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Psychological Predicates and Verbal Complementation in Arabic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The issue of verbal complementation patterns in the Arabic vernaculars isone which is relatively under-researched: this paper aims to make a small con-tribution in this area, focussing on essentially two issues (i) the syntax of so-called experiencer ...
Alotaibi, Y   +4 more
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On Scalarity in the Verbal Domain. The Case of Polish Psych Verbs. Part 1: Polish Perfective Psych Verbs and Their Prefixes

open access: yesStudies in Polish Linguistics, 2020
Polish perfective psych verbs are generally analyzed as inceptive predicates focusing the beginning of an emotional state holding of an experiencer. However, a perfective psych verb can also denote an event of gradual scalar change. In this paper, I argue that on the inceptive reading a perfective psych predicate denotes a transition from a state in ...
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Theticity [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
The subject matter of this chapter is the semantic, syntactic and discoursepragmatic background as well as the cross-linguistic behavior of types of utterance exemplified by the following English sentences […]: (1) My NECK hurts.
Sasse, Hans-Jürgen
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Small clause results revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The main purpose of this paper is to show that argument structure constructions like complex telic path of motion constructions (John walked to the store) or complex resultative constructions (The dog barked the chickens awake) are not to be regarded as "
Mateu, Jaume
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Personal Attribution in English and Spanish Scientific Texts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Scientific discourse is usually thought to be impersonal. In fact, most style manuals encourage academics to use impersonal constructions in order to avoid making explicit their authorial presence in the texts.
Martín Martín, Pedro
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CATEGORIZATION OF EMOTION VERBS IN BAHASA INDONESIA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article discusses the categorization of emotion verbs in bahasa Indonesia. As the analytical tools,semantic primes from the theory of Natural Semantic Metalanguage were used. The research data werecollected through observation and interview methods.
Mulyadi, Mulyadi
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Rhyme and Word Placement in Storybooks Support High-Level Verb Mapping in 3- to 5-Year-Olds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
High-level verbs can be especially challenging for young children to initially map to meaning. This study manipulated the format of a storybook designed to support such verb learning from shared reading. We tested whether 3- to 5-year-olds (n = 38) could
Quirke, Jacqueline, Read, Kirsten
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Los adjetivos psicológicos [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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Sanroman Vilas, Maria Begona
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On the structure of psych-verb constructions [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
One of the recent challenges to the Government-Binding framework has been to explain the reversal properties of psych-verbs like worry, terrify, and concern.
Stroik, Thomas S.
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