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Truth is dead; long live the truth. Commentary on Conjoining Meanings by Paul Pietroski
Mind &Language, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 251-265, April 2020., 2020 Pietroski successfully dismantles the idea of a formal semantic theory based on direct truth conditions and offers new and formally constrained alternatives. In this paper, I summarize the arguments but also provide a number of test cases to show that refusing to accept Pietroski's conclusions condemns the field to constantly restating and technically ...
Gillian Ramchand
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Verbal derived stems and semantics of prefixed verbs in the earliest Lithuanian texts
Lietuvių Kalba, 2022 This article discusses the deverbal verb derivation by the means of the prefixes in the Old Lithuanian language, basing on the corpus of about 110 primary verbs and their approximately 460 derivates attested in the Evangelijos bei epistolos (Gospels and ...
Otso Vanhala
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K překladu českých významů povahy slovesného děje do španělštiny: aplikace myšlenek Jiřího Levého
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2018 The aim of this article is to analyze the strategies that translators apply when transmitting some of the meanings of Aktionsart Czech into Spanish. For this, we start from the fact that Czech is a language where many meanings of the Aktionsart can be ...
Jana Pešková
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Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics -, 1996 It is widely accepted that semantic theories should, as far as possible, be compositional. The claim that a theory is compositional, however, lacks bite if lexical and pre-lexical items are allowed to mean different things in different contexts. The aim of the current paper is to show how to deal with a well-known phenomenon by relying on combinatorial
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The Concept of Telicity in English, Romanian and Serbian
Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2020 Given that the notion of telicity was simply defined by English linguists as a situation which tends towards a goal, this paper will additionally explain and define telicity in the English language.
Lazović Mihaela
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Aspect and Verbal Prepositions
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In this paper, we explore some previously unanalysed interactions between verbal aktionsart and prepositional complementation in Norwegian, namely the alternations between a DP object and PP complements with på ‘on/at’ and til ‘to/at’.
Gillian Ramchand, Mai Tungseth
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CogniTextes, 2022 Aspect and Aktionsart are both categories that codify information on the internal temporal structure of states of affairs. In traditional studies on aspectuality, a very strict distinction between them is usually made. Aspect is an obligatory grammatical
Sarah Dessì Schmid
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Morphology in the Muskogean languages
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 10, Issue 12, Page 681-700, December 2016., 2016 Abstract The indigenous languages of the Americas exemplify a number of uncommon typological patterns, especially in their morphology. Here, that rich morphology is illustrated via the Muskogean languages of the southeastern United States. Muskogean languages are agglutinative, but even more interesting and uncommon patterns emerge in an analysis of ...
Colleen M. Fitzgerald
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Die Aktionsart in der deutschen Sprache: Eine kategoriale Unterteilung
, 2020 Das Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, einige der grundlegenden Konzepte im Zusammenhang mit der kontroversen Problematik der Aktionsart in der deutschen Sprache zu untersuchen. Konkret bedeutet dies den Vorschlag einer Gliederung der traditionellen Kategorien
Rafael López-Campos Bodineau
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Linguistica, 2008 Die Wechselbeziehung, die zwischen den Präfixen und den Präpositionen bei sloweni- schen Verben besteht, wird in der Verteilung der Aktionsart, Phasenhaftigkeit und Adverbialität zwischen den verbalen Präfixen und Präpositionen reflektiert, indem die ...
Andreja Žele, Eva Sicherl
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