The integration of contact by impact verbs into the intransitive motion construction [PDF]
The present investigation will analyze the lexical-constructional integration of contact by impact verbs (transitive by origin) into the intransitive-motion construction.
Aneider Iza
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Existential priming in L2 Chinese: proficiency-selective modulation and locus-specific lexical boost [PDF]
Structural priming offers a window on how L2 speakers retrieve and assemble grammatical knowledge, yet evidence from Mandarin existential templates remains limited. We report two production experiments with L2 learners.
Jinxin Qian, Xiao Cheng, Jiayuan Yu
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Why *John can’t contribute Mary money. Constructional behavior of contribute verbs [PDF]
: this article examines the conceptual structure of the main constructions in which Levin’s (1993) contribute verbs appear, viz. the ditransitive and the dative constructions, which often alternate.
Andreea Rosca +1 more
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How an idea germinates into a projext or the intransitive resultative construction with Entity-Specific change-of-state verbs [PDF]
This study discusses how seven of Levin’s (1993) entity-specific change-of-state verbs (i.e. bloom, blossom, flower, germinate, sprout, swell, and blister) are subsumed into the intransitive resultative construction by highlighting and making use of the ...
Andreea Rosca
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Motivation and constraints of illocution in the Lexical Constructional Model. The case of the Aux NP construction. [PDF]
Author/s Nuria del Campo Martínez Universidad de La Rioja, Spain ABSTRACT This article addresses the motivation and constraints of illocutionary meaning production.
lvalue lvalue
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The process of constructing ontological meaning based on criminal law verbs [PDF]
This study intends to account for the process involved in the construction of the conceptual meaning of verbs (#EVENTS) directly related to legal aspects of terrorism and organized crime based on the evidence provided by the Globalcrimeterm Corpus and ...
Ángel Felices Lago
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This paper offers the basic guidelines of a formalized version of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM; Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal Usón, 2008, 2011; Ruiz de Mendoza & Galera, 2014), the Formalized Lexical-Constructional Grammar (FL_CxG), which will pave ...
Francisco J. Cortés-Rodríguez +1 more
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Reassessing Constructions in the ARTEMIS Parser
The aim of this study is to reexamine the status of constructions in ARTEMIS (Automatically Representing TExt Meaning via an Interlingua-based System), a Natural Language Understanding prototype that seeks to provide the syntactic and semantic structure
Francisco Cortés Rodríguez +1 more
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LEXICAL-SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF SECONDARY ASPECTUAL VERBS IN SERBIAN
The present research is an attempt at systematic and consistent formal analysis of lexical semantics of Serbian secondary aspectual verbs krenuti, uzeti and stati.
Наташа Р. Миливојевић
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Towards a constructional approach to discourse-level phenomena : the case of the Spanish interpersonal epistemic stance construction [PDF]
This study contributes to a better understanding of how constructional models can be applied to discourse-level phenomena, and constitute a valuable complementation to previous grammaticalization accounts of pragmatic markers.
Enghels, Renata
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