nouns, in both the singular and the plural.
Utterances containing the target noun phrases were then coded for number (singular vs. plural) and generic status (generic vs. non-generic).
Strictly speaking, the imperative singular is the same form as the bare stem.
Verbs like aller and avoir, on the other hand, do show person agreement in the singular.
The errors are all of a characteristic type : plural subjects occur with singular verb agreement, with correct person agreement.
In many languages, if the paradigm contains an inflection for third singular, there are also inflections for third plural, first singular, and so on.
English uses the -s suffix on verbs when the subject is singular in the third person, but not first or second person.
Even more surprising is the fact acquisition of the genitive singular is virtually errorless.
English subjects in the first and second person (singular and plural) may only be represented by pronouns.
As for number, null subjects only occurred in singular contexts and never in plural contexts.
Agreement is marked only when different from the default masculine singular (2nd person in imperative, 3rd person elsewhere).
Note that our calculations underestimate the frequency since all words are only counted in their singular form.
The experimental narrative in the first person singular and in the past tense can thus become the norm for the printed experimental report.
Since a pair of legs is simultaneously lifted off and placed, the quadruped gait resulting from the algorithm belongs to a singular gait.
The mechanism is singular in the two positions.
In this case, the robot will be able to have an infinitesimal motion around the singular configuration while the lengths of the links are fixed.
On the basis of the singular perturbation method4,16,27 the obtained model is reduced to the slow and fast subsystems.
The singular criterion for selection was their homogeneity.
In particular, a singular which shows epenthesis and not devoicing requires the ranking in (27).
The ratios of the singular values to the first singular value for the cycle model were: 1.0, 0.7357, 0.5417, 0.1449, 0.1053, 0.0959, 0.0502, and 0.0480.
The final jurisdiction over what an intellectual is resides in culture, which becomes almost coterminous with a singular public opinion.
As tantalizing glimpses of the fully formed wonders to come, though, they offer a valuable perspective to anyone interested in this singular composer's musical evolution.
He does not produce the third person singular -s form.
Since they recur, they are not singular; if they are not singular, they belong to the whole class of the corresponding [entsprechende] phenomena.
Two-dimensional singular surfaces generated by different sets of four constraint equations intersect at many onedimensional curves that divide the surfaces into many two-dimensional patches.
Maximum values are excluded when the manipulator is at or near a singular configuration.
In the case when both of these mappings are singular, we shall speak about simultaneous singularities of the inverse and direct kinematics.
The primary, if not singular, source of dissent was from the healthy detainees.
However, here again this distinction has a limited distribution (to masculine singulars).
In its first meaning, 'koll' can modify only definite nouns; in the second, it can only be added to indefinite singulars.
Thus, the word memorandum has 60 singulars, 1 memorandums and 1 memoranda.
Note that criteria, data and dicta are plural words: the singulars are criterion, datum and dictum.
The syncretism between genitive, dative and locative singulars is expressed by means of the fourth and sixth path equations.
Things get more involved when the plurals of supermarked singulars are considered.
After considerable debate in our office we decided that this usage was a logical extension of the use of the other third person "plural" pronouns as singulars.
Sets of genes strongly correlated with a particular singular vector will have greater internal correlation.
Now, these particular tropes run singular risks of uncurtailability.
Singular intentions can be highly determinative and complex.
Do you think that we are dealing with very singular revenants or rather that this is the destiny of every correspondence?
With some singular nouns, it can be translated as either 'every' or 'the whole'.
On the other hand, they differ in nominative singular and nominative plural.
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