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Bahadir, Gozde. "Structural Priming In Turkish Genitive-possessive Constructions." Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614863/index.pdf.
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This study addresses the question of the mental representation and processing of language by investigating &ldquostructural priming&rdquo
in Turkish Genitive-Possessive (GEN-POSS) constructions. Structural priming is the facilitating effect of having already experienced a structural form on its subsequent processing. We investigate this phenomenon on a construction pair in Turkish, which shares the same external GEN-POSS morpho-syntactic template despite having distinct grammatical categories. The structures under scrutiny are possessive noun phrases (e.g. &ldquo
Korsan, [prenses-in(GEN) ö
ykü
-sü
n(POSS.3SG)]-ü
hatirladi.&rdquo
which means: The pirate remembered [the princess&rsquo
s story].) and embedded noun clauses with nominalized verbs as predicates (e.g. &ldquo
Korsan, [prenses-in(GEN) gü
l-dü
g(VN)-ü
n(POSS.3SG)]-ü
hatirladi.&rdquo
which means: The pirate remembered [that the princess (had) laughed/was laughing].) The results of the study which consists of a series of production and comprehension experiments with various methodologies (written sentence completion, self-paced reading and eye-tracking) indicate that structural priming might access the morphosyntactic level of representation in Turkish. Priming seems sensitive to the distinction between the phrasal vs. clausal nature of structures. During the processing of GEN-POSS constructions, the grammatical information regarding the constituents is accessed. Complex forms are further decomposed if processing resources are available. Overall, language production and comprehension seem to operate on the same structural representations but through different mechanisms. In addition, the study also contributes to the understanding of structural priming as a methodological paradigm and to the establishment of a bridge between the processing and theoretical linguistic analysis of Turkish nominalized verbs. To conclude, this study pioneers in exploring structural priming in Turkish and opens way to future research in this line.
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Kpoglu, Promise Dodzi. "Possessive constructions in Tongugbe, an Ewe dialect." Thesis, Lille 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LIL3H003/document.
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Cette thèse concerne la description des constructions possessives en tongugbe, l’un des dialectes de l’éwé, langue parlée au sud-est du Ghana au long du fleuve Volta. La thèse présente une description détaillée des constructions; et tente de comprendre la relation qui existe entre les constructions possessives propositionnelles et les constructions locatives et existentielles. De plus, ce travail présente une première esquisse de la grammaire de tongugbe. La grammaire présente surtout des résultats préliminaires sur le contraste de durée qui existe au niveau des tons de tongugbe et un système de démonstratifs très riche. Les constructions possessives peuvent être regroupées dans trois catégories : les constructions attributives, les constructions prédicatives et les constructions à possesseur externe. Il est montré que les configurations structurelles des constructions possessives attributives sont motivées par des considérations fonctionnelles. Il est aussi démontré que les variations structurelles des constructions possessives prédicatives et des constructions à possesseur externe correspondent à des différences de sens. Enfin, il est argumenté que, synchroniquement, les constructions possessives propositionnelles et les constructions locatives et existentielles ne peuvent pas être réduites à une structure unique. La proposition soutenue est que chaque construction est une correspondance entre une forme et un sensThis dissertation concerns the description of possessive constructions in Tongugbe, one of the many dialects of the Ewe language, which is spoken in south-eastern Ghana, along the Volta River. It presents a detailed description of the constructions; and explores the relationship that exists between clausal possessive constructions and locative and existential constructions. In addition to this, the work presents a first outline grammar of Tongugbe. The grammar presents notably preliminary findings on the duration contrast in tones of Tongugbe and a rich demonstrative paradigm. The possessive constructions can be grouped into attributive, predicative and external possessor constructions. It is shown that the structural configurations of attributive possessive constructions are functionally motivated. It is also demonstrated that structural variations in predicative possessive and external possessor constructions correspond to differences in meaning. Finally, it is argued that, synchronically, clausal possessive constructions and locative and existential constructions are not reducible to a single structure. The view supported here then is that each construction is a form-meaning pair
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Stalmaszczyk, Piotr. "Prepositional possessive constructions in Celtic Languages and Celtic Englishes." Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1925/.
