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Embedded aspect in L2 acquisition: Evidence from L1 Russian learners of Greek [PDF]
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 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 ...
Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Sviatlana Karpava
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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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¿Es aspectual o temporal el carácter de la oposición imperfectivo /perfectivo?
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2007 In this article, we present a short historical summary of the following terms: the aspect and the imperfective /perfective opposition to answer the question if the imperfective /perfective opposition has an aspectual or temporal character. We distinguish
Aneta Pawlak
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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 ...
Clahsen +17 more
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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2009 This paper develops and extends a unified account of two different guises of participial affixes in Basque suggested in Haddican (2007). The affixes -tu/-i/-n/-Ø are traditionally described as "participial" affixes or perfective markers in view of the
Bill Haddican
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Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 2023 Background: This study investigates the morphological acquisition of agreement inflections of the imperfective and perfective verbs in typically developing Egyptian Arabic-speaking children between 3;0 and 6;0.
Ranya Morsi
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On Perfective –le in Mandarin Chinese: Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2018 Although Mandarin Chinese perfective -le has been extensively studied in the literature, views on its linguistic properties nevertheless remain controversial.
I-hao WOO
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Tense-aspect conditioned agent marking in Kanakanavu, an Austronesian language of Taiwan
Open Linguistics, 2023 This article examines two types of lexical effects in the voice system of Kanakanavu, an Austronesian language of Taiwan. The first concerns a well-attested phenomenon in the Austronesian literature: interactions between the semantic transitivity of ...
Cheng Yi-Yang
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Superlexical versus lexical prefixes
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2005 This paper is intended to justify the classification of all the Rus- sian prefixes into lexical and superlexical. It gives semantic and syntactic criteria for distinguishing between the two groups, includ- ing: the idiosyncratic or spatial lexical ...
Eugenia Romanova
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Aspect and Modality in Indonesian the Case of Sudah, Telah, Pernah, and Sempat [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, I describe four Indonesian aspect markers, sudah, telah, pernah, and sempat, showing that the main opposition between them relies not only on their aspectual meanings, but also on the various modalities they express. The opposition between
Grangé, P. (Philippe)
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