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Journal articles on the topic "Depicting verb constructions"

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Tomasuolo, Elena, Chiara Bonsignori, Pasquale Rinaldi, and Virginia Volterra. "The representation of action in Italian Sign Language (LIS)." Cognitive Linguistics 31, no. 1 (2020): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2018-0131.

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AbstractThe present study investigates the types of verb and symbolic representational strategies used by 10 deaf signing adults and 13 deaf signing children who described in Italian Sign Language 45 video clips representing nine action types generally communicated by five general verbs in spoken Italian. General verbs, in which the same sign was produced to refer to several different physical action types, were rarely used by either group of participants. Both signing children and adults usually produced specific depicting predicates by incorporating, through a representational strategy, the
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James Edionhon, Edosa. "On the Syntactic Status of Edo Ideophones." Macrolinguistics 8, no. 13 (2020): 44–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.26478/ja2020.8.13.3.

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Ideophones are a particular lexical class of expressive words depicting perceptual events or states, and are said to be a universal or near-universal feature of language (Dingemanse, 2012:655; Kilian-Hatz, 2001:163). This paper presents an overview of Ẹdo ideophones to characterize them in terms of their occurrence in grammatical syntactic frames. It investigates what sets them apart within word classes in Ẹdo and how they differ from their non-ideophonic counterparts in sentential constructions. The Basic Linguistic Theory was adopted as the method for data analysis. This was done to show how
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Kabli, Hanan M. "Why is “John Ran to the House” the Same as “John Went to the House Running” in Arabic?" International Journal of English Linguistics 10, no. 3 (2020): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n3p189.

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The study explores how Arabic has the same conflation pattern characteristics as English even though it belongs to Verb-framed Languages. A focused-group approach is used to evaluate the effect of the first language (L1) and the potential role of proficiency in the acquisition of the English directional preposition ‘to’ with manner-of-motion to goal construction. One group consists of Saudi speakers at two levels of development; an intermediate and advanced proficiency levels; whereas, the second group (control group) comprises of English native speakers. Acceptability Judg
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Ning Zhang, Niina. "Empty verbs in Chinese predicatives and complex predicates." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 14 (January 1, 1999): 147–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.14.1999.13.

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This paper investigates syntactic properties of verbless constructions in Chinese. Verbless constructions differ from constructions with overt verbs in three major respects. First, there is a VP-internal nominal raising in Chinese, which is optional if an overt verb shows up, and obligatory if there is no overt verb. Second, while an overt verb can select various kinds of argument, the internal argument of a verbless construction cannot be indefinite. Third, there are two types of object depictive secondary predication constructions, and only one of them allows for a null verb.
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Bruening, Benjamin. "Depictive Secondary Predicates and Small Clause Approaches to Argument Structure." Linguistic Inquiry 49, no. 3 (2018): 537–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00281.

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Some syntactic approaches to argument structure posit small clause constituents to represent what they take to be the semantics of the constructions being analyzed. For example, this approach would analyze a resultative construction like Martha hammered the metal flat as containing a small clause [the metal flat]. In the small clause analysis, the NP the metal is only an argument of the result state denoted by the small clause, and its referent is not part of the causal hammering event. Depictive secondary predicates show that this analysis is incorrect; the NP referent must be part of the ver
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Zhang, Niina. "structures of depictive and resultative constructions in Chinese." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 22 (January 1, 2001): 191–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.22.2001.107.

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In this paper I firstly argue that secondary predicates are complement of v, and v is overtly realized by Merge or Move in secondary predication in Chinese. The former option derives the de-construction, whereas the latter option derives the V-V construction. Secondly, I argue that resultatives are hosted by complement vPs, whereas depictives are hosted by adjunct vPs. This complement-adjunct asymmetry accounts for a series of syntactic properties of secondary predication in Chinese: the position of a secondary predicate with respect to the verb of the primary predicate, the co-occurrence patt
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Rech, Núbia. "A formação de construções resultativas no português brasileiro." Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos 49, no. 1 (2011): 79–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/cel.v49i1.8637248.

