This paper presents a comprehensive description of non-finite verbs in Assamese, language that belongs to the Indo-Aryan family. Non-finite exist multi-verb constructions, which include both single and multi-clausal constructions. In clauses, they occur with different auxiliaries carry various aspectual modal meanings. on other hand, dependent clauses mark syntactic relations have main clause. ...

In The proper treatment of quantification in ordimny Englim tk rQ) (Montague, 1973), Richard Montague presents the syntax and semantics of a fragment of English. His objective is to support the contention that “there is . . . no important theoretical difference between natural languages and the artificial languages of logicians” and that it is “possible to comprehend the syntax given in PTQ con...

Scope and semimodal verbs: two approaches In this paper I focus on scope phenomena connected with semimodal (and modal) verbs and mainly on the syntactic behaviour of these groups of verbs. One important question is: why can semimodal verbs (and modal verbs in epistemic use) not have perfect and future tense forms? Taking among other things Reichenbach’s tense system as a starting point I try t...

Can regular and irregular verb forms be accommodated by a single representational mechanism or is a dual mechanism account required? In a first experiment, we used a cross-modal repetition priming paradigm to investigate the mental representation of regular and irregular verb forms in French. Participants heard a spoken prime (such as aimons, ‘we love’) immediately followed by lexical decision ...

An important aspect of training students a non-philological specialty is the formation foreign language communicative competence. Successful development latter impossible without all its basic components, one which grammatical competency as knowledge elements and ability to use them in communication, on hand, connections patterns established between phenomena concepts they express, other hand.T...

According to Lightfoot (1979: 112), what is perhaps “most remarkable” about the reanalysis of the premodals is the subsequent development of a set of semantically identical but syntactically full verbs to fill the vacuum created. Lightfoot terms these verbs “quasimodals” and dates their appearance with modal meaning in the 15th century. I will question three of Lightfoot’s claims: the date of t...

We investigated whether modal information elicited empirical effects with regard to discourse processing. That is, like tense information, one of the linguistic factors shown to be relevant in organizing a discourse representation is modality, where the mood of an utterance indicates whether or not it is asserted. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used in order to address the question of the...

knowledge of marble bag composition has been triggered by many individual examples of marble bags. More interestingly, this learner was able to have certain expectations about a marble bag containing a novel marble color by learning from bags containing only black or white marbles. Translating this to a linguistic example, suppose the marble bags are individual sentences. Some sentences contain...

in the present paper, we are to put forth a paradigm for the systematic study of modality in persian.with this end in view, we consider modality as a linguistic phenomenon that can be expressed at the level of sentence, at the level of constituents smaller than sentence and/or at the level of discourse. in such a system where sentential modality, sub-sentential modality and discourse modality a...