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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"intransitive"”.
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Intransitive verbs and Italian auxiliaries
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1981.
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Do infants selectively imitate a transitive and an intransitive agent?
… less infants imitated the agent who made intransitive choices. Taken together with previous research, these results suggested that reliability marked by an agent's transitivity of choices indeed made a difference in 16-month-old infants' imitative learning from her.
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Rationality or irrationality of preferences? A quantitative test of intransitive decision heuristics
… analysis of two decision heuristics that permit intransitive preferences: the lexicographic semiorder model and the similarity model. I also compare these two intransitive decision heuristics with transitive linear order models and two simple transitive heuristics. For each decision theory, I use …
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From the intransitive to the transitive: emerging the Australian tax profession as a profession in its own right
… where my efforts were applied in converting the intransitive verb ‘emerge’ to the transitive, and the profession as ‘emerged’.
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Split intransitivity: Thematic roles, case and agreement
… with close consideration of a range of split intransitive diagnostics (e.g. $\textit{out}$-prefixation, the resultative construction); a VICTR account of these patterns is presented. A VICTR account of auxiliary selection patterns in Western European languages is also given. This is followed …
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Argument Realization in Thai
… Participants listened to nonce verbs in an intransitive frame embedded in short stories. Adults were tested in a forced choice comprehension test while children performed a sentence act-out task. Results revealed that adults and children in both language groups interpreted structurally …
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Passive Unaccusatives In L2 English
… Since unaccusative verbs are a subset of intransitive verbs and thus generally do not passivize, the question of how learners recognize unaccusatives without any overt input distinguishing subsets of intransitives has piqued the interest of many researchers since the late 1970's. Oshita's …
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Rationality or irrationality of preferences? Quantitative tests of decision theories
… of several decision heuristics that permit intransitive preferences: the lexicographic semiorder model (Tversky, 1969), the similarity model (Rubinstein, 1988), and perceived relative argument model (PRAM, Loomes, 2010a), as well as several transitive decision theories: the linear order …
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Distributed Agency: An Analysis of Get-Passive in English
… are transitive, non-stative verbs that have intransitive properties because they have only one internal argument to which they assign a theta role. They are interesting in the sense that, unlike other verbs in English, they retain their “active” morphology when their grammatical subject …
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Distributed Agency: An Analysis of Get-Passive in English
… are transitive, non-stative verbs that have intransitive properties because they have only one internal argument to which they assign a theta role. They are interesting in the sense that, unlike other verbs in English, they retain their “active” morphology when their grammatical subject …
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Marrithiyel : a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory
… and analysing the aspectual role of the intransitive auxiliaries. The incorporation into the verb of a number of temporal modifiers, tense/mood suffixing of certain non-verbal constituents, and iterative verb-root reduplication are also considered. Chapter Five investigates the …
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Marrithiyel : a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory
… and analysing the aspectual role of the intransitive auxiliaries. The incorporation into the verb of a number of temporal modifiers, tense/mood suffixing of certain non-verbal constituents, and iterative verb-root reduplication are also considered. Chapter Five investigates the …
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Integrating Sentence-Structural and Event Information in Early Verb Learning
… interpretations to novel transitive and intransitive verbs. Persistent negative findings with younger children raised questions about the kind of knowledge young children need about syntax-semantics links in order to begin using sentence-structural information to learn verbs. In this …
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Enhancing social skills of children with HFA using assistive technology
… emotion recognition and expression, and intransitive gestures. The evaluation process was conducted mostly online with some on-site, including 15 children with HFA (aged 4-12 years). The participants were taught to recognise six basic emotions and 11 intransitive gestures (Phase I), to …
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The meaning of passive sentences in Japanese
… passive sentences, not only transitive but also intransitive verbs can occur. Since the time linguists first began to compare Japanese with other languages, they have tried to analyse the properties of Japanese passives. The linguists of the last two decades paid attention primarily to the syntax …
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The meaning of passive sentences in Japanese
… passive sentences, not only transitive but also intransitive verbs can occur. Since the time linguists first began to compare Japanese with other languages, they have tried to analyse the properties of Japanese passives. The linguists of the last two decades paid attention primarily to the syntax …
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The (in)distinction between wh-movement and c-selection
… wh-questions require the verb to take a special intransitive-looking form; in many languages with symmetrical passives, wh-moving an indirect object in a passive clause is restricted to contexts in which the indirect object is the passive subject. By contrast, wh-moving direct objects face no …
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A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu)
… order. Verbs in Ahamb can be transitive and intransitive. Intransitive verbs are further classified as active or stative. Detransitivisation is possible with the use of prefixation or reduplication. Verbs can take a number of prefixed tense/aspect/mood/polarity modifiers and commonly feature …
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The perceived timing of events across different sensory modalities. A psychophysical investigation of multisensory time perception in humans.
… also presented showing that crossmodal TOJs are intransitive. Chapter 6 shows that concurrent adaptation to two sets of asynchronous AV stimulus pairs causes perceived AV temporal order to recalibrate at two locations simultaneously, and that AV asynchrony adaptation effects are significantly …
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Complex Motion Predicates in Hiaki
… what is the structure when the head verb is intransitive and thus cannot take the second verb or verb phrase as its complement? 2) To what extent can complex motion predicates in different languages be said to map to identical underlying syntactic structures? That is, if we compare these …
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