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Sylla, Moctar. "Les passages régis par les verbes d’imminence assimilés ou apparentés et leurs traductions en français dans l’œuvre de Rachid El-Daïf." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAC012.
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Cette recherche porte sur les verbes d’imminence assimilés ou apparentés dans l’oeuvre de Rachid EL-DAÏF et leur traduction en français. Nous avons procédé à l’analyse de ces verbes en arabe ancien et moderne, ainsi qu’en français, dans une perspective contrastive afin de relever les similitudes et les différences entre les deux langues. Nous avons étudié les verbes d’imminence dans la première partie, les verbes de souhait ou de probabilité dans l’expression de la modalité dans la deuxième, les verbes inchoatifs dans la troisième, l’analyse du verbe pouvoir et de son équivalent devoir en français dans la quatrième, l’exposant temporel kâna à la forme préfixée dans la cinquième partieOur research concerns assimilated or related imminent verbs in the work of Rachid EL-DAÏF and their translation into French. We analyzed these verbs in ancient and modern Arabic, as well as in French, in a contrasting perspective in order to identify the similarities and differences between the two languages. We have studied the verbs of imminence in the first part, the verbs of desire or probability in the expression of the modality in the second, the verbs in the third, the verb power and its equivalent duty in French in the fourth, the temporal exponent kana to the form prefixed in the fifth part
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Yamamoto(Nobuta), Chika. "The comparison between Japanese compound verbs with "～ageru" and English verb-particle constructions with "～up." Kyoto University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/144072.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)0048
新制・課程博士
博士(人間・環境学)
甲第12416号
人博第334号
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京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科文化・地域環境学専攻
(主査)教授 三谷 惠子, 教授 山梨 正明, 助教授 河﨑 靖
学位規則第4条第1項該当
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Shibata, Chihaya C. "Honorific predication in early middle Japanese : a critical survey with examples from the Ookagami /." Connect to this title online, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1116609758.
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AraÃjo, Juliana GeÃrgia GonÃalves de. "Analysis of constructions with verb support botar: grammatical and discursive properties." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=18885.
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FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do CearÃCoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior
Este trabalho visa a caracterizar formal, semÃntica e pragmaticamente as construÃÃes com verbo-suporte botar; considerando que, dentro desse âguarda-chuvaâ que se denominou verbo-suporte, hà estruturas com comportamentos sintÃtico-semÃnticos distintos. A partir das caracterÃsticas sintÃtico-semÃnticas das construÃÃes com verbo-suporte, verificaram-se trÃs graus de fluidez categorial: construÃÃes com verbo-suporte que estÃo mais prÃximas das construÃÃes livres (grau 1), construÃÃes com verbo-suporte consideradas prototÃpicas (grau 2) e construÃÃes que estÃo mais prÃximas das expressÃes cristalizadas (grau 3). A pesquisa enfocou o uso das construÃÃes botar + SN/SP em PortuguÃs e define as propriedades morfossintÃticas e semÃnticas que botar assume ao se vincular à categoria de verbo-suporte. A investigaÃÃo criteriosa sobre as propriedades de seleÃÃo de botar e seu comportamento sintÃtico-semÃntico em construÃÃes botar + SN/SP forneceu ainda subsÃdios para se descreverem diferentes empregos de botar nesse tipo de estrutura e, assim, se delinear uma cadeia de gramaticalizaÃÃo desse verbo. A base teÃrica linguÃstica de exame à a teoria funcionalista da linguagem, a qual reformula o corte rÃgido entre os verbos plenos e verbos-suporte, tratando esta categoria em uma perspectiva escalar e nÃo discreta. Os corpora (Norpofor, Porcufort e o DUP) de anÃlise compreendem ocorrÃncias de Vsup nas modalidades formal e informal do portuguÃs do Brasil, sem que se fixe como objetivo do trabalho pesquisar especificamente diferenÃas entre essas modalidades, mas com a hipÃtese de que a complexidade das CVSup nÃo poderia representar-se da mesma forma nessas modalidades de lÃngua. Realizou-se, com esta pesquisa, uma sistematizaÃÃo semÃntico-sintÃtica de expressÃes com verbo-suporte botar que apresentam graus de fluidez categorial. Para tanto, recorreu-se a anÃlises mÃltiplas que envolvem a descriÃÃo semÃntico-sintÃtica das expressÃes e a verificaÃÃo de parÃmetros que influenciam a fluidez e a depreensÃo de seus nÃveis. Os resultados demonstram ainda que a produtividade de botar na norma popular à maior do que na norma culta. No portuguÃs culto de Fortaleza, constatamos uma frequÃncia menor do verbo botar, confirmando nossa hipÃtese de que o processo de gramaticalizaÃÃo à mais lento na modalidade culta, embora, mesmo em menor quantidade, jà haja indÃcios de gramaticalizaÃÃo. ApÃs uma anÃlise geral nos sÃculos XVIII, XIX e XX, constatamos que hà um aumento da frequÃncia do verbo botar ao longo dos sÃculos. Tal fato confirma que esse verbo està em processo de gramaticalizaÃÃo contÃnuo. A descriÃÃo de cada um desses nÃveis (com os parÃmetros definidos na anÃlise e os exemplos extraÃdos dos corpora) explicitou que o verbo botar, na categoria de verbos-suporte, pode fazer parte tanto de estruturas mais integradas quanto de estruturas menos integradas, conforme essas construÃÃes se aproximam ou se distanciam do protÃtipo de uma construÃÃo com verbo-suporte.
This work aims to provide some formal, semantic and pragmatic characterization of the support verb âbotarâ, since the wideness concerning this verb presents distinctive syntactical and semantical behaviors in its structure. From the characteristics of the syntactical and semantical constructions of the verb, three degrees of categorical flushness were explored: free constructions, prototypical constructions and structures which are nearly crystalize. The research was concentrated in the constructions âbotar+SN/SPâ in Brazilian Portuguese, establishing the morpho-syntactical and semantical which the verb âbotarâ assumes when it is constructed as a support verb. The rigorous investigation of the selection properties of âbotarâ and its syntactical and semantical behavior in the âbotar+SN/SPâ structure provided support to describe different employments of the verb, hence leading to a chain of grammatical structures. The linguistic theoretical base used is the functionalism theory of language, which allows to precisely separating ordinary verbs from the support verbs, by treating their aspects in a scalar, rather discrete perspective. The corpus used in the analysis consists of Vsup occurrences in formal and informal Brazilian Portuguese language, however without restricting to only the differences among these modalities, but also using the hypothesis that the CVSup complexity could not be represented in these language modalities. The research allowed to create a systematic syntactical and semantical of expression involving the support verb which present degrees of categorical flushness. In order to achieve that, multiple analyses were conducted in which the syntactical and semantical descriptions of the expressions, in addition to the use of parameters which influences the flushness and the comprehension. As a result of the research, the productivity of the verb is more evident in the popular rather than in the formal usage. In particular, in formal Portuguese of Fortaleza, we verified a lower frequency of use, which confirms our starting hypothesis that the grammaticalization is slower in the formal language, although we could note that it has started already. After detailed analyses in the XVIII, XIX and XX centuries, we concluded that the usage of the verb has been increasing in the past few centuries, in fact the verb is having a gradual continuous grammaticalization. According to the analysis parameters and the examples obtained from the corpus, the description of each of those levels showed that the verb âbotarâ, within the support verb category, can be part of both the less and more integrated structures, depending on the how close those constructions are from the prototype of a support verb construction.
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Nouri, Catherine. "Persian Verbs in Spatial Events : with a Specific Focus on Complex Predicates." Thesis, Lille 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LIL3H009/document.
