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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"verb placement"”.
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Input och output : ordföljd i svenska barns huvudsatser och bisatser
… qualitative analysis focusing on the syntax of verb placement and complementizers is presented. Chapters 1 to 4 offer a background to the thesis. In chapter 1 the aims and the material are presented. Chapter 2 provides a generative analysis of verb placement and complementizers, constituting the …
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Implicit learning of natural language syntax
… of English words. The linguistic focus was on verb placement rules. Native speakers of English with no background in German (or any other V2 language) were recruited to take part in the experiments.
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Syntactic learning from ambiguous evidence : errors and end-states
… how the model can account for embedded clause verb placement errors in child Swiss German by learning from ambiguous input. I then show how learning from ambiguous input allows the model to account for grammatical variability across speakers with regard to verb movement in Korean. Finally, I …
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Die ontwerp van ’n teoreties begronde model vir ’n mobiele toepassing vir Afrikaanse sinsbou: ’n Gevallestudie met graad 11-Afrikaans Eerste Addisionele Taalleerders
… sentence structures- such as word order, verb placement, tenses and conjunction use – the study addresses an identified gap in South African language learning resources: a mobile application that concentrates specifically on learning and understanding Afrikaans grammar as required by the …
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Adverb placement : an optimality theoretic approach
Adverb positioning is guided by syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic considerations and is subject to cross-linguistic as well as language-specific variation. The goal of the thesis is to identify the factors that determine adverb placement in general (Part I) as well as in constructions in which the …
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Syntactic variation in Afrikaans : an empirical study
… to investigate variation in word order and verb placement: firstly, changes from XV to VX in subordinate clauses are explored by looking at the use of specific types of subordinate clauses, and the impact of matrix clause bridge verbs on complementizer omission and dependent/independent word …