Processing ergativity in compound light verb constructions: electrophysiological evidence from Hindi
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 +4 more
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Verbs of emotion with se in Slovene: between middle and reflexive semantics. A cognitive analysis
Verbs of emotion with se in Slovene: between middle and reflexive semantics. A cognitive analysis This article presents a cognitive analysis of Slovene emotion verbs with the personal pronoun se ‘self’, e.g., bati se ‘to be scared’.
Agnieszka Będkowska-Kopczyk
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Qiang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by 70,000-80,000 people in Northern Sichuan Province, China, classified as being in the Qiang or Tibetan nationality by the Chinese government.
Huang, Chenglong, LaPolla, Randy J.
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Museums as disseminators of niche knowledge: Universality in accessibility for all [PDF]
Accessibility has faced several challenges within audiovisual translation Studies and gained great opportunities for its establishment as a methodologically and theoretically well-founded discipline. Initially conceived as a set of services and practices
Rizzo A
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The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
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Reporting Verbs in Academic Writing: A Case Study of MPhil Theses at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana [PDF]
This study analyzes the types of reporting verbs employed in the literature review chapters of Master of Philosophy theses from the Agriculture, English and Mathematics departments at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.
Collins Junior Owusu, Obed Nii Broohm
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The knowing ear : an Australian test of universal claims about the semantic structure of sensory verbs and their extension into the domain of cognition [PDF]
In this paper we test previous claims concerning the universality of patterns of polysemy and semantic change in perception verbs. Implicit in such claims are two elements: firstly, that the sharing of two related senses A and B by a given form is cross ...
Evans, Nicholas, Wilkins, David
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Swallowing and Communication in Cockayne Syndrome: Clinical Characteristics and Management
ABSTRACT Cockayne syndrome (CS) is an ultrarare genetic disorder associated with genes encoding proteins involved in DNA repair. The clinical course of CS involves neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative features, including swallowing and communication impairments.
Abigail M. Spoden +2 more
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This study examines the role of light verbs in Punjabi, with a particular focus on their syntactic positioning and aspectual contribution. While the canonical position of the light verb is generally recognized as V2, evidence shows that in certain contexts it may also appear in the V1 position.
null Saima Jamshaid +1 more
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ABSTRACT People with Phelan–McDermid syndrome (PMS) have reduced speech and language abilities, yet little research has profiled the communication abilities in this population. The purpose of this study was threefold: identifying the language and communication profiles of school‐aged children with PMS, identifying genetic contributions to language and ...
Sarah Quadri‐Valverde +12 more
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