in recent decades, “figurative language” has gained the interest of a large number of russian linguists as a source of lexical enrichment. persian and russian manifest, are more or less, a different image of a movement. nevertheless, these verbs share a number of linguistic features, although they belong to two diverse languages. due to the high frequency in the function of movement verbs in th...

In many areas of language acquisition, researchers have suggested that semantic generality plays an important role in determining the order of acquisition of particular lexical forms. However, generality is typically confounded with the effects of input frequency and it is therefore unclear to what extent semantic generality or input frequency determines the early acquisition of particular lexi...

In this paper, we present a database-supported corpus study where we combine automatically obtained linguistic information from a statistical dependency parser, namely the occurrence of a dative argument, with predictions from a theory on the argument structure of German particle verbs with nach. The theory predicts five readings of nach which behave differently with respect to dative licensing...

This paper strives to overcome the issues of achieving a VSO word order in negated sentences Standard Arabic. A possible solution would be split Negative projection into two, where higher head hosts negative particle, and lower has ability attract host verb, which falls within scope particle. Splitting proved sufficient maintain integrity validity other theories available Minimalist Program. Mo...

this study deals with teaching the verbal meaning networks in second/foreign language, and evaluates the effects of this kind of teaching on the learning process of foreign persian language learners. for this purpose, a pretest was carried out among 50 foreign language learners, from which 30 individuals were selected for this research based on their scores. the subjects were divided into two g...

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...

Abstract Task-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 selecte...

It has been long observed that Latinate verbs in English cannot appear in verb-particle constructions, resultative constructions, and double object constructions. Recent research has revealed that, despite persistent counterexamples, the hypothesis invoking the morphological complexity of verbs is the most promising in dealing with the Latinate/native asymmetry (Coppock, 2009; Harley, 2008; Pun...