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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"factive"”.
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Clausal nominalization in Wolof
… be built from. The RC nominal can have an event, factive and manner interpretation whereas the GN nominal can have a generic, event and factive interpretation. This dissertation also provides a comparison of this type of nominalization with similar nominalization types found in related African …
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Modality and facivity : One perspective on the meaning of the English modal auxiliaries
… pragmatic) context to determine the particular factive or a contrafactive interpretation conveyed by a given modal auxiliary token. The influence of certain combinations of contextual features is sufficiently strong to force a factive or contrafactive reading of a modal token, although in …
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A Critical Examination Of Understanding’s Characteristics: Why, In A Sense, Understanding Is Unique
… subjective understanding, is both non-factive and compatible with certain kinds of epistemic luck, unlike knowledge. Understanding, in a sense, is unique.
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Perspectives on nominalization
… NZNs significantly correlate with Agentives, and Factives with Act (ion) NZNs. The Agentive/Instrumental and Act(ion)/Factive groupings remain separate from each other. Comparison of languages in the sample also shows that certain marking categories, such as voice, appear to be related to …
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Factors affecting the Pain & Disability of the Low back pain patients
This study is the factive and descriptive research to identify the factors affecting the pain & disability of the low back pain patients. The subject of research is collected from 84 patients who were proved the disease through MRI(magnetic resonance image)at the neurosurgery unit at A university …
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Tense and mood variation in Spanish nominal subordinates: The case of Peruvian varieties
… are flexible in regards to this requirement (factive-emotive, such as alegrarse “to be happy” and lamentar “to be sorry”) and verb types that are considered the strictest (desire, such as querer “to want,” and lack of knowledge, such as ignorar “to not know”). Variation in mood, the second …
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English complex verb constructions: identification and inference
The fundamental problem faced by automatic text understanding in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is to identify semantically related pieces of text and integrate them together to compute the meaning of the whole text. However, the principle of compositionality runs into trouble very quickly when …