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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Nominals"”.
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Action Nominals in the Grammar Matrix
… Grammar Matrix customization system. Actions nominals are nominalized verbs which refer to an action or process and are often used cross-linguistically to mark clausal complements and adverbial clauses. They occupy an intermediate state between nouns and verbs, having the external distribution …
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Verbal and Nominal Properties in Deverbal and Process Nominals
In sum, this dissertation deals with the so-called mixed categories with a general mechanism of word-formation based on the single-engine syntactic approach coupled with a lexical decomposition. I show that the traditional idea that clustering certain properties are necessarily associated with …
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Deverbal nominals in Kiswahili: Underspecification morphology and the lexicon
… \vbox{\halign{#\hfil&&\enspace#\hfil\cr&a.&Action Nominals in -{\it o}:&{\it mkato/mikato\/}&`cut(s)'\cr&b.&Transitive Verbals in -{\it a}:&{\it mkata/wakata}&`cutter(s)'\cr&c.&Relic Agentives in -{\it i}:&{\it mkati/wakati}&`cutter(s)'\cr&d.&Productive Agentives in -{\it aji}:&{\it …
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The acquisition of bare nominals by three populations of Spanish-English bilingual adults
<p>The present study contributes to our understanding of cross-linguistic influence by studying three different groups of Spanish-English speakers’ knowledge of the distribution of definite articles in both of their languages using a battery of tests that require them to draw on different …
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Nominal licensing: the syntactic distribution and number interpretation of bare nominals in Wolof
… levels of nominal licensing illustrated by bare nominals (BN) in Wolof: licensing of the BN itself and licensing at the level of its features. The former can be seen in the restrictions imposed on the syntactic positions a BN can occupy and the strategies employed to bypass them. The latter is …
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Licensing without Case
… at all. In this dissertation, I argue that nominals must indeed be licensed during the course of a well-formed derivation. However, nominal licensing does not require Case-feature valuation, as is commonly assumed (Chomsky 2000, 2001). I demonstrate that Case-features can survive the …
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Anaphoric reference in oral narratives of 6- and 7-year-old children
… be a significant factor for appropriate use of nominals and pronominals with respect to their function within narratives. Children tend to rely heavily on using pronominals to serve both in maintaining reference (correct usage) as well as switching reference (incorrect usage) to characters and …
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Verb agreement and case marking in Burushaski
… has yet been given as to why a variety of nominals can trigger agreement in the verbal prefix. In some cases the apparent subject triggers this agreement, in others the direct object appears to do so, in others the indirect object, in others the possessor of the direct object, in others a …
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Construction morphology : issues in Akan complex nominal morphology
… language, has both regular and irregular complex nominals (CNs). However, previous studies of Akan nominals have been constructive in approach, mostly adhering to a strict form of the principle of compositionality and assuming that the morphological, phonological and semantic properties of CNs can …
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Rembarnga : a language of central Arnhem Land
… There is considerable use of case marking with nominals. The language is still in active use even though its speakers are widely scattered, but the number of speakers is declining. The present thesis is a description of the grammar of Rembarnga - phonology, morphology and syntax. There is a …
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Rembarnga : a language of central Arnhem Land
… There is considerable use of case marking with nominals. The language is still in active use even though its speakers are widely scattered, but the number of speakers is declining. The present thesis is a description of the grammar of Rembarnga - phonology, morphology and syntax. There is a …
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A longitudinal study of lexical development in young children with autism spectrum disorders
… as evident in percentage of predicates/nominals; (2) order of emergence for predicate types and (3) predictive value of lexical variables for later grammatical development. ASD Groups were matched to typically developing group norms on total MCDI scores for each comparison. Subsequent …
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TOPICS IN HAKHA LAI NOMINAL MARKING
… information to help interlocutors identify nominals, mark their discourse status, and highlight them for pragmatic purposes. Discourse deictics remain understudied, despite serving varied and complex functions. This work investigates Hakha Lai, a South Central (formerly Kuki-Chin) …
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Representation and Acquisition of Kind Reference in L2 English
… Turkish L2 learners’ use and understanding of nominals and articles to express kind reference in English is affected by the properties, particularly the distribution of articles and number marking, of their L1; (b) to research the developmental trajectory and the effect of L2 proficiency in …
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Non-specific objects in the pseudopassive : the syntax and semantics of English pseudo-incorporated pseudopassives
… are compared to similarly behaving non-specific nominals in Hindi, Chol, Tongan, Inuktitut, Nez Perce, among others (Dayal 2003, Coon to appear, Ball 2005, Wharram 2003, Deal 2007). The researchers who identified such nominals in these languages have referred to them as pseudo-incorporated, and …
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Extending Wikification: Nominal discovery, nominal linking, and the grounding of nouns
… named entities, the detection and linking of nominals are relatively little studied but essential since the grounding of nouns enriches information for humans that read documents. In this thesis, we address those problems by extending the Illinois Cross-lingual Wikifier with nominal linking …
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A logical typology for nominal compounds
… basis of syntactic information concerning the nominals and the taxonomic types of their referents.
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Agreement as a fallible operation
… the analysis of defective intervention by dative nominals. These results lead to a novel view of the interaction of '-agreement with case, furnishing an argument that both '-agreement and so-called "morphological case" must be computed within the syntactic component of the grammar. Finally, I …
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The Tukang Besi language of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
… and the object optionally (but preferably) so. Nominals, which are optional due to the indexing on the verb, are case-marked to indicate their status as core or oblique arguments in the clause; the division between these two layers of the clause is evidenced by numerous processes and constraints …
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The Tukang Besi language of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
… and the object optionally (but preferably) so. Nominals, which are optional due to the indexing on the verb, are case-marked to indicate their status as core or oblique arguments in the clause; the division between these two layers of the clause is evidenced by numerous processes and constraints …
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