Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1980. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND HUMANITIES. / Bibliography: leaves 256-259. / by Marcia Christine Linebarger. / Ph.D.

by Huang Chenfeng. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Bibliography: leaves 175-182.

by Chung Sin Ling Jenny. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-190). / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.ii / Contents --- p.iii / List of Tables --- p.ix / List of Figures --- p.x / Chapter Chapter1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Background to the Study --- p.1 / Chapter - --- Related reading research / Chapter - --- Signals and coherence / Chapter - --- Signal types studied in different conditions / Chapter - --- Contradictory findings of signal studies / Chapter - --- Reading comprehension perspectives adopted in this study / Chapter 1.2 --- The Problem --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3 --- Purpose of the Study --- p.8 / Chapter 1.4 --- Significance of the Study --- p.9 / Chapter Chapter2 --- Literature Review / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Analysis and Discussion of Theories and Models of Reading Comprehension --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Comparison of van Dijk and Kintsch's Discourse Processing Models and Other Models --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Van Dijk and Kintsch's Textbase (Microstructure and Macrostructure) Processing --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- The Comprehension Process - from an Information Processing Perspective --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.3.1 --- Introduction --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.3.2 --- The Process of Information Processing in van Dijk and Kintsch's Discourse Processing Model --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2.5.3 --- Act theories (An information Processing approach from Cognitive Psychology) --- p.24 / Chapter 2.3 --- Relevance of Theories and Models of Discourse Processing to the Present Study --- p.25 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- "The Relationship Between the Notions of Activation, Strength and Goals During Information Processing" --- p.25 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Automatic Processing and Control Processing and Readers of Different Abilities --- p.28 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- "Meaning, Functions and Types of Strategies" --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.3.1 --- Nature of Strategies --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.3.2 --- Types of Strategies --- p.31 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Mental Representation and Reading Comprehension --- p.38 / Chapter 2.3.4.1 --- The Function of Mental Representation --- p.38 / Chapter 2.3.4.2 --- Levels of Meaning Representation --- p.40 / Chapter 2.3.5 --- Schema Theory and Reading Comprehension --- p.55 / Chapter 2.3.6 --- Inferencing and Reading Comprehension --- p.61 / Chapter 2.4. --- "The Relationship between Signals, Cohesion, Coherence and Reading Comprehension" --- p.52 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- "The Meaning , Types and Functions of Signals" --- p.53 / Chapter - --- An overview of the important notions of signals / Chapter - --- Other related notions of signals identified in this study / Chapter 2.4.2. --- "The Interplay of Signals, Cohesion and Coherence" --- p.64 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Interplay between Signals and Comprehension Process --- p.70 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- Signal Studies --- p.74 / Chapter 2.4.4.1 --- Single signal studies --- p.74 / Chapter - --- Conjunctions / Chapter - --- Lexical and Semantic Cues / Chapter - --- "Headings, Previews & Titles" / Chapter 2.4.4.2 --- Multiple Signal Studies --- p.77 / Chapter 2.5 --- Brief Summary of Literature Review --- p.79 / Chapter Chapter3 --- Research Design / Chapter 3.1 --- Hypotheses and variables --- p.83 / Chapter 3.2 --- Sampling --- p.85 / Chapter 3.3 --- Subjects --- p.85 / Chapter 3.4 --- Materials --- p.86 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Source and Text Content --- p.86 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Simplifying Authentic Text --- p.87 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Topic and Difficulty of the Passage --- p.89 / Chapter 3.5 --- Design of the Test --- p.89 / Chapter 3.6 --- Validity --- p.92 / Chapter 3.6.1 --- Construct Validity --- p.92 / Chapter 3.6.2 --- Construct Validity --- p.94 / Chapter 3.6.3 --- Criterion Validity --- p.95 / Chapter 3.7 --- Measuring Reading Comprehension --- p.98 / Chapter 3.8 --- Preliminary Study and Pilot Studies --- p.101 / Chapter 3.8.1 --- Preliminary Study --- p.101 / Chapter 3.8.2 --- Pilot Study1 --- p.105 / Chapter 3.8.3 --- Pilot Study2 --- p.107 / Chapter 3.9 --- Testing Procedure --- p.108 / Chapter 3.10 --- Scoring --- p.109 / Chapter 3.11 --- Research Design --- p.110 / Chapter 3.11.1 --- Statistical Design / Chapter 3.12 --- Limitations --- p.112 / Chapter Chapter4 --- Results and Discussion / Chapter 4.1 --- Statistical Analysis of Tests Scores --- p.113 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Reliability and Discrimination Index --- p.135 / Chapter - --- The Pilot Studies --- p.113 / Chapter - --- The Main Study --- p.114 / Chapter 4.1.2. --- "The Interaction between ""Versions"" and ""Groups"" Of the Entire Sample" --- p.115 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- The Insignificant Difference of Signalled Versions and the Non-Signalled Version on the Reading Comprehens ion Scores of the High Group and the Medium Group --- p.116 / Chapter 4.1.4 --- The Significant Difference of Signalled Versions and the Non-Signalled Version on the Reading Comprehension Scores of the Low Group --- p.116 / Chapter 4.1.5 --- "The Means and Standard Deviations of the Low Ability Groupin Total Reading Comprehension Scores, Macrostructure Scores and Microstructure Scores of the 4 Versions in the Main Study" --- p.118 / Chapter 4.1.6 --- Results of the Means and Standard Deviations of the Three Kinds of Reading Comprehension Scores on the Entire Sample --- p.122 / Chapter 4.1.7 --- The relationship between Versions and Groups (Ability Group) --- p.122 / Chapter 4.2 --- Discussion --- p.128 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Summary of Research Findings --- p.128 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- The Relationship between Text Relations and Logical Connectives --- p.131 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Coherence Established through Logical Connectives --- p.142 / Chapter 4.3 --- The Roles of Paragraphs in Language Processing --- p.148 / Chapter 4.4 --- Comparison of the Effects of Different Types of Signals on Reading Comprehension --- p.152 / Chapter 4.5 --- Discussion on the Ability Difference in Making Use of Signals --- p.155 / Chapter 4.6 --- Summarization of Text Processing With or Without Making Use of Signals --- p.168 / Chapter Chapter5 --- Conclusions --- p.170 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.173 / "Appendix A (Examination Syllabus of Reading Comprehension Section C, Hong Kong A-Level Examination,1985)" / Appendix B (Skills invovled in Understanding Written Materials in Paper II of Hong Kong Certificate Education1989) / "Appendix C (Passages for the Reading Comprehension Post-Test: Versions 1, 2, 3,4)" / Appendix D (Question Papers for the Reading Comprehension Post-Test) / Appendix E (Pre-test Passages and Question Papers) / Appendix F(Discrimination Index of the 25 Test Questions in Pilot Study 2 Selected for the Main Study) / Appendix G (Discrimination Index of the 25 Test Questions in the Main Study) / "Appendix H (Results of T-Test on the difference among the 4versions of the Total Scores, Macrostructure Scores and the Mocrostructure Scores of the High Ability Group in the Main Study)" / "Appendix I (Results of T-Test on the difference among the 4versions of the Total Scores, Macrostructure Scores and the Microstructure Scores of the Medium Ability Group in the Main Study)"

