Morpho-syntactic features of Modern Standard Arabic mix intricately with those of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in ordinary speech. I study the lexical, phonological and syntactic features of verb phrase morphemes and constituents in different tenses, aspects, moods. A corpus of ov…
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This dissertation examines a type of complex verb formation known as the serial verb construction (SVC) in Yorùbá (Nigeria, Benue Congo). For example, Túnjí ti Akin subú. Túnjí push Akin fall (1) ‘Túnjí pushed Akin down.’ A new analysis of the SVC is presented based on Koopman a…
This paper is a preliminary analysis of tense and aspect (T/A) in the verbal system of Lubwisi, an East-African Bantu language spoken in western Uganda. Besides providing a basic description of T/A in Lubwisi verbs, it focuses specifically on how T/A function within Lubwisi narr…
This dissertation is concerned with three primary issues: (i) the distribution and function of inflectional morphemes in Korean, (ii) the syntactic placement and semantic interpretation of the inflectional morphemes, and (iii) their interactions with Universal Grammar. In discus…
The present investigation is a cross-sectional quantitative study of the acquisition of Catalan and Spanish past-tense verbs (Preterite, Present Perfect, and Imperfect) by Moroccan children in Catalonia. The data were obtained using elicited story-retell tasks and oral narrative…
In this dissertation I clarify the significance of verb form selection in the Qumran sectarian texts by determining the extent to which the semantic value of the Hebrew finite verb is temporal, aspectual, or modal in the selected corpus. Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect…
The main goal of this study is to investigate the difficulties of acquiring tense/lax /i, I/ and /u, U/ contrasts by adult Arabic speakers learning English as a Second Language (ESL). Twenty Saudi ESL subjects, 16 male and 4 female, produced a list of 20 English monosyllabic wor…