Agentivity and non-culminating causation in the psych domain: Cross-linguistic evidence from Spanish and Korean [PDF]
Glossa, 2020 Among the sources of non-culminating readings, we find the agentive properties of the external argument. According to the Agent Control Hypothesis (ACH), the agenthood of the subject licenses a non-culminating interpretation with causative accomplishment
Elisabeth Verhoeven +2 more
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St’át’imcets frustratives as not-at-issue modals [PDF]
Linguistics, 2022 This paper provides an analysis of the ‘frustrative’ marker séna7 in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish), and compares it to similar elements cross-linguistically.
Davis Henry, Matthewson Lisa
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Processing non-culminating accomplishments in European Portuguese
IsoglossThis paper investigates the processing and interpretation of non-culmination sentences and subjects’ agentivity in European Portuguese. A five-point Likert scale is employed to test the native speaker’s judgment regarding the acceptability of five types
Zichen Zhang +2 more
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A star is drawn: Testing the culmination inferences of Russian perfective accomplishments
Glossa, 2023 It is a widely established view in the event-semantics literature that perfective (PFV) accomplishments denote culmination. It has also been increasingly recognized over the past decades that non- culminating interpretations of PFV accomplishments are ...
Aviya Hacohen, Natasha Kasher
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On Actuality Entailments, Causation, and Telicity in Balkar
Languages, 2023 This paper presents a study of actuality entailments in Balkar (a dialect of Karachay-Balkar, Turkic). The study focuses on the deontic and causal meanings of four morphemes: two suffixes (the causative suffix and the suffix -al (‘can/may’)) and two ...
Dmitry Privoznov
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Non-culminating Accomplishments: Subject, Speaker and Syntactic Structure
, 2021 This study aims to establish a relationship between the morphosyntax, the lexicon and conceptual patterns involved in the phenomenon of (non-)culmination. It is proposed that in the case of non-culminating accomplishments, the interaction between the syntax and the lexicon triggers a specific conceptual configuration which represents a goal-directed ...
Vogeleer, Svetlana, Guéron, Jacqueline
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Frustration, culmination, and inertia in Kimaragang grammar
Glossa, 2017 The FRUSTRATIVE particle in Kimaragang marks unrealized expectations or intentions, counterfactuals, etc. Copley & Harley (2010) propose a unified account for frustratives, non-culminating accomplishments (‘I killed the snake but it didn’t die’) and ...
Paul Kroeger
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Event Structure and Non-Culminating Readings in Turkic
LanguagesSince the seminal work by David Dowty, much inspired by the earlier ideas of Generative Semantics, a number of proposals have been developed accounting for the internal constitution and interpretation of accomplishment event predicates like ‘open the ...
Sergei Tatevosov
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Processing non-culminating accomplishments across languages
We investigated the processing and interpretation of aspectual coercion in the case of non-culminating accomplishments in English and German. Two offline experiments employing an inference rating task showed that non-culminating accomplishments in both languages actually involve a shift in interpretation. Four self-paced reading experiments furthermore
Bott, Oliver +2 more
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The Learning Collaboratory: developing and evaluating public health students' skills while promoting community health. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2023 Horigian VE +4 more
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