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Cette thèse a un double objectif : 1) Étudier le comportement sémantique et syntaxique des verbes simples persans par rapport aux prédicats complexes dans les événements spatiaux respectant la typologie de Talmy sur cadrage verbal ou cadrage satellitaire ; et 2) Analyser la systématicité sémantique dans la formation des prédicats complexes basée sur une approche constructionnelle et expliquer leurs comportements exacts, à savoir leur productivité, la causalité, leur durée, et le comportement syntaxique de leurs pré-verbes en fonction de leurs significations. Dans la première partie de l’analyse, nous parlons du comportement des verbes simples par rapport aux prédicats complexes dans les événements spatiaux. Notre analyse est basée sur un vaste corpus. Les prédicats complexes expriment fréquemment le comportement et d’autres informations sémantiques tandis qu’une fréquence élevée de verbes simples apparaît comme des constructions neutres sans exprimer aucune information spécifique. La distribution syntaxique des prédicats complexes respecte la règle de l’« économie de la langue » étant donné que toutes les informations sémantiques sont aussi encodées dans la construction elles-mêmes. Par ailleurs, les verbes simples exigent, dans la majorité des cas, des clauses dépendantes pour exprimer le comportement. En outre, les prédicats complexes encodent, à la fois, le mouvement et les événements d’emplacement, tandis que les verbes simples sont pour la plupart intransitifs et se réfèrent aux événements locatifs. Les lacunes mentionnées ci-dessus sur des verbes simples ont conduit au remplacement de ces derniers par des prédicats complexes au fil du temps. Dans la deuxième partie de notre analyse, nous traitons les caractéristiques sémantiques de prédicats complexes dans des événements spatiaux à la lumière de la théorie de Grammaire de Construction et des approches fondées sur le corpus. Selon Goldberg, nous considérons des constructions de prédicats complexes à part entière. Kardan, "Faire" ; dādan, 'Donner'; zadan, 'Frapper' ; et bordan, 'Prendre', sont les verbes supports étudiés dans cette thèse. Ces verbes supports sont parmi ceux les plus fréquents ayant le plus de pré-verbes en commun dans notre corpus. Premièrement, nous avons identifié les extensions sémantiques de chaque verbe support. Cette catégorisation nous a permis de révéler un certain degré de productivité sémantique ainsi que la généralisation entre chaque verbes supports et le type de pré-verbes avec lesquels il pourrait co-se produire. Autrement dit, chaque verbe support se combine avec un type spécifique de pré-verbe. Il est à note que même des extensions métaphoriques ont un certain degré de productivité et les locuteurs peuvent ainsi les généraliser. Nous tenons également à noter que les prédicats complexes dans les événements spatiaux font partis de la famille de constructions résultatives. Certains comportements des prédicats complexes, tels que leur causalité et la durée de l’activité, sont expliqués en fonction de leur sémantique, et il est démontré que toute la construction est responsable de tels comportements. La comparaison entre les combinaisons qui ont des verbes supports différents mais des pré-verbes identiques évoque quelques différences sémantiques et syntaxiques, ce qui est la preuve de la systématicité existante dans la formation des prédicats complexes. Grâce à une analyse collostructionnelle, nous parlons du degré d’attraction de chaque verbe support par rapport aux catégories sémantiques. Enfin, le type de fréquences de prédicats complexes révèle le degré de productivité dans chaque verbe support, qui ressemble à: Kardan=Zadan > dādan > bordanThe purpose of this dissertation is twofold : 1) to investigate the semantic and syntactic behavior of Persian simplex verbs vs. CPs in spatial events with respect to Talmy’s typology of satellite-framed and verb-framed languages ; and 2) to analyze the semantic systematicity in the formation of CPs based on a constructional approach and explain their certain behaviors, namely, their productivity, causativity, duration, and syntactic behavior of their PVs through the meaning of the construction.In the first part of the analysis, we discuss the behaviour of simplex verbs vs. CPs in spatial events. Our analysis is based on an extensive corpus. CPs express manner and other semantic information frequently while a high frequency of simplex verbs appears as neutral constructions without expressing any specific information. The syntactic distribution of CPs follow the ‘economy of language’ rule since all the semantic information is encoded in the construction itself; on the other hand, simplex verbs require dependent clauses to express manner in the majority of cases. Furthermore, CPs encode both motion and location events while simplex verbs are mostly intransitive and refer to locative events. The above-mentioned shortcomings of simplex verbs have led to the replacement of these verbs by CPs over time. In the second part of our analysis, we deal with the semantic features of CPs in spatial events in the light of Construction Grammar theory and corpus-based approaches. Following Goldberg we consider CPs constructions in their own right. Kardan, ‘do’ ; dādan, ‘give’; zadan, ‘hit’; and bordan, ‘take’, are the LVs under the study in this thesis. These LVs found to be among the most frequent ones with the most PVs in common in our corpus. Firstly, we identified the semantic extensions of each LV. This categorization reveals a certain degree of semantic productivity and generalization between each LV and the type of PVs with which it can co-occur. In other words, each LV combines with a specific type of PVs. Even metaphorical extensions have a certain degree of productivity and speakers can generalize about them. We also argue that CPs in spatial events are a family of resultative constructions. Certain behaviors of CPs, namely, their causativity, and the duration of the activity, are explained based on their semantics, and it is shown that the whole construction is responsible for such behaviors. The comparison between combinations that have different LVs but identical PVs reveals certain semantic and syntactic differences, which is evidence for the existing systematicity in the formation of CPs. Through a collostructional analysis we discuss the degree of attraction of each LV with respect to the semantic categories
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Österdahl, Emma. "Barns utforskande av fysikaliska fenomen på kullar : En design-baserad studie om barns utforskande av friktion." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-73262.
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The aim of the study is to provide knowledge about how children explore, understand and reason about the physical phenomenon of friction. This study have been based on the younger children’s exploring. The method of the study has been observation in order to get as close to the environment that’s being investigated and to bring attention to the younger children’s actions. A nonparticipating observation was also used for the observer to influence the children as little as possible. The observations that have been made have taken place over two days and have been video recorded to ensure documentation of children's reasoning, body language and actions. The result shows how the children focused on overcoming the friction to get an object to slide instead of getting stuck. The participants’ interaction also emerged in the result as central to driving the exploration further. The conclusions drawn after the study is that the result can be linked to the preschool’s curriculum, which addresses the fact that the children should be given the opportunity to explore, discuss and develop understanding of physical phenomena. The study has also highlighted that hills can be used as a tool for teaching and exploring the phenomenon of friction.
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Antonopoulou, Eleni. "Prototype theory and the meaning of verbs, with special reference to modern Greek verbs of motion." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1987. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29355/.
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The present study tests the applicability of Prototype theory, selected among competing theoretical frameworks, to a lexical semantic analysis of verbs, with particular reference to the previously uncharted domain of Modern Greek verbs of motion. A number of the characteristics which Prototype theory established in connection with certain types of nouns are demonstrated to pertain to verbs: their meaning is not a matter of necessary and sufficient conditions, but rather a matter of gradation; their attributes combine in non-arbitrary ways to form categories with fuzzy boundaries the members of which are non-equivalent. Two categorizations of motion verbs according to 'major classificatory properties' are discussed at length. First, 'states', 'processes' and 'events' are shown to constitute a continuum, the focal points of which are identifiable on the basis of the interaction of factors such as spatio-temporal specifications, aspect, inherent semantic properties of individual verbs and the nature of the 'theme' (moving object). Second, 'causativity' and 'agentivity' are understood as distinct, to some extent, clusters of scalar properties and different Modern Greek motion verbs are shown to exhibit these properties to a greater or lesser degree. In seeking to determine which factors may be responsible for the formation of verb categories, it is recalled that the validity of the principle of 'family resemblance' and the method for identifying the 'basic' level of abstraction cannot be tested in the case of verbs. It is suggested that other factors may be operative, such as the relative 'salience' of certain combinations of properties, 'linguistic markedness', familiarity and frequency. This tentative conclusion is reinforced with respect to Modern Greek verbs of motion by the results of specific tests.
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Al, Yafi Hanadi. "Les verbes à complément attributif en français et en arabe et leurs traductions." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO20061/document.
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La présente thèse relève à la fois de la linguistique et de la traduction. La traduction fait apparaître les similitudes et les différences sémantiques et syntaxiques entre les systèmes langagiers de la langue de départ et la langue d’arrivée. La traduction des verbes à compléments attributifs exige une connaissance approfondie de leur grammaire et de la syntaxe de leurs constructions. Une étude descriptive séparée de chaque langue présente un schéma syntaxique de ces verbes en français et en arabe. Cette thèse examine dans la dernière partie le cas du verbe kāna, verbe très important et de haute fréquence parmi les verbes à compléments attributifs étudiés. L’analyse portait sur le texte coranique. Une approche comparative montre que les équivalents de « kāna + préposition » trouvés dans la traduction de Blachère ne correspondent pas aux équivalents donnés par les dictionnaires et qu’il était impossible de traduire un verbe en se contentant de recourir à ces derniers, qui ne nous donnent pas toujours un équivalent parfait du verbe étudié et ne recouvrent pas tous les contextes possibles. En tant qu’exposant temporel ou verbe d’état, le verbe kāna doit être traduit d’après des indices contextuels (les marqueurs de la négation, modalités, préposition, …). Cette analyse indique clairement que le contexte immédiat et médiat du verbe joue un rôle primordial dans sa traduction comme on peut le voir avec le verbe kāna illustré par des exemples tirés du texte coraniqueThis thesis pertains to both linguistics and translation studies. Translating from one language to another presents semantic and syntactic similarities and differences between Arabic and French. The translation of verbs with attributive complement demands a very good understanding of the grammar and of the syntactic constructions of the phrases containing these verbs. Separate studies of Arabic and French show a syntactical pattern of their verbs with attributive complement. This thesis also analyzes the use of the extremely important verb, kāna, the most frequently used between the Arabic verbs with an attribute studied in the corpus. We analysed its uses in the Coran. A close comparison shows that the equivalents of " kāna + preposition " that Blachère gives in his translation do not match with those found in dictionaries. In fact, translating this verb only with the definitions found in dictionaries is impossible. A dictionary as a single source will never be sufficient in the realm of translation. As a temporal exponent or a state verb, kāna must be translated by using contextual clues including (negation marker, modality, prepositions, …). This analysis clearly indicates that both direct and indirect contexts of a verb play an essential role in its translation. The verb, kāna, with its examples from the Coran documents this principle
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Pasenkova, Irina. "A Cross-linguistic comparison of the verbs of speaking with the component of non-standard speech and their translation (English-Russian)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669340.
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In this dissertation we examine the sphere of the English verbs of speaking (VoS) with 2 components: the manner of speaking component (MoSC) and the component of non-standard speech (CoNS), and their translations from English into Russian, this being the first study to compare the two languages regarding these aspects. In our attempt to fill this gap, we have examined in what way translators transform English VoS with the MoSC and CoNS like mumble, lisp or stammer into Russian.
The results of the analyses of the translations have indicated that the solutions chosen by translators showed a dependence between the MoSC, the CoNS and the type of equivalence (Kade 1968) used. We also arrived at the conclusion that translating from English Russian employs a larger number of MoS verb types than English and that information encoded in the English MoS verbs is sometimes enlarged by the Russian translators, that adds an aspectual nuance regarding the original verb.
There are several fields where the results of our study can be applied: practical lexicography, computational linguistics, pragmatics, translating and interpreting, teaching and learning English and Russian as foreign languages as well as teaching and learning translation.En aquesta tesi s’analitza l’àmbit dels verbs de parla anglesos (VoS) amb 2 components: el component de manera de parlar (MoSC) i el component de parla no estàndard (CoNS), i les seves traduccions de l’anglès al rus; és el primer estudi que compara els dos idiomes pel que fa a aquests aspectes. En el nostre intent de cobrir aquest buit, hem examinat de quina manera els traductors transformen, en pasar-lo al rus, el sistema anglès de verbs de parla amb MoSC i CoNS com ara mumble, lisp o stammer. Els resultats de les anàlisis de les traduccions han indicat que les solucions escollides pels traductors mostraven una dependència entre el MoSC, el CoNS i el tipus d'equivalència utilitzada (Kade 1968). També vam arribar a la conclusió que en el cas dels verbs d’interès el significat pragmàtic de les mostres podria restablir el significat semàntic de les traduccions. Hi ha diversos camps on es poden aplicar els resultats d’aquest estudi: lexicografia pràctica, lingüística computacional, pragmàtica, traducció i interpretació, ensenyament i aprenentatge d’anglès i rus com a llengües estrangeres, així com ensenyament i aprenentatge de la traducció.
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Labanauskaitė, Alina. "English Deverbal Causative Phrasal Verbs with the Postverb OUT." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100902_232430-07952.
