the verbal constructions in azari (harzani dialect)

Japanese Post-verbal Constructions Revisited

a study of the verbal tense system in adkan dialect

the paper aims at describing verbal tense system in the dialect of adkan, a village in khorasan-e shomali province in the northeast of iran. it seems that this dialect is one of the tati dialects in the area. since the main objective was to collect the oldest dialect, the data was gathered by interviewing some educated and uneducated old and middle-aged speakers. this study which is the first s...

Variation of verbal constructions in Estonian dialects

Traditional Estonian dialect classifications are based on the phonology, morphology, and lexis, and there are very few studies about syntax available. The present paper is the first quantitative syntactic study of Estonian dialects. We concentrate on constructions consisting of finite and non-finite verbs, and we apply contemporary statistical methods to explore the syntactic variation. Our res...

Predicting Dialect Variation in Immigrant Contexts Using Light Verb Constructions

Languages spoken by immigrants change due to contact with the local languages. Capturing these changes is problematic for current language technologies, which are typically developed for speakers of the standard dialect only. Even when dialectal variants are available for such technologies, we still need to predict which dialect is being used. In this study, we distinguish between the immigrant...

Constructing ‘ basic ’ verbal constructions : a longitudinal study of the blossoming of constructions with six frequent

In this paper we adopt a usage-based perspective on the process of first language acquisition. Following Tomasello (2003), we assume that children initially learn concrete chunks of language, linguistic gestalts that can take different sizes and shapes, in dialogue. They then generalize across those various elements in order to assemble more abstract constructions (Fillmore 1988, Goldberg 1995)...

Modeling Verb Order in Complex Multi-Verbal Predicate Constructions

1. Introduction) Verb order is an important issue in complex multi-verbal predicate constructions, for example, serial verb constructions (SVCs). With more than one verb in the construction, how are the verbs sequenced? What constraints are at play to govern their order? In this paper, we attempt to investigate several constraints that are related to the issue. We also propose a different ranki...