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Serial verb constructions or verb compounds? : a prototype approach to resultative verb constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Resultative verb constructions RVCs (hereafter) are a special type of serial verb construction in Mandarin Chinese, in which the verbs hold an action-result relation. On the one hand, they behave like compounds, e.g., the verbs can be questioned as a single verb but cannot be separately modified, …
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Pseudocoordination, serial verb constructions and multi-verb predicates: The relationship between form and structure
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Verb Use in Parkinson's Disease
Verb-specific impairments in their use and comprehension are well documented in persons with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The grammatical and the motor theories have been proposed as possible explanations for verb impairments. The purpose of this study is to describe the use of low-motion and …
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The Light Verb Construction in Korean
Light verb constructions have been treated as a relevant linguistic topic because they show unique characteristics that are not found in other verb constructions in Korean. Thus, previous studies are mainly focused on specific characteristics: (i) the relationship between light verbs and v and (ii) …
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Interlanguage variability in verb tense/aspect
This thesis presents a study of interlanguage variability in the use of three tense/aspect forms: the simple present, simple past, and the present perfect. The need for research in this area comes from the problems encountered in the classroom. Language performance in one task sometimes does not …
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The phonology of the Navaho verb.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1969. Ph.D.
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Tataltepec Chatino verb classification and aspect morphology
The verb in a Chatino language bears a value for Aspect (a grammatical category of Zapotecan verbs which indicates a bundle of aspectual and modal features), marked with a prefix, a tonal change, or both. There is a moderate amount of allomorphy among the Aspect prefixes, and when verbs of …
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Verb agreement and case marking in Burushaski
<p>Burushaski verb agreement and case marking phenomena are complex and have not been described adequately by any current theory of syntax. In particular, no explanation has yet been given as to why a variety of nominals can trigger agreement in the verbal prefix. In some cases the apparent subject …
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Subjekt-Verb-Kongruenz bei komplexen, numerusambigen Nominalphrasen
… Numeruskongruenz zwischen Subjekt und finitem Verb im Deutschen (Übereinstimmung hinsichtlich des Merkmals Numerus bzw. entsprechende morphologische Markierung) scheint sich nicht zu bestätigen, betrachtet man komplexe NPs wie ‚Beides, Plastiktüte und Sprühdose, schadet/schaden dem Klima‘. …
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English complex verb constructions: identification and inference
… of MWEs, this dissertation focuses on English verb related MWEs, constructs stochastic models to identify these complex verb predicates within the given context and discusses empirically the significance of this MWE recognition component in the context of Textual Entailment (TE), an intricate …
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Modeling the mechanisms of verb bias learning
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Investigating the mechanisms of verb bias learning
The student, Amanda Kelley, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-24 at 17:11.
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Grammatical productivity in Mandarin resultative verb compounds
… the acquisition of Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds (RVCs) as a window into the development of grammatical productivity. The project combined exploration of observational data, language elicitation/priming tasks with real words, and novel word learning/testing tasks, and led to a …
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Automatic induction of verb classes using clustering
Verb classifications have attracted a great deal of interest in both linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). They have proved useful for important tasks and applications, including e.g. computational lexicography, parsing, word sense disambiguation, semantic role labelling, information …
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The Syntax of the Finite Verb and the Nominal Forms fo the Verb in Pliny's Natural History Book Seventeen
… aims to analyze the syntax of the finite verb and the nominal forms of the verb in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Book 17, and, furthermore, to point out the author’s adherence to or divergence from Classical norms in this portion of his work. In assuming such a task, one must …
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The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan
… linguistic system of the letters and on their verbal system, its morphology and semantics. The language of the letters is a second language learners' interlanguage developed through time by the Canaanite scribes who failed to acquire normative Akkadian language in local schools because of the …
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A generative phonology of the Moroccan Arabic verb
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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A generative phonology of the Moroccan Arabic verb
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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With Light Verb Constructions from Syntax to Concepts
… uses a common grammatical phenomenon, light verb constructions (LVCs) in English and German, to investigate how syntax-semantics mapping defaults influence the relationships between language processing, representation and conceptualization. LVCs are analyzed as a phenomenon of mismatch in the …
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