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Of importance, these effects require no common association between verb and object.
For instance, the meaning of and as a connective between verb phrases is obtained by lifting the sentence connective ∧ to λPλQλx[P x) ∧ Q x)].
Another reason is that Indian linguistics (especially the Pāṇinian system of 'kārakas' or relations between verb and noun, which greatly influenced Nyāya, Mīmāṃsā and Buddhist thinkers) is based on an underlying causal model, in which the verb in a sentence designates an event, for the production of which each such object as is designated by a noun has a particular causal role.
Montague had to introduce the and in John wants to catch and eat a fish by a different rule than the and in John walks and Mary sings, because syntactically the second one is a conjunction of sentences and the first is between verb phrases.
Thus, simulation of action is at the interface between verb comprehension and motor production [16].
Maximal pitch values between verb stem and verb suffix did not differ significantly (330,41 vs 336,22 Hz (t(1,126) = −,845, p = .4).4
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In Dilemmas, Ryle discusses in more detail the logical-grammatical differences between verbs of success or achievement and "hunt" or "try" verbs which do not carry this particular normative dimension.
Thompson (2014: 94) states that the term 'transitivity' will probably be familiar as a way of distinguishing between verbs according to whether they have an Object or not (i.e., transitive verbs and intransitive verbs).
This particular relationship between verbs and their arguments has proved especially challenging for Asian students as a result of not only L2 structural complexity but also L1 conceptual interference.
This relates to (13) above, the point that Chinese maintains a rather clear distinction between verbs and nouns: it recognises processes to be systemically distinct from entities, or things.
(Neale 2002: 227) reasons, however, that the difference between verbs such as threaten, annotated as a social action process, and tell, considered a process of mental cognition, is that mental cognitive verbs of communication are those that 'cause someone to know something'.
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