com o fim de estreitar a semântica do verbo.
English translation: to narrow/limit the the semantic range of the verb
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|  Selected response from: Muriel Vasconcellos United States Local time: 00:52 | ||||||
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peer agreement (net): +1with the purpose of determining the meaning of the verb Explanation: Based on logic and expressed as most people would express it. Mike :) |
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with the purpose of narrowing the verb semantics Explanation: This is the literal translation, very appropriate for the context. |
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to narrow/limit the the semantic range of the verb Explanation: I wouldn't use a comma after "verbal." Here is my interpretataion: "when it occurs in the slot of the trapped pronoun that it co-references, it cannot function as a compound next to the verb root to narrow/limit the semantic range of the verb" 14,100 references for ["semantic range"+verb]: To characterize **the semantic range of a verb**, for example, it would be necessary to consider such things as its the typical objects, the kinds of subjects ... www.f.waseda.jp/vicky/dissertation/CHAPTER5.html The examples in (10) below show the verb dry being used together with the adjective ... **a fact which limits their semantic range** in a way that has not been ... www.f.waseda.jp/vicky/dissertation/CHAPTER3.html aspect has **a narrow semantic range**, and stative verbs are imperfective. In a. closure language, the perfective form of a stative verb has an ingressive mean ... www.richmond.edu/~pli/newbook/review1.pdf In sum, verbs as a class are “hard” words whereas nouns are ... from the fact that **they successively narrow the semantic range of single verbs**. Each ... papafragou.psych.udel.edu/papers/hard%20words.pdf |
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