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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Serial verb constructions"”.
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Pseudocoordination, serial verb constructions and multi-verb predicates: The relationship between form and structure
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Serial verb constructions or verb compounds? : a prototype approach to resultative verb constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Resultative verb constructions RVCs (hereafter) are a special type of serial verb construction in Mandarin Chinese, in which the verbs hold an action-result relation. On the one hand, they behave like compounds, e.g., the verbs can be questioned as a single verb but cannot be separately modified, …
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Serial verb constructions and echo-reference constructions in the languages of Northwest Malekula: V'ënen Taut, Tape, and Tirax
… analyses of complex predicates and multi-verb constructions; more specifically serial verb constructions (Part One) and echo-reference constructions (Part Two). This work seeks to address this descriptive gap in the literature. Part One describes serial verb constructions in the Northwest …
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Non-finite Complementation: A case study of Bùlì
… in the area of clausal complementation, control, serial verb constructions, and temporal markers. Among the questions addressed are (1) Does Bùlì possess non-finite clauses? (2) How should serial verb constructions be analyzed? (3) Are the temporal remoteness markers in Bùlì tense markers? …
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A grammar of the Neverver language of Malakula (Vanuatu)
… and a set of pronominal-nouns. Possessive constructions suggest an earlier system based on the semantic notion of alienability; today constructions are formed by a combination of semantic and phonological properties. The nominal modifying particle is employed in one type of possessive …
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Object scrambling in Chinese
… from the distribution of the object(s) in serial verb constructions and double complement constructions that the scrambled object occupies a position within the VP. This study places Chinese among languages such as Dutch and German which allow object scrambling and by doing so, enriches the …
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Cross-linguistic transfer in third language acquisition: a comparative study of Mandarin L2 and Guangxi Cantonese L3 learners of English
… and frequent use of existential and possessive constructions may reflect of L1 Guangxi Cantonese. While noun redundancy, the preferred use of the word ‘make’, the misuse of prepositions, double-object use of dative clauses, relative clauses, run-on sentences, serial-verb constructions, and …
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A grammar of Gurr-goni (North Central Arnhem land)
… the case forms and functions. Possessive constructions are dealt with in §2.5, and derivational morphology is briefly covered in §2.6. Ch. 3 presents the pronouns, demonstratives, and interrogatives. We discuss the pronominal categories of person, number and gender, and consider the …
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A grammar of Gurr-goni (North Central Arnhem land)
… the case forms and functions. Possessive constructions are dealt with in §2.5, and derivational morphology is briefly covered in §2.6. Ch. 3 presents the pronouns, demonstratives, and interrogatives. We discuss the pronominal categories of person, number and gender, and consider the …
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The Tukang Besi language of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
… Oceania, such as pronominal indexing on the verb. The interaction of these two seemingly incompatible systems is responsible for many of the complexities of Tukang Besi grammar. Tukang Besi is a head-marking language, with extensive verbal affixing that also serves to drive the …
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The Tukang Besi language of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
… Oceania, such as pronominal indexing on the verb. The interaction of these two seemingly incompatible systems is responsible for many of the complexities of Tukang Besi grammar. Tukang Besi is a head-marking language, with extensive verbal affixing that also serves to drive the …
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Motion in Language and Experience : Actual and Non-actual motion in Swedish, French and Thai
… localized to a select few form classes, such as verbs and so-called satellites. The descriptions in the three languages conformed to the proposed universal semantic categories and the taxonomy of motion situations, at the same time as displaying language-specific properties. To differentiate …
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Describing and Remembering Motion Events in British Sign Language
… English descriptions show preferences for Manner verbs and spatial particles to express Path (‘run out’). BSL descriptions show preferences for serial verb constructions (using Manner and Path verbs in the same clause). The BSL groups are also similar in the components they include in …