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The verbs participating in this alternation are inherently intransitive predicates that appear with predicative locative prepositional phrases (adjuncts) that take as their argument the complete event in which they participate: be-in' ([x.

Accounting for the Alternating Behaviour of Location Arguments from the Perspective of Role and Reference Grammar/Explicacion del comportamiento alternante de los argumentos locativos desde la perspectiva de la Gramatica del Papel y la Referencia

Both Theme noun phrase and Path prepositional phrase are internal arguments of verbs, so that these verbs are considered to be unaccusative verbs of two places (LEVIN, 1993; MUNHOZ, 2011; MUNHOZ; NAVES, 2012).

THE SEMANTIC PROPERTY MOTION IN THE LEXICAL REPRESENTATION OF BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE VERBS

Some modifiers include verbs (ratel 'rattle', schiet 'shoot'), numerals (drie 'three', duizend 'thousand'), or a prepositional phrase (van-dalen 'of valleys').

The relation of the head and the modifier in nominal compound names of medicinal herbs

Except the two independent prepositional phrases discussed above, other examples that can show the skillful complexity and intricate complication of the long adverbial "When .

The poetic forms of Shakespeare's three single-sentenced sonnets

That is to say, the study is carried out to determine grammatical, lexical and prepositional errors originating from learners' mother tongue and produced during speaking courses, and to inquire about learners' interlanguage development.

Contrastive analysis of Turkish and English in Turkish EFL learners' spoken discourse

In other words, what are the prepositional and procedural aspects of aesthetic knowledge and their implication for aesthetic curricula and rational pedagogy?

The epistemic of aesthetic knowledge and knowing: implications for aesthetic education curricula and rational pedagogy in Nigerian secondary schools

From a synchronic point of view, the prepositional clause has become the common expression for possession.

Vom Status pendens zum Satzsubjekt: Studien zur Topikalisierung in neueren semitischen Sprachen

At first glance, the sentence confirms the suspicions of a tedious style, as five prepositional phrases seem to compete for meaning rather than work to establish it.

Spacious fields: Alexander Hamilton and the rhetoric of sentence architecture

Prepositions are words that show the position of one noun (or pronoun) in relation to another, and they are most often found at the beginning of prepositional phrases.

Chapter 20: Reviewing the parts of speech

b) if they are realized as prepositional phrases conveying syntactic functions of adverbials and postmodifiers of nouns (DuUkova 1988: 578-580; Janigova 2008: 115):

Oraciones subordinadas encabezadas por gerundios y participios presentes y sus funciones en el corpus de ingles juridico. Un estudio comparativo

In the paper Prepositional antonymy in Croatian: a corpus approach (Daniela Katunar) the author examines co-occurrence patterns of prepositional antonyms in the Croatian National Corpus by adopting a specific corpus-based methodology for antonymy research.

Introduction to special issue

Avoid adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases unless they genuinely add implicit meaning.