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Showing 1 to 20 of 392 for “"verbs"”.
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Conjunct Verbs and Verbs-in-Series in Thai (Serial Verbs, Compound Verbs)
… general types of verb phrases in Thai: conjunct verbs and verbs-in-series. Conjunct verbs in Thai have received little attention in previous works; the classification and analysis of conjunct verbs in this study is, therefore, primary. I conclude that all conjunct verbs function like verbs and …
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Hunting Down Animal Verbs
… change, namely word-formation of verbs from animal nouns by zero-derivation, in the process of which such nouns as, for example, dog, horse, or beaver change their usage and meaning to produce animal verbs: to dog ‘to follow someone persistently and with a malicious intent’, to …
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Linking verbs to syntax
… I explore the effect of direct experience with verbs and sentences on verb bias learning. Specifically, I focus on the adaptation of dative verbs that adults and children are familiar with (e.g., give, show, throw). In six production experiments and two comprehension experiments, I exposed …
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Modal auxiliary verbs and contexts
Modal auxiliary verbs, such as `could', `might', `must', `would', and others, have different readings depending on the context in which they occur (Kratzer 1981). The sentence `Jess could fry the fish' can mean that, in a time previous to the utterance of the sentence, Jess had the ability to fry …
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Intransitive verbs and Italian auxiliaries
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1981.
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Syntactic distribution of English denominal verbs
Denominal verbs have been at the forefront of English word formation and lexical semantic literature. A common approach to deriving the structural representation of a denominal verb’s meaning involves using the canonical thematic role the parent noun plays to choose what type of event structure it …
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The event structure of light verbs
… systematically investigates how light verbs contribute to eventstructure across three, typologically different languages: English, Hindi-Urdu, and Korean. I first show that light verbs across the three languages vary in their structural position and function. English light verbs take …
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Prepositions and prepositional verbs in classical Arabic
… the passive participles deriving from transitive verbs. The second part on the other hand is interested in Verb-Preposition-Noun combinations: it tries to differentiate between those whose verbal elements are in close construction with the Preposition-Noun Components, i. e. are prepositional verbs …
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The mouthing of verbs in Japanese Sign Language
… by Japanese Deaf people, this paper shows that verbs are mouthed in natural Japanese Sign Language roughly 20% of the time, whereas other word classes are mouthed roughly 46% of the time. More than half of mouthed verbs are always or nearly always mouthed as one of their lexical properties. …
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The Syntactical Effects of Compounding Verbs With Prepositions
A thesis submitted to the Department of Latin of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
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Dao as a verbal suffix in Chinese verbs
… resultative ending dao as a suffix to Chinese verbs. Although dao is commonly understood as a mono-morphemic verb, a preposition or a verbal complement, little attention has been given to its function as a verbal suffix. This study attempts to highlight the inflectional nature of dao first by …
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A Study of Some Auxiliary Verbs in Japanese
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Verbs and nouns in awake neurosurgery: needs and answers
… on the role of production tasks using finite verbs and the evaluation of their ability to assess language processing in comparison with the current gold standard (i.e., object naming). As a preliminary step in the development of novel, controlled object and verb production tasks, we critically …
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Verbs as nouns: empirical investigations on event-denoting nominalizations
… are formed from different types of base verbs and which characteristics define their domain of application. By means of statistical modeling, I highlight how the transitivity of the base verb partially determines which nominalization is preferred. Moreover, I show that NIs are not used to …
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Grammars for generating isiXhosa and isiZulu weather bulletin verbs
… and isiZulu - we restricted our text to only verbs in order to ensure a manageable scope. In particular, we have developed a corpus of weather sentences in order to determine verb features. We then created context free verbal grammar rules using an incremental approach. The quality of these …
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Learning locative verbs : how universal linking rules constrain productivity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1989.
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Lemmatisation of old english strong verbs on a lexical database
La nueva base de datos del Proyecto Nerthus, llamada The Grid, fue presentada por Martín Arista en una conferencia dictada en la Universidad de Sheffield en 2013. The Grid consiste en cinco tablas relacionadas: la base de datos léxica Nerthus, una concordancia por fragmentos, una concordancia por …
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A variationist perspective on Spanish-origin verbs in Paraguayan Guarani
… A particularly salient contact feature are loan verbs, i.e. Spanish-origin roots used with Guarani morphology. To gain an empirical perspective on the presence and motivation of Spanish loan verbs in Guarani, 35 sociolinguistic interviews were conducted with Guarani speakers who live or work in …
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Study and Lexicogrammatical Proposal of Physical Perception Verbs in English
… characterization of physical perception verbs in English, and second, an applied characterization of such verbs. In the first part, a semantic classification of the members of this verb class will be established, serving as the starting point for their latter examination. This way, their …
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"Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English ""Beowulf"
The present work shows that using poetry as evidence for linguistic structure is justified by an appropriate understanding of the metrical structure and of its interaction with the poetic language. Also, Beowulf, along with other Old English poems, provides evidence for stress and archaic …
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