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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"intransitivity"”.
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Split intransitivity: Thematic roles, case and agreement
… range of domains, with a focus on $\textit{split intransitivity}$. Split intransitivity is explored initially in regard to English, with close consideration of a range of split intransitive diagnostics (e.g. $\textit{out}$-prefixation, the resultative construction); a VICTR account of these …
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Passive Unaccusatives In L2 English
… studies of more general characteristics of intransitivity have revealed close parallels between passive unaccusatives and other well-documented phenomena. The aim of this paper is to show that passive unaccusativity patterns with these other more general phenomena. A corpus of essays written …
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Food odour preference behaviour in three Australian Pteropus species (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)
… individual bats. The existence of preference intransitivity in all three species indicated that these bats employ a comparative method of odour evaluation as opposed to an absolute utility method often described for foragers with transitive preferences. Thus for these bats the 'value' of …
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Food odour preference behaviour in three Australian Pteropus species (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)
… individual bats. The existence of preference intransitivity in all three species indicated that these bats employ a comparative method of odour evaluation as opposed to an absolute utility method often described for foragers with transitive preferences. Thus for these bats the 'value' of …
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Three Nuances of the Perfect Indicative in the Greek New Testament
… expresses a resultative-stative nuance, with intransitivity dominant. Some of these archaic perfects survived up the Koine period and appear in the Greek New Testament. Chapter 4 discusses the transition from the resultative to the anterior, with increasing transitivity of the perfect in …
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Coevolutionary algorithms for the optimization of strategies for red teaming applications
… characteristics of red teaming problems, such as intransitivity relationships and multimodality, before employing them to optimize two red teaming scenarios. A number of measures were used to evaluate the performance of CEAs and in terms of multimodality, this study introduced a novel n-peak …
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Heads and Adjuncts: an experimental study of subextraction from participials and coordination in English, German and Norwegian
… type of matrix predicate. The crucial factor is intransitivity, partially confirming the bias towards unaccusatives in subextraction from participial adjuncts observed informally in Borgonovo and Neeleman (2000); Fabregas and Jiménez-Fernández (2016); Truswell (2011) whilst providing evidence …
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Friendship problems and suicidality in Mexican-American and European-American adolescents: a longitudinal analysis
… poor quality friendship, and friendship intransitivity predict later suicidal ideation and nonfatal suicidality, with some relationships between friendship factors and suicidality being stronger than depression. However, it is unclear how these findings may apply to ethnic minority youth, …