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The immediate subject of this work is the semantics of a syntactically- defined set of Tamil verbs, all but one of which are used as main verbs as well as auxiliaries. Those which are discussed in most detail are kiTu. viTu. kiTTiru, iru, vai and vecciru.
Dale, Ian Randall Hampton
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In this study, example sentences where ǰaa- ‘to rain’ was the main verb, were collected for analysis. This verb describes the movement of natural phenomena in the Kyrgyz language.
アクマタリエワ, ジャクシルク
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The Influence of Frequency and Semantic Similarity on How Children Learn Grammar [PDF]
Lexically based learning and semantic analogy may both play a role in the learning of grammar. To investigate this, 5-year-old German children were trained on a miniature language (nominally English) involving two grammatical constructions, each of ...
Tomasello, Michael +5 more
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On the Uralic Verbal Personal (*)k-Marker; 81-89 [PDF]
In case of Uralic verbal personal (*)k-markers we can probably come across very little etymologically common suffix-material inherent to all the Uralic language group and at times they may prove to be of Altaic origin altogether.
Ago Künnap
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MODAL AUXILIARIES IN SELECTED NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS ON MEDICAL BRAIN DRAIN IN NIGERIA
This paper explores the conscious deployment of modal auxiliary verbs by the media to project stances and opinions on the topical issue of medical brain drain in Nigeria.
Olufunke O. Fagunleka +1 more
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Subject Raising in Chinese Modal Auxiliary Verb Constructions: A-movement or A′-movement?
Subject raising in Chinese modal auxiliary verb constructions can be either A-movement or A′-movement. Modal auxiliary verbs such as hui and yao can take a nonfinite TP complement which cannot value the abstract case of the embedded subject.
Hu Bo, Chen Hong
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The curious case of auxiliary -manya in Lwitaxo
Lwitaxo, one of the Luhya languages of Kenya, has an auxiliary verb of the form -many’a that occurs in compound constructions that express either a generic reading (“normally do V”) or a culminative reading (“ended up V-ing”).
Robert Botne
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Some considerations on the semi-modal auxiliary verbs [PDF]
This paper deals with the livelised cost of electricity from gaseous biofuels, such as biogas and bio-syngas, produced from biodegradable waste, using different technologies (internal combustion engines, gas turbine, fuel cells) at different capacities ...
CIUMACENCO, Valentina
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On Auxiliary Chains: Lexical and Functional Auxiliaries at the syntax-semantics interface
The present paper is focused on the study of those relations that auxiliary verbs can establish among themselves when chained in a sequence. Regarding those sequences, which in Spanish can be considerably long, the literature has displayed primarily ...
Ana Bravo +2 more
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Investigating Students' Ability in Identifying English Modals
Modal verbs are also called auxiliary verbs, helping verbs and modal auxiliaries. They are special auxiliary verbs that express the degree /of certainty of the action in the sentence, attitude or opinion of the writer concerning the action.
ميساء رشيد عبد المجيد +1 more
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