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Oshiro, Tokiko. "Aspects of semantic change in honorific verbs of the Okinawan language." Connect to resource, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1226942508.

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Goundry, Katrin. "Regional variation and change in the history of English strong verbs." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7764/.

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This thesis investigates how the strong verb system inherited from Old English evolved in the regional dialects of Middle English (ca. 1100-1500). Old English texts preserve a relatively complex system of strong verbs, in which traditionally seven different ablaut classes are distinguished. This system becomes seriously disrupted from the Late Old English and Early Middle English periods onwards. As a result, many strong verbs die out, or have their ablaut patterns affected by sound change and morphological analogy, or transfer to the weak conjugation. In my thesis, I study the beginnings of t

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Makris, Gerasimos. "Social change, religion, and spirit possession : The Tumbura cult on the sudan." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503463.

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Poortvliet, Marjolein. "Perception and predication : a synchronic and diachronic analysis of Dutch descriptive perception verbs as evidential copular verbs." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71136ea5-67a8-4a76-ad8d-e0c26e820c45.

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Descriptive perception verbs have failed to receive a uniform analysis in previous verb classifications (cf. Chomsky 1965, Rogers 1974, Hengeveld 1992, Levin 1993, Van Eynde et al. 2014). This thesis argues that the descriptive perception verbs in Dutch (i.e. eruitzien 'look', klinken 'sound', voelen 'feel', ruiken 'smell', and smaken 'taste') should be classified as copular verbs, much like lijken 'seem' and schijnen 'seem'. This classification is supported by both the synchronic and diachronic behaviour of these verbs in Dutch. Synchronically, proposing that Germanic copular verbs (as oppose

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AlBader, Yousuf B. "Semantic innovation and change in Kuwaiti Arabic : a study of the polysemy of verbs." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9696/.

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This thesis is a socio-historical study of semantic innovation and change of a contemporary dialect spoken in north-eastern Arabia known as Kuwaiti Arabic. I analyse the structure of polysemy of verbs and their uses by native speakers in Kuwait City. I particularly report on qualitative and ethnographic analyses of four motion verbs: dašš ‘enter’, xalla ‘leave’, miša ‘walk’, and rikað̣ ‘run’, with the aim of establishing whether and to what extent linguistic and social factors condition and constrain the emergence and development of new senses. The overarching research question is: How do we a

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Spalek, Alexandra Anna. "Verb meaning and combinatory semantics: a corpus based study of Spanish change of state verbs." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145476.

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Even though it is an intuitive and perhaps obvious idea that composition leads to non-trivial semantic interactions between words, and these interactions affect the contents of predication, there has still been little work done on how verbs restrict their arguments and how flexible these restrictions are. This dissertation thus starts out with the observation that verbs have very rich combinatorial paradigms and raises the question of what this wide combinatorial capacity of verbs means for the semantics of the verb and the process of composition. Distributed in three case studies, a ri

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Kim, Hyeree. "The synchrony and diachrony of english impersonal verbs : a study in syntactic and lexical change /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487936356157758.

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Rogers, Elizabeth Rachel. "The effect of a change in percepual verbs on intellectual realism errors in appearance-reality tasks." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28275.

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Pillow & Flavell (1985) argue that the phrase 'look like' increases the tendency of young children to commit intellectual realism errors. The present study followed their procedures with the Block Arrays (which includes the Hidden Block task) and, in addition, included the identity task from a previous appearance-reality study by Flavell, Flavell & Green (1983). Forty-two three- and four-year-old preschoolers were presented with a variety of block arrays (Block Arrays task) and realistic-looking fake objects (Identity task) to observe. The subjects were tested on all of the stimulus items in o

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Achab, Karim. "Internal structure of verb meaning: A study of verbs of (change of) state in Tamazight (Berber)." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29335.

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The dissertation investigates verbs of (change of) state in Tamazight (Berber) from the perspective of their internal structure and its syntactic corollary, which corresponds to predicate-argument structure. The verbs investigated include verbs of quality, unaccusatives, spatial configuration verbs, and causatives. Verbs of quality refer to a special class of intransitive verbs occurring with accusative clitics when they indicate a pure state, and with nominative clitics when they indicate change of state. In the latter situation verbs of quality are undistinguished from unaccusatives. I argue

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Castro, Nilsson Manú. "Att få se, få höra och få veta : Perifrastiska uttryck av inkoativitet och futurum i skriven svenska." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-170261.

