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The grammar of Spanish causative complements.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Sediment Resuspension in a Microtidal Estuary: Causative Forces and Links with Algal Blooms
<p>After years of efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay, bacterial levels are down and species diversity has increased, however, algal blooms (primarily dinoflagellates) persist, occurring nearly every summer. Dinoflagellates produce resting cysts that accumulate in the bottom sediments and are …
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Acquisition of Causative Directed Manner of Motion by English-speaking Learners of Chinese
… for the Chinese-English differences in licensing causative directed manner of motion events; secondly, a second language acquisition study informed by a picture acceptability judgment task and a translation task; and thirdly, a brief discussion of the pedagogical implications of this study in …
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Chinese ESL writers' uses of the causative verb structure make: a corpus-based investigation
… that Swedish and French ESL writers tend to use causative MAKE constructions most frequently in their writing compositions, but they use these constructions differently in terms of what complement follows the causative MAKE construction: causative MAKE + (1) Adj., (2) + V., and (3) + N. Neither …
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Transitivising formations in competition? Lability and the effects of preverbs on old english causative oppositions
… work are taken from Old English morphological causative pairs, together with their prefixed forms, that have undergone a process of labilization whereby one or both members of the causative pair have taken over the valence value of their counterpart. Thus, verbs such as meltan ‘melt (intr.)’ …
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Novel Virulence Factors in the Pathogenesis of Yersinia pestis Infection, the Causative Agent of Plague
… of new virulence factors in Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, and understanding their molecular mechanisms during an infection process are necessary in designing a better vaccine or to formulate an appropriate therapeutic intervention. By using a high-throughput, signature-tagged …
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Cytological and biochemical analyses of Wolbachia pipienitis, causative reagent of cytoplasmic incompatibility in Drosophila simulans
Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) refers to the male-specific sterility widely observed among various insect species. CI has been correlated to an intracellular microorganism called Wolbachia pipientis. The expression of CI results when males infected with the symbionts are crossed with uninfected …
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Identification of The Causative Bacteria In Musculoskeletal Infections Using 16S Rdna - Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Analysis
… inadequate for the identification of the causative agents, because a large percentage (25-50%) of confirmed musculoskeletal infections are false negatives in which no pathogen is identified in culture. My data supports these results. The goal of this project was to use PCR amplification of …
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The Syntax of Non-Verbal Causation: The Causative Apomorphy of 'From' in Greek and Germanic Languages
… are applied to formally distinguish the causative from the spatial interpretations of `from'-PPs in Greek, English, Dutch, and German. The syntactic landscape of causative 'from' will turn out to be very minimal with 'from' directly selecting the Cause-DP, in contradistinction to its …
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A cognitive-linguistic study of the causative, agent-deprofiling, and resultative constructions: system internal and external perspectives
… conducts cross-linguistic research on the causative construction [X CAUSES Y], the various agent- deprofiling constructions [Y CHANGES STATE], and the resultative construction [X CAUSES Y TO BECOME Z]. This study provides a comparative analysis and description of these related constructions …
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Saute ça : the acquisition of the faire faire causative by first and second language learners of French
… to the acquisition of the French faire faire causative? As an initial step toward answering this question, a flexible semi-structured play protocol was developed for the elicitation of the faire faire causative from both first and second language learners. In the first part of the study, …
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Discovery and application of novel antimicrobials against the protozoan Histomonas meleagridis: the causative agent of Histomonosis in poultry
Histomonas meleagridis is a protozoan and the causative agent for Histomonosis or as commonly referred to blackhead disease. There have been treatments for H. meleagridis however the treatments have steadily been banned until the last one was removed in 2014 in the USA. The removal of the last …
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Regulation of transcription in Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of severe malaria: initial characterisation of PfTBP and PfTFIIA
Malaria, caused by Plasmodium parasites, remains a leading cause for morbidity and mortality worldwide, resulting in more than 430 000 deaths annually. P. falciparum is responsible for the vast majority of severe malaria cases, accounting for more than 90% of malaria-related fatalities, …
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Alteration and recovery of a stream macroinvertebrate community exposed to fly ash effluent and an analysis of the causative factors
Structural and functional changes in the macroinvertebrate community of a fly ash receiving stream were investigated during the final year of fly ash basin operation and for 10 months after fly ash discharges to the stream were terminated. Minimal changes were observed in the benthic community …
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Causativity in Chinese and its representations in English, Japanese and Korean speakers' L2 Chinese grammars.
Chinese does not allow causative alternating unaccusative verbs or object-Experiencer psych verbs. It employs analytical causative (headed by shi 'make'), resultative (headed by de) and compound causative (with an activity predicate V1 and a result predicate V2 forming a V1-V2 compound) …
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A Study Concerning the Latin Origins of French Causatives
… areas of investigation concerning the French causative construction faire faire quelque chose a quelqu'un: (1) the evolution of the Latin causative structure from the ut-sentential to the accusativus-cum-infinitivo; (2) the presence of the dative semantic agent of the infinitive in both the …
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