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The Components of Sideward Movement in the Verb Copying Construction in Mandarin Chinese
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2015 In this paper, I explore the components of the sideward movement involved in the verb copying construction proposed by Cheng (2007). I first present some facts of the resultative de-clause of the verb copying construction which seems to be puzzling under
Kuo Pei-Jung
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PÂNĂ-PPs AND COMPLEX EVENT CONSTRUCTIONS IN ROMANIAN
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2022 Până-PPs and Complex Event Constructions in Romanian. This paper examines the syntactic and semantic status of Romanian PPs headed by the morphologically complex prepositions până în/la ʻuntil/as far as/up to in/at’ in VPs of change of location (a pluti
Imola-Ágnes FARKAS
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The *t-V-ce System of the Carib Languages and the Kuikuro Resultative Participle
LanguagesIn the Kuikuro language (Upper Xingu Carib), the construction tü-/ t-verb-i/-ti/-si/-stress is a reflex of the Carib proto-construction *t-V-ce, often labeled as a ‘participle’.
Gelsama Mara Ferreira Dos Santos +1 more
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Bilingualism effects on L1 representation and processing of argument structure
Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2017 This study aims to investigate L2-to-L1 cross-linguistic influence on bilinguals’ representation and processing with three psycholinguistics tasks. The interest in this type of effect lies in its possible association with cognitive control development ...
Cândido Samuel Fonseca de Oliveira +2 more
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Languages, 2023 This article proposes a new description of Cantonese causative–resultative constructions (CRCs), constructions with two verbal elements relevant to the cause and the effect of an event respectively.
Ryan Ka Yau Lai, Michelle Man-Long Pang
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Four results on randomized incremental constructions [PDF]
Computational Geometry, 1992 Some aspects of randomized incremental constructions are studied. Particularly, the expected behavior of the randomized incremental construction under insertions and deletions is analyzed and the results are then applied to the problem of maintaining the convex hull in the \(d\)-dimensional space. Moreover a tail estimate for the space complexity (size
Clarkson, K., Mehlhorn, K., Seidel, R.
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L2 Acquisition of English Present Perfect Interpretations [PDF]
, 2013 The present study investigates the role of first language (L1), in our case Cypriot Greek (CG) or Standard Greek (SG), in the second language (L2) acquisition of English present perfect in terms of form and meaning possibilities.
Agouraki, Yoryia, Karpava, Sviatlana
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Estudios de LingüísticaDespite the extensive interest in cross-linguistic constructional research over the past few decades, the resultative construction in Spanish has largely been overlooked.
Isabel Jiménez Sáez
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DIRECTIONAL MOTION VERB CONSTRUCTION IN MADURESE LANGUAGE: A STUDY OF LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2023 Semantically, the construction of directional motion verbs has two significant points: manner of motion, which refers to the way the motion is performed, and path, which conveys the directional meaning.
Muhammad Hifni Sahila Rizqy +1 more
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SECONDARY RESULTATIVE PREDICATES IN GERMAN
Іноземна філологіяThe article deals with secondary resultative predicates in German consisting of a full-fl edged verb and an adjective. Through the analysis of a number of German explanatory dictionaries and works of fi ction with their translations, 315 resultative ...
Oksana Smerechynska
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