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Affectedness and Differential Object Marking in Turkish and Uzbek

open access: yesLinguistics, 2022
This article explores the relationship between affectedness and Differential Object Marking (DOM) of indefinite direct objects in Turkish and Uzbek. We argue that the distribution of DOM in the two Turkic languages is determined by the direct objects ...
Kizilkaya Semra   +2 more
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The influence of aspect on the countability of Polish deverbal nominalizations: Evidence from an acceptability rating study

open access: yesZeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2021
The paper presents the results of a study investigating a possible influence of the viewpoint (perfective vs. imperfective) and lexical (telic vs. atelic) aspect of Polish verbs on the countability of eventive nominalizations (substantiva verbalia ...
Gulgowski Piotr   +2 more
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Lexical aspect and number variation in French Complex Event Nominals

open access: yesGlossa, 2019
In this work, we examine the factors allowing or disallowing French Complex Event Nominals (CENs, i.e. deverbal nominals displaying argument and aspectual structures, Grimshaw 1990) to occur in the plural when denoting a plurality of events. Our claim is
Marie Laurence Knittel
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Particles and Prefixes in English and Serbian

open access: yesELOPE, 2005
The paper attempts to, by means of contrastive analysis, prove that particles belonging to phrasal verbs in English are in their linguistic essence equivalent to Serbian perfective verbal prefixes.
Nataša Milivojević
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The Verbal Augmentative and the Inherent Properties of Verbs in Komi; pp. 28-43 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2015
The aim of this article is to discuss the functioning of the ­comparison clitic -džyk in forming the verbal augmentative or intensifying grade and its relation to the inherent properties of the event it modifies in literary Komi.
Triin Todesk
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The construction non-prefixed verb + spatial adverb in Latvian

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017
The status of constructions of the type non-prefixed verb + adverb with regard to expressing aspectuality (iet iekšā ‘to go in’, vērt vaļā ‘to open up’ etc.) is one of the most interesting problems in Latvian aspectology.
Andra Kalnača
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Aspectual se and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
While differences in the production and acceptability of aspectual inflectional morphology between Spanish–English heritage and monolingually raised speakers of Spanish have been argued to support incomplete acquisition approaches to heritage language ...
Gabriel Martínez Vera   +5 more
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On Actuality Entailments, Causation, and Telicity in Balkar

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
This paper presents a study of actuality entailments in Balkar (a dialect of Karachay-Balkar, Turkic). The study focuses on the deontic and causal meanings of four morphemes: two suffixes (the causative suffix and the suffix -al (‘can/may’)) and two ...
Dmitry Privoznov
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(Non-)homogeneity in Dutch impersonal passives of unaccusatives [PDF]

open access: yesBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011
This paper sheds new light on the behaviour of telic predicates, particularly unaccusatives (opstijgen ‘take off’, vallen ‘fall’), in the Dutch impersonal passive (= ImpersP) construction.
Mara van Schaik-Rădulescu
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Paediatric Casualties During OP TELIC [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 2004
Aim To audit all paediatric attendances to a British Army Field Hospital during warfighting. Population All patients <16-years-old who presented to 34 Field Hospital Accident & Emergency (A&E) Department during warfighting phase of OP ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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