Position and interpretation of adjuncts: process, event and wieder 'again' [PDF]
This paper deals with restitutive and repetitive wieder. Proceeding from the assumption that adverbial adjuncts have base positions which reflect their semantic relations to the rest of the sentence, it is shown that repetitive wieder belongs to the ...
Pittner, Karin
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Enrichment of OntoSenseNet: Adding a Sense-annotated Telugu lexicon
The paper describes the enrichment of OntoSenseNet - a verb-centric lexical resource for Indian Languages. This resource contains a newly developed Telugu-Telugu dictionary. It is important because native speakers can better annotate the senses when both
Parupalli, Sreekavitha, Singh, Navjyoti
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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The syntax of orientation shifting: Evidence from English high adverbs [PDF]
This paper reviews new data supporting the inclusion of a Speech Act Phrase in the left periphery. Illocutionary and evidential adverbs in English shift orientation from speakers in declarative sentences to addressees in yes-no interrogative sentences ...
Woods, Rebecca
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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Improving students’ understanding on adverb of frequency through memory round game (an action research with eighth grade students of MTs NU 07 Patebon kab. Kendal in the academic year of 2009/2010) [PDF]
The background of the study in this research are many students in junior high school have difficulties to memorize the meaning of adverb of frequency and they still confuse to use adverb of frequency in right position.
Khairunnisa, Khairunnisa
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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions
Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
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Abstract Strategic word mimicry during negotiations facilitates better outcomes. We explore mimicry of specific word categories and perceptions of rapport, trust, and liking as underlying mechanisms. Dyads took part in an online negotiation exercise in which word mimicry was manipulated: Participants were instructed to mimic each other’s words (both ...
Kate Muir +4 more
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On some aspectual adverbs – in Brazilian Portuguese and in Chilean Spanish – that seem ambiguous
We turn to Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Chilean Spanish (CS) in our study of some aspectual adverbs which, according to Cinque (1999, 2004), have a dual source both concerning their position in the universal hierarchy of adverbs and their scope.
Aquiles Tescari Neto +1 more
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Analysis Of Adverbial Constructions In The Selfish Giant By Oscar Wilde [PDF]
The aims of this research are to describe the types of adverbial constructions and to describe the distributions of adverbial constructions based on structural approach especially syntactic structure of modification.
, Dra. Malikatul Laila, M.Hum. +2 more
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