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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"adverb"”.
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Adverb placement : an optimality theoretic approach
Adverb positioning is guided by syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic considerations and is subject to cross-linguistic as well as language-specific variation. The goal of the thesis is to identify the factors that determine adverb placement in general (Part I) as well as in constructions in which the …
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The syntactic side of Time: processing Adverb-Verb Temporal Agreement
… mechanisms underlying the online processing of adverb-verb temporal agreement, namely the coherence in temporal features between the verb and a deictic temporal adverb (e.g. YesterdayPAST I wentPAST/*will goFUT to the jazz concert), during sentence comprehension. There are at least two reasons …
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School-Age Children's Ability to Produce and Judge Syntactic Forms (Metalinguistic Skill)
… children. Errors of auxiliary, suffix, and time adverb (where the time sense of the adverb was not compatible with the tense of the verb form) were used. The adverb anomaly was found to be more difficult to identify as an error than anomalies of auxiliary or suffix. Story context further …
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Morphological Segmentation During Silent Reading
… from later regions of text, less often to the adverb placed between the homophone/control and the matrix clause verb, in the MP condition. This was interpreted as indicating ease of integration of the adverb with the verb phrase it modifies, via the affix information made available by …
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The ezafat suffix: The syntax-semantics interface
… discussed in noun, adjective, prepositional, and adverb phrases.</p>
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Perspectives on fixedness: applied and theoretical
… is evaluated with respect to expressions in adverb role (<i>complex adverbs</i>) and found to be inappropriate. At the conceptual level, the salience of word meanings, grammatical roles, and cohesive relations signalled in expressions are examined. It appears that there is a relationship …
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Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds)
… class (Noun, Verb, Preposition, Adjective and Adverb) and constituent class could be counted, and described with formulae, and compound and constituent meaning analyzed. The conclusion was that socio historical factors such as language contact, and aspects of cognition such as memory and …
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Coarse Modality
… and theoretical contribution. Using the Italian adverb magari as the main empirical source, it will be argued that there exists a previously unnoticed type of modality which is referred to here as “coarse”. Its most evident manifestation is a special type of epistemic possibility, one that comes …
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Ke in utterances: uses and functions of the Xhosa discourse marker ke
… conjunction or conjunctive, an interjective, an adverb, an enclitic, an expletive or a form word with a variety of translation equivalents in English. Using a DM analysis framework provided by Schourup (1999) ? which corresponds closely with the pioneering framework by Schiffrin (1987) and also …
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The role of approximate negators in modeling the automatic detection of negation in tweets
… as attached to a word from the non-affirmative adverb “any” family), can operationalize negation styles not yet explored. Using a corpus of 6,500 tweets, human annotation allowed for the identification of 17 recurrent usages of these words as negatives (such as “very seldom”) which, along with …
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Investigating the use of conjuctions in essay writing by selected second-level non-native English students at a South African University
… coordinate conjunctions, and conjunctive adverb conjunctions. However, they experienced difficulties in the use of correlative conjunctions because they could not produce coherent and cohesive written essays. The present study recommends writing and frequent practice of the use of …
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Word Order in Old Catalan
… in regard to predicate types, in relation to adverb position, clitic placement, and in relation to polarity in both main and embedded clauses, showing that in both main and embedded clauses, the verb is located in the inflectional layer unless a specific trigger is identified as a trigger of …
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Baba is AI: A Grounded Benchmark for Compositional Generalization in Dynamic Rule Systems
… the meaning of the verb "to sing" and the adverb "loudly," then you can determine the meaning of the novel phrase "to sing loudly" from these known components. This process is known as generalization through systematic compositionality. Developing agents that can use systematic …
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The clause structure of Turaif Arabic
… types of evidence from the dialect like the of adverb positions, quantifier float, agreement, the negation and quantifier interaction as well as binding, it will be shown that previous accounts have oversimplified the clause structure and the subject-verb agreement issues. Besides, this …
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Word order in Cicero's Letters to Atticus : a multivariate approach
… and noun order, (2) genitive and noun order, (3) adverb and verb order and (4) object and verb order.
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Situation aspect and viewpoint aspect : from Salish to Japanese
… semantics of verbal aspect, the function of an adverb, and the semantics and pragmatics of the perfect. In other words, the same factors enter into my analysis of both Sencoten and Japanese, though there is one striking difference between the two languages: the perfective/imperfective opposition …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… deverbal forms, including converbs (a deverbal adverb which forms the head of an adverbial subordinate clause), verb bases (the lexical heads of auxiliary verbs, and the infinitive. Chapter 14 surveys non-valency-changing verbal derivations, which have aspectual, quantifier and modal meanings, …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… deverbal forms, including converbs (a deverbal adverb which forms the head of an adverbial subordinate clause), verb bases (the lexical heads of auxiliary verbs, and the infinitive. Chapter 14 surveys non-valency-changing verbal derivations, which have aspectual, quantifier and modal meanings, …
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Eolian morphosyntax: A comparative Romance perspective
… to the point of becoming a ‘deficient’ aspectual adverb, due in part to its use with non-finite V2s, unexpected within Romance.
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The effect of full-immersion schooling on nativelikeness and dominance in Palestinian Arabic-American English bilinguals
… aspect, resumptive pronouns, double objects, and adverb word order. These linguistic areas were selected because they exhibit important differences between the two languages and are thus particularly vulnerable to intrusive transfer. It was expected that nativelike performance in all five areas …
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