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Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Representations of Adjacent Verbs in Persian Language: An Analysis Based on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) [PDF]
In our ordinary and everyday speech and in the informal and colloquial contexts in general, we encounter the use of constructions, in which two verbs appear in a “verb-verb” situation, thus making a complex predicate construction, such as "kešid bordeš",
Parisa Najafi, Jalal Rahimian
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The goal of this work is twofold: on the one hand, it seeks to update the description of phrasal constituents in Role and Reference Grammar; on the other, it aims at providing a computational implementation of such structures within the Grammar ...
Francisco José Cortés-Rodríguez
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This paper is about contrastively analyzing the on, at, in and káŋ, to, kóno adpositional phrases between English and Mandinka using the RRG theory. By using English secondary data, Mandinka primary data derived from interviews and some elicitation techniques that were carried out among native speakers, this article focuses its analysis on how the ...
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A Role and Reference Grammar’s Account of Causation in Persian [PDF]
Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) provides a workable mechanism, namely “interclausal relations hierarchy”, for the analysis of complex constructions. It is used as a general rule for interlinguistic studies. This hierarchy consists of "semantic continuum"
Parisa Najafi, Jalal Rahemeyan
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A Role and Reference Grammar Account of Adjuncts in the Airbus Corpus: A Quantitative-Based Study
This paper presents the results of a quantitative study of adjuncts in the Airbus corpus carried out within the theoretical framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG).
Carolina Rodríguez-Juárez +1 more
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Les schémas actanciels des collocations verbales d’affect dans la diathèse [PDF]
Cette étude cherche à cerner l’incidence de la réalisation ou de la non-réalisation des différents actants sur les dynamiques discursives de l’énoncé dans une perspective fonctionnelle : celle de la Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) de Van Valin et ...
Zouaidi Safa
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The interaction of achievement verbs and grammatical aspect in Persian [PDF]
INTRODUCTIONAspect refers to “different ways of viewing the internal temporal constituency of a situation” (Comrie, 1976, p.3) and consists of lexical and grammatical types.
Vali Rezai, Zhaleh Makaremi
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The Special Nature of Verbs in Sign Languages
This paper is concerned with the special nature of Sign Language verbs, in particular to this research, Irish Sign Language (ISL) verbs. We use Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) (Van Valin 2005) to provide a definition of the structure of lexical entries ...
Irene Elizabeth Murtagh
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Alternation in three-place predicates and its relation to Aktionsart in Persian [PDF]
In Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), based on stativity, telicity, and punctuality, verbs are classified into six classes named state, activity, achievement, accomplishment, semelfactive, and active-accomplishment.
Vali Rezaei, Zhaleh Makaremi
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Interaction of State Verbs and Grammatical Aspect Types in Persian: A Functional Approach [PDF]
State verbs, with the characteristic of non-dynamicity, denote no action and usually describe internal feelings, possession and place. They lack internal structure, stages and end point.
Zhaleh Makaremi +2 more
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