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Modal auxiliary verbs and contexts
Modal auxiliary verbs, such as `could', `might', `must', `would', and others, have different readings depending on the context in which they occur (Kratzer 1981). The sentence `Jess could fry the fish' can mean that, in a time previous to the utterance of the sentence, Jess had the ability to fry …
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A Study of Some Auxiliary Verbs in Japanese
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Student teachers’ awareness and use of auxiliary verbs: a case study of student teachers at the University of Zululand
… instruction of selected grammar aspect, modal auxiliary verbs, improved students’ ability to write English. The study was qualitative in nature and a case study design was adopted. The focus was in relation to a sample of 80 student teachers who were randomly selected in 2016 in the Faculty of …
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BE-ing default : the morphosyntax of auxiliaries
… is concerned with the broad question of why auxiliary verbs occur in natural language. Much previous work has assumed that the occurrence of auxiliary verbs is morphologically or syntactically arbitrary. I argue instead that auxiliary verbs, particularly BE, arise as a result of general …
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Modality and facivity : One perspective on the meaning of the English modal auxiliaries
… auxiliaries and seeks to establish that these verbs share semantic as well as syntactic properties by identifying a single core meaning which they share. The relationship between modality and factivity is examined with the aim of gaining an insight into the former, more complex concept. When …
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Evaluative Thinking Amid Disaster
… pronouns, impersonal pronouns, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs , and non-referential adverbs were higher during the speaking mode than writing mode, while the rates of articles, prepositions, and negations were similar between modes. There were significant mode x style interaction effects for …
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You Heard the New Theory?: A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects and Null Auxiliaries in English
… of sentences which lack overt subjects or auxiliary verbs in English. This analysis focuses on the syntactic conditions which license these deletion processes, noting that these elements can only under go deletion only if they have also undergone movement to the left periphery. However, …
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The friendly enemies: emergence effects in word choice for story generation responses to conceptual combinations
… from similar seeds, but they did contain more verbs, auxiliary verbs and adverbs, as identified by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) program, possibly indicating a potential for more action and description in stories generated from unusual prompts. The individual difference variables …
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Language acquisition by computer: Learning categories, agreement and morphology under psychological constraints
… the plural, the third-person regular, and the auxiliary verbs. CAM solves the negative evidence problem for agreement rule learning: though it receives no negative evidence in the input, it is nonetheless capable of providing both positive and (internally generated) negative examples to its …
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Aspects of Japanese computer-mediated communication : linguistics and socio-cultural perspectives
… from writing by uses of particles. Uses of auxiliary verbs separate the two target websites, Channel 2 and Yahoo within CMC. Based on the linguistic characterisation of the CMC language, the thesis further discusses qualitatively politeness and impoliteness behaviours in the two target BBS …
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A description of the Emmi language of the Northern Territory of Australia
… and nouns on the one hand, and adjectives and verbs on the other. Chapter Four explains verb structure, and analyses the morphology of the obligatory components: auxiliary verb, coverbs, bound pronominals, bound number words. Chapter Five examines the possible combinations of auxiliary and …
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Toward Enhancing Automated Credibility Assessment: A Model for Question Type Classification and Tools for Linguistic Analysis
… and conjectural questions elicited more auxiliary verbs, tentativeness words, and cognitive process words than concrete questions. Second, a tool for linguistic analysis of text documents, Structured Programming for Linguistic Cue Extraction (SPLICE), was developed to help researchers and …
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A description of the Emmi language of the Northern Territory of Australia
… and nouns on the one hand, and adjectives and verbs on the other. Chapter Four explains verb structure, and analyses the morphology of the obligatory components: auxiliary verb, coverbs, bound pronominals, bound number words. Chapter Five examines the possible combinations of auxiliary and …
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Speech act theory, discourse structure and indirect speech
… cognitive states. It also examines modal auxiliary verbs and their possible relationship to the modal and deontic operators used in the cognitive state model. In Chapter Six, theories of indirect speech acts are described. An explanation of indirect speech acts is developed using pragmatic …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… and nouns with incorporation. A discussion of verbs takes up the next five chapters. Chapter 10 contains a description of verbal inflection, a complex and theoretically interesting area of Chukchi. An account of inflectional morphology is proposed based on the notion of 'inverse alignment' and …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… and nouns with incorporation. A discussion of verbs takes up the next five chapters. Chapter 10 contains a description of verbal inflection, a complex and theoretically interesting area of Chukchi. An account of inflectional morphology is proposed based on the notion of 'inverse alignment' and …
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Written Kaaps: The morphological (in-)dependence of het
… study examines the morphological status of the auxiliary het (‘have’), which, as suggested by the work of Nathan Trantraal, may display morphological (in-)dependence in Kaaps.1 The investigation focuses on the morphological (in-)dependence of the Kaaps auxiliary het (‘have’) through the …