Meaning and Grammar of Nouns and Verbs

Meaning and Grammar of Nouns and Verbs
Author: Doris Gerland
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2014-11-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110720078

The papers collected in this book cover contemporary and original research on semantic and grammatical issues of nouns and noun phrases, verbs and sentences, and aspects of the combination of nouns and verbs, in a great variety of languages. A special focus is put on noun types, tense and aspect semantics, granularity of verb meaning, and subcompositionality. The investigated languages and language groups include Austronesian, East Asian, Slavic, German, English, Hungarian and Lakhota. The collection provided in this book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students specialising in the fields of semantics, morphology, syntax, typology, and cognitive sciences.

Aspect, Eventuality Types and Nominal Reference

Aspect, Eventuality Types and Nominal Reference
Author: Hana Filip
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2022-01-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136801162

First published in 1999. This book examines the interplay between the semantics of noun phrases and verbal predicates, with an emphasis on data drawn from Czech and English, and comparisons to German and Finnish. This book will be of interest to a wide range of linguists concerned with aspect and how it interacts with lexical semantics, morphology, syntax and quantification.

Three Inertial Concepts

Three Inertial Concepts
Author: Richard Selvaggi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2011
Genre: Motion
ISBN:

This manuscript provides a theoretical basis for answering questions about motion. What is motion? How can motion reference frames be illustrated? Are motion reference frames mixed-inertial, non-inertial, or inertial? How can the mixed-inertial, non-inertial, and inertial reference frames be illustrated? How can the mixed-inertial reference frame be applied to the physical world? How can Galileo's question of motion be understood? How can physics define and distinguish between motion and relative motion? What kind of motion is measured by one-way light experiments, the Sagnac experiment, Foucault's pendulum, and the Doppler Affect? What motion can be measured by a more accurate Michelson-Morley type experiment? A one-way light experiment is presented to understand the direction light travels. Illustrations of the mixed-inertial, non-inertial, and inertial frames of reference are presented to understand the possible paths of the light in the one-way light experiment and reveal the inertial status of the fig. 1 drawings in Michelson-Morley (1887). Galileo's theoretical motion question is used along with a heavy fog analogy to understand that two physical phenomena, each with a different velocity, must be present to measure motion. These concepts are used to define and understand the Present Theory of Motion. The Sagnac experiment and Foucault's pendulum measure the relative motion of the Earth's rotation to the experimental apparatus. The Doppler Shift measures the relative motion between the Earth and the star. These examples of relative motion are used with the one-way light experimental example of motion to define and distinguish between the concepts of motion and relative motion. The inertial reference frame, the definitions of motion and relative motion, and the Present Theory of Motion are applied to the one-way light experiment, Sagnac experiment, Foucault's pendulum, and Doppler Shift to explain the measured experimental results. These theories are used to predict the measureable relative motion of a more accurate Michelson-Morley type experiment.

Motion and the English Verb

Motion and the English Verb
Author: Judith Huber
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017
Genre: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
ISBN: 9780190657833

This work is a study of how motion is expressed in medieval English. It provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early English

Path and Manner Saliency in Polish in Contrast with Russian

Path and Manner Saliency in Polish in Contrast with Russian
Author: Joanna Łozinska
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2018-01-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004360352

This book presents a contrastive analysis of the lexicalization of motion events in Polish in comparison with Russian. The study, set in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, adopts a usage-based approach to language analysis. Consequently, it draws on data derived from a wide variety of sources, namely modern novels, translated texts and elicitation tasks. Besides describing the distribution of path and manner information in and outside the verb in the two languages, the book addresses questions concerning the place of Polish and Russian on the continuum of the salience of the manner of motion as well as cognitive mechanisms reflected in the lexicalization patterns of motion events.

A Relative-motion Microworld

A Relative-motion Microworld
Author: Linda E. Morecroft
Publisher:
Total Pages: 243
Release: 1985
Genre: Computer-assisted instruction
ISBN:

A relative-motion microworld has been designed to aid high-school students in understanding the concepts of relative motion and frames of reference. Relative motion and frames of reference are usually introduced in a high-school physics or mathematics course. Most students, and many teachers too, have difficulty understanding the concepts and applying them to solve problems. The traditional approach to relative motion uses vector algebra. However, vector terminology is complex. The relative-motion uses a new representation for thinking about motion, based on the intrinsic, local and procedural characteristics of turtle geometry. This representation provides the student with a simple framework for understanding motion and relative motion, that overcomes the problems associated with the traditional approach. The microworld allows students to set up their own motion problems, in order to view the motion from different reference frames. Four key primitives have been designed: these make an object, give an object a motion, select a reference frame, and move all the objects that have been set up. These four primitives are the building blocks that can be used to set up complex problems. Problems from a variety of motion situations can be explored using the relative-motion microworld. These include rectilinear motion, non-parallel rectilinear motion microworld. These include rectilinear motion, non-parallel rectilinear motion, motion under gravity, and rotational motion. A student text and teacher's reference manual accompany the microworld.