The authors set three major goals for the book: to increase our understanding of the ‘relationship between lexical semantics and morphology in language acquisition’ (p. 8), to review and evaluate pertinent hypotheses ‘with respect to empirical evidence from crosslinguistic studies of English, Chinese, and Japanese, in both first and second language acquisition’ (p. 8), and to investigate ‘the l...

Pattern-based design, the use of design pattern during the design process, has become widely used in the object-oriented community because of the reuse benefits. However, design pattern defects can be injected in design maintenance phase because the changes of pattern-based design require the conformance not only to the change requirements but also to the corresponding design patterns. This pro...

The study examines how prototypes and typological relationships between the L1, L2 target language (TL) interact with TL proficiency in learning Italian as additional language. Low-proficiency high-proficiency undergraduate learners of (N = 25) Swedish L1 performed an oral retelling story test, aiming to elicit aspectual contrast perfective-imperfective. Their tense selection was analyzed consi...

This article examines prenatal education in the perfective of Islamic education, Prenatal is an aspect that less demand, either form studies or applications educational institutions oriented to education. Several have been found prove baby womb has able respond events related their biological mother, this described Qur'an QS Al Mukminun: 12, between and mother there a strong bond, Qararin Makin...

Abstract The focus of the present study is relation between metaphor and aspect: are certain grammatical forms more prone to be used metaphorically? We approach this issue through a puzzling case Russian aspectual triplets. based on distributions unprefixed imperfective verb gruzit’ (IPFV1) ‘load’, its perfective counterparts (PFVs) prefixed secondary imperfectives (IPFV2s) with prefixes na- , ...

The study explores the construal shifts from VISUAL PERCEPTION to COMPREHENSION image schemas (Grady, 2005) which readers may face when they deal with contexts employing verb of visual perception видеть ( see ) in Russian language. aim is find out how different schema types affect readers’ gaze behavior and default interpretation. It develops a two-stage procedure involves corpus-based semantic...

Mainly based on data from Old Spanish and Modern Francoprovençal, this paper discusses a hitherto underresearched use of the Romance definite article that cannot straightforwardly be explained by recurring to any standard analyses semantic definiteness, i.e., maximality and/or familiarity. We show such weakly referential definites are with representative object interpretations licensed kind-ori...

German and French football language display tense-aspect-mood (TAM) forms which differ from the TAM use in other genres. In talk, present indicative may replace pluperfect subjunctive. reports of matches, imperfective past occur instead a perfective tense-aspect form. We argue that two phenomena share functional core are licensed same way, is direct result genre they in. More precisely, match a...