the existing literature on bantu verbal semantics demonstrated that inherent semantic content of verbs pairs directly with the selection of tense, aspect and modality formatives in bantu languages like chasu, lucazi, lusamia, and shiyeyi. thus, the gist of this paper is the articulation of semantic classification of verbs in kiswahili based on the selection of tam types. this is because the sem...

Two or more are sometimes found to co-occur in both Taiwan and Mainland Mandarin Chinese, e.g., jiāyǐ and jìnxíng in duì xuéshēng jiāyǐ jìnxíng yǐndǎo ‘to guide students’, and a particular ordering is often preferred, e.g., jiāyǐ jìnxíng over jìnxíng jiāyǐ. This study argues that the order of the light verbs is closely associated to two kinds of information that the verbs specify, i.e. aspectua...

background and aims: considering the fact that different components of linguistic knowledge are not equally vulnerable, this study investigated the knowledge of argument structure of verbs in a group of deaf persian speakers, as people who have been deprived of linguistic data during the early years of their childhood that is the critical period of language acquisition. methods: in this study, ...

Abstract In this experiment, 62 university students, native speakers of Italian living in Northern Italy, were asked to choose between two nearly identical sentences featuring intransitive verbs which, according the literature, can take either auxiliary (AUX) essere “be” or avere “have” compound tenses. A binary logistic regression showed that for 40% time, participants preferred one AUX over o...

This study aimed to explain the valence of Malay verbs in Akit dialect Padang island, Regency Kepulauan Meranti. The method used was qualitative descriptive. data collected using equivalent and observation method. were oral interviews, observation, intuition methods. analysis split, deletion, substitution, expansion techniques. results explained informal showed that people on this island langua...

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This paper makes a study of the derivation non-canonical object construction in Mandarin Chinese. In light transitivity verbs, two cases NOC are discussed: a) with transitive verbs and b) unergative verbs. Based on theory phase extension, mixture direct properties PP can be explained that is licensed by both preposition verb.

abstracttask-based language teaching is considered an effective way to achieve a harmony between grammar and communication. the present study investigates two different ways of teaching modal verbs: task-based versus traditional approaches. to this purpose, an oxford placement test was administered to select 40 homogeneous participants out of a larger population who took this test. the selected...

This study aimed to investigate the realizations of verbs’ syntactic and semantic features inmoves of applied linguistics research article introductions published in international andIranian local journals. To this end, a data of 30 research article introductions (15 published inIranian local journals and 15 in high impact international journals) was selected. The researcharticle introductions ...

Neuroimaging and lesion studies suggest that processing of word classes, such as verbs and nouns, is associated with distinct neural mechanisms. Such studies also suggest that subcategories within these broad word class categories are differentially processed in the brain. Within the class of verbs, argument structure provides one linguistic dimension that distinguishes among verb exemplars, wi...