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Verbs' unaccusativity in existential constructions

Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development
The Unaccusative Hypothesis(UH) advocates the dominance of syntactic structure in assigning semantic values to sentence arguments. The same thematic roles should only be assigned by the same syntactic configuration.
Zhangyan Miao
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Existential structures as specialised constructions

ELAD-SILDA
This constructionist paper deals with the specialised manifestations that constructions can exhibit and considers two questions: (i) how such specialised manifestations can be linked back to the cognitive architecture of the domain, (ii) whether
Vince Liégeois, Laurent Gautier
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Gendered Existence? Existential-There Construction in English-Polish Translation

East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2021
This paper analyses a possible effect of the variable of gender on semantic enrichment of existential sentences translated from English to Polish. Existential-there clauses in English typically take the form there + be + indefinite NP (+place/time ...
Andrzej Łyda
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A semantic typology of location, existence, possession and copular verbs: areal patterns of polysemy in Mainland East and Southeast Asia

Linguistics, 2022
This study is based on a sample of 116 languages from the Mainland East and Southeast Asian linguistic area. Its first objective is to examine four distinct synchronic patterns of areal polysemy, created by the semantic domains of copular, locative ...
Chappell Hilary, Lü Shanshan
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A relative clause analysis of event existential constructions in Aklanon

Glossa, 2022
This study is the first to document and analyze the ‘event existential construction’ (EEC) in Aklanon (AKL), an understudied Central Philippine language.
Zachary Wellstood
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The semantic map of when and its typological parallels

Frontiers in Communication, 2023
In this paper, we explore the semantic map of the English temporal connective when and its parallels in more than 1,000 languages drawn from a parallel corpus of New Testament translations.
Dag Haug, Nilo Pedrazzini, Nilo Pedrazzini   +2 more
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The Interaction between ‘Present Perfect’ Interpretation and Simple Verbs’ Event Type in Persian [PDF]

نشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2020
The present perfect construction (called ‘quotative past tense’ in Persian grammars) receives different interpretations under the influence of such factors as the verb’s lexical meaning, arguments, adverbs, and other contextual linguistic and situational
Roohollah Mofidi, Zeynab Rabbany
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EXISTENTIALS, LOCATIVES AND INVERSE LOCATIVES IN ŠTIVORIAN

Filolog
The present study investigates syntactic and interpretive properties of existential, locative and inverse locative constructions in Štivorian, a northern ItaloRomance variety spoken in north-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Alberto Frason
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The syntax of existential constructions

Journal of Speech Sciences, 2022
This study, in two parts, endeavors a novel analysis of existential constructions, based on a different theoretical setting of clause structure, where the predicate is taken as a necessary and sufficient constituent of the clause. Leaning on this perception, the analyses of existential constructions developed here tries to overcome the discrepancy ...
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Existential and Possessive Constructions in English and German

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2010
The article examines the semantic and syntactic characteristics of existential (es gibt / there is) and possessive (have / haben) constructions of English and German.
Siranush Khandanyan
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