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Les verbes de parole et la question de l’(in)transitivité
Discours, 2017 The focus of the paper is the relationship between the syntax and the semantics of speech verbs. We hypothesize that speech verbs are naturally transitive because they refer to an activity which normally entails an object, viz. the produced speech.
Béatrice Lamiroy, Michel Charolles
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The Distribution and Function of Virtual Reflexive Constructions in English
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2022 This paper sheds new light on the distributional and functional properties of virtual reflexive constructions (VRCs) in English (e.g., This problem solves ITSELF).
Masaki Yasuhara
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, 2013 For Japanese learners, transitive verbs and intransitive verbs are learning difficulties. They often make a lot of mistakes, even if they have reached the upper intermediate level.
346, 丁, 玲玲
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Ergative diagnostics: temptatio redux
Linguistik Online, 2003 In the past 20 years, a new class of verbs has seen the light of existence: 'unaccusative' or 'ergative' verbs. These verbs are intransitive, but different from the traditional notion of intransitive to the extent that their subject valency behaves like ...
Werner Abraham
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The Prefix Ta-: From Kambera to Indonesian
Journal of Language and Literature, 2023 This research explores the borrowing of prefix ta- from bahasa Kambera (BK) to bahasa Indonesia (BI). This study is exceptional since the borrowing is from the non-dominant (as donor) language to the dominant language (as recipient) which has never ...
Raynesta Mikaela Indri Malo
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Estonian Middle Semantics with Evidence from Discourse
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 This paper presents arguments for recognizing a middle voice in Estonian. The claim that the semantics of middle-marked verbs differs in a substantial way from the semantics of other intransitive constructions leads to the examination of the discourse ...
Virve-Anneli Vihman
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Ditransitive Constructions in Zaza Language
Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 2021 Languages group verbs in different ways. Because of the ergative feature of Zazaki, it plays a big role whether the verbs are transitive or intransitive.
İlyas Arslan
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A study of corresponding transitive and intransitive verbs in Japanese [PDF]
, 2017 The Japanese verb system is characterised by a large number of corresponding transitive and intransitive verbs. Corresponding transitive and intransitive verbs share the same roots and usually transitivising or intransitivising affixes are ...
Murata, Yasumi
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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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Grammar Searches for Wh‐Questions in Beginning‐Level Child Second Language Learners
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is important for learners to be able to ask wh‐questions in interaction. However, making wh‐questions can be difficult for beginning‐level EFL leaners, particularly for those learners whose L1 and L2 differ in the way wh‐questions are formed.
Haerim Hwang
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