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The concept of intentional action in the grammar of Kathmandu Newari

Hargreaves, David J., 1955- (University of Oregon, 1991-08)

This study describes the relationship between the concept of intentional action and the grammatical organization of the clause in Kathmandu Newari, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in the Kathmandu valley of ...
Event construal and its linguistic encoding: Towards an Extended Semantic Map model

Kim, Yongtaek, 1968- (University of Oregon, 2009-09)

This dissertation investigates constructional alternation among the English verb- at , verb- away-at , and verb- away constructions. The primary purpose is to lay a fundamental conceptual framework on the interrelation ...
The Grammar of Fear: Morphosyntactic Metaphor in Fear Constructions

Lakey, Holly (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)

This analysis explores the reflection of semantic features of emotion verbs that are metaphorized on the morphosyntactic level in constructions that express these emotions. This dissertation shows how the avoidance or ...