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The aim of the present paper is to present the componential analysis of English deverbal causative phrasal verbs with the postverb OUT as well as classify them according to classeme and into LSG. The research material used in the paper is 130 verbs containing the postverb OUT selected from 4 dictionaries involving the Internet sources. The structure of the paper consists of an Introduction, 5 parts (taking into consideration the theoretical and practical parts), Conclusions and references. The subject of the research, aim, objectives, research methods and relevance are defined in the Introduction. The 5 parts include linguistic status of English phrasal verbs, word formation and phrasal verbs, sememe, lexical meaning, the componential structure of sememe: the hierarchy of semes, classeme, the components Cause, Become, Be, archiseme, differential semantic components as well as paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations. The Conclusions generalize the attained results from both the theoretical and practical backgrounds. The references provide with the list of all the sources which were used while writing and analyzing the bachelor thesis.Darbo tikslas yra diverbinių, kauzatyvinių, frazinių anglų kalbos veiksmažodžių su postverb OUT komponentinė analizė ir jų klasifikacija pagal klasemą ir leksinę semantinę grupę. Tikslui pasiekti surinkta 130 frazinių veiksmažodžių su postverbu OUT iš 4 skirtingų žodynų pasitelkiant ir interneto šaltinius. Darbo struktūra susideda iš įvado, 5 dalių (teorinė ir praktinė dalys), išvadų ir literatūros sąrašo. Darbo tikslas, uždaviniai, tyrimo metodai ir aktualumas yra aptariami įvade. 5 dalys aprašo lingvistinį anglų kalbos frazinių veiksmažodžių statusą, žodžių darybą ir frazinius veiksmažodžius, sememą, leksinę reikšmę, sememos komponentinę struktūrą: semų hierarchiją, klasemą, komponentus Cause, Become, Be, archisemą, diferencinius sematinius komponentus ir paradigminius bei syntagminius ryšius. Išvados apibedrina gautus teorinės ir praktinės dalių rezultatus. Literatūros sąrašas pateikia šaltinių sąrašą, kuris buvo panaudotas rašant ir analizuojant bakalauro darbą.
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Uchida, Miyo. "Intransitive verbs with transitive counterparts in Japanese : --with focus on ergative and middle--." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31152.
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In this thesis, I have examined intransitive verbs with transitive counterparts in Japanese. In accordance with the differences in their syntactic and semantic characteristics, I have considered that they are categorized into two, so-called ergative and middle verbs. There are various theories concerning "ergative" and "middle" verbs, especially "ergative" verbs since the term ergative is somewhat confusing. For instance, some linguists consider "ergative" verbs as underlyingly transitive verbs while others consider them as lexically intransitive verbs.
I have hypothesized that "ergative" verbs are lexically intransitive and "middle" verbs are derived intransitive, and have attempted to support intransitivity or transitivity of those verbs from syntactic and semantic points of view, such as concerning passive possibility, implied agent, and so on. For example, "ergative" verbs seem to be passivized whereas "middle" verbs do not seem to be passivized since potentialization, which derives "middle" verbs, has a close relationship with passive. "Ergative" verbs do not necessarily have implied agent whereas "middle" verbs always seem to have implied agent and suggest underlying agent. My analysis seems to reveal the difference in transitivity between "ergative" and "middle" verbs and supports my hypothesis.Arts, Faculty of
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George, C. H. "The expression of the agent with passive verbs in Ancient Greek." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.599353.
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Whereas English has only one means of expressing the agent of a passive verb, the preposition by, Ancient Greek had several ways to mark this grammatical relation. In short, this dissertation is an examination of the conditions that favoured the use of one agent marker over another. In Homer, the use of the agent with the passive voice is extremely rare. As a result, little may be determined for certain regarding the reasons why one agent marker is preferred to another in a particular passage. By the time of Herodotus, however, this construction has become more frequent, and, both in Herodotus and in the Classical Attic prose writers, two main conditioning factors may be seen at work. First, the syntax of the verb may affect the expression of the agent: perfect passive verbs and, to a lesser extent, participles may be associated with agent markers other than the standard hupo. Second, the semantics of the verb also play a role: verbs of sending often construe with para with the genitive, verbs of thinking with para with the dative. These factors, however, do not account for non-standard agent expression in tragedy, where it is even more common than in prose. Here it was largely conditioned by the constraints of iambic trimeter: prepositions like ek and pros with the genitive are used as convenient alternatives to the metrically awkward hupo. After the classical period, hupo gradually gives way to para with the genitive as the standard agent marker. Although apo becomes the agent marker in Modern Greek, its sporadic use in agent expressions through the twelfth century AD should be ascribed to the influence of the corresponding Hebrew construction on Judaeo-Christian literature, not to the supposition that apo had already become the main agent marker in the vernacular.
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Santos, Anderson Roberto Santos dos. "A computational investigation of verbs during aging with and without Alzheimer’s disease." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/119124.
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A doença de Alzheimer produz alterações nas funções cognitivas, entre eles, de processos que são responsáveis pela linguagem e memória. Com o intuito de termos uma melhor compreensão das alterações da linguagem, este trabalho investigou características presentes em redes semânticas de pacientes com diagnóstico de provável Alzheimer, com foco nos verbos. Os resultados das comparações entre as redes de indivíduos saudáveis e pacientes com Alzheimer indicam diferenças topológicas entre eles. Neste trabalho, também foram construídos classificadores que poderiam captar as diferenças entre os vários perfis de indivíduos, e que podem ser utilizados para classificar novos indivíduos de acordo com o perfil mais próximo. Esse esforço se deu com o intuito de ajudar no diagnóstico de doenças que afetam a linguagem, como a doença de Alzheimer.Alzheimer’s disease produces alterations of cognitive functions and of processes that are responsible for language and memory. In order to have a better understanding of language changes, we investigate the characteristics of the semantic networks of patients diagnosed with probable Alzheimer, focusing on verbs. The results of comparisons with networks of healthy individuals and patients with Alzheimer disease highlight some topological differences among them. We also constructed classifiers that could capture the differences between the various profiles of speakers, and that can be used to classify unknown speakers according to the closest profile. We made this effort in order to help the diagnosis of diseases that affect language, such as the Alzheimer’s disease.
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D'Odorico, Tommaso. "An ontological analysis of vague motion verbs, with an application to event recognition." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6909/.
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This research presents a methodology for the ontological formalisation of vague spatial concepts from natural language, with an application to the automatic recognition of event occurrences on video data. The main issue faced when defining concepts sourced from language is vagueness, related to the presence of ambiguities and borderline cases even in simple concepts such as ‘near’, ‘fast’, ‘big’, etc. Other issues specific to this semantic domain are saliency, granularity and uncertainty. In this work, the issue of vagueness in formal semantics is discussed and a methodology based on supervaluation semantics is proposed. This constitutes the basis for the formalisation of an ontology of vague spatial concepts based on classical logic, Event Calculus and supervaluation semantics. This ontology is structured in layers where high-level concepts, corresponding to complex actions and events, are inferred through mid-level concepts, corresponding to simple processes and properties of objects, and low-level primitive concepts, representing the most essential spatio-temporal characteristics of the real world. The development of ProVision, an event recognition system based on a logic-programming implementation of the ontology, demonstrates a practical application of the methodology. ProVision grounds the ontology on data representing the content of simple video scenes, leading to the inference of event occurrences and other high-level concepts. The contribution of this research is a methodology for the semantic characterisation of vague and qualitative concepts. This methodology addresses the issue of vagueness in ontologies and demonstrates the applicability of a supervaluationist approach to the formalisation of vague concepts. It is also proven to be effective towards solving a practical reasoning task, such as the event recognition on which this work focuses.
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Chillotti, Ilaria. "Vers l'efficacité et la sécurité du chiffrement homomorphe et du cloud computing." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLV020.
