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Directed motion entailments in the semantics of roots: A root-sensitive approach [PDF]
, 2021 Syntactic, decompositional theories of verb meaning hold that verbs are created in the syntax by merging roots, which provide idiosyncratic information, with functional heads, which introduce structural components of meaning such as change or causation ...
Ausensi, Josep +2 more
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Light Verbs as Classifiers in Udi [PDF]
, 2008 In Udi, most verbal lexemes are composed, in all tense-aspect-mood categories, of a light verb and an ‘initial’. It is argued here that in the first stage of this development, simplex verbs were juxtaposed with focused constituents.
Harris, Alice Carmichael
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On some active participles with motion verbs [PDF]
, 2021 The aim of this study is to analyse the structures containing a participle combined with a motion verb, in cases such as venir plorat de casa (lit. ‘to come cried from home’ / intend. ‘to come after crying at home’).
Crespí, Isabel
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Algumas considerações sobre leituras estativas de verbos de movimento em Português Europeu [PDF]
, 2019 A significant number of the so-called verbs of motion exhibit a consistent alternation between an eventive and a stative reading. In this view, the main goal of this paper is to investigate the linguistic factors that contribute to this aspectual ...
Leal, António +2 more
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Quantizing scalar change [PDF]
, 2013 This paper provides a new analysis of N-BY-N adverbials that captures their previously unrecognized close connection to verbs of scalar change. After providing a series of arguments that N-BY-N modification requires the VP to provide a scalar interval it
Henderson, Robert
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Verbos de movimento e preposições direcionais [PDF]
, 2017 The main objective of this paper is to study the semantics of verbs of inherently directed motion (Levin, 1993) ir (go) and vir (come) combined with prepositional phrases with the thematic role of Goal, headed by the prepositions para (to) and até (to ...
Leal, António +2 more
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Cognitive bias overrides syntactic bootstrapping in novel verb learning [PDF]
, 2018 Acquiring novel verb meanings is challenging because events in the world are inherently multi-interpretable (Quine, 1960). While the acquisition of motion verbs has been well studied (e.g.
van Hout, Angeliek +2 more
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On the Learning of Auxiliary Use in the Referential Variety by Speakers of New Brunswick Acadian French [PDF]
, 2008 This study investigates the learning of Referential French by speakers of Acadian French at the university level. One difference between the two varieties lies in their use of auxiliaries in compound tenses.
Patricia Balcom
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Digital Cognitive Phenotyping for Differential Diagnosis and Monitoring in Neurological Conditions
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To assess the utility, accessibility, and equivalence to supervised scales of online cognitive assessment in older individuals with cognitive impairment. Methods Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD, n = 31), idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH, n = 26), and traumatic brain injury (TBI, n = 23) completed online cognitive ...
Martina Del Giovane +10 more
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Presence and absence of the locative clitic «hi» [PDF]
, 2020 This article focuses on some syntactic contexts that allow avoiding the locative clitic hi, and that, in some cases, can even force such avoidance. However, the presence or the absence of this pronoun is not arbitrary.
Rigau, Gemma
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