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The perfective past tense in Greek child language [PDF]
, 2009 This study examines the perfective past tense of Greek in an elicited production and an acceptability judgment task testing 35 adult native speakers and 154 children in six age groups (age range: 3 ; 5 to 8 ; 5) on both existing and novel verb stimuli ...
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Embedded Aspect in L2 Acquisition: Evidence from L1 Russian Learners of Greek. [PDF]
, 2013 This work investigates first language (L1) influence on the second language (L2) acquisition of aspect, comparing participants with homogeneous L1 background (Russian) in Mainland Greece (L2 Standard Modern Greek) and Cyprus (L2 Cypriot Greek), where ...
Grohmann, Kleanthes, Karpava, Sviatlana
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Social Facts Explained and Presupposed [PDF]
, 2006 Attempts are often made to explain collective action in terms of the interaction of individuals. A common objection to such attempts is that they are circular: Since every interaction presupposes the existence of common practices and common practices ...
Hennig, Boris
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The Perfective Past Tense in Greek Adolescents with Down Syndrome [PDF]
, 2009 This study investigates the ability of a group of eight Greek-speaking adolescents with Down Syndrome (DS) (aged 12.1-18.7) to handle the perfective past tense using an acceptability judgement task.
Clahsen, Harald, Stathopoulou, Nikolitsa
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The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter argues that despite formal resemblances, Latin perfect tense BE-periphrases of the type amatus sum ‘I was loved’ are not the historical source of Romance present tense passives like Italian sono amato and French je suis aimé (both meaning ‘I
Danckaert, Lieven
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On the early development of aspect in greek and russian child language, a comparative analysis [PDF]
, 2013 The category of aspect is grammaticized in both Greek and Russian opposing perfective and imperfective verb forms in all inflectional categories except the nonpast (‘present’).
Stephany, Ursula, Voeikova, Maria
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The Hausa perfective tense-aspect used in wh-/focus constructions and historical narratives: a unified account [PDF]
, 2006 In this paper I revisit and elaborate some of the ideas I outlined in the earlier paper, concentrating on the semantic characteristics of the paired Perfective tense-aspects in a major (universal) discourse context—spontaneously-produced past-time ...
Jaggar, Philip J.
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The acquisition of spanish perfective aspect : A study on children's production and comprehension [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents the acquisition of Spanish perfective aspect in production and comprehension. It argues that, although young children use perfective aspect to talk about completed events, young children have difficulty in assessing perfective meaning
Hodgson, Miren
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, 2017 Automatic testing is a widely adopted technique for improving software quality. Software developers add, remove and update test methods and test classes as part of the software development process as well as during the evolution phase, following the ...
Levin, Stanislav, Yehudai, Amiram
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Extended ergativity in Bumthang [PDF]
, 2019 This paper addresses ergativity in Bumthang. In 2016, Donohue & Donohue reported on the variable use of the ergative case marker in Bumthang transitive clauses.
Donohue, Cathryn, Donohue, Mark
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