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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Imperfective"”.
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The effect of verb aspect on cognitive dissonance and social influence
… a prior decision-making act as ongoing using the imperfective verb aspect (rather than describing it as completed using the perfective verb aspect) influences attitudes toward the decision and tendencies to make similar decisions. In Experiment 1, participants who described their prior …
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Processing negative imperatives in Bulgarian : evidence from normal, aphasic and child language
… imperatives (NI) are grammatical only with imperfective verbs. We argue that NI are instantiations of overt aspectual coercion induced by the presence of negation as a temporally sensitive sentential operator. The scope relation between imperative mood, negation, and aspect yields the …
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The phonology and morphology of verb forms in Mubi
… the verb morphology beyond the perfective and imperfective verb forms such as pluractional verbs, imperatives, and suffixes. This chapter also demonstrates the phonological processes of vowel assimilation, devoicing, nasal assimilation, and consonant epenthesis.</p> <p>The Mubi verb appears in …
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The influence of the temporal characteristics of events on children's pronoun resolution
… transfer of possession events expressed with imperfective or perfective grammatical aspect. Experiment 1a (children) and Experiment 1b (adults) examined ambiguous pronoun resolution, Experiments 2a and 2b examined children’s pronoun resolution following transfer events with different gender …
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Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese: Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Perspectives
… I propose that Old Japanese had a perfective-imperfective distinction in both past and non-past tenses. Perfective was marked by ?tu and ?nu, which were subject to a syntactic auxiliary selection constraint, while present imperfective was marked by ?(ye)ri and past imperfective by ?kyeri. …
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A syntactic and semantic study of the tense and aspect system of modern Persian
… Persian has three aspects: the perfective, the imperfective, and the progressive, and that the perfective markers O and be- present the situation referred to as a single unanalysable whole, the imperfective marker mi- presents the situation referred to as continuous at a given time point, and …
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Situation aspect and viewpoint aspect : from Salish to Japanese
… of the grammatical aspect (perfective or imperfective), and the semantics (and possibly pragmatics) of the perfect. In Japanese, the range of interpretations is due to interaction between the semantics of verbal aspect, the function of an adverb, and the semantics and pragmatics of the …
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Complementation in Chol (Mayan) : a theory of split ergativity :
… from the fact that the progressive and the imperfective morphemes are verbs, while the perfective morpheme is not. Ergative-patterning perfective constructions are thus monoclausal, while progressives and imperfectives involve an aspectual matrix verb and a nominalized embedded clause. The …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… or an action viewed as in progress in the past (imperfective). The current study employed a three part on-line questionnaire that included: (i) a language background and social variables section; (ii) a closed-question section using the story, Ricitos de Oro ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’; and …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… or an action viewed as in progress in the past (imperfective). The current study employed a three part on-line questionnaire that included: (i) a language background and social variables section; (ii) a closed-question section using the story, Ricitos de Oro ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’; and …
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The Role of Focused Input on the Acquisition of Tense and *Aspect by L2 Learners of French
… exhibited a U-shaped behavior in their use of imperfective vs. perfective morphology with achievement verbs after they received the input flood. They selected more often an unbounded interpretation of achievement predicates when the context required a bounded interpretation. In contrast, no …
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Measuring primary, secondary and cumulative effects of processing instruction in the acquisition of French
… of instruction on the acquisition of the past imperfective aspect, subjunctive mood, and causative constructions in French. An input-based practice, Processing Instruction is compared to an output-based practice Traditional Instruction. More specifically, this study examines primary, secondary …
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English interlanguage of Palestinian University students in Gaza Strip : an analysis of relative clauses and verb tense
… are used to mark Palestinian perfective and imperfective aspects, respectively. The subject-verb agreement marker and the concord markers 's/is and 'm/am are omitted in relative clauses and when there is a change in aspect.In the area of relative clauses, the data show that relative clauses …
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The morphosemantics and morphosyntax of the Malayalam verb
… what have previously been called the two 'imperfectives' and argues that the first one is a type of progressive. The second form, is shown to be something between an interative and an imperfective. While the dissertation argues that Malayalam, has tense morphology and a TP, it argues that …
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Multiple case assignment : an Amis case study
… compared with nominative-marked subjects of imperfective clauses. I posit that subjects of perfective clauses become [phi]-defective as a result of agreeing with perfective Asp(ect). This is manifested in one less case assignment, which results in genitive case on the surface, and inability …
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Verbal Complementation in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic : An LFG account
… in V, as well as a HAB/PROG feature. The bare Imperfective verb form is treated as a non-finite verb in ECA, where it can not occupy I and is marked by VFORM=BARE. All of the verbal constructions analysed are bi-clausal structures, however, they show differences regarding the kind of control …
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Intimations of the Absolute: Afanasii Fet's Metalinguistic and Aspectual Poetics
… meta-poetic and metaphysical ideas. The imperfective aspect as a principle to which the poet felt compelled to adhere even outside of discrete texts is the subject of Chapter 4. Chapter 5 considers how verbal aspect contributes to Fet's rewritings of key Pushkinian poems as part of his …
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Nominalizations and aspect
… with ergative-absolutive case pattern, to an imperfective where case marking follows the nominative-accusative pattern. The split exists in main clauses in several northern Je languages, among which Mebengokre, though in a slightly different form. MRbengokre opposes two verbal forms that …
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The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan
… between the perfective (yaqtul and qatal) and imperfective (yaqtulu) forms. These aspectual forms receive a default temporal interpretation in the past (yaqtul and qatal) and in the present-future (yaqtulu). Within the qatal paradigm, two forms are to be distinguished: the perfective verbal …
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Sheng : the mixed language of Nairobi
… provided a null relativizer. The aerial feature imperfective suffix -a(n)g- is preferred 68% of the time. Noun classes show convergence leveling. The marker ma- serves as the generic plural. The diminutive markers, (ka-, to-), constitute a complete non-Swahili subsystem. Consequently, Sheng is …
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