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Interaction of State Verbs and Grammatical Aspect Types in Persian: A Functional Approach [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2020 State verbs, with the characteristic of non-dynamicity, denote no action and usually describe internal feelings, possession and place. They lack internal structure, stages and end point.
Zhaleh Makaremi +2 more
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Spanish Verbs of Becoming and Cluster Concepts
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023 The behavior of Spanish verbs of becoming (e.g., volverse rico ‘to become rich’), also known as pseudocopular or semicopular verbs, has received relatively little attention in the literature.
Carlos Benavides
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ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)This study analyzes a so far neglected part of the constructional behavior of Levin’s (1993) entity-specific change-of-state verbs. More specifically, we discuss the integration of verbs from this lexical class into the intransitive-resultative ...
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez +1 more
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Glossa, 2022 I present clear evidence from Karimata-Miyako Ryukyuan that semantic change can precede a syntactic change in the process of grammaticalization. In this dialect, the morpheme ufu has an aspectual and a conjectural use, and the change proceeds from the ...
Tomohide Kinuhata
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The expression of change-of-state in the Finnic languages
Open Linguistics, 2020 The present article studies verbs that are used to convey change-of-state in the Finnic languages: “to come”, “to go”, “to remain/stay”, “to get”, “will be”, “to make/do”, and “to be born/give birth”.
Norvik Miina
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Putting order into literal and figurative uses of verbs: "Romper" as a case study
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2012 This paper argues in favor of the hypothesis that the so-called figurative and literal meanings of verbs share a common core meaning that constitutes the semantic base of verbs across contexts.
Alexandra Spalek
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Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs
, 2017 In this paper we consider the nature of ‘result verbs’, typically defined as verbs describing scalar changes, which have played a significant role in literature on verb typologies, event structures, and theories of (im)possible word meanings.
Beavers, John, Koontz-Garboden, Andrew
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On (apparently) synonymous affixes: A contrastive analysis of Catalan “des-” and “es-”
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022 It is commonly assumed that the Catalan prefixes des- and es- are synonymous, since they can be found attached to the same base in change of state verbs with an apparently identical meaning; cf. desgranar and esgranar ‘to extract the grain’.
Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo
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Syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthesis: towards a split little-v via affectedness
Isogloss, 2016 In this paper, I claim that the syntactic structure of Spanish parasynthetic verbs a-…-ar (e.g. a-bland-ar ‘to soften’) and en-…-ar (en-dulz-ar ‘to sweeten’) provides (further) evidence for a decomposed vP structure.
Gabriel Antonio Martínez Vera
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Entailments of change in the roots of change-of-state verbs [PDF]
, 2020 Abstract Chapter 2 examines the semantic and morphological predictions of Bifurcation, focusing on the roots of change-of-state verbs and their stative correlates. Using evidence from entailment, morphology, and sublexical modification it shows that English verbal roots fall into two classes.
John Beavers, Andrew Koontz-Garboden
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