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Le chiffrement homomorphe est une branche de la cryptologie, dans laquelle les schémas de chiffrement offrent la possibilité de faire des calculs sur les messages chiffrés, sans besoin de les déchiffrer. L’intérêt pratique de ces schémas est dû à l’énorme quantité d'applications pour lesquels ils peuvent être utilisés. En sont un exemple le vote électronique, les calculs sur des données sensibles, comme des données médicales ou financières, le cloud computing, etc..Le premier schéma de chiffrement (complètement) homomorphe n'a été proposé qu'en 2009 par Gentry. Il a introduit une technique appelée bootstrapping, utilisée pour réduire le bruit des chiffrés : en effet, dans tous les schémas de chiffrement homomorphe proposés, les chiffrés contiennent une petite quantité de bruit, nécessaire pour des raisons de sécurité. Quand on fait des calculs sur les chiffrés bruités, le bruit augmente et, après avoir évalué un certain nombre d’opérations, ce bruit devient trop grand et, s'il n'est pas contrôlé, risque de compromettre le résultat des calculs.Le bootstrapping est du coup fondamental pour la construction des schémas de chiffrement homomorphes, mais est une technique très coûteuse, qu'il s'agisse de la mémoire nécessaire ou du temps de calcul. Les travaux qui on suivi la publication de Gentry ont eu comme objectif celui de proposer de nouveaux schémas et d’améliorer le bootstrapping pour rendre le chiffrement homomorphe faisable en pratique. L’une des constructions les plus célèbres est GSW, proposé par Gentry, Sahai et Waters en 2013. La sécurité du schéma GSW se fonde sur le problème LWE (learning with errors), considéré comme difficile en pratique. Le bootstrapping le plus rapide, exécuté sur un schéma de type GSW, a été proposé en 2015 par Ducas et Micciancio. Dans cette thèse on propose une nouvelle variante du schéma de chiffrement homomorphe de Ducas et Micciancio, appelée TFHE.Le schéma TFHE améliore les résultats précédents, en proposant un bootstrapping plus rapide (de l'ordre de quelques millisecondes) et des clés de bootstrapping plus petites, pour un même niveau de sécurité. TFHE utilise des chiffrés de type TLWE et TGSW (scalaire et ring) : l’accélération du bootstrapping est principalement due à l’utilisation d’un produit externe entre TLWE et TGSW, contrairement au produit externe GSW utilisé dans la majorité des constructions précédentes.Deux types de bootstrapping sont présentés. Le premier, appelé gate bootstrapping, est exécuté après l’évaluation homomorphique d’une porte logique (binaire ou Mux) ; le deuxième, appelé circuit bootstrapping, peut être exécuté après l’évaluation d’un nombre d'opérations homomorphiques plus grand, pour rafraîchir le résultat ou pour le rendre compatible avec la suite des calculs.Dans cette thèse on propose aussi de nouvelles techniques pour accélérer l’évaluation des calculs homomorphiques, sans bootstrapping, et des techniques de packing des données. En particulier, on présente un packing, appelé vertical packing, qui peut être utilisé pour évaluer efficacement des look-up table, on propose une évaluation via automates déterministes pondérés, et on présente un compteur homomorphe appelé TBSR qui peut être utilisé pour évaluer des fonctions arithmétiques.Pendant les travaux de thèse, le schéma TFHE a été implémenté et il est disponible en open source.La thèse contient aussi des travaux annexes. Le premier travail concerne l’étude d’un premier modèle théorique de vote électronique post-quantique basé sur le chiffrement homomorphe, le deuxième analyse la sécurité des familles de chiffrement homomorphe dans le cas d'une utilisation pratique sur le cloud, et le troisième ouvre sur une solution différente pour le calcul sécurisé, le calcul multi-partiteFully homomorphic encryption is a new branch of cryptology, allowing to perform computations on encrypted data, without having to decrypt them. The main interest of homomorphic encryption schemes is the large number of practical applications for which they can be used. Examples are given by electronic voting, computations on sensitive data, such as medical or financial data, cloud computing, etc..The first fully homomorphic encryption scheme has been proposed in 2009 by Gentry. He introduced a new technique, called bootstrapping, used to reduce the noise in ciphertexts: in fact, in all the proposed homomorphic encryption schemes, the ciphertexts contain a small amount of noise, which is necessary for security reasons. If we perform computations on noisy ciphertexts, the noise increases and, after a certain number of operations, the noise becomes to large and it could compromise the correctness of the final result, if not controlled.Bootstrapping is then fundamental to construct fully homomorphic encryption schemes, but it is very costly in terms of both memory and time consuming.After Gentry’s breakthrough, the presented schemes had the goal to propose new constructions and to improve bootstrapping, in order to make homomorphic encryption practical. One of the most known schemes is GSW, proposed by Gentry, Sahai et Waters in 2013. The security of GSW is based on the LWE (learning with errors) problem, which is considered hard in practice. The most rapid bootstrapping on a GSW-based scheme has been presented by Ducas and Micciancio in 2015. In this thesis, we propose a new variant of the scheme proposed by Ducas and Micciancio, that we call TFHE.The TFHE scheme improves previous results, by performing a faster bootstrapping (in the range of a few milliseconds) and by using smaller bootstrapping keys, for the same security level. TFHE uses TLWE and TGSW ciphertexts (both scalar and ring): the acceleration of bootstrapping is mainly due to the replacement of the internal GSW product, used in the majority of previous constructions, with an external product between TLWE and TGSW.Two kinds of bootstrapping are presented. The first one, called gate bootstrapping, is performed after the evaluation of a homomorphic gate (binary or Mux); the second one, called circuit bootstrapping, can be executed after the evaluation of a larger number of homomorphic operations, in order to refresh the result or to make it compatible with the following computations.In this thesis, we also propose new techniques to improve homomorphic computations without bootstrapping and new packing techniques. In particular, we present a vertical packing, that can be used to efficiently evaluate look-up tables, we propose an evaluation via weighted deterministic automata, and we present a homomorphic counter, called TBSR, that can be used to evaluate arithmetic functions.During the thesis, the TFHE scheme has been implemented and it is available in open source.The thesis contains also ancillary works. The first one concerns the study of the first model of post-quantum electronic voting based on fully homomorphic encryption, the second one analyzes the security of homomorphic encryption in a practical cloud implementation scenario, and the third one opens up about a different solution for secure computing, multi-party computation
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Larsen, Lars Jacob Ege. "The Acquisition of Inflectional Verb Morphology Through Input Enhancement." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1040070794.
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Maja, Krstić. "Лексички крњи глаголи и њихова употреба у савременом руском и српском језику." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Filozofski fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2016. http://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=100369&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Дати рад има задатак да представи, опише и одреди статус лексички крњих глагола у руском и српском језику. Реч је о глаголима који нису способни самостално да функционишу, због чега су упућени на самосталне речи, са којима у споју остварују своју улогу и постају способни да изразе граматичко значење самосталних речи, као и читаве конструкције чији су саставни део.Глаголи овога типа биће класификовани у три основне групе: 1) копулативни глаголи; 2) модални и фазни глаголи и 3) формално пунозначни глаголи, њихова анализа спроводиће се како у оквиру наведених група, тако и у целини, а основу датог проучавања представљаће контрастивна анализа и одређивање статуса датих глагола у савременом руском и српском језику.Иако су више пута били предмет истраживања, непунозначни глаголи нису добили једну целовиту анализу, нису адекватно груписани и побројани, није урађена типолошка класификација ове групе глагола у оба поређена језика. Насупрот детаљно истраженој групи пунозначних (самосталних) глагола, група лексички непунозначних глагола заслужује исцрпнију анализу, јаснију научну дефиницију, изучавање њихове семантике, карактера, као и специфичности односа које означавају, односно положаја који заузимају у општем систему језичких јединица.Dati rad ima zadatak da predstavi, opiše i odredi status leksički krnjih glagola u ruskom i srpskom jeziku. Reč je o glagolima koji nisu sposobni samostalno da funkcionišu, zbog čega su upućeni na samostalne reči, sa kojima u spoju ostvaruju svoju ulogu i postaju sposobni da izraze gramatičko značenje samostalnih reči, kao i čitave konstrukcije čiji su sastavni deo.Glagoli ovoga tipa biće klasifikovani u tri osnovne grupe: 1) kopulativni glagoli; 2) modalni i fazni glagoli i 3) formalno punoznačni glagoli, njihova analiza sprovodiće se kako u okviru navedenih grupa, tako i u celini, a osnovu datog proučavanja predstavljaće kontrastivna analiza i određivanje statusa datih glagola u savremenom ruskom i srpskom jeziku.Iako su više puta bili predmet istraživanja, nepunoznačni glagoli nisu dobili jednu celovitu analizu, nisu adekvatno grupisani i pobrojani, nije urađena tipološka klasifikacija ove grupe glagola u oba poređena jezika. Nasuprot detaljno istraženoj grupi punoznačnih (samostalnih) glagola, grupa leksički nepunoznačnih glagola zaslužuje iscrpniju analizu, jasniju naučnu definiciju, izučavanje njihove semantike, karaktera, kao i specifičnosti odnosa koje označavaju, odnosno položaja koji zauzimaju u opštem sistemu jezičkih jedinica.
The aim of this dissertation is to analyze and determine the status of lexically incomplete verbs in Russian and Serbian. Lexically incomplete verbs are those that cannot function independently, which is why they are directed towards independent words. It is by means of this relationship they are able to perform their function and express grammatical meaning of independent words, as well as of the entire phrase they are a part of.These verbs will be classified in three primary groups: 1) copulative verbs; 2) modal and phase verbs; 3) verbs with formally full meaning, their analysis will be performed both within the framework of the aforementioned groups and by treating them as a whole, whereas the basis for the study will be set by a contrastive analysis and the determination of the status of the verbs in modern Russian and Serbian.Even though they have so far been an object of numerous studies, verbs without full meaning have yet not been given a thorough analysis, nor have they been adequately grouped, inventoried and typologically classified in either of the two contrasted languages. If compared to the group of independent verbs with full meaning that were examined in great detail, the group of verbs without full lexical meaning deserves a more comprehensive analysis, a clearer scientific definition, an analysis of their semantics, character, as well as the specific relations they signify and the position they occupy in the general system of linguistic units.
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Ricci, Cara. "Developmental connections between verb inflection and subject-verb inversion in pre-school children with specific language impairment." Connect to resource, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37045.
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Chau, Chi-wah Eva. "Verb diversity of Cantonese-speaking children with down syndrome." Click to view the E-thesis via HKU Scholars Hub, 2003. http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B38885803.
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Thesis (B.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2003."A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, April 30, 2003." Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-30) Also available in print.
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Roy, Jacqueline M. "Effects of event knowledge on the fast mapping of nonsense verbs in children with Down syndrome." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0015/MQ49435.pdf.
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Margarido, Renata. "Se penso, é porque existo: as construções correlativas com \'se...verbo ser + porque\' sob uma perspectiva funcionalista." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-09122016-153110/.
