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A Canonical Approach to the Argument/Adjunct Distinction
This paper provides an account of the argument/adjunct distinction implementing the 'canonical approach'. I identify five criteria (obligatoriness, latency, co-occurrence restrictions, grammatical relations, and iterability) and seven diagnostic ...
Diana Forker
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SPECIFICS OF VERBAL VALENCE IN TERMS OF ITS PERCEPTION BY SPEAKERS (PSYCHOLINGUISTIC EXPERIMENT) [PDF]
The article provides an in-depth study of the valence of verbal vocabulary in terms of selection of positions that are open to distributors. The purpose of the article is to outline the specifics of valence of actional and processual verbs in and out ...
Olesia Sulyma
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String adjunct grammars: I. Local and distributed adjunction
In this paper [and in Joshi et al. (1972) which is a sequel to this paper] a new style of formal grammar called String Adjunct Grammars (AG) has been studied. The rules in an AG have a character essentially different from the “rewrite rule” in a Phrase Structure Grammar (PSG).
Aravind K. Joshi +2 more
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On the scalar structure of the adjective: the case of Romanian resultative constructions [PDF]
The aim of the present paper is two-fold. On the one hand, based on the fact that AP resultative constructions are severely restricted in Romanian (and more generally in Romance languages), the paper offers a range of devices that improve the ...
Imola-Ágnes Farkas
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Emai's Variable Coding of Adjuncts
This paper examines the morphosyntactic character of clauses containing adjuncts in Emai (Edoid and West Benue Congo). In clauses differing as to discourse function, adjunct coding is variable.
Ronald P. Schaefer, Francis O. Egbokhare
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Clinical efficacy of local application of sustained-release metronidazole in periodontal therapy
Objective: To update and evaluate the existing scientific evidence in the efficacy of metronidazole as an adjunct as well as an alternative to subgingival debridement/instrumentation.
Niroshani Surangika Soysa +3 more
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This article investigates the distribution, linear ordering and functions of sequences of linguistic elements occurring at the left and right peripheries of discourse units across three genres of written English discourse.
Klumm Matthias
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The Argument-Adjunct Scale: Applied Nominal and Locative Phrases in Xhosa
This paper examines the categorial status of applied elements in Xhosa with respect to their argumenthood or adjuncthood. By analyzing the response of nominal and locative applied elements to various criteria and diagnostics and by adopting the ...
Alexander Andrason
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Nilufar Foadi,1,* Matthias Karst,1,* Anika Frese-Gaul,2 Niels Rahe-Meyer,3 Stefan Krömer,1 Christian Weilbach 4 1Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Pain Clinic, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, 2Department of ...
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Unclear Predication in the Construction
This paper examines Evaluative Adjectives (in short: EAs) like brave, clever, crazy, foolish, silly, wise when followed by to + infinive as in (1) or (2):(1) C8T 2147 I suppose I'm silly to worry about that.
Christopher DESURMONT
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