Taking “congratulations, congratulations” and “come on, come on” as examples, this paper analyzes their syntactic components, semantic features, pragmatic functions, special phenomena on the basis of corpus under guidance frame semantics theory interactive subjectivity theory. ABAB reduplicated speech act verbs mostly independent predicates in sentences, which is mainly caused by imperative sen...

In Müller, To Appear 2005b I provide evidence that suggests that linearization approaches or approaches that assume flat structures cannot account for the German clause structure in an insightful way. Analyses that make use of discontinuous constituents should therefore be revised. In this paper I develop an analysis of German depictive secondary predicates that differs from the one suggested i...

This paper aims at investigating the acquisition of Italian complex predicates by native speakers of Persian. Complex predication is not as pervasive a phenomenon in Italian as it is in Persian. Yet Italian native speakers use complex predicates productively; spontaneous data show that Persian learners of Italian seem to be perfectly aware of Italian complex predicates and use this familiar fea...

Studies in English and Italian have shown that non-fluent Broca’s aphasics find it more difficult to produce verbs than nouns, while some fluent patients (including Wernicke's aphasics and anomics) show the opposite profile. Explanations for this double dissociation include grammatical accounts (e.g. verb deficits reflect differences in morphological and/or syntactic complexity), semantic-conce...

This thesis is principally concerned with aspectual composition. Although there have been some recent studies on this topic, none has succeeded in explaining all the different aspectual interactions existing between a verb and its arguments. This thesis explores the interpretation of sentences containing transitive or intransitive verbs and their arguments. It is found that sentence interpretat...

This paper discusses verb information items in the grammatical knowledge dictionary of Tibetan language. The verb information items include morphology, word-formation and syntax, in which the core is the verb classification with syntactic and semantic features. So the influences on clause structures of 12 types of verbs have been discussed. Also the paper designs an information table to compile...

This study aims to analyze the structure, usage, and meaning of Japanese conditional sentences (jouken hyougen) with patterns “to”, “tara”, “ba”, “nara” in spoken language. By using qualitative methods, this is collecting conversational data taken from Animation Dr. Stone. The form were analyzed based on their meaning. results found that Stone animation have a structure tends be attached verb n...

Valence dictionaries are dictionaries in which logical predicates (most of the times verbs) are inventoried alongside with the semantic and syntactic information regarding the role of the arguments with which they combine, as well as the syntactic restrictions these arguments have to obey. In this article we present the incipient stage of the project “Syntactic and semantic database in XML form...

This article presents the linguistic bases of Persian light verb constructions and shows the corpus based construction of lists of collocates for some common Persian verbs. The proposed methods of corpus construction are language independent and the good results on a relatively small corpus of 20 million words confirms the power of association measures based on the hypergeometric distribution. ...