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[...] One of the often noted characteristic features of the Celtic languages is the absence of a singular verbal form with the meaning ‘to have’.1 The principal
way of expressing possession is through periphrastic constructions with prepositions (such as Irish ag, Scottish Gaelic aig ‘at’; Welsh gan, Breton gant ‘at, with’) and appropriate forms of the substantive verb. Pronominal prepositions, another distinctive feature of the Celtic languages, consist of a preposition and a suffixed pronoun, or rather a pronominal personal ending. This construction may be analyzed as an instance of category fusion. Thus, the Irish and Welsh equivalents of English ‘I have money’ are Tá airgead agam or Mae arian gen i, respectively, both literally meaning ‘is money at-me/with-me’. This note discusses pronominal possessive constructions in Celtic languages (and some comparable examples from Celtic Englishes) and provides some background information on pronominal prepositions and comments on historical developments of these forms. It also discusses some terminological issues involved in labelling the construction in question. [...]
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Bratishenko, Elena. "Morphosyntactic variation in possessive constructions and the accusative in Old East Slavic texts." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0028/NQ33894.pdf.
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SALLES, RAIANE OLIVEIRA. "UNDERSTANDING RECURSION AND LOOKING FOR SELF-EMBEDDING IN PIRAHÃ: THE CASE OF POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=26480@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
Tem-se argumentado que a língua Pirahã, da família Mura, falada na Amazônia brasileira, é não-recursiva, não apresentando nenhum tipo de auto-encaixamento sintático (Everett, 2005). O objetivo dessa dissertação é investigar essa questão. Primeiramente, uma definição formal de recursão é necessária. Apresentamos, assim, uma análise histórica do termo, considerando sua origem no campo da matemática e da lógica e sua trajetória dentro da linguística formal Chomskyniana. A conclusão a que se chega é que dentro da Gramática Gerativa, recursão deve ser entendida como um conjunto finito de funções que chamam por si mesmas, podendo tomar seu outup prévio como input (i.e. operação Merge do Programa Minimalista (Chomsky, 2015)). Esse recurso cognitivo universal é responsável pela natureza combinatorial da Gramática (Língua Interna), conferindo a ela a propriedade de infinitude discreta. Assim, a ausência de auto-encaixamento em uma determinada língua não é evidência contra a universalidade da recursão. Representações com auto-encaixamento são apenas um dos possíveis resultados externos do sistema combinatorial recursivo da Gramática interna. O segundo objetivo dessa dissertação é apresentar novos dados de pesquisa de campo em estruturas nominais possessivas em Pirahã, demonstrando que auto-encaixamentos nesse domínio sintático são possíveis e produtivos na língua. A conclusão geral da nossa pesquisa é que a posição de Everett contra a universalidade da recursão está tanto teoricamente, quanto empiricamente incorreta. Duas são as principais contribuições dessa dissertação para a teoria linguística formal: oferecer um melhor entendimento de computabilidade interna à Gramática, e apresentar novos dados empíricos sobre a sintaxe de encaixamentos em Pirahã.
It has been claimed that Pirahã, a Brazilian native language spoken in the Amazon region, is non-recursive, disallowing syntactic self-embedding altogether (Everett, 2005). This thesis investigates this claim. First, a formal definition of recursion is necessary, and we examine how this term appeared within mathematics and logic and how it made its way to formal linguistics. Our conclusion is that within Generative Grammar, recursion is to be understood as a finite set of functions that calls for itself, taking its previous output as its input (i.e. the operation Merge). It is responsible for the combinatorial nature of Grammar, a universal cognitive capacity, which confers I-language with its core property: discrete infinity. The unavailability of self-embedding in a given language is not evidence against the universality of recursion. Self-embedding representations are one, but only one of the possible external outcomes of the recursive computations within I-language. The second goal of this thesis is to present new fieldwork data on possessive DPs in Pirahã, showing that self-embedding in this structural domain is possible and productive. Putting it all together, our conclusion is that Everett s claim about the universality of recursion is both theoretically and empirically incorrect. The contribution of this thesis to the field of formal linguistics is twofold: it offers a better understanding of computability within I-language, and a new empirical-based assessment of syntactic embedding in Pirahã.
