Dependency Resolution Difficulty Increases with Distance in Persian Separable Complex Predicates: Evidence for Expectation and Memory-Based Accounts. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2016 Delaying the appearance of a verb in a noun-verb dependency tends to increase processing difficulty at the verb; one explanation for this locality effect is decay and/or interference of the noun in working memory. Surprisal, an expectation-based account,
Safavi MS, Husain S, Vasishth S.
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Complex predicates: an LFG+glue analysis
Journal of Language Modelling, 2016 In this paper I discuss weaknesses in the traditional LFG account of complex predicates and in the XLE implementation of the same. I argue that the concept of predicate composition in general, and the mechanisms required to achieve it, are problematic ...
John J. Lowe
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Basic Features of Complex Predicates in Behdinani of Yazd [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2022 Referring to novel concepts for which there are no simple equivalents, speakers of languages often resort to predicates with two or more components. This phenomenon is so widely used in some languages that in Persian, for instance, new simple predicates ...
Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam +2 more
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Analyzing Complex Predicates in Karo Language using Syntactic Parsing
International Journal of Linguistics Studies, 2021 This study characterized the complex predicate and multiple events where the multi-verb single clause realises a single event in syntax and examined the complex sentences containing multiple verbal predicates.
K. Tarigan, Margaret Stevani
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Characterization and Derivation of Heard-Of Predicates for Asynchronous Message-Passing Models [PDF]
Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2021 In distributed computing, multiple processes interact to solve a problem together. The main model of interaction is the message-passing model, where processes communicate by exchanging messages.
Adam Shimi +2 more
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The Interlanguage of Persian Learners of Italian: a Focus on Complex Predicates [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2011 This paper aims at investigating the acquisition of Italian complex predicates by native speakers of Persian. Complex predication is not as pervasive a phenomenon in Italian as it is in Persian.
Francesca Frontini +1 more
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Deletion in sentences with complex predicates in Persian: a phase-based approach [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2023 There is neither a general agreement among linguists nor any comprehensive works on how the process of deletion works in sentences with complex predicates in Persian.
Razieh Mahdi Beyraghdar +3 more
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Isogloss, 2023 This article offers an analysis of Moldovan complex predicates, focusing on the differences between structures with aspectuals and modals. It is shown that, under the influence of Russian, a minor pattern found in old Moldovan, whereby aspectuals and ...
Ștefania Costea
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On the Expressiveness of Languages for Complex Event Recognition [PDF]
, 2020 Complex Event Recognition (CER for short) has recently gained attention as a mechanism for detecting patterns in streams of continuously arriving event data.
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On the Integration of Dative Adjuncts into Event Structures in Yapa Languages
Languages, 2021 Warlpiri and Warlmanpa (Ngumpin-Yapa languages of Australia) exhibit a complex predicate construction in which a class of preverbs introduces a single argument that is not shared by the argument structure of the inflecting verb, nor is there necessarily ...
Mitchell Browne
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