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Topologische Eigenschaften der Funktionsverbgefüge im heutigen Deutsch
Light verb constructions (German Funktionsverbgefüge = FVGs) are complex predicates consisting of a semantically light verb, which has lost its lexical meaning and just has a functional role, and a noun phrase (with or without preposition).
Ireneusz Gaworski
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It Takes Two to Kiss, but Does it Take Three to Give a Kiss? Categorization Based on Thematic Roles [PDF]
Language is characterised by broad and predictable mappings between meaning and syntactic form. Transitive sentences typically encode two-participant events while ditransitives typically encode three-participant events. Light-verb constructions, however,
Snedeker, Jesse, Wittenberg, Eva
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Abstract Dynamin 1 is a GTPase protein involved in synaptic vesicle fission, which facilitates the exocytosis of neurotransmitters necessary for normal signaling. Pathogenic variants in the DNM1 gene are associated with intractable epilepsy, often manifested as infantile spasms at onset, developmental delay, and a movement disorder, and are located in ...
Davide Mei +4 more
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Polysemy of the Verbs “xesen” “to drop” and “kæften” “to fall” in Ilami Kurdish: a Cognitive Semantics Approach [PDF]
This study aims to investigate the polysemy of the Ilami Kurdish verbs “xesen” “to drop” and “kæften” “to fall” in light of cognitive semantics theory. Categorization, image, schema, and metaphor are used to analyze the polysemy of the verbs “xesen” and “
Ameneh Karimi +2 more
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Disambiguating Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Using Automatically Acquired Selectional Preferences [PDF]
Selectional preferences have been used by word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems as one source of disambiguating information. We evaluate WSD using selectional preferences acquired for English adjective—noun, subject, and direct object grammatical ...
Briscoe Ted +3 more
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Copula in Latin: on a Textual Problem in Cicero's Oration in Defence of Publius Sestius [PDF]
A textual problem from Cicero's oration In defence of Publius Sestius is discussed in order to determine syntactic and semantic consequences of editorial choices.
Jakielaszek, Jarosław
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Input effects on the acquisition of a novel phrasal construction in five year olds [PDF]
The present experiments demonstrate that children as young as five years old (M = 5;2) generalize beyond their input on the basis of minimal exposure to a novel argument structure construction.
Boyd, Jeremy K. +3 more
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The paper proposes a formal definition of support verb as (roughly) a semantically empty verb serving as a syntactic “prop” to a predicative noun such that the phrase V(support)(N) + N is synonymous with the verb V0 derived form N: ‘V(support)(N) + N’ = ‘V0(N)’, as in ‘to give an order’ = ‘to order’ or ‘to receive an order’ = ‘to be ordered’.
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Result nominalizations in Romanian light verb constructions [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to analyze the class of Romanian nominalizations which enter light verb constructions with the light verbs a face ‘make, do’ and a avea ‘have’. We show that such nominalizations are not event, but result.
Diana Anițescu
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The aim of the study is to show the possibilities of using corpus analyses for the introduction of light verb constructions in German during foreign language lessons.
Łukasz Piątkowski
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