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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"motion verbs"”.
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Syntax and Semantics of Path -Denoting Particles and Prepositional Phrases in German
… path-denoting expressions in combination with motion verbs. Path-denoting expressions include path-denoting prepositional phrases and path particles (separable prefixes). Descriptions of syntactic and semantic structure are formalized within the framework of Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar …
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Verb Use in Parkinson's Disease
… of this study is to describe the use of low-motion and high-motion content verbs in PD in everyday conversation and to determine which theory best supports these findings. In this cross-sectional prospective study, conversation samples were collected and analyzed from participants with PD and …
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Language Typology and Sentence Frame Effects on Motion Verb Interpretation in Grade Schoolers
<p>Most English descriptions of motion events express manner in the main verb and path in a prepositional phrase, as in “She <em>skips</em> out of the house”. However, the same event <em>can</em> be described differently if a different syntactic frame is used: “She <em>exits</em> the house”. While …
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Acquisition of Causative Directed Manner of Motion by English-speaking Learners of Chinese
… learners of Chinese acquire directed manner of motion. The thesis consists of six chapters with three major parts: firstly, a linguistic analysis to account for the Chinese-English differences in licensing causative directed manner of motion events; secondly, a second language acquisition study …
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Les verbes de mouvement et l’expression du lieu en kirundi (bantou, JD62) : une étude linguistique basée sur un corpus
… This PhD thesis, written in French, is entitled ‘Motion Verbs and the Expression of Place in Kirundi (Bantu, JD62): A Corpus-based Linguistic Study’. The general goal of the PhD thesis is to provide, on the basis of the Kirundi text corpus developed by the BantUGent research centre, a systematic …
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A Diachronic and Areal Perspective on Subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
… of relative pronouns; the preference for finite verbs instead of infinitives in complement clauses and purpose clauses; as well as the use of serial-like constructions with certain complement-taking verbs and in purpose clauses after motion verbs. These similarities are not unique to the modern …
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Visibility and argument identification : a conceptual semantic approach to Alamblak and Japanese
… registered in the lexical specifications of verbs, e.g. locational verbs and motion verbs, for example, do not syntactically specify that they select a PP. In chapter one, it is suggested that what was formerly considered to represent syntactic selectional information (Predicte Argument …
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Visibility and argument identification : a conceptual semantic approach to Alamblak and Japanese
… registered in the lexical specifications of verbs, e.g. locational verbs and motion verbs, for example, do not syntactically specify that they select a PP. In chapter one, it is suggested that what was formerly considered to represent syntactic selectional information (Predicte Argument …