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Fahrnbach, Eugenia [Verfasser], Cecilia [Gutachter] Poletto, and Helmut [Gutachter] Weiß. "Variation in enclitic possessive constructions in Southern Italian dialects: a syntactic analysis / Eugenia Fahrnbach ; Gutachter: Cecilia Poletto, Helmut Weiß." Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1192372158/34.
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Knittel, Marie-Laurence. "Catégories fonctionnelles et déficience : étude typologique de quelques constructions verbales et nominales." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Nancy II, 2007. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00417892.
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Ce travail présente quelques aspects de la syntaxe du SV et du SN. Du côté du SV, l'accent est mis sur l'étude morphosyntaxique de la flexion verbale. Dans le cadre du SN, ce sont les thèmes du nombre, des constructions possessives et des types d'adjectifs qui sont explorés, dans l'optique d'une étude sur la déficience fonctionnelle. Bien que portant majoritairement sur le français, certains chapitres proposent une comparaison avec les données du turc et du hongrois.
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Reibel, Tracy. "Alien possession: constructions of Australian identity." Thesis, Reibel, Tracy (1999) Alien possession: constructions of Australian identity. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1999. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50723/.
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This thesis involves an examination of a range of historical discourses and how they have contributed to the shape and definition of constructions of cultural identity in Australia. The impact of such constructions on the socio-cultural environment has created a situation where Australia is internationally regarded as a just, fair, and tolerant democratic society but concomitantly has ensured a continuing state of colonisation for the Indigenous peoples of Australia and denied them a history beyond I 788. This highlights an inconstancy in the representation of Australian society that has privileged certain forms of cultural production and limited the ability of the society to adequately embrace its culturally diverse make-up. It is against the background of a continuing colonial imperative that many of the arguments presented in this thesis will be made.
Cultural production is the way in which all facets of social, political, and economic life are accounted for in the realisation of unique meaningfulness for a culture. When these processes are selective and discriminatory a sense of disruption will become evident over time, as individuals and groups are marginalised and alienated from the dominant culture. While justice and tolerance may long have been ideals for the Australian community, and have contributed significantly to the endurance of Australia as a unique socio-cultural environment, they are ideals that have often been circumscribed by influential ideological assertions. For example, the ideology of nationalism and national identity in particular has been the driving force of Australian society since the late I 800s and has very much defined the cultural, social, political and economic domains. The ideological circumscription that nationalism entails has erected barriers to the cohesion of Australian society, in that it has promoted a false homogeneity as a 'truth' of representation.
In order to investigate the questions raised throughout the thesis a number of theoretical concepts, or tools, have been chosen to address the problematic nature of defining cultural identity; the cultural condition; and the meaning and impact of multiculturalism. The tools chosen primarily stem from the works of Jean-Franyois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Benedict Anderson.
The thesis posits that the imagining of the future Australian republic requires thoughtful engagement with all facets of the socio-politico-cultural environment including those historical events that may have been seen as undesirable or unnecessary by the dominant cultural memory. It is not the history itself, however, that is in view but the ways in which representations of such history have been responsible for distorted or false constructions. It is the goal of this thesis to emphasise a more inclusive view of Australian history in order to enable a positive future direction for all Australian citizens - now and in the future. The thesis concludes by drawing the threads of the discussion together and considers how the Australian community can resist the temptation to accept a less tolerant social context and determine positive ways in which to transform the socio-cultural environment to develop an inclusive, just, and ethical cultural milieu.
