This study aims at describing the meaning extensions and functions of object-oriented see type verbs ‘görünmek’ ‘gözükmek’ in Turkish terms evidential status epistemic stance they encode. The observations this research are based on corpora obtained from National Corpus.The results indicate that görün- gözük- share some common features their discourse. They both used evidentially with indirect e...

This short paper investigates a colloquial construction in Mandarin Chinese in which a secondary predicate may be preceded by the enclitic ta (它 ta “it”) and the classifier個 ge “GE.” The paper argues that ge heads a dependent clause, where the enclitic is the subject of the secondary predicate. Therefore, first, the classifier is not used as a counting unit in this numeral classifier language; ...

The acquisition of the Possessive Construction is one of the main topics of interest within the acquisition of the DP. There are three main reasons for this: a) the Possessive Construction emerges very early in child speech, b) in many languages it involves movement, and thus it can provide evidence for the availability of movement operations, and c) it requires morphological marking both in la...

In this document we describe the scheme used for labelling the open-source Ukwabelana Zulu corpus as well as the rules employed for the Part-of-speech (POS) tagger used to assign POS to morphologically analysed words. A detailed description of the Zulu morphology, the corpus itself and its generation is given in [2]. All resources can be downloaded from http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Research/Machine...

This paper discusses distribution of the dative in Modern Icelandic. Similar to Latin, Modern Icelandic exhibits occurrences of the possessive dative, i.e., the dative which marks the possessor of a noun. However, although Latin shows free occurrences of possessive datives, there is a syntactic restriction imposed on the distribution of possessive datives in Modern Icelandic. The possessive dat...

Two experiments tested whether the Dutch possessive pronoun zijn ‘his’ gives rise to a gender inference and thus causes male bias when used generically in sentences such as Everyone was putting on his shoes . Experiment 1 ( N = 120, 48 male) conceptual replication of previous eye-tracking study that had not found evidence bias. The results current experiment showed generically-intended masculin...

Makassarese language belongs to the Austronesian family, currently spoken as a mother by group of people in South Sulawesi province, eastern Indonesia. This research focuses on personal pronoun organization sentence construction language. The form, position, and function pronouns sentences are explained. It used ‘simak’ (to-observe) method form conversational involved-observation technique incl...

The use of medical eponyms, which are medical terms named after people (e.g., Down’s syndrome), has frequently been a source of confusion for learners. Although the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the World Health Organization have encouraged the medical community to refrain from the use of possessive eponyms in order to reduce the misconception that the disease founders suffered fro...