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Aspectual Processing Shifts Visual Event Apprehension

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 6, June 2024.
Abstract What is the relationship between language and event cognition? Past work has suggested that linguistic/aspectual distinctions encoding the internal temporal profile of events map onto nonlinguistic event representations. Here, we use a novel visual detection task to directly test the hypothesis that processing telic versus atelic sentences (e ...
Uğurcan Vurgun, Yue Ji, Anna Papafragou
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Pseudo-incorporation, event kinds, and atelicity

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This paper investigates how kind-referring arguments shape (a)telicity by examining aspectual contrasts involving pseudo-incorporation (PI) in Turkish.
Sağ, Yağmur
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The accusative absolute and gerundial constructions in Late Latin [PDF]

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This paper explores the relationship between the absolute accusative and various gerundial constructions in Late Latin. While absolute constructions probably belong to the stock of inherited morphosyntactic features in Latin, the absolute accusative is ...
Jelena Zivojinovic   +2 more
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Event Boundaries Stretched and Compressed by Aspect: Temporal Segmentation in a First and a Second Language

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 74, Issue S1, Page 104-135, June 2024.
Abstract Event segmentation tests have shown substantial overlaps in how adults recognize starts and endpoints as events unfold. However, far less is known about what role different language systems play in the process. Variations in grammatical aspect have been shown to influence event processing.
Norbert Vanek, Haoruo Zhang
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Two kinds of curiosity

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 108, Issue 3, Page 811-832, May 2024.
Abstract Leading philosophical models of curiosity represent it as a desiderative attitude whose content is a question, and which is satisfied by knowledge of the answer to that question. I argue that these models do not capture the distinctive character of a form of curiosity that I call 'erotic curiosity'.
Daniela Dover
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Phaenobezzia ateles 1940

open access: yes, 2016
ateles (Macfie), 1940a: 78 (Bezzia). Type locality, Brazil, Bahia, Mundo Novo. HT M (BMNH). Distr.: Colombia (Valle del Cauca (Río Raposo)), Ecuador, Brazil (Bahia). Refs.: Macfie, 1940a: 78; Spinelli & Wirth, 1986: 232; Borkent & Spinelli, 2007: 97. astyla Spinelli & Wirth, 1986: 232. Type locality: Colombia, Valle del Cauca (Río Raposo). HT F (USNM).
Spinelli, Gustavo, Wolff, Marta
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The dog bites : On the "aggressive" antipassive in Slavic and Baltic

open access: yes, 2022
Several Slavic and Baltic languages have an “aggressive” antipassive construction, where in a reflexive marker is used to mark object omission. The construction often carries habitual or potential aspectual meanings and is restricted to a small group of ...
Bondarenko, Alice,
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Ateles paniscus

open access: yes, 1993
Ateles paniscus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:26. TYPE LOCALITY: French Guyana. DISTRIBUTION: North of the Amazon (east of Rio Negro). STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Vulnerable. SYNONYMS: ater F. Cuvier; cayennensis, pentadactylus, subpentadactylus, surinamensis.
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Ateles chamek

open access: yes, 1993
Ateles chamek (Humboldt, 1812). Rec. Observ. Zool., 1:353. TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Cuzco, Rio Comberciato. DISTRIBUTION: NE Peru, E Bolivia to Brazil west of Rio Juruâ and south of Rio Solimöes. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II. SYNONYMS: longimembris, peruvianus. COMMENTS: Separated from paniscus by Groves (1989).
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The categorial opposition of telicity/ atelicity in the Russian and Polish languages

open access: yes, 2015
The article investigates grammatical means with the help of which the categorical opposition of telicity/ atelicity is expressed in the Russian and Polish languages with the projection on the mental characteristics of their speakers. Grammatical category
Kilevaya, Ludmila, Dyusekeneva, Indira
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