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... 2, these additional accusatives can occur in positions in which normal direct objects are not allowed. Even more, this also holds the other way around: not only can additional accusatives occur in positions in which normal direct objects cannot occur, it also seems that additional accusatives canno ...
... 2, these additional accusatives can occur in positions in which normal direct objects are not allowed. Even more, this also holds the other way around: not only can additional accusatives occur in positions in which normal direct objects cannot occur, it also seems that additional accusatives canno ...
The telicity parameter revisited
... measured or quantified (but not bare mass or bare plural nominals), and (ii) stand in the Incremental Theme relation to their governing verb (‘Incremental Theme’ in the sense of Dowty 1991, based on Krifka 1986, 1989). Notice that these are precisely the conditions under which a direct object determ ...
... measured or quantified (but not bare mass or bare plural nominals), and (ii) stand in the Incremental Theme relation to their governing verb (‘Incremental Theme’ in the sense of Dowty 1991, based on Krifka 1986, 1989). Notice that these are precisely the conditions under which a direct object determ ...
The perfect aspect: syntactic interferences on the part of brazilian
... "In fact, Crystal points out that "tense usage is first of all related to individual adverbiais" and further on; "The adverbial is taken as the base form, and tense the compared item (rather than vice versa) ...
... "In fact, Crystal points out that "tense usage is first of all related to individual adverbiais" and further on; "The adverbial is taken as the base form, and tense the compared item (rather than vice versa) ...
Conversion
... The fishermen were very happy to have a good catch this time. (4) Doer of the action The boy is such a bore. It seems he never speaks. (5) Tool or instrument to do the action with Better hammer the nail in. ...
... The fishermen were very happy to have a good catch this time. (4) Doer of the action The boy is such a bore. It seems he never speaks. (5) Tool or instrument to do the action with Better hammer the nail in. ...
Svan and its speakers. Kevin Tuite Université de Montréal [NB: This
... the NOM. The vowel /i/, corresponding to the Georgian NOM suffix, would be a perfect candidate; however, some linguists argue that it may have been *-e, on the basis of what appears to be an -e NOM occuring sporadically in poetry, especially in the plural: top-ar-e [rifle-PL-NOM?] (mod. Sv. top-är) ...
... the NOM. The vowel /i/, corresponding to the Georgian NOM suffix, would be a perfect candidate; however, some linguists argue that it may have been *-e, on the basis of what appears to be an -e NOM occuring sporadically in poetry, especially in the plural: top-ar-e [rifle-PL-NOM?] (mod. Sv. top-är) ...
ISTEP Final Exam
... 16. The workers stood in front of the factory and wondered what to do next. The doors were locked and the windows were boarded up. They doubted that they would even collect their final pay checks now that the company was insolvent. a. broke, or out of money b. hiring new workers c. changing a name d ...
... 16. The workers stood in front of the factory and wondered what to do next. The doors were locked and the windows were boarded up. They doubted that they would even collect their final pay checks now that the company was insolvent. a. broke, or out of money b. hiring new workers c. changing a name d ...
A sentence accentuation algorithm for a Dutch
... According to rule (15c), verbs are accentuated in specific contexts. As will be clear from the discussion of thematic structure and accentuation above, a verb (being a predicate) will be accentuated if it is in a focus-domain on its own. This will happen in two cases. First, if a (+focus] adverbial ...
... According to rule (15c), verbs are accentuated in specific contexts. As will be clear from the discussion of thematic structure and accentuation above, a verb (being a predicate) will be accentuated if it is in a focus-domain on its own. This will happen in two cases. First, if a (+focus] adverbial ...
English
... etc. Due to this complexity, in Guajiro any transitive verb can literally have thousands of forms, and very complex forms are not rare. Guajiro verbs can also have dozens of infinitives, which are not just citation forms, based on themes of increasing complexity. The open classes are nouns and verbs ...
... etc. Due to this complexity, in Guajiro any transitive verb can literally have thousands of forms, and very complex forms are not rare. Guajiro verbs can also have dozens of infinitives, which are not just citation forms, based on themes of increasing complexity. The open classes are nouns and verbs ...
Maltese Morphology - Stony Brook Linguistics
... and the set of pharyngealized consonants varies somewhat among the different Arabic dialects; proto-Maltese had *†, *Î, and *ß, plus marginal *l≥ and *r≥ (Schabert 1976: 50–52). In Arabic, vowels in the vicinity of pharyngealized consonants are backed or lowered, so that the phonetic difference betw ...