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Nesta tese, objetiva-se investigar o funcionamento sintático, semântico e pragmático das construções com se... verbo ser + porque sob uma perspectiva da teoria funcionalista da linguagem. Utilizam-se os postulados de Dik (1989), que propõe um modelo de interação verbal, segundo o qual, na construção dos enunciados linguísticos, o falante antecipa uma possível interpretação do ouvinte e este reconstrói a intenção comunicativa do falante. Assim, na análise dos enunciados, os fatores sintático e semântico são conjugados ao componente pragmático. Baseia-se, ainda, nas considerações de Taylor (2003) e Rosch (2004), que defendem que as fronteiras de uma categoria são flexíveis; tal ideia conduz à questão da fluidez semântica, presente na construção com se... ser porque. Em relação à metodologia, para a exemplificação da construção em estudo na parte teórica, usam-se textos jornalísticos contemporâneos de diversificados gêneros discursivos; para a análise semântica e pragmática, utilizam-se entrevistas jornalísticas (contemporâneas), pois estas trazem natureza interativa, compatível com a construção em pauta; para o exame da formação da estrutura com se... ser porque, adota-se, especialmente, o Corpus do Português, visto que esse material permite a visualização de dados em uma diacronia. No que concerne à natureza sintática das construções com se... ser porque, verifica-se que: i) elas constituem uma correlação entre duas hipotaxes; ii) elas são construções híbridas, e as orações condicional e causal não possuem oração matriz explícita. No que tange à questão semântica, aliada ao componente pragmático, observa-se que: i) a oração com se pode ser factual, demonstrando, por exemplo, concordância do locutor em relação à avaliação feita pelo interlocutor; ii) a oração com se pode ser hipotética, sentido que, na estrutura com se... ser porque, é compatível com a expressão da habitualidade, com a presença do matiz temporal; iii) há, muitas vezes, fluidez semântica em se... ser porque, com a manifestação dos valores de causa e de conclusão; iv) a leitura causal não se limita a uma relação entre causa e consequência, pois há casos em que se manifesta uma conexão entre motivação e ação; v) são expressos dois tipos de conclusão, a dedução e a abdução; e a determinação do tipo de conclusão envolve certa subjetividade, não se restringindo, assim, a uma questão lógica. Em relação à organização discursiva, constata-se que: i) a oração condicional atua como tópico, trazendo resumo, paráfrase, contraste ou exemplificação; ii) o verbo ser atua como focalizador, tomando como escopo a segunda oração da correlação e explicitando, muitas vezes, informação nova; iii) a oração com ser porque é utilizada para anular outras inferências possíveis, e o segmento focalizado indica, entre outros aspectos, informação solicitada pelo interlocutor, negação de ideia exposta anteriormente, confirmação. A partir dos resultados obtidos, é possível questionar conceitos tradicionalmente estabelecidos, como a atribuição apenas do sentido de hipótese à oração condicional e somente do valor semântico de causa à oração causal. Além disso, esta tese tem como objeto de estudo uma construção ainda pouco investigada em pesquisas linguísticas, podendo, assim, oferecer subsídios para novas reflexões sobre a estrutura com se... ser porque.This research investigates the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic operation of constructions with \"if... verb to be + because\" under the perspective of the functionalist theory of language. The Dik\'s (1989) postulates are used. They propose a verbal interaction model, according to which, in the construction of linguistic utterances, the speaker anticipates a possible interpretation of the listener, who reconstructs the communicative intention of the speaker. Thus, in the analysis of the utterances, the syntactic and semantic factors are conjugated to the pragmatic component. It is also based on considerations of Taylor (2003) and Rosch (2004), who advocate that the boundaries of a category are flexible; such idea leads to the question of semantic fluidity, present in the construction with if... be because. Regarding the methodology for exemplification of the construction under study in theoretical part, contemporary journalistic texts of diverse genres are used; for semantic and pragmatic analysis, contemporary journalistic interviews are used, as these bring interactive nature, compatible with the construction in question; for examination of the formation of the structure if... be because, the \"Corpus of Portuguese \" is embraced, specially, as this material allows the visualization of data in a diachrony. Regarding the syntactic nature of constructions with if... be because, it can be noticed that: i) they constitute a correlation between two hypotaxis constructions; ii) they are hybrid constructions, and conditional and causal clauses have no matrix clause. Regarding the semantic issue, allied to pragmatic component, it is observed that: i) clauses with if may be factual, showing, for example, agreement of the speaker in relation to the assessment made by the interlocutor; ii) clauses with if may be hypothetical, a meaning that in the structure if... be because is compatible with the habitual expression, with presence of temporal nuance; iii) quite often, there is semantic fluidity in if... be because, due to manifestation of cause and conclusion values; iv) causal reading is not limited to a relation between cause and consequence, as there are cases in which a connection between motivation and action is manifested; v) two types of conclusion are expressed, deduction and abduction; and determining the type of conclusion involves some subjectivity, thus, it is not restricted to a logical issue. Regarding the discursive organization, it is confirmed that: i) conditional clauses act as a topic, bringing summary, paraphrase, contrast or exemplification; ii) the verb to be acts as a focusing event, taking the second correlation sentence as a scope and, quite often, clarifying new information; iii) clauses with be because are used to nullify other possible inferences, and the focused segment indicates, among other aspects, information requested by the interlocutor, denial of previously exposed idea, and confirmation. From the results obtained, it is possible to enquire traditionally established concepts, as the assignment of only hypothesis sense to conditional clauses and of only the cause semantic value to causal clauses. Moreover, this thesis has as object of study a construction still poorly investigated in linguistic research, thus, it can offer subsidies to new reflection about the structure if... be because.
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Graham, Lauren E. "Verb naming treatment for individuals with agrammatic aphasia Efficacy data /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9341.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Hearing and Speech Sciences. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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King, Kelly, Kelley Lewis, Melanie O'Brien, Danielle Py, and Kerry Proctor-Williams. "Efficiency of Verb Acquisition by Children with SLI & TL." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1853.
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Lewis, Kelley, Kelly King, Melanie O'Brien, Kerry Proctor-Williams, and Danielle Py. "An Analysis of How Quickly and Efficaciously Children with Specific Language Impairments Learn Verbs Compared to Children with Typical Language Development." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2004. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1856.
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Speech-language pathologists are challenged with providing children with treatment that results in the greatest amount of improvement in the least amount of time. To aid in this challenge, we examined how quickly and efficaciously seven children with a specific language impairment (SLI) learned verbs compared to seven children with typical language (TL) development. Each child was taught the meaning and use of six nonsense verbs. Nonsense verbs were used to ensure that the target verbs had never been heard by any of the participants before the experiment and allowed us to control verb exposure. Each participant received up to four training sessions of 30-minutes each. During these sessions, the examiner utilized naturalistic conversational techniques and play activities with carefully selected sets of toys that corresponded to the meaning of the target words. The training sessions were ended when children demonstrated 100% accuracy in their understanding of the verbs and 50% accuracy in their production during a probe task. All sessions were audio-recorded and the experimenters and childs utterances were reliably coded. Analysis revealed that the two groups received the same input from the experimenter in terms of the number and type of exposures to the verbs. We examined the childrens nonsense verb productions for their rate and quality. Rate of verb acquisition was measured by counting: 1) the number of sessions required before the criteria for learning was met; 2) the number of exposures before childs first spontaneous production of each target verb; and 3) the number of exposures before childs first elicited production of each target verb. Quality of verb acquisition was measured by counting: 1) the number of alternative real verbs substituted for a nonsense verb and 2) the accuracy of transitive target verb usage. Although the results were not statistically significant for any of the measures tested, there was a trend for children with SLI to learn the target nonsense verbs more slowly but just as
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Wendland, Irene. "Tense and control interpretations in to + gerund-participle and to + infinitive complement constructions with verbs of agreement." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26636.
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Ce mémoire est une étude sémantico-pragmatique du verbe agree et de dix autres verbes de consentement. Dans l’ensemble il porte sur la complémentation verbale de l’anglais avec l’infinitif et le gérondif. Par l’entremise d’un corpus de données attestées, nous expliquons les divers effets de sens et les principes qui sous-tendent l’usage des structures ‘verbe principal + complément’ avec l’infinitif et le gérondif comme compléments de verbes comportant une idée de consentement, soit accede, accept, acquiesce, assent, concede, concur, conform, consent, subscribe et yield. Plus particulièrement, les problèmes de temporalité et de contrôle sont examinés. Les contributions du sens grammatical du complément, du sens lexical du verbe principal, et le sens ajouté par le contexte sont tous des facteurs déterminants dans la compréhension et l’explication des constructions faisant l’objet de l’étude. L’analyse est fondée sur les hypothèses proposées par Duffley (2000; 2006; 2014).This thesis is a semantico-pragmatic study of the verb agree and ten other verbs of agreement with the English verbal complements to + infinitive and to + gerund-participle. Together with agree, the other verbs expressing the notion of agreement, i.e. accede, accept, acquiesce, assent, concede, concur, conform, consent, subscribe and yield are studied through the analysis of a corpus of attested usage to explain the various expressive effects and the principles underlying the use of the structure ‘main verb + complement.’ The general problems of tense and control are addressed. The interaction between the grammatical meaning, the lexical meaning and the pragmatic understanding from the larger context plays a defining role in the understanding and explanation of the verb + complement constructions examined. The analysis is based on the hypotheses in Duffley (2000; 2006; 2014) of the contribution of these parameters to the overall message conveyed.
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Adéwọlé, Lawrence Olufemi. "The categorial status and the functions of the Yoruba auxiliary verbs with some structural analyses in GPSG." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25364.
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Moore, Brooke Ataahua. "The language status of young children with expressive language delay following verb-focussed vocabulary intervention." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Communication Disorders, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5009.
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Young children with expressive language delay often present with limited vocabulary and reduced length of utterance. In consideration of the relationship between vocabulary and grammar, intervention that targets vocabulary may also result in improved syntax development. This study investigated whether a hybrid approach to verb-focused vocabulary intervention would result in improvements in increased use of target words, increased expressive vocabulary and/or increased sentence length. Four participants, aged two years nine months to three years six months participated in an intervention program that targeted vocabulary, specifically verbs. Number of target verbs, number of different words (NDW) used and mean length of utterance (MLU) were measured in baseline, intervention and post-intervention phases. Results indicated that all participants had increased use of targeted words and increased NDW. The majority of participants also had increased MLU. These findings suggest that verb-focused vocabulary intervention has the potential to have broad effects on the language skills of young children with expressive language delay. Further research is warranted to determine whether similar results would be found in a larger cohort. The study also raises questions around choice of intervention targets and intervention approaches for young children with expressive language delay.
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Lopez, David. "Processing of the English Verb Particle Construction in Persons with Aphasia." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3356.
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This study examined comprehension of verb particle constructions in persons with aphasia (PWA) and young and older typical adults according to the semantic classes by Jackendoff (2002). The experimental task focused on the following three classes of verb particle constructions: idiomatic, directional, and aspectual verb particles. Movement of the object NP also was examined. The study involved a picture-matching task counterbalanced for each participant. The results revealed that PWAs showed slower than normal overall processing, slower processing of aspectual verb forms, and slower processing of syntactic form regardless of movement. Error analysis revealed a bias toward the meaning of the verb, particularly on aspectual verb constructions for all three groups. Accuracy data revealed no significant differences between groups although the aphasic group was less accurate in idiomatic verb forms. The results support current literature on the processing of syntactic structures in PWA.
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Inagaki, Shunji. "Transfer and learnability in second language argument structure : motion verbs with locationaldirectional PPs in L2 English and Japanese." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38492.
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This thesis investigates how the outcomes of the acquisition of second language (L2) argument structure will vary depending on the nature of the learner's first language (L1). The focus is on motion verbs appearing with a prepositional/postpositional phrase that expresses the final endpoint of the motion (goal PP). In English, manner-of-motion verbs (e.g., walk ) and directed motion verbs (e.g., go) can appear with a goal PP as in John walked (went ) to school. In contrast, Japanese allows only directed motion verbs to occur with a goal PP. Thus, Japanese motion verbs with goal PPs form a subset of their English counterparts. I propose an analysis of these crosslinguistic differences in terms of different incorporation patterns in lexical-syntax (Hale & Keyser, 1993). L1 transfer and learnability considerations (White, 1991b), then, lead me to hypothesize that Japanese-speaking learners of English will be able to acquire the L2 representation on the basis of positive evidence, but that English-speaking learners of Japanese will have difficulty acquiring the L2 representation due to the lack of positive data motivating the restructuring of the L1 representation to the L2. A series of experiments tested these hypotheses using grammaticality judgment and picture-matching tasks. Results in general supported this prediction, suggesting that whether the L1 constitutes a subset of the L2 or vice versa indeed affects the outcomes of L2 argument structure. The results indicate full involvement of L1 and UG in L2 acquisition, thus supporting the Full-Transfer/Full-Access model of L2 acquisition (Schwartz & Sprouse, 1994).
