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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Telicity"”.
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Applying Vendler's verbal categories to Mandarin Chinese and issues in telicity
Includes bibliographical references.
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Syntactic distribution of English denominal verbs
… first subjecting denominal verbs to a range of telicity tests and then looking at tokens of different types of denominal verbs in a large corpus to quantify the range of their argument structures and semantic entailments. Ultimately, the results provide modest evidence for attributing …
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Case Assignment on Adverbial NPs in Korean
… realization of Case. The past tense in T, the telicity in Asp and the categorical judgment represent the 'eventiveness' that is responsible for the unexpected accusative Case feature on the adverbial. I claim that the [+eventiveness] in null head E becomes active when the sentence has the …
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Chinese Foreign Language Attrition: Investigating Aspect Marker Usage
… qualitative investigation examines the effect of telicity on correct and incorrect aspect marking. This study reveals that learners of Chinese who spend time in a Chinese-speaking environment and gain a fairly high level of oral proficiency retain much of their oral production abilities over a …
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A Cognitive-linguistic Study of Change-of-state Constructions: Analytical Perspectives and Pedagogical Applications
… metonymy, typological preference, iconicity and telicity motivate the constructions. In the pedagogical field, this study develops a practical three-step sample of pedagogical implementation for Chinese EFL teachers: (i) teach the cognitive motivation behind sentences that contain certain English …
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Transitivising formations in competition? Lability and the effects of preverbs on old english causative oppositions
… well as on several specific parameters such as Telicity or Affectedness. As for the interaction of prefixes and morphological causatives, it is shown that prefixes have not quite overridden the morphological –jan suffix as a transitivising mechanism during the Old English period, although they …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
This thesis focuses on preterit and imperfect usage in the Spanish of Chilean-American heritage speakers. Spanish heritage speakers in the United States are second generation bilinguals who learn Spanish in the home from Spanish speaking parents and learn English from school and the community …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
This thesis focuses on preterit and imperfect usage in the Spanish of Chilean-American heritage speakers. Spanish heritage speakers in the United States are second generation bilinguals who learn Spanish in the home from Spanish speaking parents and learn English from school and the community …