... and the set of pharyngealized consonants varies somewhat among the different Arabic dialects; proto-Maltese had *†, *Î, and *ß, plus marginal *l≥ and *r≥ (Schabert 1976: 50–52). In Arabic, vowels in the vicinity of pharyngealized consonants are backed or lowered, so that the phonetic difference betw ...
3 `Derivational verbs` and other multiple
... similar purposive forms). For this study I analyzed and classified a sample of 200 gerund occurrences, allowing me to present quantitative observations and to advance hypotheses on the syntactic structure concerning the different constructions. After an introduction to nouns and especially to verbs ...
... similar purposive forms). For this study I analyzed and classified a sample of 200 gerund occurrences, allowing me to present quantitative observations and to advance hypotheses on the syntactic structure concerning the different constructions. After an introduction to nouns and especially to verbs ...
Sum and Perfect System Review PPT
... Note: the infinitive ending that you know as “-re”, is really the rhotacized form of the word. Infinitives all used to end “-se”, but at some point in their history Latin speakers began to change the “s” sound, when it occurred between two vowels, to an “r” sound. The “s” of the infinitive marker he ...
... Note: the infinitive ending that you know as “-re”, is really the rhotacized form of the word. Infinitives all used to end “-se”, but at some point in their history Latin speakers began to change the “s” sound, when it occurred between two vowels, to an “r” sound. The “s” of the infinitive marker he ...
Island constraints and overgeneralization in language acquisition
... distance dependency (LDD) question. Crucially, Ambridge and Goldberg (2008) found no correlation between the semantic similarity of each verb to think/say, as assessed by human raters and Latent Semantic Analysis [LSA], and the acceptability of the LDD question. This null finding, the authors argued ...
... distance dependency (LDD) question. Crucially, Ambridge and Goldberg (2008) found no correlation between the semantic similarity of each verb to think/say, as assessed by human raters and Latent Semantic Analysis [LSA], and the acceptability of the LDD question. This null finding, the authors argued ...
Emai Separation Verbs and Telicity
... no typically verb behavior vis-à-vis functional categories and no argument selectional behavior. CS a, however, is associated with the encoding of separation events where an affected entity, as grammatical subject or direct object, undergoes a change of material state or condition. In the following, ...
... no typically verb behavior vis-à-vis functional categories and no argument selectional behavior. CS a, however, is associated with the encoding of separation events where an affected entity, as grammatical subject or direct object, undergoes a change of material state or condition. In the following, ...
as a PDF
... aims at improving our knowledge of the semantic and aspectual properties of VPCs in Italian and, possibly, in general. In particular, we will provide new data that show that Italian post-verbal particles contribute to the Aktionsart of VPCs, which may be regarded as a further evidence of their estab ...
... aims at improving our knowledge of the semantic and aspectual properties of VPCs in Italian and, possibly, in general. In particular, we will provide new data that show that Italian post-verbal particles contribute to the Aktionsart of VPCs, which may be regarded as a further evidence of their estab ...
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... there is no one single force at work, such as the “metaphony” often spoken about (called on, it would seem, as a useful formula to explain irregular vowel changes, without any examination of why metaphony should operate in one case and not in another), but a combination of many. It is such a tangled ...
... there is no one single force at work, such as the “metaphony” often spoken about (called on, it would seem, as a useful formula to explain irregular vowel changes, without any examination of why metaphony should operate in one case and not in another), but a combination of many. It is such a tangled ...
Denis Creissels E-mail: denis.creissels@univ
... ‘Night is falling’ lit. ‘(It) is throwing darkness’ or ‘Darkness is being thrown’ rašiɬuruɬa is quite obviously cognate with bašiɬuruʟa ‘become white’ (also used in weather expressions, but with a totally different meaning – see 17 above). Consequently, the initial r- of rašiɬuruʟa and res̄uɬuruʟa c ...
... ‘Night is falling’ lit. ‘(It) is throwing darkness’ or ‘Darkness is being thrown’ rašiɬuruɬa is quite obviously cognate with bašiɬuruʟa ‘become white’ (also used in weather expressions, but with a totally different meaning – see 17 above). Consequently, the initial r- of rašiɬuruʟa and res̄uɬuruʟa c ...
Listeners Exploit Syntactic Structure On
... of verb-final languages use pre-verbal arguments to predict on-line the kind of arguments that are likely to occur next (e.g., Kamide, 2008, for a review). Although in SVO languages information about a verb’s arguments typically follows the verb, some languages use pre-verbal object pronouns, potent ...
