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Revisiting -ej(ar) verbs in Catalan: Argument and event structure
Isogloss, 2022 We explore the properties of the Catalan verbalizing suffix -ej(ar), centering on intransitive verbs. After presenting the rich variety of outputs that this suffix allows, we focus on two generalizations.
Víctor Acedo-Matellán +1 more
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Talking about the weather: Two construals of precipitation events in English
Glossa, 2019 Weather expressions such as It is raining have proven challenging for linguistic researchers; not only do weather expressions often have special linguistic properties, but languages show considerable variation in the morphosyntactic expression of such ...
Beth Levin, Bonnie Krejci
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Ku Waru Clause Chaining and the Acquisition of Complex Syntax
Frontiers in Communication, 2020 How do children learn to understand and use complex syntactic constructions? In English, Diessel (2004) shows that they do so in two different ways.
Alan Rumsey +2 more
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Mandarin and English Event Cognitive Alignment From Corpus-Based Semantic Fusion Model Perspective
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The study explores the fusion of semantic roles and the different semantic fusion types, aiming at establishing a semantic fusion model to explain the cognitive alignment of events in Chinese and English simple sentence constructions containing two verbs.
Xiangling Li
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(Non-)homogeneity in Dutch impersonal passives of unaccusatives [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 This paper sheds new light on the behaviour of telic predicates, particularly unaccusatives (opstijgen ‘take off’, vallen ‘fall’), in the Dutch impersonal passive (= ImpersP) construction.
Mara van Schaik-Rădulescu
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Languages, 2022 Many so-called ‘zero tense’-marked (which we define as morphologically reduced and underspecified inflections) or untensed verb forms found in tenseless languages, have been characterized as context dependent for their temporal and aspectual ...
Patrick Caudal, James Bednall
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The 1996-1997 Fading of V651 Mon, the Binary Central Star of the Planetary Nebula NGC 2346 [PDF]
, 2001 V651 Mon is the binary central star of the bipolar planetary nebula NGC 2346. The star showed the second-ever deep fading in 1996-1997, which was presumably caused by obscuration by a dust cloud in the planetary nebula, as was proposed to explain the ...
Baba, Hajime +2 more
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Restrictions on reflexive and anti-causative readings in nominalizations and participles
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2011 This article discusses the absence of reflexive or self-caused readings in certain types of participles and de-verbal nominalizations, like the hanging of the suicidal patient and The suicidal patient was hanged yesterday.
Björn Lundquist
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Polysemie du verbe manger chez les Dagara du Burkina Faso
Studies in African Linguistics, 2007 In Dagara, the most common translation for the verb di is 'eat'. Other translations, however, are: 'spend, take advantage of 'burn, wear out, hurt, be infected,' 'be named x, look like x, be x only by name,' and 'be topmost, reach the target, make good ...
Penou-Achille Some
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Onset Event Decoding Exploiting the Rhythmic Structure of Polyphonic Music [PDF]
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Antonio Pena +4 more
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