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On nonprimary selectional restrictions [PDF]

, 2013
This paper argues for non-primary c- and s-selectional restrictions of verbs in computing nonprimary predicatives such as resultatives, depictives, and manners.
Zhang, Niina
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N+V complex predicates in Guinean Kpelle:

Mandenkan
The paper focuses on noun-based complex predicates (NVCPs) in Guinean Kpelle (iso 639-3 [gkp], Southwestern Mande). We explore the degree of nominal boundedness and the bracketing within complex predicates by looking at the phonological, morphological ...
Maria Konoshenko, Maria Uvarova
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Un exemple de prédicats complexes opérant sur des prédicats simples

Lidil, 2008
The aim of this paper is to analyse phenomena drawn from complex sentences in French, Italian and Spanish, in order to demonstrate Z.S. Harris’s thesis concerning the classification of subordinating conjunctions as a class of super-predicates (the Ooo ...
Mireille Piot
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A Cardinality Estimator in Complex Database Systems Based on TreeLSTM

Sensors, 2023
Cardinality estimation is critical for database management systems (DBMSs) to execute query optimization tasks, which can guide the query optimizer in choosing the best execution plan.
Kaiyang Qi, Jiong Yu, Zhenzhen He
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Complex predicates

, 2023
This chapter surveys LFG work on a somewhat diverse collection of constructions often called complex predicate constructions, which can be broadly characterized by saying that the number of superficially apparent predicates is arguably different from that of actual predicates, either because two apparent predicates can be argued to have ...
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Constructing Spanish Complex Predicates [PDF]

, 2007
Abeillé and Godard (2007) describe a variety of Spanish whose complex predicates differ structurally from the more familiar flat VP type of complex predicate common to other varieties of Spanish and Romance.
Elisabeth Norcliffe
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On the Diachrony of Complex Predicates in Dutch: Predicative and Nonpredicative Preverbs [PDF]

Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 2004
It has been hypothesized that separable complex verbs (SCVs, for example, opzoeken ‘look up’) and inseparable complex verbs (ICVs, for example, doorzoeken ‘search’) form part of the same historical development, SCVs representing a stage intermediate to constructions with syntactic resultatives and ICVs.
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Ideophones and verbal constructions with the verb ‘say’ in Amharic

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Amharic (Ethiosemitic) has verbal predicates of two types: (i) verbs derived from a consonantal root and (ii) complex predicates consisting of an invariant coverb followed by an inflecting light verb, most commonly the verb alä ‘say’.
Ronny Meyer
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Complex predicates in Zargulla

, 2014
The paper presents an analysis of complex predicates in Zargulla, a member of the East Ometo branch of Omotic. Complex predicates are constructions in which a single clause is headed by two verbal constituents.
Amha, Azeb
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Konstrukční auxiliária v hovorové arabštině — případ sloves s významem vstoupit [PDF]

Časopis pro Moderní Filologii
The present study offers an analysis of asyndetic multiverbal constructions consisting of the verb meaning enter and a following lexical verb in a range of colloquial Arabic varieties.
Adam Pospíšil
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