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Grammatical aspect and mental simulation
Brain and Language, 2010When processing sentences about perceptible scenes and performable actions, language understanders activate perceptual and motor systems to perform mental simulations of those events. But little is known about exactly what linguistic elements activate modality-specific systems during language processing. While it is known that content words, like nouns
Benjamin K. Bergen
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GRAMMATICAL ASPECTS OF TRANSLATION
International Journal Of Literature And Languages, 2023The article is devoted to a detailed examination of the grammatical aspects of translation from English into Uzbek. The problem of definition of translation is considered in the light of domestic and foreign studies, types of translation, their functional load.
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The Linguistic Review, 1999
This paper proposes a theory of grammatical aspect based on the Davidsonian event-place e. Eventive sentences are shown to include e, while stative sentences lack e. Parsons' (1990) arguments for an analogous element in stative sentences are shown to be incorrect.
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This paper proposes a theory of grammatical aspect based on the Davidsonian event-place e. Eventive sentences are shown to include e, while stative sentences lack e. Parsons' (1990) arguments for an analogous element in stative sentences are shown to be incorrect.
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Grammatical uniformity of tense and aspect
Narrative Inquiry, 2020AbstractThis paper explores the pragmatic effects of Tense Shift in an Urdu narrative. A linguistic analysis of the semantic and pragmatic effects of Tense Shift is proposed. A key claim of this analysis is that the mechanisms of Tense Shift exist in sentence-level grammar in Urdu. The analysis seeks to provide an explanation for some of the properties
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Problematic aspects of grammatical homonyms
ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2021AbstractThe concepts grammatical homonyms which are interpreted in linguistic as quite difficult and specific have been investigated in this paper. The existing scientific opinions about these problems have been shown. In the process of communication homonyms sometimes lead to confusion and misunderstanding. Grammatical homonyms are one of the types of
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Aspect in Grammatical Variation
2010The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation. Issues addressed include: defining the variable context; operationalizing aspectual distinctions as factors conditioning linguistic variation; and the appropriate number of aspectual distinctions and levels.
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On Grammatical Terminology and Aspect in Particular
Greece and Rome, 1962It is over fifty years now since the formation of the Joint Committee on Grammatical Terminology, and the presentation of its Report and it seems to be high time that teachers of languages considered, first, how successful they have been in carrying out its recommendations, and secondly, what modifications are called for in the light of more recent ...
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Interaction of lexical and grammatical aspect in toddlers' language
Journal of Child Language, 2006This study examined the effect of lexical aspect on children's imitation accuracy of English tense-aspect morphology. Thirty-five typically developing children, ages 2;4 to 3;1, imitated sentence-pairs in which the same regular verb was used once in an activity (skip on the rug) and once in an accomplishment (skip out the door).
Bonnie W, Johnson, Marc E, Fey
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THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT. Ping Li and Yasuhiro Shirai. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. Pp. v + 261. $106.00 cloth. This book covers everything related to aspect in the field of language acquisition; I was amazed by how the authors managed to do this in such a clear manner in only 261 pages.
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Grammatical and situational aspect in French: a developmental study
Journal of Child Language, 2002We study the ability of children to provide an appropriate continuation for a stimulus sentence, taking into account the joint demands of situational aspect and grammatical aspect. We hypothesize that the aspectual transitions required by some aspectual combinations play a role in the difficulty of providing an appropriate continuation for them.
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