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Kupula, Mikko. "Adnominal Possession and Ditransitives." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Visby : Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis ; eddy.se [distributör], 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8150.
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Al-Shaer, Ibrahim. "Prototype theory and construction grammar : empirical evidence from the English possessives." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343229.
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Zheng, Keqin. "Design and Construction of Metallo-Supramolecular Terpyridine Possessing Higher Order Structure." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1375283764.
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Mikaelian, Irina. "La Possession en russe moderne : éléments pour la construction d'une catégorie sémantico-syntaxique." Aix-Marseille 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002AIX10035.
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Elmqaddem, Noureddine. "Les constructions génitives : possession et prédication en arabe standard, en arabe marocain et en anglais." Paris 10, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA100079.
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Ce travail est une etude comparative des constructions genitives en anglais, ainsi qu'en arabe standard et en arabe marocain. Il est effectue dans le cadre de la theorie du gouvernement et du liage (chomsky (19981, 1982, 1986b)) et du programme minimaliste (chomsky (1993, 1995)), ainsi que l'analyse-dp (abney(1987)). Apres une description comparative des constructions possessives dans les trois langues etudiee (chapitre 1), et le traitement de quelques proprietes syntaxiques et semantiques qui caracterisent ses constructions (notamment la propagation de l'(in)definitude du dependant genitif vers la tete lexicale et l'indetermination de cette derniere) (chapitre 2), nous avons commence l'analyse syntaxique de la structure interne de ces constructions (chapitre 3). Dans ce chapitre, nous avons propose des explications aux proprietes qui caracterisent ces constructions nominales et des solutions aux problemes qui les entourent en terme de noeuds fonctionnels. Ceci nous a ete utile meme lors du traitement des constructions genitives a tete lexicale derivee, que ce soit un nom processuel (chapitre 4), ou un nom d'agent ou participe (chapitre 5). C'est en nous basant sur la nature des noeuds fonctionnels engendres dans chaque structure et sur le type de derivation de la tete lexicale que nous sommes parvenus a expliquer les differences apparentes au niveau de chaque construction; ceci est le cas surtout quand il s'agit du comportement verbal de quelques unes de ces constructions (structure argumentale, assignation du cas accusatif, interpretation predicative. . . ). Nous avons termine ce travail par la suggestion d'un traitement predicatjf des constructions possessives dont la tete lexicale est un nom ordinaire. C'est un traitement base sur la presence d'un lien entre la construction genitive et sa correspondante prepositionnelle. Bien que seule la derniere soit dotee d'une preposition concrete, celle de la premiere etant abstraite, les deux comportent une copule abstraite.
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Vilosa, Sánchez Marta. "La adquisición del SD en español por adultos de lengua materna árabe egipcio." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672838.