... of verb-final languages use pre-verbal arguments to predict on-line the kind of arguments that are likely to occur next (e.g., Kamide, 2008, for a review). Although in SVO languages information about a verb’s arguments typically follows the verb, some languages use pre-verbal object pronouns, potent ...
Constructing verb paradigms in French: adult construals and
... We assume that children receive extensive information and feedback from conversational exchanges as they interact with adults. That is, we assume a social interactive account of language acquisition, in contrast to an innatist position in which children’s rule-governed acquisition is triggered by th ...
... We assume that children receive extensive information and feedback from conversational exchanges as they interact with adults. That is, we assume a social interactive account of language acquisition, in contrast to an innatist position in which children’s rule-governed acquisition is triggered by th ...
Power Point presentation
... When po- is applied to an imperfective verb with a meaning like ‘write’, ‘draw’, etc., which takes an object of creation (5a), the resulting perfective verb in (5b) takes as its direct object the optional locative complement of the base verb, and the direct object of the base verb is demoted to an o ...
... When po- is applied to an imperfective verb with a meaning like ‘write’, ‘draw’, etc., which takes an object of creation (5a), the resulting perfective verb in (5b) takes as its direct object the optional locative complement of the base verb, and the direct object of the base verb is demoted to an o ...
On the processing of regular and irregular forms of verbs and nouns
... a group of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease performed worse with irregularly inflected verbs. A contrasting pattern was reported for one aphasic patient with an anterior lesion and for a group of patients with Parkinson’s disease; they encountered greater problems producing regular as opp ...
... a group of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease performed worse with irregularly inflected verbs. A contrasting pattern was reported for one aphasic patient with an anterior lesion and for a group of patients with Parkinson’s disease; they encountered greater problems producing regular as opp ...
simple and complex predicates
... Verbs and coverbs were shown in Ch. 2 to belong to clearly distinct word classes: verbs (also referred to as ‘generic verbs’) form a closed class whose members obligatorily carry verbal inflections, and cannot appear in a non-finite form. ‘Coverb’ is the term chosen here for a major lexical category ...
... Verbs and coverbs were shown in Ch. 2 to belong to clearly distinct word classes: verbs (also referred to as ‘generic verbs’) form a closed class whose members obligatorily carry verbal inflections, and cannot appear in a non-finite form. ‘Coverb’ is the term chosen here for a major lexical category ...
English particle verbs as complex heads: Evidence from
... complex word or a single head of the form [V° V P]. (1) and (2) illustrate different variants of this approach, respectively modelled on Farrell’s (2005) flat VP approach and Haider’s (1997) VP shell approach. In both (1a) and (2a), the particle has the same external syntax as a normal transitive PP ...
... complex word or a single head of the form [V° V P]. (1) and (2) illustrate different variants of this approach, respectively modelled on Farrell’s (2005) flat VP approach and Haider’s (1997) VP shell approach. In both (1a) and (2a), the particle has the same external syntax as a normal transitive PP ...
The Russian agentive passive construction with Agent–Verb
... A note about differences between Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian with regard to po-: minor, though potentially significant differences do exist, e.g., the use of poslikati in Croatian as opposed to Bosnian and Serbian, which can be explained in terms of theory being developed. ...
... A note about differences between Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian with regard to po-: minor, though potentially significant differences do exist, e.g., the use of poslikati in Croatian as opposed to Bosnian and Serbian, which can be explained in terms of theory being developed. ...
Andrzej Wilanowski Transitiveness of passive forms in Homer
... in some cases when the subject is animate and the sentence is transitive e.g. This cat irritates her. In this case, although it is obvious that the cat is the agent, it is not clear without any contextual information if it acts or if the irritation is only the woman’s reaction to the cat’s existence ...
... in some cases when the subject is animate and the sentence is transitive e.g. This cat irritates her. In this case, although it is obvious that the cat is the agent, it is not clear without any contextual information if it acts or if the irritation is only the woman’s reaction to the cat’s existence ...
Preterite/Imperfect Half-Truths
... the otherEng- get to the conditional explanation, textlish verbal construction-"would + infini- books shouldmakea briefreferenceto the tive"-does not consistentlysignalthe use non-habitualuse of "would"in English, at of the imperfect. The problem with the least by referringto the conditionalexpla"wo ...
... the otherEng- get to the conditional explanation, textlish verbal construction-"would + infini- books shouldmakea briefreferenceto the tive"-does not consistentlysignalthe use non-habitualuse of "would"in English, at of the imperfect. The problem with the least by referringto the conditionalexpla"wo ...