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Anderson, Elizabeth C. "Frequency effects in the processing of verbs and argument structure : evidence from adults with and without acquired aphasia." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20867/.
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Introduction In usage-based approaches to language, grammar is viewed as an emergent phenomenon that derives from humans’ repeated exposure to individual instances of particular linguistic expressions (Bybee, 2006). Goldberg’s (1995) construction grammar is a version of usage-based grammar that treats language as an inventory of form-meaning pairings, termed constructions. Usage-based approaches to language predict that factors of language use, such as frequency of occurrence, affect processing at every level of the linguistic system, from sounds to sentences. This approach is gaining increasing recognition in the field of aphasiology, where sentence-level frequency effects have historically been described in terms of deficits (Gahl & Menn, 2016). The current research adopts a usage-based approach to language and contributes new data on the topic of verb and sentence processing in typical adults and adults with acquired aphasia. Aims This research investigated the effects of two frequency-based properties of verbs on language processing in adults, including the frequency of a verb as a single word, termed lexical frequency, and the frequency of a verb in a particular syntactic construction, termed construction frequency. Specifically, this project aimed: (1) to examine the effect of construction frequency and lexical frequency on sentence processing in adults; (2) to explore whether the pattern of performance from adults with acquired aphasia was similar to or divergent from the performance of typical adults; and (3) to consider how residual linguistic capabilities in participants with aphasia affected their performance in experimental tasks. Methods In Phase 1, 20 typical adults and four adults with acquired aphasia took part in a verbal fluency task in which they named verbs that could occur in eight unique syntactic constructions. Noun phrases were encoded as pronouns, so no semantic activation was available from the lexemes contained in sentence stimuli, and a blank space stood in place of the verb. For example, a sentence corresponding to the conative construction was presented as you ___ at us. In Phase 2, 90 typical adults and 14 adults with acquired aphasia took part in a grammaticality judgement task and a sentence completion task. Participants silently read sentences like those in Phase 1 and were subsequently presented with a written verb. In the grammaticality judgement task, participants decided whether or not the verb could occur in the sentence stimulus. In the sentence completion task, participants replaced the blank space in the sentence stimulus with the given verb and produced the entire sentence aloud. Participants’ number of target responses and response times were measured in each task. The frequency of verbs in Phase 2 varied along two dimensions. These independent variables included construction frequency and lexical frequency, each of which had two levels, namely, high frequency and low frequency. These four groups resulted in a factorial design, where conditions differed with respect to levels of construction frequency and lexical frequency. Results In Phase 1, the number of times typical participants generated verbs in response to syntactic constructions was more strongly related to verbs’ construction frequency than lexical frequency, for most constructions. Sentence stimuli successfully elicited verbs from participants with aphasia. In Phase 2, typical participants showed an effect of construction frequency in the grammaticality judgement task and an effect of lexical frequency in the sentence completion task. These effects were moderated by construction and interactions. In general, group-level results from participants with aphasia were consistent with findings from typical participants. Some individuals with aphasia showed frequency effects to a greater or lesser extent than typical participants. Conclusion Results suggest that at the sentence level, the frequency of verbs as single words and the frequency of verbs in particular syntactic contexts affects language processing, depending on task demands. Findings confirm the predicted effect of linguistic experience on language use. Importantly, this project extends the number of investigations of pathological language undertaken in a usage-based linguistic framework. Results from participants with aphasia are discussed with reference to treatments for sentence processing deficits in aphasia, item selection for those treatments and theories of agrammatism.
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Parish-Morris, Julia. "Relational Vocabulary in Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Role of Dynamic Spatial Concepts and Social Understanding." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/123548.
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Approximately 75% of children diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are significantly language impaired. While many learn a reasonably-sized set of object words, few master the relational terms (verbs and prepositions) that are the architectural centerpiece of the sentence. Though learning relational terms poses difficulty even for typically developing children, these words are differentially harder for children with ASD. This research is the first to ask why. Three studies examine the abilities necessary to learn verbs and prepositions. Studies 1 and 2 ask whether children with ASD have greater problems dissecting events into the foundational units and categories that underlie relational term learning (i.e., the path or where the object moves, and the manner or how the object moves through space) than do typically developing children. Study 3 focuses on tools known to assist in mapping from these basic categories onto words. Are children with ASD able to use information about a speaker's social intent to discover which event components are labeled by a particular word? Finally, this dissertation offers an exploratory correlational analysis designed to assess the joint impact of conceptual abilities and mapping (social understanding) as predictors for relational term learning in the two populations. Thirty-four 3- to 6-year-old children (17 with ASD) participated in the studies. Despite some methodological difficulties with the conceptual tasks, results suggest that the strongest correlate of relational vocabulary size in typical children was conceptual, while the strongest for children with ASD was social understanding. These findings extend prior research by noting the strong relationship between the ability to read social intent and relational term learning. They also suggest that for children with ASD, difficulty understanding the intentions of others is a primary problem that blocks the road to full language competence.
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Enger, Hans-Olav. "The classification of strong verbs in Norwegian with special reference to the Oslo dialect : a study in inflectional morphology /." Oslo : Scandinavian university press, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39979991d.
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Kitambala, Assumani. "A morpho-semantic analysis of the verb system in business English acquisition with reference to Bantu speakers /." Berlin : Viademica-Verl, 2009. http://d-nb.info/992809355/04.
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Larsson, Caroline. "What to do with should : A Translation Study of the Modal Verb Should." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-77685.
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Due to vague boundaries, a diversity of meanings and variations of modal strength, the translation of modals might be challenging. This paper investigates the translation of the modal should in a text with recommendations on horse feeding. The translations of deontic and epistemic meanings of should expressing an obligation or necessity are analysed using a framework based on grammatical definitions and linguistic theory. The translation strategies are based on Reiss’ text typology and strategies recommended for informative and operative texts (2000), and Newmark’s communicative translation (1988). Also, procedures of Vinay & Darbelnet (1995) are used to describe some of the translations. The study reveals that majority of the examples are used in the deontic sense and that should is mostly translated as bör and ska. The high frequency of ska might be related to its flexibility and multifunctional properties. Possible translation problems involve differences in the interpretation, where a modal might come across as too strong or too weak to target readers. Another translation problem may arise if the chosen modal can be perceived as less moralising than intended. There are also ambiguous cases that could be said to have both deontic and epistemic meanings. The analysis shows how deontic and epistemic meanings can be determined by context. However, even though a deeper understanding of the topic and an evaluation of the context might support the translation choices, some ambiguity can still be said to remain. The paper concludes that the translation of modals requires thoughtful consideration. A thorough interpretation of meaning related to context and profound knowledge on the topic are equally important in the translation of should.
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Žukaitė, Kristina. "The relation between lexico-semantic groups and modes of action (on the material of phrasal verbs with the postverb up)." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110802_161956-39923.
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The subject matter of phrasal verbs is a complex linguistic phenomenon. It raises a great number of theoretical issues. These include linguistic status, derivational aspect, lexical meaning, aspectuality etc of phrasal verbs. The English postverb UP has been chosen for our research with the aim to investigate the relation between the formation of lexico-semantic groups and modes of action. We assume that our research and the data collected for it might be used in the course of lexicology, word formation and semantics of the English language.Frazinių veiksmažodžių tyrimo objektas – sudėtingas kalbinis reiškinys, keliantis daug teorinių klausimų (kalbinę padėtį, žodžių vedybos aspektą, leksinę reikšmę, aspektualumą ir kt.). Anglų kalbos postverbas UP yra pasirinktas mokslo tiriamajame darbe siekiant ištirti ryšį tarp leksinių-semantinių grupių ir veiksmo būdų. Manome, kad mūsų mokslo tiriamasis darbas bei surinkti duomenys gali būti naudojami anglų kalbos leksikologijoje, žodžių daryboje bei semantikoje.
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James, Patrick. "Retention and retreat : complementary participles and infinitives with verbs of perception and declaration in the Roman and Byzantine documentary papyri." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283844.
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This thesis documents and analyses the contribution of the Roman and Byzantine documentary papyri (c. 31 BCE to c. 735 CE) to our understanding of complementation in Koine Greek. It focuses on the use of participles and infinitives with verbs of perception and cognition and with verbs of declaration. It is based on an examination of approximately 9500 documents. The approach is sociolinguistic. Previous studies of the Koine have shown the increased use of finite clauses and the retreat, but not extinction, of the complementary participle and infinitive. The participle, infinitive, and finite clause were available as options. The choice between them is examined from three angles: the registers, the varieties, and text types in which they are found. The questions addressed may be summarised under two headings. First, at what levels and in what varieties of the language were the complementary participle and the infinitive retained? What limitations on their use can be identified? Second, was it the complementary participle or the infinitive that survived more strongly in those levels of the language in the Roman and early Byzantine periods? What caused the difference, if there was one? The thesis is divided into three parts. The first examines the complementation of verbs of perception. The focus here is the high degree of retention of the complementary participle across the range of text types and levels of the language. The second is a treatment of the verbs of declaration. It concentrates on what the largely formulaic use of infinitival complements shows about the infinitive in relation to finite clauses. The third studies the complementation of personal and impersonal verbs of declaration and confirms that the infinitive was retained relatively weakly as a complement in the language of the papyri.
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Heaps, Amy M. "Comparison of Stimulus Delivery Methods via an iPad to Teach the Expressive Labeling of Action Verbs to Children With Autism." DigitalCommons@USU, 2018. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7272.
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Delays in communication are one of the defining characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Educators have begun using technology to teach students with ASD to label different items. However, more research needs to be conducted with technology (such as iPads and other tablets) to find the most effective teaching procedures. We wanted to find the most effective way to teach children with ASD age-appropriate action verbs, such as drawing and painting. Five preschool-aged students with ASD participated in this study. We taught these participants to label action verbs using pictures and short video clips, to test which method was the most effective. With two of the five participants, we wanted to see if the action verbs we taught as pictures generalized to video clips, and vice versa. With these same two participants, we asked if they remembered all of the verbs two weeks later, to see if the skill maintained. At the end of the study, we conducted an assessment with the participants to see if they preferred learning action verbs with pictures or video clips. The results show that all of the preschoolers with ASD learned to identify verbs both as pictures and video clips.