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The general aim of this dissertation is to examine the process of Spanish acquisition as a third language (AL3) by adults who have Arabic as a mother tongue and English as a second language. Specifically, our purpose is to study the properties of the Spanish Determiner Phrase (DP) of these learners. According to the Typological Primacy Model (Rothman, 2011, 2015), from the two languages that constitute the prior linguistic knowledge (PLK) of the L3 learner, the one that has a similar structure is the one that will influence the acquisition process. Focusing on sequential late bilinguals of Egyptian Arabic (L1) - English (L2), we study the role of PLK in the acquisition of the DP taking into account to what extent the similarities and differences between the languages of the PLK interfere in the formation of the interlanguage.Particularly, we investigate: (1) gender agreement, (2) the use of the article or possessive in structures of inalienable possession, and (3) the presence or absence of the article in generic structures. We have three types of experimental tasks: acceptability judgments, filling in the blanks, and forced choiceEl objetivo general de esta tesis doctoral es investigar el proceso de adquisición del español como lengua tercera (AL3) por parte de adultos con árabe como lengua materna e inglés como lengua segunda. De forma específica, nos proponemos investigar las propiedades del Sintagma Determinante (SD) español de dichos aprendices. De acuerdo con el Modelo de Primacía Tipológica (Rothman, 2011, 2015), de las dos lenguas que constituyen conocimiento lingüístico previo (CLP) del aprendiz de L3, la que tiene una estructura más similar a la lengua objeto es la que va a tener más influencia en el proceso de adquisición. Centrándonos en los bilingües secuenciales tardíos de árabes egipcios (L1) - inglés (L2), estudiamos el papel del CLP en la adquisición del SD, teniendo en cuenta en qué medida las similitudes y las diferencias entre las lenguas del CLP van a incidir en la formación de la interlengua. En concreto se investiga: (1) la concordancia de género, (2) el uso del artículo o del posesivo en estructuras de posesión inalienable, y (3) la presencia o ausencia del artículo en estructuras genéricas
Programa de Doctorat en Ciències Humanes, del Patrimoni i de la Cultura
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Prince, Kilu von. "A grammar of Daakaka." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät II, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16592.
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Die Promotionsschrift ist eine deskriptive Grammatik der ozeanischen Sprache Daakaka. Die Sprache wird von etwa eintausend Sprechern auf der vulkanischen Insel Ambrym im Pazifikstaat Vanuatu gesprochen. Die Arbeit entstand im Rahmen eines Dokumentationsprojekts, vor dessen Beginn im Jahr 2009 die Sprache weder beschrieben noch nennenswert verschriftet war. Empirische Grundlage der Beschreibung ist die umfangreiche Datensammlung der Autorin. Unter den vielen bemerkenswerten Eigenschaften der Sprache finden sich ein sehr komplexes System nominaler Possession, semitransitive und pluraktionale Verben und eine außergewöhnlich große Bandbreite von Serialverbkonstruktionen.The dissertation is a descriptive Grammar of the Oceanic language Daakaka. The language is spoken by about one thousand speakers on the volcanic island of Ambrym in the pacific nation of Vanuatu. The grammar was written in the course of a documentation project which started in 2009, and before which the language had neither been described nor written down. Among the many remarkable properties of the language are a very system of nominal possession, semitransitive and pluractional verbs and an exceptional range of serial verb constructions.
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Zerhouni, Mohammed. "Sefrou (Maroc) : géographie d'une croissance urbaine spontanée." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993CLF20051.
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L'auteur analyse la croissance urbaine récente d'une ville moyenne traditionnelle du Maroc : Sefrou (50 000 habitants en 1992). Les mécanismes spécifiques de cette croissance permettent de dire que Sefrou obéit à un processus d'auto-urbanisation où règnent opportunisme et spontanéité, que ce soit à l'amont (lotissements) ou à l'aval (constructions). D'un côté, la majorité des terrains construits dans la ville de manière réglementaire et non réglementaire a été lotie directement par leurs propres propriétaires. Ils sont souvent issus d'anciennes familles paysannes de Sefrou qui ont affecté délibérement leurs exploitations agricoles de la banlieue maraîchère (oasis) à l'urbanisation et ce dans le but d'améliorer leur cadre de vie en disposant de nouveaux logements extra-muros et de loyers mensuels. De l'autre, les lots découlant de ces lotissements familiaux qui dépassent le besoin des opérateurs sont vendus à des ménages de Sefrou et surtout à des immigrants. Et en l'absence de moyens financiers requis, ceux-ci procèdent à l'auto-construction aussi bien au centre-ville (contructions réglementaires)In this theses, the author analyses the recent urban growth of a medium size moroccan town : sefrou (50. 000 inhabitants in 1992), the specific mechanisms of this growth lead us to say that sefrou obeys to a process of self-urbanization where opportunism and spontaneity prevail, both at the level of real estate and construction. On the one hand, most of the land where houses have already been built in accordance with regulations or illegally, was plotted directly by its owners. The latters are often born of old peasant families from sefrou who transformed their farming land into building land in order to improve thein living standards (extra-muros residences, monthly revenues from rents). On the other hand, the plots generated from these family operation exceeding the needs of the operations are sold to households from sefrou and also to immigrants. In the absence of necessary financial means, these people carry out the building operations by themselves in the town centre where constructing is regularized as well as in the outskirts where it is not
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Lacrampe, Sebastien. "Possession in Lelepa, a language of Central Vanuatu." Master's thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10440/1026.
