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Tener and traer: verbs of possession in Spanish
GlossaThis paper analyzes possession verbs in Spanish. Drawing from Myler (2016), the current analysis proposes that the possessive verb tener is the transitive counterpart of ser. Another possessive verb, traer, is the transitive counterpart of estar and thus
Christian Ruvalcaba
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Automatic Extraction of Semantic Roles in Support Verb Constructions
International Journal on Natural Language Computing, 2021 This paper deals with paraphrastic relations in Italian. In the following sentences: (a) Max strappò delle lacrime a Sara 'Max moved Sara to tears' and (b) Max fece piangere Sara 'Max made Sara cry', the verbs differ syntactically and semantically.
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Journal of Language and Education, 2015 Corpus Linguistics (CL) has made significant inroads into the field of second language acquisition (SLA) and pedagogy. As more corpora have become available, researchers and teachers alike have begun to realize the importance of empirically testing ideas
Kevin Cancellaro
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Proto-Indo-European support verbs and support-verb constructions
This chapter argues that even if typological considerations make it very likely thatthe category of support-verb constructions did in fact exist in Proto-Indo-Europeanand the support-verb use of roots such as *dheh1 ‘to put’ or *deh3 ‘to give’ may beassumed for the parent language with a sufficient degree of certainty, the reconstruction of specific ...
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Simple Event nominals with Argument Structure? – Evidence from Irish deverbal nominalizations
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2020 Deverbal nominals in Irish support Grimshaw's (1990) tripartite division into complex event (CE-), simple event (SE-) and result nominals (R-nominals). Irish nominals are ambiguous only between the SE- and R-status.
Maria Bloch-Trojnar
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Categorial-selectional features in expletive constructions: A minimalist approach [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسیExpletives, or the so-called dummy subjects, are syntactic objects that contribute nothing to the semantics. For many linguists, these elements constitute the strongest argument of the requirement for propositions to be built from a subject and a ...
Mazdak Anoushe
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Hipoteza Witolda Mańczaka o ugrofińskim substracie w językach bałtyckich
LingVaria, 2019 Witold Mańczak’s Hypothesis about the Finno-Ugric Substrate in the Baltic Languages The paper discusses Witold Mańczak’s hypothesis concerning a Finnic (particularly Balto-Finnic) substrate in the Baltic languages (Mańczak 1990: 29–38; 1993: 151; 2008:
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsIn the literature on Cushitic languages, ideophones have often only been treated in a cursory manner. A little explored problem of the synchronic analysis concerns their word class status: do they constitute a word class on their own, or should they be ...
Yvonne Treis
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TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2013 The grammatical analysis of clauses introduced by a “subordinating conjunction” has always been a challenge for linguists because, on one hand, spontaneous spoken data exhibits highly variable syntactic and discursive organizations which have never been ...
Frédéric Sabio
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Constructional change in predications with support verbs
, 2022 A pesquisa desenvolveu-se a partir da investigação de indícios de mudança construcional (alteração no polo formal ou funcional da construção) detectados em estudo diacrônico (diacronia recente) de predicadores complexos verbo-nominais com DAR em textos jornalísticos brasileiros dos séculos XX e XXI (1925 a 2014).
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