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Lithuanian resultatives in the context of neighbouring Slavic languages
Lietuvių Kalba, 2015 Resultative secondary predicates, or resultatives, express the state of a participant of an event as a result of the action denoted by a verb. On the other hand, resultatives bear a semantic relation to the main predicate as well.
Benita Riaubienė
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La construction à verbes de nomination : la voilà parachutée construction ! [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2020 Dans cet article, nous nous proposons de dresser l’inventaire des verbes qui apparaissent dans l’une des rares constructions dites « résultatives » du Français, i.e. la Construction à Verbes de Nomination ( = CVN) (ex.
Métairy Justine
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Adjective distribution in Modern Mongolian
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2016 This paper discusses adjective distribution in Mongolian based upon the mereological framework: scale structure. It investigates how adjectival complements are sensitive to the scalar structure of adjectival predicates (APs) in resultative constructions ...
Wenchao LI
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Mbyá resultatives and the structure of causation
Glossa, 2019 In Mbyá, target state resultative predicates can only be derived from inchoative verbs. This is in contrast with target state adjectival passives in better studied languages such as English, German and Greek, which can be derived from transitive ...
Guillaume Pierre Yves Thomas
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L2 processing facilitation by constructional similarity: beyond word order correspondence
Revista Linguística, 2022 Structural similarity between a bilingual’s two languages, defined by word order correspondence, reflects the surprisal levels (inverse-frequency effect) associated with sentence processing in the L2.
Mara Passos Guimarães
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Pedagogical and Theoretical Issues around the Resultative Verb Compound Construction in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, 2021 In this study, I discuss pedagogical and theoretical issues of the resultative verb compound (RVC) construction, such as chi-wan ‘eat-finish’ and pao-lei ‘run-tired’ in Mandarin Chinese.
I-hao Woo
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Editors' note regarding Li (2016) and Brosig (2009)
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2020 On 13 June 2020 we have received Brosig's email stating that the examples (1a), (1b) and (2) in paper Li, W. (2016). Adjective distribution in Modern Mongolian. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 6(2), 9-22.
ALA editors
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Directionality and Resultativity: The Cross-linguistic Correlation Revisited
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 Recent approaches to the cross-linguistic variation in the expressions of directed motion assume a tight correlation between adjectival resultative and directed motion constructions (e.g., Beck and Snyder 2001, Mateu and Rigau 2001; 2002, McIntyre 2004 ...
Minjeong Son
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The Evolution of Ergativity in Iranian Languages
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2012 This paper presents an attempt to investigate the origins of ergativity in Iranian languages, drawing upon diachronic and synchronic analyses. In so doing, I will trace the development of the ergative structure back to Old and Middle Persian where, it is
Yadgar KARIMI
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Figuration, constructions and English phrasal verbs: The instances of come up
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2019 The paper investigates the evocation of the figurative meanings of English phrasal verbs of the form: component verb come + component particle up when they are employed in resultative constructions. Four instances of come up are discussed.
Tsaroucha Efthymia
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