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Support‐Verb Constructions with Objects: Greek‐Coptic Interference in the Documentary Papyri?1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 382-403, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Support‐verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that fill the predicate slot, for example, to make a suggestion in I made the suggestion yesterday. The article examines direct‐object structures with support‐verb constructions in Greek documentary papyri from fourth‐ to mid‐seventh‐century Egypt.
Victoria Beatrix Fendel
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An Agent‐First Preference in a Patient‐First Language During Sentence Comprehension
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other domains and other species, the evidence is limited to languages that place agents first, and so the bias could also be learned from usage frequency.
Sebastian Sauppe +5 more
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Agree and the subjects of specificational clauses
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 251-279, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article investigates agreement in Persian sentences with a specificational copular clause embedded under the epistemic modal tavānestan ‘can’. We argue that this structure is a raising structure. It exhibits agreement on both the embedded and modal verbs.
Susana Bejar, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
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Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Silent gesture is not considered to be linguistic, on par with spoken and sign languages. It is claimed that silent gestures, unlike language, represent events holistically, without compositional structure. However, recent research has demonstrated that gesturers use consistent strategies when representing objects and events, and that there ...
Chuck Bradley, Ronnie Wilbur
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 169-202, July 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, we examine the behaviour of so‐called passive and middle aorist forms in the Greek reflected in the Genesis of the Septuagint. The Septuagint, and Biblical Greek more generally, displays a considerable aberration with respect to other varieties of Ancient Greek regarding the relative frequency of passive vis‐à‐vis middle aorist ...
Eystein Dahl, Liana Tronci
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Talking about the weather: Two construals of precipitation events in English
Glossa, 2019 Weather expressions such as It is raining have proven challenging for linguistic researchers; not only do weather expressions often have special linguistic properties, but languages show considerable variation in the morphosyntactic expression of such ...
Beth Levin, Bonnie Krejci
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DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2007 Este artigo objetiva construir uma ponte entre lingüística teórica, em particular teorias de cunho gerativista, e lingüística aplicada, em especial a pedagogia de ensino de segunda língua aplicada ao ensino de italiano e ao francês para falantes nativos ...
Carlos Mioto +1 more
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Ergative diagnostics: temptatio redux
Linguistik Online, 2003 In the past 20 years, a new class of verbs has seen the light of existence: 'unaccusative' or 'ergative' verbs. These verbs are intransitive, but different from the traditional notion of intransitive to the extent that their subject valency behaves like ...
Werner Abraham
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Verbos de movimiento en ruso y español: una vez más sobre la intransitividad dividida
Estudios de Lingüística, 2004 This paper investigates the relationship between the syntactic configuration of two classes of intransitive verbs of motion (the unaccusative and unergative verbs), on the one hand, and certain semantic properties of the respective predicates,
Volha Batsiukova
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The transitivity of borrowed verbs in Basque: an outline
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2003 In this paper I will study the main patterns that Basque speakers follow when they choose the auxiliary used with verbs borrowed from neighbouring languages.
Xabier Alberdi
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