Existence verbs in the Yakut language as evidence of linguistic contacts [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2022 The article considers the verbs of being in the Yakut language as evidence of language contacts. The purpose of this article is to present the verbs of being in the Yakut language in the light of a comparative study of the verbs of being in related ...
Sivtseva Nataliya
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Children's verbalizations of motion events in German [PDF]
, 2010 Recent studies in language acquisition have paid much attention to linguistic diversity and have begun to show that language properties may have an impact on how children construct and organize their representations. With respect to motion events, Talmy (
Anne-Katharina Ochsenbauer +4 more
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Basque light verb constructions
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2006 -
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Testing the “division of labor hypothesis” of aphasic verb production using big-data
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 INTRODUCTION Difficulty in retrieving verbs is three times more common than a noun-specific impairment, irrespective of aphasia subtype or lesion location (Matzig et al., 2009).
Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah
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Corpus analysis of the collocations of the transitive verbs owaru and oeru
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2021 The transitivity of Japanese verbs is a topic which had been widely discussed in Japan even before the beginning of the Meiji period. This paper focuses on the transitivity of the verbs owaru 終わる (to end [trans./intrans.]) and oeru 終える (to end [trans.]).
Nastja Pahor
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Semantic and pragmatic motivations for constructional preferences: a corpus-based study of provide, supply, and present [PDF]
, 2011 A select group of transfer verbs can enter into four different constructions: the ditransitive construction (He provided John the money), the prepositional-dative construction (He provided the money to John), a construction with a prepositional theme (He
De Clerck, Bernard +2 more
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La alternancia dar/hacer en construcciones con verbo de apoyo y nombre de comunicación
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2014 En este artículo defendemos que la selección de un verbo de apoyo por parte del nombre que lo acompaña, dentro del contexto de una construcción con verbo de apoyo, se basa en criterios semánticos. En concreto, el objetivo del estudio será el de descubrir
Begoña Sanromán Vilas
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Causation in Classical Chinese During the Warring States Period and in the Han Dynasty
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2021 In this paper, I explore causation in Classical Chinese during the Warring States period and in the Han Dynasty. Whether causation is realised via causative use of words with covert causative verbs, or via overt causative verbs, causation structures can
Aiqing Wang
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Usage Effects on the Cognitive Routinization of Chinese Resultative Verbs [PDF]
, 2012 The present study adopts a corpus-oriented usage-based approach to the grammar of Chinese resultative verbs. Zooming in on a specific class of V-kai constructions, this paper aims to elucidate the effect of frequency in actual usage events on shaping the
Wang Ben Pin-Yun
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Auxiliary Verb Constructions and Decategorialization in Gĩkũyũ
Nordic Journal of African StudiesGĩkũyũ (E.51) exhibits several verbs that can be used both as lexical verbs and as auxiliary verbs. We compare the lexical and auxiliary usages of four verbs and show that all auxiliary verb usages display uniform restrictions concerning valency-related
Jens Fleischhauer +1 more
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