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Roddy Frantz of Urban Verbs, circa 1979

open access: yes, 1979
Roddy Frantz, vocalist for Urban Verbs, a new wave band from Washington, D.C., in performance circa 1979. The photograph was taken by Don Hamerman, then a staff photographer for Unicorn Times, a monthly performing arts periodical in Washington, D ...
Hamerman, Don
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Light verbs features in European Portuguese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We present a study of constructions of the type in European Portuguese. We analyse these constructions as complex predicates where both the light verb and the noun share an important role in the predication and we focus on the aspectual combinatory ...
Hendrickx, Iris   +8 more
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Two approaches to the semantic decomposition of change of state verbs, how they differ, and why it matters

open access: yesGlossa
In this paper, I contrast two broad decompositional approaches to verb semantics. One, especially associated with David Dowty, involves translating verbs using a set of precisely interpreted primitive predicates such as CAUSE and BECOME, in order to ...
Louise McNally
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Why swimming is just as difficult as dying for japanese learners of english

open access: yes, 2013
While both Japanese and English have a grammatic al form denoting the progressive, the two forms (te-iru & be+ing) interact differently with the inherent semantics of the verb to which they attach (Kindaichi, 1950; McClure, 1995; Shirai, 2000).
McClure, William   +2 more
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The Diagnosis That Arrived Decades Late: Living Without and Then With Myhre Syndrome

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome (MIM #139210) is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1981, characterized by short stature, neurodevelopmental delay, joint contractures, and cardiopulmonary complications. Its molecular basis, recurrent pathogenic variants in SMAD4, was not discovered until 2011. This narrative is based on a review of medical records,
Abdallah F. Elias
wiley   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Speech Act Verbs

open access: yes
This essay concerns the analysis of speech act verbs. It offers a range of ideas which form theoretical preliminaries to the analysis of this phenomenon.ON SPEECH ACT VERBS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of
Verschueren, Jef.
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The Grammar of 'Taxi ga iru' On the Classification of Verbs of Existence

open access: yes, 2006
Verbs like the 'be' verb in English express existence of both animate beings and inanimate things, and moreover, they function as copulae to join the subject and the predicate of a sentence.
竹端, 暸一, 580, 581, TAKEBA, Ryoiti
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Prepositions and prepositional verbs in classical Arabic [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
The thesis consists of two parts. The first one is connected with the establishment of Preposition as a word class, and with that class of Prepositions whose association with the governing word is accounted for in a transformational generative grammar ...
Fiteih, Mohammad Soliman Ibrahim
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‘Hurry Up and Get Me out of Here’: The Experience of People Under 65 Years (Still) Stuck in Aged Care

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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