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Internal structure of verb meaning: A study of verbs of (change of) state in Tamazight (Berber)

, 2013
The dissertation investigates verbs of (change of) state in Tamazight (Berber) from the perspective of their internal structure and its syntactic corollary, which corresponds to predicate-argument structure. The verbs investigated include verbs of quality, unaccusatives, spatial configuration verbs, and causatives.
Achab, Karim
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Nontelic change of state verbs.

, 2008
In this paper we argue that natural language allows for the possibility of talking about change of state via verbs which are in fact aspectually stative. Our argument is based on an analysis of Spanish reflexive psychological verbs such as agobiarse `be overwhelmed' and asustarse `to become frightened'.
Marin, Rafael
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Interaction of Telicity and Degree Gradation in Change of State Verbs

Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 2013
The paper discusses the degree gradation of verbs in German by the adverb sehr (very, very much). The main focus of the paper is on the gradation of change of state verbs and the interaction of degree gradation and telicity. It is argued that the gradability of telic change of state verbs supports the distinction between a standard and a maximum telos ...
Jens Fleischhauer
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MG verbs of change of state: classification problems and solutions

, 1998
It has been claimed that Modern Greek (MG) predicates are classified in three different categories with respect to their morphology; the first category includes the verbs the may be inflected for active voice only, the second comprises of the predicates that may be inflected for both active and passive voice, and the third category includes the verbs ...
Vassiliadou, Eleni
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Externally and Internally Caused Change of State Verbs

Language, 2000
The lexical semantic structures of change-of-state verbs are explored via linguistic theory, corpus analysis, and psycholinguistic experimentation. The data support the idea that these verbs can be divided into two classes, those for which the change of state is internally caused and those for which it is externally caused (Levin & Rappaport Hovav ...
Gail McKoon, Talke Macfarland
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Change of state verbs and result state adjectives in Mandarin Chinese

Journal of Linguistics, 2013
This paper investigates the derivational relationship between adjectives and verbs in Mandarin Chinese describing related state, change of state (COS) and caused COS meanings. Such paradigms have been observed in various languages to fall into two categories: One in which a word naming a property concept state constitutes the derivational base for the ...
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2. On the Adjectival Component of Change of State Verbs in Spanish

2012
This chapter analyzes the formal and interpretative properties of a construction in colloquial Spanish in which a change of state verb is repeated by an adjective in the presence of the degree modifier bien. It fills an empirical void in the literature by offering a detailed description of VARI constructions in Spanish.
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Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs

2002
Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs.
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The conceptualization of change of state in verbs coming from gentilicios

2015
This paper has as its aim to examine the way in which the meaning of the derivative base (regardless of its denominal or deadjectival nature, although it will be demonstrated here that it rather follows an adjectival behavior) influences the semantics of verbs coming from gentilicios (africanizar/se, gauchear, etc.) and, consequently, to identify the ...
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The Causative/Inchoative Alternation of Modern Greek Verbs of Change of State

1997
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