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Ngan, Bik-shan Grace. "Verb growth and grammatical development in Cantonese speaking children with specific language impairment." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36208437.
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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2002."A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, May 10, 2002." Also available in print.
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Strzelecka, Elzbieta. "Svenska partikelverb med "in", "ut", "upp" och "ner" : En semantisk studie ur kognitivt perspektiv = Swedish phrasal verbs with in, ut, upp and ner : a semantic study from a cognitive perspective." Doctoral thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-6041.
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I avhandlingen analyseras betydelsen hos partiklarna "in", "ut", "upp" och "ner" då dessa fungerar som verbpartiklar och tillsammans med verbet bildar partikelverb. Analysen omfattar såväl semantiskt regelbundna som lexikaliserade partikelverb och söker finna förklaringar till partiklarnas polysemi. Undersökningen är korpusbaserad och materialet består av nästan 900 olika partikelverb representerade med över 5 100 belägg. Beskrivnings¬modellen bygger huvudsakligen på den kognitiva semantiken. Verbpartiklarna analyseras i olika kontexter i såväl det fysiska rummets domän som i andra domäner varvid utgångspunkten för analysen alltid är partiklarnas prototypiska (spatiala) betydelse. Undersökningen visar att verbpartiklarnas olika, till synes disparata, betydelser är motiverade av föreställningsscheman (VERTICAL AXIS schema) och deras transformationer (vertikal axel horisontell axel), samt av metonymier (DELEN FÖR HELHETEN) och metaforer (CENTRUM IS UP). Partiklarnas betydelser är länkade till varandra genom familjelikhet och bildar ett nätverk. Partikelverb bildade med in, ut, upp och ner uppvisar vanligen en avgränsad aktionsart, men verbpartiklarna har i de allra flesta en mer specifik betydelse än enbart den perfektiva. Verbpartiklarna upp och in betecknar i regel riktningen mot centrum och har ofta positiva konnotationer medan verbpartiklarna ut och ner denoterar rörelsen mot periferin och snarare har negativa konnotationer. Den vertikala orienteringen tycks dominera svenskans strukturering av det fysiska rummets domän; en rörelse i förhållande till en vertikalt orienterad behållare (behållare utan tak) beskrivs med de vertikala partiklarna upp/ner och inte med behållarpartiklarna in/ut. I vissa få speciella kontexter kan de undersökta partiklarna signalera talarens perspektiv.
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Joubert, Nathalie. "La fabrique du document carte : vers une méthode d'analyse d'une représentation de territoires." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU30192/document.
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En se fondant sur une enquête documentographique, issue de plusieurs méthodes de commentaire de documents, notamment en géographie, en histoire, en analyse des spectacles, cette thèse vise à explorer les capacités informatives de la carte, objet de contemplation et de fascination, mais aussi de visualisation de territoires. La carte est, en effet, une re-présentation, c'est-à-dire une " mise sous les yeux " iconique d'informations spatialisées, qui bénéficie d'un langage visuel et textuel efficace. L'objectif de cette enquête sur l'élaboration, la production et les usages des cartes, est de définir, du point de vue des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication, et dans la continuité des travaux de Jean Meyriat, le document carte, et de préciser ce qui relève de ses fabriques infocommunicationnelles, celle par l'intention de son auteur, et celle à réception. La carte est construite et élaborée pour assumer une ou des fonctions, définies par celui qui la fabrique. Mais elle peut être exploitée et interrogée par des utilisateurs, dans d'autres contextes de réception que celui prévu par l'auteur. La carte remplit alors d'autres fonctions et se révèle kaléidoscopique : chacune de ses utilisations crée une autre image, chaque utilisateur fabrique un nouveau document. A travers cette exploitation de la carte, réalisée à partir d'un échantillon du fonds cartographique de l'Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, nous contribuons ainsi, au sein de l'équipe MICS, Médiations en Information-Communication Spécialisées du Laboratoire d'Études et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales, LERASS, à l'élaboration collective du concept de document dans ses formes diversesBased on a documentographic investigation, following several methods comment of documents, including geography, history, analysis shows, this thesis aims to explore the informative capacity of the map, an object of contemplation and fascination, but also territories visualization. The map is, in fact, a re-presentation, that is to say, an iconic "deposit under the eyes" of spatial information, which has a visual and textual language effectively. The objective of this investigation on the development, production and uses of maps, is to define, in terms of Information and Communication Sciences, and continuity in the work of Jean Meyriat, the document map, and clarify what comes under its infocommunicationals factories, one by the intention of its author, and one upon receipt. The map is built and developed to assume one or more functions defined by the person who makes. But it can be exploited and interrogated by users, in other receptions contexts than that provided by the author. The map then performs other functions and proves kaleidoscopic: each of its use creates another image, each user makes a new document. Through this exploitation of the map, made from a sample of cartographic funds of University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, we contribute, within MICS team, Mediations in Specialized Information-Communication Studies, of Laboratory and Applied Research in Social Sciences, LERASS, of the collective concept development document in its various forms
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Chea, Ratha. "Structure et dynamique des communautés de poissons : vers une compréhension écologique du système d'inondation pulsé en Asie tropicale." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOU30083/document.
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L'objectif principal de cette thèse était d'étudier la dynamique spatiale et temporelle de la structure des communautés de poissons du fleuve Mékong en aval et du grand lac Tonlé Sap au Cambodge. Les deux systèmes sont fortement liés et caractérisés par les systèmes d'inondation pulsés. À l'aide d'approches multivariées sur des bases de données piscicoles, environnementales et des traits fonctionnels des taxons étudiés, j'ai pu mettre en évidence : * les gradients longitudinaux des caractéristiques physicochimiques des eaux et l'importance relative des facteurs environnementaux dans la structuration des communautés de poissons à large échelle ; * la structure temporelle des communautés de poissons qui est fortement liée aux traits fonctionnels des taxons et déclenchée par les crues occasionnées du système * la structure de base du réseau trophique et l'état écologique du système d'inondation pulsé qui est perturbé par la pression anthropique. Ces résultats ont démontré leurs valeurs quant à leurs potentiels de transferts vers la compréhension écologique et la gestion durable des ressources de pêches dans le système d'inondation pulsé en Asie tropicale en relevant que : * la connectivité entre le fleuve Mékong et le lac Tonlé Sap est indispensable pour les poissons pour compléter leurs cycles de vie, et la conservation devrait prioritairement s'effectuer au milieu du Mékong où se trouve la plus forte diversité. * dans le système d'inondation pulsé, la structure temporelle des communautés dépend des dynamiques des crues, donc l'aménagement des cours d'eau est à éviter au maximum. * la compréhension bioécologique complète des communautés et leurs relations trophiques sont primordiales pour la mise en place des plans de gestion et de conservation à long termeThe main objective of the thesis was to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of fish community structure in Lower Mekong river basin and Tonle Sap Great Lake in Cambodia. These two systems are strongly connected to each other and characterised by flood pulse system. By using the multivariate approaches on the fish, environmental and fish functional traits data sets, I am able to highlight: * the longitudinal gradients of physicochemical characteristics of water and the relative importance of environmental factors in explaining the large scale patterns of fish community; * the temporal structure of fish community, which is strongly linked to functional traits of fish and trigged by the pulse dynamics of the system; * the baseline trophic structure model and ecological health assessment of flood pulse system, which is disturbed by anthropogenic pressure. These results have demonstrated their values as well as their potentials to transfers toward an ecological understanding and sustainable fisheries resource management of the flood pulse system in tropical Asia by suggesting: * the connectivity between Mekong river and Tonle Sap lek is essential for fish to complete their life cycle and also the conservation should be done in the middle part of Lower Mekong river where containing the highest diversity; * in flood pulse system, the temporal structure of fish community strongly depend on the dynamics of pulses; therefore any river development must be strictly prohibited; * complete bio-ecological understanding of communities and their trophic relationships are crucial to the establishment of long-term management and conservation plans
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Bogart, Stephanie Lynn. "Behavioral ecology of savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) with respect to insectivory at Fongoli, Senegal." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3369811.
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JOSHI, Shivaram Dattatray. "KAUṆḌA BHAṬṬA ON THE MEANING OF SANSKRIT VERBS (1) : An English Translation and Annotation of the Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra, Chapter 1 with the Introduction." 名古屋大学印度哲学研究室 (Department of Indian Philosophy, University of Nagoya), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/19177.
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JOSHI, Shivaram Dattatray. "KAUṆḌA BHAṬṬA ON THE MEANING OF SANSKRIT VERBS (2) : An English Translation and Annotation of the Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra, Chapter 1 with the Introduction." 名古屋大学印度哲学研究室 (Department of Indian Philosophy, University of Nagoya), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/19187.
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JOSHI, Shivaram Dattatray. "KAUṆḌA BHAṬṬA ON THE MEANING OF SANSKRIT VERBS (3) : An English Translation and Annotation of the Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra, Chapter 1 with the Introduction." 名古屋大学文学部インド文化学研究室 (Department of Indian Studies, School of Letters, University of Nagoya), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/19202.
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Fronk, Amanda Kae. "Determining Dictionary and Usage Guide Agreement with Real-World Usage: A Diachronic Corpus Study of American English." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4093.
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Dictionaries and, to a lesser extent, usage guides provide writers, editors, and users of American English information on how to use the language appropriately. Dictionaries, in particular, hold authority over correct usage of words. However, historically, usage guides and dictionaries were created using the knowledge of a small group of people. Lexicographers like Noah Webster set out to prescribe a proper way of using American English. To make these judgments, they often relied on a combination of study and idiosyncratic intuitions. A similar process took place in creating usage guides. Though these manuals profess to explain how the language is used by American English speakers-or rather by the selected group of speakers deemed "standard" by usage guide editors and lexicographers-ultimately the manuals can only express the perspectives of the editors and lexicographers on this language. Historically, the views of these editors and lexicographers were the best tools available to assess language, but now computer-based corpora allow for studying larger swaths of language usage. This study examines how much dictionaries and usage guides agree with real-world usage found in corpus data. Using the Corpus of Historical American English, a set of dictionaries and usage guides published throughout the last two hundred years were analyzed to see how much agreement they had with corpus data in noting the addition of denominal verbs (i.e., verbs formed by the conversion of nouns as in 'They taped together the box.') in American English usage. It was found that the majority of the time dictionaries noted new denominal verbs before corpus data reflected accepted usage of these verbs. However, about a quarter of the time dictionaries noted new denominal verbs concurrently with the corpus data. These results suggest that dictionaries-and the subjective opinions of the lexicographers that created them-are more aligned with real-world usage than would be expected. Because of sparse listings, results for usage guide agreement was inconclusive.
