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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"ADVERBIALS"”.
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Subatomic Semantics and the Active Participle in Egyptian Arabic
… predicates license past, present, and future adverbials even though these sentences encode only the present tense. In this dissertation, I argue that the logical forms of sentences with active participle predicates involve existential quantification over the states denoted by active participle …
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Does data-driven learning lead to better academic writing?
… vocabulary common in academic writing, linking adverbials and reporting verbs. In addition, most studies into data-driven learning and academic vocabulary acquisition have assumed that the acquisition of this vocabulary will automatically lead to better academic writing. However, there have been …
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Case Assignment on Adverbial NPs in Korean
… First, I examine the issue of what types of adverbials can receive morphological Case in Korean. I question the existing belief that only D/F adverbials can surface with Case-marking and that the adverbials may receive direct Case as long as they are SITUATION DELIMITERS (W&L 1996) indicating …
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Structural case on adjuncts
… investigates how case is assigned to nominal adverbials dubbed durative and multiplicative in Korean. These adverbials express the duration of an event, or the number of times an event is repeated. In transitive, unergative, and unaccusative constructions, the adverbial is marked with …
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A contextual analysis of definite and indefinite interpretations of tense
… discourse, times denoted by tenses and temporal adverbials are added to the context as salient. There may be multiple time intervals that are contextually salient, and these are available for the interpretation of subsequent temporal elements. That is, they may work as an antecedent of anaphoric …
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The ability of second language learners to assign tense at the sentence level: A crosslinguistic study
… at the sentence level: lexical items (temporal adverbials), gestures (indicating temporal references), and/or verb morphology. Data are reported for 169 learners of Italian, French, and Spanish at the first and third semester levels of L2 study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Vyjádření negativní průvodní okolnosti v češtině a francouzštině
… equivalents back into French. Keywords: Adverbials of manner - negation - corpus analysis - comparative linguistics - syntax
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The verb movement parameter and adult L2 learners of Spanish
… following surface level syntactic properties: adverbials between lexical verbs and their object noun phrases, subject/lexical verb inversion in yes/no question formation, and subject/lexical verb inversion in questions with fronted thematic Wh-phrases and Is there a developmental pattern in the …
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Connectives in Igbo: A syntactic analysis of connectives in the Standard Igbo and the Nsukka dialect
… realised mainly through conjunctions and a few adverbials and previous works on connectives in Igbo have hugely focused on connectives in the Standard Igbo variety (Emenanjo 2015). And so, the main aim of this work was to identify the connectives in both varieties and conduct a syntactic …
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The Use of the Present Perfect and Simple Past in New Zealand English
… and in context, and including a mixture of adverbials designed to examine recent, remote, and general temporal relationships. The study presents both paired and graded grammaticality judgements, and the effect on perceived grammaticality of contracting the auxiliary has/have. The results for …
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Hedging in Written Academic Discourse: a cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary study /
… lexical hedges: modal verbs, lexical verbs and adverbials, which are analysed within the conceptual categories of epistemic modality, evidentiality and vagueness. The results of the research suggest that the variety of hedging devices is determined by the discipline, whereas the type of the most …
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Realizations of Two Speech Acts of Heritage Learners of Korean: Request and Apology Strategies
… NS participants' use of IFID and intensifying adverbials varied depending on the degree of offense/ mistake, age, and power relationship while NNS subjects' use of those features was more evenly spread out across the situations, (4) the participants considered many factors such as age, power …
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Discourse-level instruction on the acquisition of English present perfect in academic writing
… where PP predicates appeared without temporal adverbials and the other related tense-aspect forms (PR, PT) as well as the PP forms were highlighted. The sentence-level instruction group, on the other hand, read individual sentences, carrying those three target forms, from the same paper. …
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Topicalisation of the noun phrase in colloquial Cairene Arabic
… rules apply to NPIs, the bounded rule applies to Adverbials, and backing rules such as Extraposition and Right Dislocation apply to Complement Sentences and raised NP's respectively to yield Sentence-initial Predicates. Obligatory/optional rules apply systematically to two different types of …
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Scrambling as Case-Driven Obligatory Movement
… the basis of facts involving case assignment to adverbials, binding by a nominative adjunct NP in multiple nominative constructions, and absence of island effects in scrambling out of a scrambled clause. In Ch. 6, I examine island effects and discourse constraints on scrambling. I argue that …
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(De)coding Modality : The Case of Must, May, Måste and Kan
… features, such as the presence of epistemic adverbials or particles, utterance type, and negation, were also discussed as being of importance for the interpretation of modal utterances. Controllability was linked to Transitivity as per Hopper and Thompson's (1980) article. It was suggested …
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ΤΑ ΕΠΙΡΡΗΜΑΤΙΚΑ ΤΗΣ ΝΕΑΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ (ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΥΠΟΚΑΤΗΓΟΡΙΟΠΟΙΗΣΗΣ)
ΕΞΕΤΑΖΕΤΑΙ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΙΚΑ ΤΟ ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΙΡΡΗΜΑΤΙΚΩΝ (ΠΡΟΣΔΙΟΡΙΣΜΩΝ) ΤΗΣ ΚΟΙΝΗΣ ΝΕΑΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ. ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΟΡΟ ΠΑΡΑΠΛΗΡΩΜΑΤΑ ΔΗΛΩΝΟΝΤΑΙ ΟΣΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΣΥΣΤΑΤΙΚΑ Β' ΒΑΘΜΟΥ (ΚΑΙ ΑΝΩ: ΠΑΡ-ΟΝΟΜΑΤΙΚΑ, ΠΑΡ-ΕΠΙΘΕΤΙΚΑ, ΠΑΡ- ΕΠΙΡΡΗΜΑΤΙΚΑ ΚΤΛ), ΕΝΩ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΟΡΟ ΠΡΟΣΔΙΟΡΙΣΜΟΙ ΔΗΛΩΝΟΝΤΑΙ ΟΣΑ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΟΥΝ ΣΥΣΤΑΤΙΚΑ …