Figure 1 - available via license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Content may be subject to copyright.
Position of motion verb in prior motion SVCs 8 (black: initial; red: final; yellow: variable; white: other SVCs attested but not prior motion)
Source publication
Associated motion is a grammatical category which modifies a verbal predicate by adding a motion component such as indicating that motion took place prior to the event predicated by the verb. Many languages express prior associated motion (‘go and V’) in the form of a serial verb construction, while in other languages the same meaning is expressed...
Context in source publication
Similar publications
Este estudio aborda las oraciones especificativas inversas cuyo segmento principal es El problema es que. Se parte de unos presupuestos teóricos incompatibles: algunos defienden una variación en la distribución del tema y rema en la construcción según el modo del verbo subordinado; otros atribuyen a la cláusula subordinada la función de foco, exclu...
Individuals in occupational settings are often exposed to moderate levels (e.g., < 85 dBA) of background noise (i.e., broadband noise) while performing cognitive-based tasks. Exposure to such noise may affect individuals’ cognitive performance and thus affect desired performance level (e.g., safety performance). The present review outlines the effe...
The syntactic studies of Indo-European languages are characterized by the epistemological stance of subject-predicate parse or verb/tense-as-the-head oriented approach. Contrary to subject-predicate construction based upon hierarchicality, I define parallel-dialogic syntax as multiple non-hierarchically constructed run-on constituents or clauses in...
Researchers still have no common opinion on the integration and autonomy of parts of Japanese converb constructions. In this article, morphological and syntactic connectedness in the most common Japanese converb constructions is examined through tests whose results can be verified using corpus data. Results show that parts of all considered converb...
On the basis of the results of a corpus study on Colloquial French, which show that the distribution of resumptive pronouns globally matches the Accessibility Hierarchy (Keenan, Comrie 1977), we argue that resumptive pronouns in French relative clauses are not intrusive and that resumptive and gapped relatives involve different syntactic derivation...