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Klemiato, Beata. "Dalyvių, pusdalyvių ir padalyvių vartojimas „Respublikos“ ir „Lietuvos ryto“ dienraščiuose." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2007. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070816_170442-18789.
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Šis darbas skirtas didžiausių Lietuvos dienraščių – „Lietuvos ryto“ ir „Respublikos“ – dalyvių, pusdalyvių ir padalyvių vartojimo analizei. Norėta išsiaiškinti, ar dalyviai iki šiol yra dažnai tebevartojami, koks jų santykis minėtuose dienraščiuose. Dalyvių vartojimo polinkiai publicistikoje anksčiau beveik nebuvo tirti, tad darbas galėtų būti tolimesnių bei išsamesnių tyrimų pradžia.
Pagrindinis darbo tikslas buvo nustatyti visų minėtų dalyvinių formų dažnumą, aptarti rašytinės kalbos dalyvinių konstrukcijų vartojimo ypatumus minėtuose dienraščiuose ir palyginti abiejų laikraščių kalbą. Analizuojant tiriamąją medžiagą buvo keliami šie uždaviniai: 1) apžvelgti lingvistinę literatūrą, susijusią su nagrinėjimo objektu; 2) išrinkti iš minėtų dienraščių analizuojamųjų straipsnių dalyvius, pusdalyvius ir padalyvius, sugrupuoti juos; 3) nustatyti ir aptarti dalyvių vartojimo dėsningumus (ypatumus); 4) palyginti dalyvių, pusdalyvių ir padalyvių vartojimą, t. y. nustatyti jų vartojimo santykį dviejuose populiariausiuose Lietuvos dienraščiuose; 5) statistiškai pateikti gautus rezultatus, analizuoti, apibendrinti.
Išanalizavus didžiausių Lietuvos dienraščių „Respublika“ ir „Lietuvos rytas“ 50 straipsnių ir ištyrus juose rastus dalyvius, pusdalyvius bei padalyvius, buvo prieita tam tikrų išvadų. Tyrimas parodė, kad dažniausiai „Respublikos“ ir „Lietuvos ryto“ dienraščiuose vartojami būtojo kartinio laiko veikiamieji ir neveikiamieji dalyviai. Būtojo kartinio laiko neveikiamasis dalyvis... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]This work is aimed at the analysis of usage of participles, half-participles, verbal adverbs in “Lietuvos rytas“ and “Respublika“ newspapers. The purpose was to find out if participles are still often used and what is the frequency of this usage in the magazines. The usage of participles has not been examined yet that is why this work could be the beginning of the further examinations. The main purpose of the work was to assume the frequency of the participles and their forms, discuss the peculiarities of their spelling in the above-mentioned magazines and compare their language. While analyzing the newspapers I set the main goals: 1) examine linguistic literature related to the object of analysis; 2) choose the participles, half-participles and verbal adverbs from the above mentioned newspapers and group them; 3) ascertain and discuss the rules (peculiarities) of the usage of participles; 4) compare the usage of participles, half-participles and verbal adverbs and ascertain the frequency of their usage in the above mentioned magazines; 5) establish the statistics of the results, discuss them and sum up. The results have been made after the analysis and examination of participles, half-participles and verbal adverbs found in 50 articles in the daily newspapers “Respublika“ ir “Lietuvos rytas“. The examination showed that the most frequently used participles are past participles and passive participles. Past passive participles are a little more frequently used in... [to full text]
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Lorenzi, Mikaela, and Sofia Bergström. ""I can tell a story that my dads friend tell me" : A corpus- and interview-based study on grammar education, with focus on verb forms." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-275268.
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This study consists of two methods: textual analysis and interviews, which are based on text from The Uppsala Learner English Corpus (ULEC), and teachers as interview objects. The textual analysis investigates errors made by students in year seven and year nine, regarding the construction of different verb forms in written English essays. A potential difference between errors made in year seven and nine is also examined. Moreover, the interview based analysis investigates professional junior high school teachers’ teaching methods and attitudes towards grammar. The errors investigated in the textual analysis are compared with the responses of the teachers’ perception of common errors in verb forms made by their students. The textual analysis showed that the most common errors made regard spelling within the verb phrase, auxiliary verbs, subject-verb agreement, and irregular verbs, and that year seven had a higher frequency of errors than year nine in most categories, even if the results differed inconsiderably. The analysis of the interviews of the teachers found that teachers, in general, enjoy grammar, and aim to have a student-centered approach, however, the teachers testify of characteristics of traditional teacher-centered grammar teaching. It is reasoned that traditional teacher-centered grammar teaching is fundamentally established, where teachers today appear not to acquire the tools to move away from the teacher-centered approach onwards to a student-centered grammar teaching. We reason that the education of L2 teachers needs to be reformed and provide tools to help teachers achieve a student-centered approach, and therein enable students to become more successful in grammar.
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Gonon, Benjamin. "Simulations quantiques non-adiabatiques d’un photo-interrupteur moléculaire vers un dialogue expérience-théorie." Thesis, Montpellier, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MONTT186/document.
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Cette thèse a pour objet l’étude et le contrôle de la photo-réactivité d’interrupteurs moléculaires, en particulier la photo-isomérisation des spiropyranes. Ce travail théorique a été réalisé en collaboration étroite avec l’équipe expérimentale PFL de l’ICB à Dijon. Des simulations de dynamique quantique non-adiabatique ont été réalisées afin de reproduire et rationaliser les résultats expérimentaux de spectroscopie d’absorption transitoire résolue en temps. Ces expériences ont montré une photo-réactivité ultra-rapide (~ 100 fs) suite à une excitation par une pulse LASER ultra-court. Celle-ci est interprétée comme un mécanisme de conversion interne entre le premier état électronique excité singulet et l’état fondamental via une intersection conique. L’étude théorique a utilisé la réaction d’ouverture de cycle du benzopyrane comme modèle. Les développements réalisés ont porté sur : (1) L’exploration du mécanisme réactionnel et le calcul de surfaces d’énergie potentielle via des méthodes de chimie quantique post-CASSCF perturbatives (XMCQDPT2). Cette analyse a montré des résultats variant fortement par rapport à ceux relevés dans la littérature à des niveaux de calcul moins élevés. (2) Le développement d’un modèle de surfaces d’énergie potentielle électronique par la construction d’un hamiltonien diabatique à partir de données ab initio XMCQDPT2. Du fait de l’importante anharmonicité de l’état électronique fondamental, nous avons mis en place une approche effective en rupture avec les études antérieures. (3) La réalisation de simulations de dynamique quantique non-adiabatique par la méthode MCTDH. Les résultats obtenus sont en très bon accord avec les résultats expérimentaux. L’inclusion explicite du pulse LASER a permis de reproduire et de rationaliser l’effet de contrôle par mise en forme d’impulsion observé expérimentalement. Ce travail a ainsi permis la mise en place d’une collaboration et d’un dialogue théorie/expérience effectifsThis thesis adresses the study and control of the photo-reactivity of molecular switches, here the photo-isomerisation of spiropyrans. This theoretical work has been achieved in close collaboration with the experimental team PFL within the ICB in Dijon. Non-adiabatic quantum dynamics simulations were carried out so as to reproduce and rationalise the experimental results from time-resolved transient absorption spectroscopy. Such experiments have demonstrated ultra-fast photo-reactivity (~ 100 fs) following excitation by an ultra-short LASER pulse. It is interpreted as an internal conversion mechanism between the first singlet excited eletronic state and the ground state via a conical intersection. The theoretical study used the ring-opening reaction of benzopyran as a model. Developments were made regarding: (1) The exploration of the reaction mechanism and the computation of potential energy surfaces with perturbative, post-CASSCF quantum chemistry methods (XMCQDPT2). This investigation showed that results changed significantly compared to those reported in the literature with lower-level calculations. (2) The generation of a diabatic Hamiltonian based on ab initio XMCQDPT2 data. Owing to the significant anharmonicity in the ground electronic state, we designed a new effective approach, quite different from the previous studies. (3) The production of non-adiabatic quantum dynamics simulations using the MCTDH method. The results thus obtained are in excellent agreement with the experimental ones. Including explicitly the LASER pulse allowed us to reproduce and rationalise the action of pulse shaping on control observed in experiments. The present work thus made possible the succesful implementation of a theoretical/experimental collaboration
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Taylor, Catherine. "Formal relationships in the paradigm : a functional approach with a focus on the Romance verb." Thesis, University of Essex, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589438.
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This thesis investigates the stem concept within inferential-realisational morphology, espe- cially paradigm function morphology (PFM; Stump 2001b), a stem and paradigm (Sp) model (Blevins 2003: 742). The base of a word in a paradigm cell is a stem. The distribution of stems may not coincide with morphosyntactic property values, so it is not possible to suc- cessfully associate meaning to stems: stems are morphomic. Stems may also be the base of another stem, which is therefore complex. Each paradigm cell contains a morphome, which maps a lexeme to i phonetic strings, where i >0, realising the cell's morphosyntactic properties (Aronoff 1994). One theory based on the morphomic stem is PFM. However, whereas PFM is fully able to form simple morphomic stems, some reformulation is required to enable complex morphomic stem formation. The aim of this thesis is to perform that reformulation. To test the reformulation, data with complex stems were required, entailing that the data be segmented into stem plus affixes. No consistent procedure existed, so a procedure was devised, based on the distribution of phonetic substrings throughout each system. The strictly morphomic stem hypothesis (Spencer 2012) was used to assign components as stem or affix. The stem rules of PFM were replaced by a stem formation function (SF), a morphomic analogue of the paradigm function: the morphomic index replaces the morphosyntactic property index. The SF is invoked upon stem selection. If the stem is simple, the morphomic analogue of stem selection rules selects the stem base; subsequent rule blocks do nothing. If the stem is complex, the first block selects a stem and the subsequent blocks add further phonetic material. The PF was changed to input and output an array of phonetic strings rather than single strings to allow PFM to model all values of i. Paradigm function morphology was easily modified to accommodate morphomic stems of any complexity. This, together with permitting multiple phonetic strings to be output, makes PFM a flexible, powerful framework with which to perform morphological analysis.