Temporal specification and subject reference in Romanian subjunctive complements
The paper looks at the dependency of Romanian subjunctive complements on the semantic class of the matrix verb. It shows that different types of temporal dependency trigger different identity relations between the null embedded subject and the (subject ...
Maria Aurelia Cotfas
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Speaking About and Through Video Games: Towards Verbalizing a New Grammar
The most iconic character in the history of video games, Mario, is famous for his jump. Before knowing the scenario of Super Mario games, their objectives or even their peculiar lore, most players identify Mario with his ability to jump.
Alexandre Dubois
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Part-of-speech sensitive suprasegmentals in Portuguese-related Creoles
In most Portuguese-related Creoles (PRCs) nouns and verbs are systematically distinguished by contrasting prosodic patterns, which are therefore part-of-speech (POS) sensitive.
Alain Kihm
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Not all grammar errors are equally noticed: error detection of naturally occurring errors and implications for eye-tracking models of everyday texts. [PDF]
Søby KF, Ishkhanyan B, Kristensen LB.
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Simulating the referential properties of Dutch, German and English Root Infinitives in MOSAIC [PDF]
Children learning many languages go through an Optional Infinitive stage in which they produce non-finite verb forms in contexts in which a finite verb form is required (e.g. ‘That go there’ instead of ‘That goes there’).
Pine, JM, Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F
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K původu a fungování staročeského supina
The paper deals with the difference between supine and infinitive stems in Old Czech, with an explanation of the difference according to the original accentual pattern.
Roman Sukač +2 more
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The Infinitive Built Prepositionally [PDF]
This paper aims at analyzing the role of the preposition when it is used together with non-finite forms of the verb. We will examine the following aspects: the mixed features of the infinitive (substantival and verbal), the types of prepositions which ...
Cristina Corla (Hanţ)
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Les Participes, l’Infinitif et le Gérondif, entre scalarité et rattachement [+ / - local] [PDF]
Non-finite verbs, also frequently called unmarked verbs, constitute a large field for variationist studies in linguistics, for typology and furthermore for Usage-Based Grammars.
Frédéric Torterat
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Begin and start: aspect and complement choice
The paper offers a semantic analysis of begin and start and their non-finite complementation: the to-infinitive and –ing constructions. The core idea of the paper is that the aspectual constructions ‘begin+ to infinitive’, ‘begin + ing’, ‘start+ to ...
Tünde Nagy
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Light-weights placed right: post-field constituents in heritage German. [PDF]
Tsehaye W.
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