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Morphological bottleneck: the case of Russian heritage speakers [PDF]

, 2018
The Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008) assumes functional morphology to be a particular challenge in second language (L2) acquisition whereas acquisition of syntax and semantics to be unproblematic.
Mikhaylova, Anna
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On Actuality Entailments, Causation, and Telicity in Balkar

Languages, 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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(A)telicity and intentionality

Linguistics, 2007
This article argues for a treatment of telicity that gives due space to intentionality, i.e., that recognizes the role intentionality may play in establishing the mutually manifest inherent or natural endpoint crucial to the definition of telicity. Sentences with numerical NP objects and for adverbials are shown not to be automatically telic.
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(Non-)homogeneity in Dutch impersonal passives of unaccusatives [PDF]

Bucharest 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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Auxiliary selection and counterfactuality in the history of English and Germanic [PDF]

, 2006
The retreat of BE as perfect auxiliary in the history of English is examined. Corpus data are presented showing that the initial advance of HAVE was most closely connected to a restriction against BE in past counterfactuals. Other factors which have been
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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Latin Verbal Prefix ex- in Regard to Aspect

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica
This paper investigates the role of the verbal prefix ex- as a component in Latin aspect. The author provides definitions of “aspect”, “Aktionsart” and “situation type”, and particularly sets light to the term “telicity”, distinguishing between the ...
Martina Vaníková
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Setting the boundaries: Partitive verbs in Estonian verb classifications

Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2019
The paper examines a class of Estonian transitive verbs referred to as ‘partitive verbs’: verbs that appear with partitive-marked objects. This class is more heterogeneous than previously assumed.
Anne Tamm, Natalia Vaiss
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Compléments aspectuels et verbes De manière de déplacement en français: entre bornage et télicité

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015
Aspectual complements and verbs expressing ways of movement in French: between boundary marking and telicity Considered synonymous by some, carefully distinguished by others, the notions of telicity and boundary marking are of crucial importance for ...
Dorota Sikora
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Wipe the table clean – German speakers construe telicity differently in adjectival resultatives and transitives

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Change of state expressions involving weak-endstate verbs such as wipe and drink exhibit variation in telicity. The present study is the first to experimentally investigate change of state expressions referred to as adjectival control resultatives (e.g.,
Lea Heßler-Reusch, Merle Weicker, Petra Schulz   +2 more
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What particle verbs have to do with grammatical aspect in early child english [PDF]

, 2013
The current study investigates the relation between aspect and particle verbs in the acquisition of English. Its purpose is to determine whether children associate telicity, as argued in previous studies, or rather perfectivity, which entails completion ...
Jeschull, Liane
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