The compound verb in Munda: An areal and typological overview

Negation - An Overview of Typological Research

This article is an overview of the current state of typological research on negation. Structures expressing standard negation – the negation of declarative verbal main clauses – can be classified on the basis of the status of the negative marker, or on the basis of the structure of the negative clause as a whole. Structural similarities and differences (symmetry and asymmetry) between negatives...

Ditransitive constructions: a typological overview

identifying the strategies persian efl learners use in reading an expository text in english and examining its relation to reading-proficiency and motivation: a think-aloud study

هدف اصلی از این مطالعه بررسی نوع و میزان استراتژی هایی بود که دانشجویان فارسی زبان رشته ی زبان انگلیسی در حین خواندن یک متن انگلیسی به کار گرفتند. این مطالعه همچنین به بررسی تفاوت های استراتژی های مورد استفاده بین دارندگان سطح بالا و پایین درک مطلب پرداخت. نوع همبستگی بین استراتژی به کار گرفته و درک مطلب از یک سو و استراتژی به کار گرفته و انگیزه از سوی دیگر نیز در این تحقیق مورد آزمایش قرار گرف...

Typological and Areal Perspectives on the Reshaping of a Macedonian Verbal Ending

An important fact about this ending is that it is not just a Macedonian phenomenon within South Slavic. It is found as well in some Bulgarian dialects, as the evidence of the Bùlgarski Dialekten Atlas (BDA) II.189 shows. In particular, the relevant form of 'be', sne, is rather common, occurring in a number of areas, and other verbs as well have forms with –n(BDA II.186; III.202), e.g. both bere...

Telicity and English Verb Classes and Alternations: an Overview

This document reports on research conducted for the University of Maryland Machine Translation (MT) project. The primary focus of this investigation concerns the lexical aspect feature [+telic] (i.e., having an inherent end, as in the verb win, vs. the verb run) and its relation to the alternations outlined in (Levin, 1993), English verb classes and alternations. This work is based on the assum...