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Investigating Valency Decreasing Verb Operational Devices: A Case Study of the Oromo Language [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThe purpose was to examine and analyze the mechanisms used in the Oromo language to decrease the valency (or argument structure) of verbs. Specifically, it aimed to understand how valency-decreasing operational devices are employed, their semantic ...
Ayub Ismael Jarso, Giorgio Banti
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PP licensing in nominalizations [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we compare the distribution of PPs introducing external arguments in nominalizations with PPs introducing external arguments in the verbal domain.
Alexiadou, Artemis +2 more
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Reflexive anticausatives in Japanese [PDF]
, 2021 This work was supported by KAKENHI (20H01268).978-4-9910001-3-3journal ...
YASUHARA, Masaki
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Reflexive derivations in Thulung [PDF]
, 2016 This paper is under copyright and the publisher shloud be contacted for permission to re-use or re-print the material in any form.International audienceThulung Rai, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Eastern Nepal, presents two derivational ...
Lahaussois, Aimée
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Figure and ground reflexives in Turkish [PDF]
, 2022 After controlling for phonologically conditioned homophony, it is shown that Turkish has two distinct suffixes marking verbal reflexives that have distinct syntactico-semantic properties: -Il is syncretic with the passive and anticausative, and derives ...
Key, Greg
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Transitives with inchoative semantics
GlossaThe paper investigates the semantics and event structure of change-of-state verbs that undergo the causative alternation – specifically, lexical causative verbs and their anti-causative counterparts.
Christopher Pinon +2 more
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Labile anticausatives in Jordanian Arabic
Lingua Posnaniensis, 2020 Abstract This study examines the morpho-syntax of labile anticausative structures in Jordanian Arabic (JA). Although the transitive counterpart of anticausatives is marked via morphological affixes that reflect structural and lexical components in Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, a number of verbs ...
Bassil Mashaqba +4 more
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Drifting between passive and anticausative: true and alleged accent shifts in the history of Vedic -ya-presents [PDF]
, 2011 This paper focuses on the system of the Vedic present formations with the suffix ya- and middle inflexion, paying special attention to the attested accent patterns.
Kulikov, Leonid
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Ro[u:]ting the interpretation of words [PDF]
, 2009 Word formation in Distributed Morphology (see Arad 2005, Marantz 2001, Embick 2008): 1. Language has atomic, non-decomposable, elements = roots. 2. Roots combine with the functional vocabulary and build larger elements. 3.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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