Search results for "verb"

Serial Verb Constructions

2009

The present article aims to give a survey of the typology of serial verb constructions (SVCs) and the criteria that are needed for defining them. For that purpose, it starts with a detailed account of Aikhenvald and Dixon (2006) and their comprehensive cross-linguistic account of SVCs. In a critical discussion of this approach, this article will then address the following three issues. (i) The concept of single eventhood is a more general concept from which a number of Aikhenvald and Dixon's (2006) criteria can be iconically derived. The macro-event property and time-positional operators (Bohnemeyer et al. 2007) provide a good basis for a more coherent definition of what makes an event as f…

Simetries de mirall en l’ordre intern de les construccions absolutes: del català antic al català actual

2016

Resum: Se sol assumir que les construccions absolutes manifesten les mateixes propietats sintàctiques i interpretatives que les subordinades adverbials però, en contrast amb aquestes, no disposen d’un subordinant explícit. En aquest article argumentarem en contra d’aquesta idea. Partint de l’anàlisi de la dislocació del subjecte en el català primitiu i en l’actual, justificarem que les CA encapçalades per una vegada i un cop en català tenen un subordinant format composicionalment per dues porcions discontinues: d’una banda, una preposició incorporada en l’estructura sublèxica del participi, seguint la proposta de Gallego & Hernanz (2012) i, de l’altra, una expressió temporal (una vegada, un…

2020

Abstract Difficulties in phonological processing and speech perception are associated with developmental dyslexia, but there is considerable diversity across people with developmental dyslexia (e.g., dyslexics with and without phonological difficulties). Phonological and morphological awareness are both known to play an important role in reading acquisition. Problems in morpho-phonological information processing could arguably be associated with developmental dyslexia, especially for Finnish, which is a rich morphologically language. We used MEG to study the connection between morpho-phonology in the Finnish language and familial risk for developmental dyslexia. We measured event-related fi…

Problems with primary vs. secondary grammaticalization: the case of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages

2015

Abstract The present paper aims at testing four criteria for the distinction between primary vs. secondary grammaticalization in East and mainland Southeast Asian languages. These languages are of special interest for research on grammaticalization because they show limitations in the coevolution of meaning and form and because pragmatic inference is very prominent (lack of obligatory grammatical markers, multifunctionality). If the four criteria work in these languages, this can be taken as a good indicator for their cross-linguistic, maybe universal relevance. The criteria are tested with three markers that stand for three different types of multifunctionality: (i) the Khmer verb baːn ‘co…

The Lithuanian "have" - resultative - a typological curiosum?

2012

ABSTRACT Björn Wiemer. The Lithuanian HAVE-resultative - A Typological Curiosum? Lingua Posnaniensis, vol. LIV (2)/2012. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences. PL ISSN 0079-4740, ISBN 978-83-7654-252-2, pp. 69-81. This article presents the Lithuanian possessive resultative construction with the verb turėti ‘have’ and discusses its place in a typology of forms of resultative constructions. While possessive resultatives with a past passive participle (as in Polish Kolację mamy już przygotowaną lit. ‘We have the dinner already prepared’) are found in areally related as well as other languages, Lithuanian stands out in using an active participle (more precisely: a part…

Third-Person Perception of Television-Viewing Behavior

2000

Both conceptually and empirically, the third-person effect has been confined to the effects of mass communication (people tend to believe others are more susceptible to media influences than they are themselves, and people tend to act accordingly). This study investigated whether this phenomenon extends to the perception of other people's media use, and whether it can be explained by a general tendency to underrate the education of others. We interviewed a sample of 200 adults in south-western Germany, focusing on television-viewing behavior. As hypothesized, people tend to perceive others as more inclined toward undesirable viewing behaviors. We also hypothesized and found that third-perso…

Sincretisme i canvi morfològic : evolució de la terminació verbal en -AT en català

2021

Resum: La terminació verbal llatina -at, que es troba en els ètims de les formes de 3a persona del present d’indicatiu de la 1a conjugació, del present de subjuntiu de les conjugacions no primeres i de l’imperfet d’indicatiu i del condicional de totes les conjugacions, ha arribat en català general al resultat -a (cantat > canta). Tanmateix, ja en els primers testimonis escrits (segle xi) procedents dels antics comtats d’Urgell i de Pallars, es documenta la variant -e, avui estesa pel català nord-occidental i pel valencià septentrional. Aquesta divergència ha rebut una explicació fonològica, a partir del supòsit que en el català occidental naixent la -t final s’hauria perdut de manera tardan…

Agent defocusing in two-participant clauses in Finnish Sign Language

2019

This article investigates what strategies are used for defocusing the agent in two-participant clauses in FinSL. The question is approached by analyzing a set of data that consists of videotaped informational texts. Several strategies for agent defocusing were found. First, the agent can simply be omitted. Second, the agent can be expressed with a pronominal pointing sign used non-referentially. Pronominal pointing signs that can be used non-referentially include at least the non-first person plural pronominal pointing sign and the first person singular pointing sign, possibly also the first person plural pointing sign. This study also suggests that constructed action is an additional, opti…

Familiarity changes as a function of perceptual shifts.

2010

This experiment compares the yes-­no and forced recognition tests as methods of measuring familiarity. Participants faced a phase of 3 study-­test recognition trials in which they studied words using all the letters of the alphabet (overlapping condition, O), and an additional phase in which targets and lures did not share any letters (non-­overlapping condition, NO). Finally, subjects performed a forced-­choice task in which they had to choose one of two new words, each from one of the subsets (Parkin et al., 2001). Results in the NO condition higher than .50, showing their sensitivity to familiarity. When the letter set of the words for study in the third list of the NO condition was swit…

Using visual strategies to support verbal comprehension in an adolescent with Down syndrome

2011

International audience; It has been frequently reported that children with Down syndrome have deficits in verbal short-term memory while having relatively good performance in visual short-term memory tasks. Such verbal deficits have a detrimental effect on various high-level cognitive processes, most notably language comprehension. In this study, we report the case of an adolescent with Down syndrome whose verbal short-term memory and comprehension capacities are impaired. Noting that his visual memory remained relatively well preserved, we developed a remediation strategy based on his visual abilities to support his verbal memory deficit. This remediation led to significant improvements in…