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Constructing Spanish complex predicates
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. I present a verb cluster analysis of this variety which both captures these structural differences, and at the same time preserves those features
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Hindi aspectual complex predicates
This paper discusses ergative case assignment in Hindi and its interaction with aspectual verb complexes or complex predicate constructions. It is shown that ergative case is assigned by the last head in the aspectual verb complex and that ergative case on the subject of intransitive verbs denoting bodily-functions is associated with a counter-to ...
Shakthi Poornima, Jean-Pierre Koenig
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Ühendverbidest läbi prosoodia prisma
"Particle verbs and prosody" This paper investigates a class of verb-particle combinations in Estonian and their status as particle verbs vs. syntactic phrases.
Ann Veismann, Heete Sahkai
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Complex Verbal Predicates and Word Order in the Croatian Kajkavian Literary Language
Eulogies have a long tradition in Latin texts printed in the Western European circle, in which they usually appear as Sermo funebris. Kajkavian eulogies usually have the titles mertvečko prodečtvo (prodičtvo), prodeka sprevodna, spomenek and žalosno ...
Ivana Klinčić, Vladimira Rezo
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In this paper we revisit the hypothesis according to which Brazilian Portuguese is formed by two trends – the cultured norm and the vernacular or popular norm – with focus on the problem of the position and placement of pronominal clitics in complex ...
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Checking Mechanism in Modern Persian: A Minimalist Analysis of Case and Theta Marking [PDF]
This study reviews and analyzes checking system in modern Persian according to Case and Theta features in Minimalist approach. In this study which is done by analytical-descriptive methods, the way structural cases such as Nominative, Accusative, Dative,
Arsalan Golfam, Maryam Najimi
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Measure instrumental in russian [PDF]
We will argue that some seemingly adverbial free DPs in the instrumental in Russian which are traditionally termed measure instrumental are best understood as secondary predicates.
Demjjanow, Assinja, Strigin, Anatoli
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Languages vary in their availability of productive endocentric bare-stem compounds (e.g., flower hat) and a range of complex predicates (separable verb-particles, double object datives, adjectival resultatives, put-locatives, make-causatives, and ...
Ting Xu, Shuyan Wang
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The verbal expression of events of change in Bulgarian
The paper explores the verbal expression of events of change in Bulgarian, a Slavic language with a uniquely complex verbal system involving triplets of imperfective, perfective and secondary imperfective verbs and aspectual tenses like Aorist and ...
Elena Karagjosova
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Norm Based Causal Reasoning in Textual Corpus
Truth based entailments are not sufficient for a good comprehension of NL. In fact, it can not deduce implicit information necessary to understand a text. On the other hand, norm based entailments are able to reach this goal.
Nouioua, Farid
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