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This paper aims mainly at investigating if there is the formation of resultative constructions with simple adjective in Brazilian Portuguese, since researchers disagree on the existence of these constructions in Romance Languages. To start this discussion, first I make a distinction between resultative, depictive and circumstantial constructions. Then, I relate some of their main characteristics, testing how they appear in sentences written in Brazilian Portuguese. Afterwards, I propose an extension of Folli and Ramchand (2001)’s analysis on the Portuguese. These authors use a structure of ver
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Hatav, Galia. "Verb phrase secondary predication: Biblical Hebrew as a case study." Linguistics 58, no. 2 (2020): 363–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0044.

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AbstractIn this article, I discuss secondary predication in Biblical Hebrew, showing that contrary to what linguists such as Rothstein (2004. Structuring events. Malden, MA & Oxford: Blackwell) suggest, there are languages with verb phrases as secondary predicates.In particular, I deal with a construction in Biblical Hebrew I refer to as the double infinitive-absolute construction, where in addition to a finite verb, the sentence contains two conjoined occurrences of an infinitive absolute, where the first is of the same root and binyan (pattern) as the finite verb but deprived of temporal
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Kunert-Graf, Rachel. "Dehumanized Victims: Analogies and Animal Avatars for Palestinian Suffering in Waltz with Bashir and “War Rabbit”." Humanities 7, no. 3 (2018): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h7030079.

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A common convention in comics and animation is the use of animal stand-ins to provide an access point for human experiences. Whether representing anthropomorphized characters navigating very human experiences or depicting four-legged creatures impacted by human action, this strategy has the manifest intent of fostering viewer identification and empathy. In particular, artists sometimes deploy animal avatars in representations of persecution and historical trauma to avoid depicting identity categories such as race, nationality and sexuality, which constitute the ostensible basis for persecution
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Nevskaya, I. A. "Different Subject Constructions with Depictive Secondary Predicates in South Siberian Turkic." Critique and Semiotics 37, no. 2 (2019): 327–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2307-1737-2019-2-327-344.

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Specific syntactic constructions of complex predicates that assign more than one predicate to their semantic subject are well known cross-linguistically. Examples of such constructions are structures such as He returned tired, lived alone, worked as a teacher, etc. They contain two semantic predicates – a main one expressed by a finite verb form, and a secondary one, often expressed by a nominal form or an infinite verb form. Our research has shown that depictive predicates have their structural and functional peculiarities in different South Siberian Turkic languages, compared between themsel
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Depicting verb constructions"

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Simper-Allen, Pia. ""Cut and Break"-beskrivningar i svenskt teckenspråk : Barns och vuxnas avbildande verbkonstruktioner." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-132321.

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Previous studies on children’s acquisition of depicting verbs in signed languages have chiefly studied the use of classifiers in verbs of motion and location, particularly the order in which the different classes of handshape are acquired. The age of the children in these studies have ranged from age three to thirteen, and an important finding has been that classifier constructions are not fully acquired until early adolescence. Most of these studies have used an elicitation tool to investigate the production and comprehension of classifiers, but have not provided any adult target norms of the
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Books on the topic "Depicting verb constructions"

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Elfman, Rose. Slapstick Against Stereotypes in South Sudan’s Cymbeline. Edited by James C. Bulman. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687169.013.1.

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The South Sudan Theatre Company (SSTC) brought its Juba Arabic translation of Cymbeline to the Globe to Globe Festival in London in 2012 amid expectations that the production would represent the country’s recent independence struggle. Associating the African country with violent conflict while representing Shakespeare as a force for peace, the advance publicity for the production repeated neocolonial tropes that stereotypically inform both entities. The production itself, however, presented a very different version of both ‘Shakespeare’ and ‘Africa’. Instead of depicting a bloody war that yiel
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Grimm, Joshua. Ex Machina. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348301.001.0001.

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Ex Machina (2014) impressed critics and audiences alike with its bold ideas and all-too-realistic depiction of the unexpected consequences of constructing a sentient being. In his feature directorial debut, Alex Garland uses efficient storytelling, a compelling narrative, and heady concepts to create a modern science fiction masterpiece that explores gender, scientific advancement, and the very concept of humanity, all in a compelling, suspenseful film. Artificial intelligence has long been a sci-fi staple, but here, Garland posits what would happen if, for once, humans, rather than AI, were t
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