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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Perfective"”.
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The effect of verb aspect on cognitive dissonance and social influence
… 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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Complementation in Chol (Mayan) : a theory of split ergativity :
… in an otherwise ergative language-namely, the nonperfective aspects-involve an intransitive aspectual matrix verb and a subordinated lexical verb. In other words, the nonperfective forms show a dissociation between the syntactic predicate and the stem carrying the lexical verb stem. This proposal …
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Multiple case assignment : an Amis case study
… This is based on the behaviour of subjects of perfective clauses. Subjects of perfective clauses receive genitive case in a neutral context but appear with an additional nominative case when they are contrastive topics. Moreover, there are more restrictions on moving these subjects, compared …
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The phonology and morphology of verb forms in Mubi
… 4 discusses 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 …
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Nominalizations and aspect
… generally oppose a "perfect" tense (often called perfective or aorist), 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 …
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Development and enhancement of Computer Performance Modeling Tool (CPMT)
… development project and consists of adaptive and perfective maintenance work to modify the existing simulator to add extended modeling capability and to improve simulator performance. The thesis effort also included rewriting the CPMT's user's manual to reflect new features, establishing a change …
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Subjects And Subjecthood In Nepali: An Analysis Of Nepali Clause Structure And Its Challenges To Relational Grammar And Government & Binding
… has effected basic clause syntax in the Nepali perfective tense.
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Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese: Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Perspectives
… Old Japanese. 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 …
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A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of the Semantics of the Russian Verbal Prefix na-
… aspectual pairs as a grammatical marker of Perfective aspect, na-, in many cases, also carries lexical meaning; in these cases, na-prefixation changes the lexical/semantic meaning of the verbal stem, resulting in a distinct lexical item. I examine a sample of 40 verbs to compare the …
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The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan
… is characterized by the opposition 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 …
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Situation aspect and viewpoint aspect : from Salish to Japanese
… the semantics 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 …
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Chinese Foreign Language Attrition: Investigating Aspect Marker Usage
… The subjects tend to mark telic verbs for perfective aspect more frequently and correctly than atelic verbs. Pedagogical implications of this study include suggestions for teaching perfective aspect as well as designing curriculum for students who are re-learning Chinese. Finally, the …
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Situation Type, Context Coercion and the Meanings of the Chinese Aspect Marker Le
… native speakers of Chinese interpreted le as perfective when it occurred in dynamic situations, and as inchoative when it appeared in stative situations. However, situations and le's meaning could be coerced through context coercion. Additionally, context-coerced sentences were processed in …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… to denote events viewed as a complete whole (perfective) and the imperfect denotes incompletion 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; …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… to denote events viewed as a complete whole (perfective) and the imperfect denotes incompletion 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; …
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A methodology for planning sustainable supply chain initiatives
… within a firm, industry and shared value chain perfective. As companies become more global, challenges also become greater, thus, a more systematic and holistic approach can lead the way for developing more innovative solutions.
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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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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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On the Temporal Interpretation of Epistemic Modals: Evidence from Palestinian Arabic
… when the embedded predicate is associated with a perfective component. Thus, epistemic modals do not contribute directly to the temporal references, rather their interaction with the underlying tense and aspectual components is what determines the observed temporal configurations.</p>
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Creating suspense and surprise in short literary fiction: a stylistic and narratological approach
… as a progressive emotion, whereas surprise is a perfective emotion. As such, suspense as an interest is considered as a process-oriented interest, while surprise is an effect-oriented one. Suspense is mostly experienced while reading and has the reader involved with the story. Surprise drives the …
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