0 Introduction In this paper I wish to explore one aspect of what has been called the \inverse copular construction"|a construction in which the subject of a copular sentence appears to have many of the properties of a predicate, and vice versa. 1 In particular, I hope to shed some further light on the still unresolved problems raised by this construction by looking in more detail at the behavi...

Languages use a variety of strategies to signal non-presupposed, focused information. Some languages attach a morpheme to the focused constituent, others mark focus prosodically. A third, widely available way of focusing a constituent, involves clefting with a copular verb. Spanish displays the latter two strategies, which, at first site, do not share much in common: clefting involves two claus...

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 ...

This chapter begins my three chapter discussion of the behavior of non-verbal predication in Irish. In this chapter, I discuss the distribution and syntactic behavior of two different copular constructions in Irish: theTá (Bí) and Is1 constructions. In chapter 5, I look in detail at a word order alternation within the Is class of constructions. The final section on Irish copular constructions w...

The use of phrasal verbs is problematic for Iranian EFL learners. Accordingly, the present studyinvestigated the performance of Iranian intermediate and advanced EFL learners in separable andinseparable verbs. The total population of the study was one hundred female Iranian EFLlearners who studied English as foreign language in Kaj language institute in Qazvin, Iran. Theparticipants were all fe...

Vocabulary is one of the essential components of language and learning phrasal verbs as part of vocabulary is quite challenging for foreign language learners. The present study aimed at investigating the effects of visual and auditory input enhancement on learning non-congruent phrasal verbs. The participants of the study were 90 intermediate English language learners who were divided into two ...

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...

In order to identify the basic properties of PoRs and the theoretical questions that follow, consider the German active-passive pair in (3a, b) involving the reflexive use of the verb ‘waschen’ (to wash). As in ordinary passives, the lexical verb in (3b) appears as passive participle and the passive auxiliary werden (to become) is used. The external argument disappears (but it can reappear in a...