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Denna studie undersöker samspelet mellan de semantiska kategorierna inkoativitet, futurum och modalitet i få/får/fick/fått + perceptionsverbskonstruktioner i skriven svenska , samt om det går att systematiskt skilja mellan dessa kategorier i form av frekvens och kontext. Enligt Åke Viberg framstår få som rätt språkspecifikt i sitt polysema omfång jämfört med andra europeiska språk, såsom engelska, finska, tyska och franska (Viberg 2009: 105, 119, 2012: 1413). Vidare påstår han att perceptionsverben se, höra och veta i samband med få som hjälpverb (få + perceptionsverb) utt

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Abrines, Llabrés Bartomeu. "Els verbs de canvi d'estat i l'alternança causativa en català." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399985.

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Aquesta tesi pretén analitzar el comportament sintàctic dels verbs de canvi d'estat en llengua catalana respecte de la participació en l'alternança causativa i oferir una proposta teòrica de les representacions sintàctiques de la variant causativa i de l'anticausativa, així com de les construccions que s'hi relacionen (passiva perifràstica, passiva pronominal i mitjana). La tesi pretén, doncs, donar resposta a diferents preguntes com ara, per exemple, quins són els verbs que participen de l'alternança causativa en català i quins són els factors que determinen que un verb de canvi d'estat alte

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Malinga, Bongiwe Bernadette. "A semantic and syntactic analysis of break and bend verbs in Zulu." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52131.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The subject of this study is Break and Bend verbs in isiZulu, which can be classified as verbs of change of state. This study examines the semantic as well as the syntactic analysis of these verbs of change of state in Zulu. Semantically Bend verbs are divided into verbs denoting the bending of body parts, e.g: thoba, khothema, qomfa, bhena, guqa, vosho, and verbs that denote the bending of body parts as well as physical objects, e.g. goba, qethuka/qethula as shown in the sentences below: Indoda igobe ucingo The man bent t

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Rodrigues, Angelica Terezinha Carmo. "Eu fui e fiz esta tese : as construções do tipo foi fez no portugues do Brasil." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/271023.

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Orientador: Maria Luiza Braga<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T11:31:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigues_AngelicaTerezinhaCarmo_D.pdf: 984053 bytes, checksum: f94d5eae89d1cdc7fe011f57d04b952c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006<br>Resumo: Na presente tese, investigo as ¿construções do tipo foi fez¿, doravante CFFs, presentes na modalidade falada do Português do Brasil (PB). Essas construções apresentam propriedades morfossintáticas bem definidas, além de desempenharem um papel particular na

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Lakaw, Alexander. "The use of arise and rise in present-day British & American English : A corpus based analysis of two verbs." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1374.

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<p>This corpus based investigation deals with the present-day usage of and the semantic relation between the two verbs rise and arise. Concordance lines containing various forms of the two verbs in question have been taken from six different (sub)corpora and were examined in view of their collocational and semantic characteristics. The basic aims were to investigate the nowadays status of the verbs rise and arise and whether they (still) can be regarded as synonyms. The results show that both verbs can sometimes be used synonymously. Their general semantic relation appeared to be near-synonymy

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Norlin, Susanne. "Functional shift and semantic change in Lord of the Rings Online." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-21654.

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The purpose of this essay is to identify functional shifts and semantic changes in the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Lord of the Rings Online. The focus is on new uses of established terms in Standard English and the intent is to see how the word formation processes work in an online gaming environment, and identify the possible reasons behind them. Due to the lack of previous studies of language in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, the aim is to provide some insight into some of the language developments that occur in such an environment. A quantitative method

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Fernebring, Felix. "Exploring a recent grammatical change : A corpus-based investigation of the core modals will and shall and the semi-modal BE going to in newspapers and blogs written by Swedes." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-31860.

