Language is a significant aspect of every culture. Kankanaey one the most widely spoken languages in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Philippines. Regrettably, study this language has very few resources and material available for it. This presents centering on -an morpheme words, how they developed, present situation, can be improved or enriched to meet needs future times generations ter...

In one of his inaugural lectures Dov Gabbay demonstrated God’s providence as follows—I quote from memory. God had seen fit to send his revelation to mankind in a language with no verb tenses. (In classical Hebrew the verb forms are distinguished as perfective, imperfective, passive, reduplicative, etc., but not as past, present or future.) So there was a problem to explain how facts about a tem...

This paper contains an investigation of some aspects of Romanian modality constructed with auxiliaries. These forms can be combined either with the infinitive, or with overt (imperfective /perfective) aspectual morphology. In the latter case, they might give rise to interpretations which have been classified in Romanian grammars as presumptive (broadly described as referring to probability, unc...

Hae-Young Kim, Youngon Choi (2016), Development of Aspect Morphology in Korean. Journal of Language Sciences 23(4), 203-225. The present study examined the development of aspect marking in Korean with a focus on -ko issand –a issimperfective markers, compared with progressive and perfective markers. First, we examined the comprehension accuracy of 3-4-year-old Korean-learning children, while ob...

In ergative constructions, the agent of a transitive verb is in the ergative case and the theme is in the absolutive case. By contrast, in biabsolutive constructions, both the agent and theme of a transitive verb appear in the absolutive case. This paper presents and analyzes the biabsolutive construction in two Nakh-Dagestanian languages, Lak and Tsez. Despite many surface similarities, the bi...

This paper provides an analysis of scalar tone shift in Guébie as constraint-driven and morphosyntactically conditioned, rather than triggered by a particular abstract underlying representation. Much recent literature has claimed that all morphology involves affixation of morphemes with underlying (abstract) phonological representations (Benua 1997, Alderete 2001,Wolf 2007, Gouskova & Linzen 20...

the wild pistachio (pistacia atlantica mutika) exists in 2.4 million hectares of iranian forest. in spite of high nutritional and medical value of this fruit, its use and processing are still performed manually. the objectives of this research are to design, to construct and to evaluate the performance of a pistachio hulling machine. the pistachio of kerman province was chosen as the case of st...

Background: Several studies in interlanguage pragmatics have reported Russian directive speech acts to take a particular position within the dimensions of linguistic politeness and (in)directness, when compared some Germanic Romance languages extensively studied this framework.Purpose study: The present paper aimed investigate role language specific cues requests by examining their perception n...

Tingchun Chen, MIT This paper proposes an analysis of Amis (Formosan, Austronesian; VSO) case alternations, implemented in a dependent case model (Marantz 1991), in which nominals crucially may receive case multiple times. Moreover, I argue that, contra some previous proposals, e.g. Levin (2016), the presence of a nominal in multiple phases is not a prerequisite for multiple case assignments, b...