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This thesis studies possession in Lelepa, a language from the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian, spoken in Central Vanuatu. Investigating this particular feature of the language was achieved by collecting original data from Lelepa speakers. Language data is presented in the form of interlinearised examples taken from a corpus of texts and elicitation notes. Data was collected between 2006 and 2008 during fieldtrips to Lelepa and Mangaliliu. The core of the study is devoted to the possessive system of Lelepa. Like many other Oceanic languages, Lelepa has direct and indirect possessive constructions. This thesis shows that the direct possessive construction formally consists of a possessed noun to which a possessor suffix attaches. It encodes possession of semantic domains such as body parts, body products, reference kinship terms, items closely associated to the possessor and parts of wholes. Indirect possession is expressed by two distinct subtypes: the free and construct indirect constructions. The free indirect construction has pronominal possessors only, encoded by two distinct pronoun paradigms: general and part-whole possession pronouns. The former pronouns are used for possession of items that normally do not occur in the direct construction, and the latter are used for possession of parts of wholes. The construct indirect construction is characterised by the occurrence of either of two construct suffixes, -n or -g. The -n construct indirect construction has pronominal and nominal possessors, and the same semantic scope as the direct construction. The -g construct indirect construction has nominal possessors only, and the same semantic scope as the free indirect construction with general possession pronouns. This study also demonstrates that free variation between two possessive constructions, the direct construction and the -n construct indirect construction with pronominal possessors, occur in the language, although more work is needed to determine the scope of this feature.
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Chen, Chien-yu, and 陳芊羽. "An Empirical Study on Taiwanese Junior High School Students' Learning of English Existential and Possessive Constructions." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61895205995760611790.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
英語學系
99
According to previous research, Taiwanese EFL learners have a conflation between English existential sentences and possessive sentences (Lin, 2004; Lai, 2008), which is assumed to arise from the fact that Chinese uses one single morpheme you ‘have’ for existentiality and possession. However, the researcher claims that it seems a little arbitrary and insufficient to explain English learners’ difficulties only in terms of the L1 transfer. Given that, the thesis aimed to examine Taiwanese learners’ difficulties in using correct English existential and possessive forms and to know how they distinguish between the two constructions. The study adopted four instruments, an English proficiency test, a grammaticality judgment task, a Chinese-English translation task, and an interview guide. The study experimented on 147 second-year junior high school students. They were required to finish the proficiency test, grammaticality judgment task, and Chinese-English translation task. Based on their scores of the proficiency test, they were divided into 36 subjects of respective high- and low- proficiency groups. Then, 12 subjects from respective proficiency groups were invited to participate in the interview. The quantitative data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and t-test; the qualitative data were analyzed to delve into the subjects’ learning performances on English existential and possessive sentences. Through such a triangular analysis, the present study found that on top of the L1 transfer the semantic overlap between existentiality and possession also assumed a role in students’ learning difficulty and that students’ use of avoidance strategy was also found. In addition, both proficiency subjects performed differently on the GJ and CET tasks. The high-proficiency subjects largely tapped the feature ‘animacy of locatives’, few of whom applied the feature ‘(in)alienability between locative and postverbal NPs; while, the low-proficiency subjects mainly depended on their intuition. Based on the study results, pedagogical implications were offered to advise English teachers to tell students the two features of ‘animacy of locatives’ and ‘(in)alienability between locative and postverbal NPs’ for them to distinguish between English existential sentences and possessive sentences.
