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A note on epistemic and effective meanings of the Polish perfective and imperfective
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 The paper offers an analysis of selected uses of the Polish perfective and imperfective in the non-past indicative and in the imperative construction.
Agata Kochańska
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Telicity, durativity, and secondary imperfective verbs in Bulgarian [PDF]
Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden SprachwissenschaftThe article argues against earlier treatments of Bulgarian secondary imperfective verbs in terms of atelicity and Viewpoint imperfectivity. Instead, it offers empirical evidence about telicity and durativity as the two core properties of this type of ...
Elena Karagjosova
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Spanish adjectival passives with a progressive reading
Isogloss, 2022 This paper addresses Spanish adjectival passives with estar showing a progressive reading. In the previous literature, it has been acknowledged that the participles of verbs encoding non-dynamic events, such as vigilar ‘guard’, give rise to a ...
Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo, Rafael Marín
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Languages, 2022 Many so-called ‘zero tense’-marked (which we define as morphologically reduced and underspecified inflections) or untensed verb forms found in tenseless languages, have been characterized as context dependent for their temporal and aspectual ...
Patrick Caudal, James Bednall
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Theoretical implications of the prefixation of Polish change of state verbs
Open Linguistics, 2023 The text is devoted to a rarely described and analysed problem of a gap in the distribution of aspectual prefixes in Polish. Lexical prefixes do not appear as parts of word-internal morphology of synthetic change of state (COS) verbs suffixed with ...
Malicka-Kleparska Anna
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Nominal ellipsis reveals concord in Moksha Mordvin
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 4, Page 355-403, December 2023., 2023 Abstract On the basis of original data from Moksha Mordvin (Finno‐Ugric), I argue that some languages have nominal concord even though modifiers of the noun generally do not show inflection. Evidence for the presence of concord comes from nominal ellipsis, under which inflection is phonologically realized and restricted in the same way as regular ...
Mariia Privizentseva
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Irregular verb morphology in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 642-660, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Verb regularization is often characterized as a morphological Americanism in contemporary English. Using a synchronic approach, this study investigates the regular ‐ed vs. irregular ‐t alternation in preterites and past participles from British, American, and Nigerian Englishes.
Temitayo Olatoye
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Finding Structure in Modern Dance
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 11, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Research has shown that both adults and children organize familiar activity into discrete units with consistent boundaries, despite the dynamic, continuous nature of everyday experiences. However, less is known about how observers segment unfamiliar event sequences.
Claire Monroy, Laura Wagner
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Visual Heuristics for Verb Production: Testing a Deep‐Learning Model With Experiments in Japanese
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Tense/aspect morphology on verbs is often thought to depend on event features like telicity, but it is not known how speakers identify these features in visual scenes. To examine this question, we asked Japanese speakers to describe computer‐generated animations of simple actions with variation in visual features related to telicity ...
Franklin Chang +3 more
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THE NEGATIVELY BIASED MANDARIN BELIEF VERB yĭwéi*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 1-46, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The Mandarin belief verb yĭwéi strongly suggests that the belief it embeds is wrong or questionable. Based on original data, I propose that this sense of negative bias stems from a postsupposition that the reported belief must not be accepted in the Common Ground following an update with yĭwéi.
Lelia Glass
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