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A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis
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If you were to travel to Japan, you would likely hear 'giving' and 'receiving' verbs in conversations quite frequently. In Japanese, giving and receiving verbs are not only used to describe an object being transferred, but also metaphorically, for example to describe giving/receiving a favor or involvement in an event. Giving and receiving verbs in all of these situations are known as benefactive constructions. Role and Reference Grammar analysis allows us to analyze which structures of benefactive constructions correspond to different meanings. This book will explore the historic evolution of Japanese benefactive constructions and how children acquire these constructions.
A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis
Author:
If you were to travel to Japan, you would likely hear 'giving' and 'receiving' verbs in conversations quite frequently. In Japanese, giving and receiving verbs are not only used to describe an object being transferred, but also metaphorically, for example to describe giving/receiving a favor or involvement in an event. Giving and receiving verbs in all of these situations are known as benefactive constructions. Role and Reference Grammar analysis allows us to analyze which structures of benefactive constructions correspond to different meanings. This book will explore the historic evolution of Japanese benefactive constructions and how children acquire these constructions.
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This paper explores the potential relationship between Aṣṭādhyāyī 3.2.112–114 and the usage of the future tense to denote past actions in Niya Prakrit. According to the interpretation by vyākaraṇa commentators, rule A 3.2.112 teaches that the l-substitutes of lṚṬ (= sigmatic future) occur after a verbal base to denote a past action excluding the present day, provided that there is a co-occurring word conveying the sense of ‘recollection’; the other two rules (A 3.2.113–114) constitute the exceptions to the latter. Specifically addressing A 3.2.112, Thomas Burrow argued that, in six Niya Prakrit occurrences (CKD 182, 309, 376, 435, 621, 634), there is “exactly what is laid down in Pāṇini 3 2 112”. This paper endeavours to demonstrate that such alignment is not entirely accurate, at least according to the traditional interpretation of the rules at stake.
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The Iranian flavour of the Chinese epithet of the Buddha, tianzhong tian 天中天, ‘god among gods,’ and its relationship with the Indo-Aryan parallel devātideva-, ‘foremost god of gods,’ have been repeatedly addressed. Past studies of the origin of the expressions sought to establish an ultimate connection to the Achaemenid royal title ‘king of kings’ (Old Persian xšāya
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This article presents the first Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar (DACON), an ongoing project to annotate Newar texts ranging from the 12th to the 19th centuries. The primary purpose of this corpus is to facilitate both synchronic and diachronic as well as comparative linguistic research. We also present our annotation pipeline with detailed information on our workflow and the results of the automatic segmentation and POS-tagging tools.