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The aim of this study is to investigate how the modal auxiliaries will and shall and the semi-modal BE going to are used to express futurity by individuals whose first language is Swedish. The study is corpus based, and the corpora used in this study consist of Swedish newspapers in English (SWENC) and material from blogs which are written in English by Swedes (BESC). These are compared with the press sub-corpora in F-LOB (the Freiburg-LOB Corpus of British English) and Frown (the Freiburg-Brown corpus of American English), which represent British and American varieties of English. The method

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Bock, Sara. "Lexikalischer und semantischer Wandel im Ägyptischen." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17221.

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Jede lebendige Sprache ist durch ihren Gebrauch ständigem Wandel unterworfen, der jede Ebene der Sprache betreffen kann – von der Phonologie über die Semantik bis hin zur Grammatik. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, den semantischen und lexikalischen Wandel des Ägyptischen zu beleuchten. Das Ägyptische ist in seinen verschiedenen Sprachstufen über mehr als vier Jahrtausende hinweg zu verfolgen, und gehört damit zu den am längsten bezeugten Einzelsprachen der Menschheitsgeschichte. Dies und die gute Quellenlage des Ägyptischen machen es zu einem prädestinierten Gegenstand

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Sanders, Jessica R. "Actions/Objects: A Knotting." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276036952.

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Ramacciotti, Adriana de Souza. "A gramaticalização de verbos na Nova Gramática do Português Brasileiro." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14364.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriana de Souza Ramacciotti.pdf: 1396567 bytes, checksum: c82efe40839e12a61522536d8a7d9288 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-18<br>The present work examines the grammaticalization of verbs in a Brazilian Portuguese grammar (Nova Gramática do Português Brasileiro), written by Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho. The primary purpose is to verify whether there is grammaticalization of verbs and the second one is to describe its pathway. Grammaticalization is a language change process which turns lexical items into grammatic

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Mabaso, Ximbani Eric. "Issues on Xitsonga verbs." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1077.

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This study focuses on the predicate argument structure (PAS) of a sub-class of verbs in Xitsonga - verbs of change of possession: give, contribute, future having, providing, obtaining and verbs of exchange. It is shown that these verbs select various theta roles to form their PAS in the different alternations allowed in this language. The effects of the applicative {-el-} and causative {-is-} verbal affixes on the PAS of such verbs are also considered. The study confirms the fact that the ordering of objects in ditransitive verbs is determined by an interplay of syntactic and sem

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Sheng-huei, Chu, and 朱聖暉. "Lexico-semantic Group of Verbs of Possession in Modern Russian." Thesis, 1994. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41371585106770625687.

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Qian, Baoqing. "Studies on L2 Acquisition of Chinese Verbs of 'Change' by English Speakers." 2018. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/700.

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When Chinese language learners reach intermediate level, approximately in the second year of their Chinese study, they start to encounter near-synonyms, words that have the same translations in English, and characters that look alike. These words are often called 易混淆词 yi hunxiao ci “easily confusable words” by Chinese scholars. This lexical acquisition study researches a group of near synonyms about Chinese verbs of ‘change’, which either express a stative change (where an argument which expresses the result of the change is required) or causative change (where an argument which expresses the

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Troberg, Michelle. "Dynamic Two-place Indirect Verbs in French: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study in Variation and Change of Valence." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/17269.

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This dissertation provides an account of an often-noted change in the history of French: the shift in the expression of the internal argument of a small class of dynamic two-place verbs best represented by aider ‘to help’ from “dative”, i.e., as an indirect object with the preposition à, to “accusative”, i.e., as a direct object with no preposition. The change does not appear to be correlated with a change in the meaning of the verbs. Traditional commentators have viewed it as random, affecting only a few lexical items, rather than systematic. One of the central results of this thesis is that

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Piotrowska, Carolina Monika. "A diachronic analysis of the progressive aspect in Black South African English / C.M. Piotrowska." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/14711.

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Current research into language change and evolution focuses on native varieties of English, Schneider’s (2007) settler strand, but we have little knowledge concerning diachronic changes in non-native varieties of English, Schneider’s (2007) indigenous strand. Such a theory must take into account language contact as well as theories pertaining to Second Language Acquisition. This dissertation describes the diachronic changes which occur in one feature of Black South African English (BSAE), namely the progressive aspect. Current synchronic research on BSAE suggests that the progressive aspect is

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