1 School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China 2 Center for Language Cognition and Assessment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China Distinct from nominal ...

Distinct from nominal metaphors, predicate metaphors entail metaphorical abstraction from concrete verbs, which generally involve more action and stronger motor simulation than nouns. It remains ...

The need for deeper semantic processing of human language by our natural language processing systems is evidenced by their still-unreliable performance on inferencing tasks, even using deep learning ...

今回の講義のテーマは「思考の基本単位」「原子命題」そして「原子命題文」です。これらの概念は「心と言葉の英文法」の中核をなすものであり、それをマスターすることが「心の文型」をマスターすることの第一歩となります。 まず「原子命題文」に ...

ABSTRACT: The construction “N1 you V guo N2” pervasively visible in China has demonstrated its typical cog-pragmatic features. It is pointed out that “you” and “guo” in this construction are the ...

The present and past progressive tenses in Persian are the only tenses in which both the main verb and the minor verb dâštan "to have" receive agreement marking. Morpho-syntactically, Persian ...

Grammatical errors and poor sentence structure can tear your writing apart. You’ll only need a subject and predicate to form a complete sentence but adding other parts to your sentence can give it ...

Happy is the main lexical predicate here. It takes one argument: an experiencer--John. Tall takes one argument: a theme: Mary. (12) *John is being tall. (13) *Mary is being fond of red roses. (14) ...