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Aspectual Processing Shifts Visual Event Apprehension
Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 6, June 2024.Abstract What is the relationship between language and event cognition? Past work has suggested that linguistic/aspectual distinctions encoding the internal temporal profile of events map onto nonlinguistic event representations. Here, we use a novel visual detection task to directly test the hypothesis that processing telic versus atelic sentences (e ...
Uğurcan Vurgun, Yue Ji, Anna Papafragou
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Noncanonical Obligatory Control
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract Intensive research on Obligatory Control (OC) in the past 2 decades has revealed a rich crosslinguistic terrain of deviations from the classical format. Five types of noncanonical OC are surveyed here: Finite control, controlled overt pronouns, partial control, proxy control and crossed control.
Idan Landau
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From measure predicates to count nouns: Complex measure nouns in Russian
, 2021 This paper offers a semantic analysis of morphologically complex measure nouns in Russian (e.g., trexlitrovka ‘three-liter-kasuffix’). Prima facie such nouns look very much like measure predicates such as three liters that appear in pseudo-partitives as three liters of water. I show that they are not such.
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The Semantic Composition of Basque ‘Noun + egin’ predicates
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2019 Basque ‘Noun + egin’ (‘make’) expressions display striking properties for the Grammar of Basque: They have ‘defective’ morpho-syntax and semantics, involve discourse opacity, lack scope relations, and show a highly constrained combinatory. These are, however, typical features of (semantic) incorporation structures.
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Determiner spreading in Rukiga. [PDF]
Linguistics, 2023 Asiimwe A, Kouneli M, van der Wal J.
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Building a global community of health for all: A positive discourse analysis of COVID-19 discourse. [PDF]
Discourse Commun, 2023 Chan TF, Yu Y.
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Left posterior temporal cortex is sensitive to syntax within conceptually matched Arabic expressions. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Matar S +3 more
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Structures with Noun Predicative Actants in Romanian
Postmodern Openings, 2012 This article discusses one of the types of structures with predicative actants: those actants that manifest predicative actants expressed by nouns with verbal value, as well as the actantial structures organized by the nouns with verbal value. It should be mentioned that in the specialized literature these nouns are known as verb nominalisations, being
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The Effects of Syntactic Awareness to L2 Chinese Passage-Level Reading Comprehension. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Zhou J.
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The evolution of a coordinator from a vocative source: the case of the disjunctive ja: in Jordanian Arabic. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Jaradat AA, Jaradat AA, Al-Taher MA.
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