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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"affectedness"”.
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Grammaticalizing aspect and affectedness
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1987.
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Heidegger, affectedness, and the question of the temporality of being
… Martin Heidegger considers the phenomenon of affectedness to be of the utmost existential-ontological significance. Heidegger’s engagement with affectedness is both extensive, and extended— unfolding across many of the volumes that make up his collected works. Heidegger considers affectedness …
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Universal quantification in the nominal domain in American Sign Language
… and in sentences with predicates conveying total affectedness of the patient/theme argument. Focusing further on ASL lexical quantifiers, I provide a detailed description that addresses variation in forms, morphological properties, and syntax. This description is further supplemented by the …
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Relational Verbs: Paradigm and Practice in a Manitoba dialect of Swampy Cree
… form, as they may be conditioned by the level of affectedness of the possessor and the Speaker’s empathy towards him or her.
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A Lexical Functional Grammar Account of Spanish Weak Dative Pronominals
… grammaticalised and provides an entailment of affectedness. In instances of clitic doubling where we have both the pronoun and a noun phrase, we are treating the pronoun as the element that the predicate subcategorises for and the noun phrase is linked to it through information structure. This …
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Transitivising formations in competition? Lability and the effects of preverbs on old english causative oppositions
… 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 are a …
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Distributed Agency: An Analysis of Get-Passive in English
<p>The focus of this thesis is the ergative behavior of the verb get in the passive construction in English, e.g., 'Mary got paid'. I argue that get in the passive shows the properties of ergative verbs, such as break and open, and that it is therefore best analyzed as an ergative verb in this …
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Distributed Agency: An Analysis of Get-Passive in English
<p>The focus of this thesis is the ergative behavior of the verb get in the passive construction in English, e.g., 'Mary got paid'. I argue that get in the passive shows the properties of ergative verbs, such as break and open, and that it is therefore best analyzed as an ergative verb in this …