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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"inchoative"”.
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Agentivity of passives and inchoatives in second language learners of English and Korean
… confusion in the agentivity of passives and inchoatives. This study therefore explores whether L2 learners know the distinction between passives and inchoatives in terms of agentivity. (a) The window was Broken. (passive) (b) The window broke. (inchoative) Unlike inchoatives, passives imply …
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Structural case on adjuncts
… nominative case. Interestingly, in passive and inchoative constructions (grouped together under the term nonactive), the adverbial allows both nominative and accusative case. I derive these patterns from a specific model of Voice, and a model of successive-cyclic Dependent Case. I first argue in …
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Imitatio Naturae. El paisaje como referente en la arquitectura contemporánea.
… cultural values. The result is provocation of an inchoative and rational desire for apprehension amongst he who perceives. For contemporary architecture, landscape as a model has become exempt from the stillness of the old view of pre-modern nature. This work aims to demonstrate that landscape …
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Situation Type, Context Coercion and the Meanings of the Chinese Aspect Marker Le
… when it occurred in dynamic situations, and as inchoative when it appeared in stative situations. However, situations and le's meaning could be coerced through context coercion. Additionally, context-coerced sentences were processed in real time more slowly than concord constructions.
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Relanguaging language in English(ing) classrooms in Khayelitsha South Africa
… engage with (trans)languaging literature and the inchoative sociolinguistic notion of ‘spatial repertoires’, conceptualising ‘languaging’ for my purposes as a spatial practice, with which speakers draw on and transform elements of spatial repertoires. This spatial perspective doesn’t allow for …
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A Cognitive-linguistic Study of Change-of-state Constructions: Analytical Perspectives and Pedagogical Applications
… construction, the resultative construction, the inchoative construction, the causative construction, and the middle construction. It not only provides the comparative description and explanation of each construction in L2 (English) and L1 (Chinese) from a cognitivist perspective, but also applies …
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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 …