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Chen, Emily Ju-Huey, and 陳如慧. "From Possession to Aspect---Evidence from Hakka Yu Constructions." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86954494840070906727.
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碩士國立政治大學
語言學研究所
88
Hakka Yu ''to own, to possess'' has various grammatical functions. It can function as a full-fledged verb, appear in a serial verb construction, serve as an auxiliary, and act as a verbal complement. With the structural complexity, Hakka Yu denotes possession, emphatic assertion and the existence of the resultative state of being. The divergent syntactic behaviors as well as the different functions of Hakka Yu do not share the same surface form by chance. The coincidence suggests that there must be an extant semantic core that links together all the seemingly unrelated functions exhibited by various syntactic structures of Yu. This thesis, aiming at linking the diversity of usage of Yu, claims that the structural divergence of Yu corresponds to the "cline of grammaticality," which synchronically refers to a continuum at one hand of which is a fuller lexical form, and at the opposite end, a reduced grammatical form. Three major claims are therefore advanced to account for the synchronic differences of Hakka Yu.
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Lipská, Karolína. "Atributivní absolutní konstrukce v současné francouzštině." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-397980.
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Attributive absolute constructions in contemporary French The aim of this master thesis is a detailed analysis of French attributive absolute constructions (att. AC) with emphasis on their semantic characteristics. Att. AC is an example of what is called "secondary predication", i.e. a non-finite predicative structure modifying the primary predication, see a typical example "les yeux fermés", 'the eyes closed', in the sentence "Marie est assise, les yeux fermés.", 'Mary sits with her eyes closed.'. The main function of the att. AC is the modification of the head noun through the relation of inalienable possession (IP), or a part - whole relation, between this noun, which is mostly a human being, and an entity conceptualized in the att. AC. The thesis finds its main source in a monograph about AC written by Suzanne Hanon (1989), which is here completed by a qualitative analysis of syntactic and semantic factors that come into play in the formation of att. AC. Att. AC are approached form the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar as conceptualizations of the IP (or part - whole) paradigm and it is proposed their description as a prototype-based category with some instances more typical (see the example above) than others (e.g. att. AC with an adverbial function or modifying an...
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Muganiwa, Josephine. "Shifting identities: representations of Shona women in selected Zimbabwean fiction." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26875.
Abstract:
Bibliography: leaves 215-230This thesis uses a postcolonial framework to analyse the construction and representation of identities of Shona women in selected black and white Zimbabwean-authored fiction in English published between 1890 and 2015. The study traces meanings associated with Shona women’s identities as ascribed by dominant powers in every epoch to create narratives that reflect the power dynamics. The thesis argues that identities are complex, characterized by various intersections such as race, gender, class and ethnicity. Shona women have to negotiate their identities in various circumstances resulting in shifting multiple identities. The thesis focuses on how such identities are represented in the selected texts. Findings reveal that the colonial project sought to write the Shona women out of existence, and when they appeared negative images of dirt, slothfulness and immorality were ascribed to them. These images continued after independence to justify male dominance of women. However, the lived experience of women shows they have agency and tend to shift identities in relation to specific circumstances. Shona women’s identities are dynamic and multifarious as they aim at relevance in their socioeconomic and political circumstances. Representations of Shona women’s identities are therefore influenced by the aim of the one representing them. All representations are therefore arbitrary and must be interrogated in order to deconstruct meaning and understand the power dynamics at play. The works analysed are Olive Schreiner’s Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897), Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1950), Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda (1993), Cythia Marangwanda’s Shards (2014), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006), Violet Masilo’s The African Tea Cosy (2010), Eric Harrison’s Jambanja (2006), Dangarembgwa’s The Book of Not (2006), Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother (2012) and Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009).
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