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This is often the second one quantity of the sequence "Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics", a fabricated from the twenty first century COE software held at Tokyo college of international reports (TUFS). The venture has an goal to achieve an integration of theoretical and utilized linguistics at the foundation of computing device sciences. on the way to virtually using the result of linguistic research to language schooling, the promoting of person language examine has turn into a high-priority factor. a brand new box of linguistic study is meant to be built via elucidating the nation of linguistic utilization according to the research of enormous quantities of linguistic facts. the amount, therefore, is composed more often than not of language-specific corpus-based analyses on sentence constructions in ten varied languages corresponding to Nuuchahnulth, Korean, chinese language, Malay, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French, English and Spanish. it's also papers that take care of a variety of theoretical matters in contrastive linguistics and typology.

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Argument Structure in Nuuchahnulth Possessive (40) 27 POSSESSOR (SPEAKER) IS AFFECTED åuuk§iiîåatuksa naniiqsakitqs, Êi„aqÇåis. 3 Local topicality In addition to the above factors, ‘local or contextual topicality’ correlates with selection of a possessive construction. ‘Local topicality’ has to do with closeness to the center of the attention in a given context. Compare examples (42) and (43) below: (42) TOPIC = I (SPEAKER) òayuqåiÖòåaÇits q§iyaakiis qaò¢iÇ åumåiiqsu. ’ [CL 39] The possessive construction in (42) occurs in a clause that modifies the main clause òayuqåiÖòåaÇits (‘I was ten years old’).

3. Telic The aspect (or Aktionsart) marker {-zhuo2} connoting various aspectual meanings and affixed to verbs is translated as follows. 42 Hideto ITO (27) ceng2 qie1-zhuo2 zhe3 ge4 wu2 zi1 fou3(60b) once cut-durative this classifier Mu character interrogative (27’) ’alai ’i mu’- q dzA’ –to saki-toso-ni’ia once this Mu-genitive character-also cut-exclamatory-interrogative Did you once cut this Mu? (28) zhu2-zhuo2 ke1-zhuo2(29a) poke-ing knock-ing (28’) mas-tAl-a one another-strike-converb Striking each other The above two cases are translated regardless of the telic marker {-zhuo2}.

Throughout this paper, words or word-combinations will be represented by < > when discussed as linguistic units and by “ ” when appearing in sentences. 1. Words, Sentences, and Linguistic Fields (ene-cang, gengo-ba) There are several important matters to go over. First, in its lexicographic form, the verb , for example, is eternally abstract and can only be called an utterance when it appears in sentence form. That is to say, words are visible in utterances after they take form within sentences.

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