Essays about: "resultative"

Found 4 essays containing the word resultative.

  1. 1. ”It grew a day of expectation” : A diachronic corpus study on the evolution of the verb grow in British English

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Rosaleena Luokkala; [2019]
    Keywords : grow; labile verb; transitivity; corpus study; diachronic study;

    Abstract : English has an extraordinary number of labile verbs, that is, verbs that can be used both transitively with a causative sense and intransitively with an inchoative sense. This corpus-based study investigates the evolution of the verb grow from exclusively intransitive to labile in British English in the Late Modern English period. READ MORE

  3. 2. Spatial Relations in Persian : An investigation on the locative use of prepositions with comparison to English

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Niloofar Moltaji; [2016]
    Keywords : Ezāfe; compound preposition; preposition; primary preposition; secondary preposition; spatial relation;

    Abstract : This study is an investigation on the spatial span of Persian prepositions in colloquial speech, focusing on the locative use of prepositions. The results are compared with English prepositions as well. In order to show the functional span of various prepositions, the Typological Relations Picture Series known as TRPS or BowPed is used. READ MORE

  4. 3. Processing of tense and aspect manipulations on-line in the first and second language: a self-paced reading study with Russian advanced learners of English.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Elena Eriksson; [2016]
    Keywords : tense-aspect agreement violations; self-paced reading; L1 processing; L2 processing; present perfect; tense; Aspect; telicity; L1 interference; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The present study investigates how native speakers of British English (n=12) and advanced Russian learners of English (n=24) handle two types of tense-aspect mismatches: present perfect mismatches, where the present perfect form does not match the preceding adverbial (e.g. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Present Marker -te iru

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Christoffer Ahrling; [2014]
    Keywords : Japanese; linguistics; -te iru; aspect; perfect; progressive; resultative; pragmatics; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The present thesis is concerned with the marker -te iru in Japanese, which has been thought to have the interpretations progressive, resultative, habitual, perfect (or experiential), and progressive through iteration, or any given subset of these interpretations according to various scholars. The matter is a complicated one, with particularly the perfect interpretation proving to be difficult to explain, as it refers to a past event rather than a current situation. READ MORE