Argument structure and morphologically underived nouns in Spanish and English

persian true and false cognates in english: students and teachers’ attitudes, awareness, and instruction

the ability to speak two languages in the world is a remarkable achievement. there is a good reason to believe that bilingualism is the norm for the majority of people in the world because 70% of the earth’s population are supposed to be bilingual or multilingual. various investigations have shown that the native language impacts foreign word recognition, and this influence is adapted by the de...

a contrastive analysis of concord and head parameter in english and azerbaijani

این پایان نامه به بررسی و مقایسه دو موضوع مطابقه میان فعل و فاعل (از نظر شخص و مشار) و هسته عبارت در دو زبان انگلیسی و آذربایجانی می پردازد. اول رابطه دستوری مطابقه مورد بررسی قرار می گیرد. مطابقه به این معناست که فعل مفرد به همراه فاعل مفرد و فعل جمع به همراه فاعل جمع می آید. در انگلیسی تمام افعال، بجز فعل بودن (to be) از نظر شمار با فاعلشان فقط در سوم شخص مفرد و در زمان حال مطابقت نشان میدهند...

EFL learners' learning of English verb argument structure

lexical decomposition awareness and its effect on delayed receptive and productive recognition and recall of vocabulary knowledge of morphologically complex english words: an iranian efl context

abstract lexical knowledge of complex english words is an important part of language skills and crucial for fluent language use (nation, 2001). the present study, thus, was an attempt to assess the role of morphological decomposition awareness as a vocabulary learning strategy on learners’ productive and receptive recall and recognition of complex english words. so 90 sophomores (female and ma...

Learning-Based Argument Structure Analysis of Event-Nouns in Japanese

Previous work on predicate-argument structure analysis has focused largely on verbs and adjectives. However, to extract richer information from such a sentence as “His decision was right,” not only the predicate “was right” but also the noun “decision” need to be identi ed as an event denoting expression. Here, we call event denoting nouns event-nouns, which refer to events like “he decided som...