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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"lexical aspect"”.
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Lexical Aspectual Classification
This work is a first attempt at classification of Lexical Aspect. In this dissertation I describe eight lexical aspectual classes, each initially containing a few members. Using distributional analysis I generate 132 additional seeds, each of which was approved by at least seven out of nine judges. …
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The Role of Focused Input on the Acquisition of Tense and *Aspect by L2 Learners of French
… significant change of scores was observed on the aspectual judgment test for their evaluation of telics in either the preterite or the imperfect. In other words, L2 representation was not affected. Overall results confirmed the leading role of lexical aspect on intermediate learners' use of tense …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… limit heritage language exposure, tense and aspect morphology is susceptible to change (Guijarro-Fuentes & Clibbens 2004). Findings of a study on 11 Chilean-American heritage speakers show that production of the preterit is overextending, resulting in less frequent use of the imperfect. …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… limit heritage language exposure, tense and aspect morphology is susceptible to change (Guijarro-Fuentes & Clibbens 2004). Findings of a study on 11 Chilean-American heritage speakers show that production of the preterit is overextending, resulting in less frequent use of the imperfect. …
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The event structure of light verbs
… verb le ‘take’ occupies an intermediary (Inner) Aspect head just below the head that introduces the external argument, vP. The Korean light verb peli sits even higher in the structure, in an aspect head above vP. This structural variation is reflected in the effect that the light verbs have on …
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Os sufixos -izar e -ecer: um estudo semântico e sintático
… verbalization studies. This includes the lexical aspect (Vendler, 1967) and theoretical approaches such as Distributed Morphology (Harley and Noyer, 1999), Nanosyntax (Starke, 2002), and Exoskeletal Theory (Borer, 2005). Given that semantic features, such as verb flavors (Marantz, 1997; …
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The influence of the temporal characteristics of events on children's pronoun resolution
… children demonstrate the same influence of aspectual morphemes in narrative contexts as shown by adults in previous research. A third goal was to examine whether literature written for children might provide a potential causal explanation (environmental exposure) for the pattern of …
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Marking time : the acquisition of tense and grammatical aspect by French-speaking learners of English
… designed to explore the relative influences of lexical asp aspect and first language (L1) knowledge on the second language (L2) acquisition of verb morphology. The participants were adult French-speaking learners of English who represented a wide range of proficiency in their knowledge of simple …
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Situation aspect and viewpoint aspect : from Salish to Japanese
This thesis investigates lexical and grammatical aspect in two unrelated languages, Sencoten(the Saanich dialect of Straits Salish) and Japanese. In particular, the main focus is on how various perfect readings are derived in the two languages, which show striking similarities in this respect. In …
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(In)complete Acquisition of Aspect in Second Language and Heritage Russian
… compares the knowledge of Russian Verbal Aspect in two types of learners enrolled in college level Russian courses: foreign language learners of Russian whose native language is English and heritage language speakers of Russian whose dominant language at the time of study is English. …
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The Adjectives of Yueqing
… verbs in the language. It further examines the aspectual classification of adjectival verbs and non-adjectival verbs, and finds that adjectival verbs are a subclass of stative verbs. It also finds that although bare adjectival verbs behave like stative verbs, they are special stative verbs that …