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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Verbal Morphology"”.
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A Diachronic Analysis of Western Armenian Verbal Morphology
… aims to analyze the Western Armenian (WA) verbal morphology from a diachronic perspective and perform an internal reconstruction to trace the modern Western dialects back to Classical Armenian (CA) or an older, unattested variant of Armenian. The dissertation’s methodology (Chapter 1) is …
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The Development of Verbal Morphology in Instructed Italian L2A
… certain forms (e.g., 1st person singular) of the verbal system are understood and produced with greater speed and accuracy than others (e.g., 2nd and 3rd persons plural). Also, certain forms tended to be exchanged or used in exchanges more frequently than others, indicating the possible …
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On the notion of theme vowel : a new approach to Catalan verbal morphology
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1999.
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The acquisition of verbal morphology in Ayöök : child-directed speech, child language, and learning in the home
… investigates the first-language acquisition of verbal morphology in Ayöök, a polysynthetic Mixe-Zoque language of Oaxaca, Mexico. The recordings analyzed here constitute 44 hours of longitudinal, naturalistic video recorded of three children (2;10-4;7) and their adult caregivers over the course …
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Explicit Grammar Instruction and the Acquisition of Second Language Verbal Morphology: A Framework for Generalized Learning in Second Language Acquisition
… strategies on the acquisition of Russian verbal morphology among a population of 53 college-aged language learners. Results from the experiment challenge the notion that post-adolescent L2 learners rely primarily on implicit learning to induce grammatical structure. In contrast to theories …
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Production and comprehension of verb agreement morphology in Spanish and English child L2 learners: evidence for the effects of morphological structure
Verbal inflections are problematic for both first language (L1) and second language (L2) learners in both comprehension and production and take a while to develop. Most research has mainly looked at this phenomenon from the perspective of functional features and has tried to ascertain whether or …
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Madija predicates
… several previously-unexplained aspects of verbal morphology and syntax in Madija, an Arauan language spoken in Peru and Brazil. These include the distribution of an auxiliary verb which occurs with some predicates but not with others, the factors determining the choice among three different …
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Verbal complexity in South Bolivian Quechua : insights from the speech of monolingual elders
This dissertation analyzes the complexity of verbal morphology of Southern Bolivian Quechua (SBQ) variety as it is spoken by monolingual elders in a rural town of Southern Bolivia. It states that the verbal morphology is composed by two types of morphemes: simplex and complex. This analysis relies …
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Word Order in Övdalian : A Study in Variation and Change.
… two phenomena that have often been connected to verbal morphology, that is V-to-I movement and Stylistic Fronting, which were both present in Övdalian at the beginning of the 20th century. It is shown that V-to-I movement has become optional in Övdalian during the last hundred years in absence of …
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The emergence of the Romance languages from Latin: A case for creolization effects.
… of their respective effects upon inflectional morphology: normal language change yields morphological loss and morphological creation through grammaticization. Creolization cause inflectional morphology to be severely reduced. Thus, the hypothesis tested would predict that the transition from …
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A documentation and description of Yelmek
… for a language of Southern New-Guinea. Its verbal morphology is exceedingly complex, while syntactic relations are expressed mainly by parataxis. In other ways, it is very different, not just compared to languages of the region. Its most striking grammatical feature, typologically speaking, …
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A documentation and description of Yelmek
… for a language of Southern New-Guinea. Its verbal morphology is exceedingly complex, while syntactic relations are expressed mainly by parataxis. In other ways, it is very different, not just compared to languages of the region. Its most striking grammatical feature, typologically speaking, …
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A comparative study of the effects of processing instruction and output-based instruction on the acquisition of Italian future tense
… acquisition of a specific feature of the Italian verbal morphology system: namely the future tense, which has hitherto never been researched within this framework. Processing instruction was compared to a more traditional type of grammar instruction output-based. The impact of these two types of …
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A grammar of the Neverver language of Malakula (Vanuatu)
… prefix has a CV(C) template. In terms of verbal morphology, Neverver is a mood-prominent language, with all verbal predicates being marked for either realis or irrealis mood. Further tense/aspect distinctions can be indicated with optional verbal morphology. The basic word order of verbal …
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Ossetian: Revisiting inflectional morphology
… it reexamines phenomena in the inflectional morphology of Ossetian.</p> <p>The preliminary chapter on phonology provides an overview of the phonemic inventory of Ossetian. In the chapter on nominal morphology, the variety and nature of case and number suffixes is re-analyzed and they are …
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Topics in Turkish syntax : clausal structure and scope
… for Turkish: (i) what is the interaction between verbal morphology and the structure?, and (ii) what is the interaction between word order and interpretation? Following Kornfilt (1996) I argue that there are two verbal forms in finite structures: one consists of a participle and a copula, which is …
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Rembarnga : a language of central Arnhem Land
… aggultinating language with rather complex verbal morphology. 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 …
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Rembarnga : a language of central Arnhem Land
… aggultinating language with rather complex verbal morphology. 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 …
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the Overt Pronoun Penalty: A Processing Delay In Spanish Anaphora Comprehension
… subject languages like Spanish, in which the verbal morphology encodes the grammatical features that are sufficient for the identification of the antecedent of an anaphoric expression.</p>
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Ateso Grammar: A descriptive account of an Eastern Nilotic Language
… comprehensive description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language. The main findings of this study are as follows: The key feature of Ateso's phonological structure is that vowel alternation strategies are constrained by three harmony rules: root-control, feature-control, and, …
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