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Emergence of verb-pattern morphology in young Arabic speakers: morphological and semantic features
IntroductionArabic, a Semitic language, displays a particularly rich derivational morphological system with all verb stems consisting of a semantic root and a prosodic verb-pattern.
Naila Tallas-Mahajna +3 more
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El tratamiento de la cópula verbal en la historia del pensamiento lingüístico
Throughout the history of Linguistics, the verbal copula has been analysed from different viewpoints. Some approaches considered the copula simply as an ordinary verb, without any special features.
Ventura Salazar García
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Verb placement and accentuation: Does prosody constrain the Estonian V2?
The paper contributes to the understanding of the variation in finite verb placement in Estonian, a verb-second language, by establishing two descriptive facts.
Sahkai Heete, Tamm Anne
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Verbes supports : perspective diachronique
Dans cette contribution, nous tenterons d’appliquer le modèle classique des verbes supports à une sphère hautement abstraite du lexique ‒ les « noms coquilles » comme opinion, information ‒, négligée jusqu’ici par la recherche. Notre étude porte essentiellement sur les combinaisons entre ces noms et les verbes être et avoir, soumises à des variations ...
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Representing Support Verbs in FrameNet [PDF]
This paper presents FrameNet’s approach to the representation of Support Verbs, as but one type of multiword expression (MWE) included in the database. In addition to motivating and illustrating FrameNet’s newly consistent annotation practice for Support Verb constructions, the present work advocates adopting a broad view of what constitutes a ...
Miriam R L Petruck, Michael Ellsworth
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This paper investigates the acquisition of residual verb second (V2) in three corpora consisting of data from Norwegian-English bilinguals (Emma, Emily and Sunniva) in order to determine to what extent these structures are affected by cross-linguistic ...
Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen
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A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans
The periphrastic past tense of Afrikaans, involving the auxiliary het, is compared with its ancestor construction in Dutch. I argue that the situation in Afrikaans provides support for the analysis of Germanic verb clusters in Zwart (2017), where ...
Jan-Wouter Zwart
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Ühendverbidest läbi prosoodia prisma
"Particle verbs and prosody" This paper investigates a class of verb-particle combinations in Estonian and their status as particle verbs vs. syntactic phrases.
Ann Veismann, Heete Sahkai
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English Verb-particle Constructions: Two Types, Two Structures
This paper proposes that resultative verb-particle constructions (VPCs) have an underlyingly different structure from idiomatic VPCs; both structures differ from the Small Clause analysis of Kayne (1985) et al and the verb-particle complex analysis of ...
Zoerner, Ed
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Preemption versus Entrenchment: Towards a Construction-General Solution to the Problem of the Retreat from Verb Argument Structure Overgeneralization. [PDF]
Participants aged 5;2-6;8, 9;2-10;6 and 18;1-22;2 (72 at each age) rated verb argument structure overgeneralization errors (e.g., *Daddy giggled the baby) using a five-point scale.
Ben Ambridge +5 more
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