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Structure and Grammaticalization of Serial Verb Constructions in Sign Language of the Netherlands—A Corpus-Based Study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
In serial verb constructions (SVCs), multiple independent lexical verbs are combined in a mono-clausal construction. SVCs express a range of grammatical meanings and are attested in numerous spoken languages all around the world.
Sascha Couvee, Roland Pfau
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Towards an Empirical Understanding of membawa ‘bring’: Corpus Insights into Indonesian Light Verb Constructions

Arbitrer
This study analyzes the usage of the verb membawa (lit. bring) in Indonesian light verb constructions (LVCs). LVCs are ubiquitous in many agglutinative languages, including Indonesian.
Danang Satria Nugraha, Veronika Vincze
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Analytic Causative Constructions in English

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2006
The article examines English analytical causative constructions in the light of cognitive semantics and functional linguistics which makes it possible to identify six syntactic patterns.
Yelena Mkhitaryan, Sophie Sarkissyan
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The case of unaccusative mismatch in English [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2016
The paper examines the unaccusative-unergative dichotomy of predicates, with a special focus laid on the class status of the verb TO DIE in English. The paper begins with a view of unaccusativity in the light of the Lexicon-Syntax Interface. Further, the
Anna Dąbrowska
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Directions from the GET-GO. On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010
Directional resultatives show puzzling syntactic restrictions. In Romance, broadly speaking, they do not occur at all with manner-of-motion verbs. In Dutch, directional resultatives with mannerof- motion verbs usually force postpositional order in the ...
Marcel den Dikken
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The acquisitive -pata in Swahili

Studies in African Languages and Cultures
This study examines the usage of the Swahili verb -pata ‘get’ as an auxiliary, shedding light on its multifaceted roles. The examination of its structural variation and functional extensions is based on data from different Swahili varieties.
Rasmus Bernander
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Variation and Change in the Grammatical Marking of Stance: The Case of That-Complement Clauses in Research Articles

ELOPE, 2015
Variation in the genre of research articles has been extensively studied across different disciplines and languages; however, diachronic change and intradisciplinary variation in this academic genre have received less attention. Therefore this paper aims
Šarolta Godnič Vičič
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The Lexical Representation of Light Verb Constructions

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1995
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
Martin Everaert, Bart Hollebrandse
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Processing ergativity in compound light verb constructions: electrophysiological evidence from Hindi

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
IntroductionErgativity marks subject arguments as agents of a transitive event and thereby signals verbal transitivity and influences language comprehension.MethodWe report here on an event-related brain potentials (ERP) study in Hindi, in which we ...
Anna Merin Mathew, R. Muralikrishnan, Mahima Gulati, Shikha Bhattamishra, Kamal Kumar Choudhary   +4 more
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To be or not to be an auxiliary verb. The case of Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019
This paper studies two Spanish constructions with the verb poner (‘to put’) and an infinitive. The first one, , has  traditionally been considered an inchoative periphrasis; however, we will show that its grammaticalisation is only complete with ...
Margot Vivanco
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