This paper deals with three copular constructions in French that take bare nominals as a predicative complement (attribut du sujet). From a lexical point of view, these constructions, which are typical of colloquial French, are very open frames. After a detailed analysis of the syntactic and semantic properties of these constructions, I will examine them in the light of a more theoretical quest...

Academic discourse has always been the focus of many linguists, especially those who have been involved with English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and discourse analysis. Persuasion, as part of rhetorical structure of academic writing, is partly achieved by employing modality markers.  Adopting a descriptive design, the present study was carried out to compare the use of modality markers in terms...

This study used keyword method during encoding information in transferring information from short term memory to make the retrieval easier. For this purpose, 50 adult female elementary students were chosen to participate in this study. This study required two groups of learners (control and experimental groups). The experimental group enjoyed some special flashcards which each of them involved ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER I: SYNTAX AS A PROJECTION OF THE LEXICON 1. The core-semantic relations and their syntactic realization 2. Adjunct-semantic relations and their syntactic realization Footnotes to Chapter I CHAPTER II: EXTERNAL-ARGUMENTS: ARGUMENTAND ADJUNCT-SUBJECTS 1. Control and Raising Verbs: Some differences 1. The distribution of expletives and idioms 2. The distribution of the pro...

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objectives : the study was designed to investigate the impairment of the ability to discriminate between nouns and verbs, resulting from the damage to the left-hemisphere, a condition which could lead to linguistic disorders proportionate to the depth and extent of the damage. various experimental and clinical investigations have demonstrated that nouns and verbs may, independent of one another...

in the classification of morpho-phonological processes of different languages proposed by jensen (1990), the least frequent process is perhaps the one related to morph-movement due to morpho-phonological reasons, which leads to changes in the canonical order of morphs in the word form. this article aimed to introduce a case of this rare process in kalhori kurdish. this process takes place in th...