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Valency patterns of manner of speaking verbs in Croatian
Open Linguistics, 2023 Manner of speaking verbs denote the transfer of a message through speech, emphasizing the volume, intensity, comprehensibility, psychophysical condition of the speaker, and/or the impression that the speaker leaves on the hearer.
Brač Ivana, Birtić Matea
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Directions from the GET-GO. On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions [PDF]
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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Are Manner of Speaking Verbs Truly Manner?
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2020 Manner of speaking verbs (MoS) are said to induce strong island effects, in contrast with verbs of communication, which allow extraction. The main studies which tried to account for this distinction focused either on the existence of a manner component, of an added layer of meaning, or on that of a nominal element, corresponding to the resulting ...
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Alternation in three-place predicates and its relation to Aktionsart in Persian [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2023 In Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), based on stativity, telicity, and punctuality, verbs are classified into six classes named state, activity, achievement, accomplishment, semelfactive, and active-accomplishment.
Vali Rezaei, Zhaleh Makaremi
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“Buoyantly, nippily, testily” – Remarks on translating manner adverbs into Romanian
Open Linguistics, 2022 Adverbs are a very heterogeneous class that raise a lot of problems not only for their syntactic and semantic interpretation but also for their translation.
Protopopescu Daria
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“‘Peewit,’ said a peewit, very remote.” – Notes on quotatives in literary translation
Open Linguistics, 2022 The present article focuses on strategies of translating fiction quotatives from English into Romanian. Starting from the definition of quotatives as structures that in their simplest form consist of a subject and a quoting verb and accompany a quotation,
Vișan Nadina
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Irina Stoica, The Syntax and the Semantics of Manner of Speaking Verbs, Editura Universității din București, 2021, 217 p. [PDF]
Studii de LingvisticaMaria Aurelia Cotfas
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Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2016 Despite having always being a central subject-matter in linguistics due to their controversial syntactico-semantic and pragmatic status, the pragmatic dimension of English cognate object constructions of the type He died a gruesome death and She smiled ...
Beatriz Rodríguez Arrizabalaga
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English Franca: Academic Journal of English Language and Education, 2019 Discourse representation deals with language structures which has crucial role not only for the text, but also for social practices. Newspaper is one of the real implementations of discourse representation because newspaper comprises several components ...
Syafryadin
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A Comparison of English and Mandarin-Speaking Preschool Children’s Imitation of Motion Events
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Typically in English, a “satellite-framed” language, manner is expressed in the verb and path is expressed in supporting words. Past studies using looking time techniques suggest that English-speaking 3-year-olds show language-specific action processing,
Zhidan Wang, Haijing Wang
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