Descriptive perception verbs have failed to receive a uniform analysis in previous verb classifications (cf. Chomsky 1965, Rogers 1974, Hengeveld 1992, Levin 1993, Van Eynde et al. 2014). This thesis argues that the descriptive perception verbs in Dutch (i.e. eruitzien 'look', klinken 'sound', voelen 'feel', ruiken 'smell', and smaken 'taste') should be classified as copular verbs, much like lijken 'seem' and schijnen 'seem'. This classification is supported by both the synchronic and diachronic behaviour of these verbs in Dutch. Synchronically, proposing that Germanic copular verbs (as opposed to copulas) are defined by their syntax rather than their (empty) semantics, I discuss that the Dutch descriptive perception verbs behave like stereotypical copular verbs: they require a predicative complement, usually in the form of an adjective. Semantically, the Dutch descriptive perception verbs are much like the copular verbs blijken 'turn out', lijken 'seem' and schijnen 'seem' in terms of epistemicity and evidentiality. Diachronically, I hypothesize that the Dutch descriptive perception verbs have evolved from one of the following two origins: either from intransitive verbs (as is the case for klinken and ruiken), much like English remain, through grammaticalization processes of semantic bleaching and reanalysis; or from cognitive perception verbs (as is the case of eruitzien and voelen), as found in Latin, Japanese and Zulu, through the process of argument reordering. The origin of smaken is not clear, and is left for future research. I show that other Germanic evidential copular verbs (i.e. lijken, schijnen 'seem', scheinen 'seem', seem) have developed diachronically in a uniform fashion, suggesting the following grammaticalization path: from a lexical verb to a copular verb, to taking a that-complement, an infinitival complement or a like-complement, and eventually being used in parenthetical constructions. The results of this thesis indicate that the Dutch descriptive perception verbs are only at the beginning of this grammaticalization path, but are on their way to becoming grammaticalized evidential copular verbs.

by Esther Mee Kwan Cheung. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND HUMANITIES. / Bibliography: leaves 382-385. / Ph.D.

by Belinda Nga Yee Wong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-116). / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / Chapter CHAPTER ONE: --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO: --- THEORETICAL BACKGROUND --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- θ-Theory and Arguments --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Argument Structure / Lexical Syntactic Representation --- p.10 / Chapter 2.4 --- Lexical Syntactic Representation --- p.10 / Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.20 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE: --- ENGLISH RESULTATIVES --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.21 / Chapter 3.2 --- Features of English Resultatives --- p.21 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Categories for Resultative Phrase --- p.23 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Resultative Phrase as Complement --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Transitive Resultatives --- p.29 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Intransitive Resultatives --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2.5 --- Subject of Predicate Expression --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2.6 --- Syntactic Structure of Resultatives in the Literature --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2.7 --- Change-of-State Linking Rule --- p.45 / Chapter 3.3 --- Incompatibility of Verbs with Resultatives --- p.47 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Classification of Verbs --- p.47 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Incompatibility of Resultative Phrases with Stative Verbs --- p.49 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Resultative Phrases as Delimiters --- p.50 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Incompatibility of Resultative Phrases with Verbs of Inherently Directed Motion --- p.51 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR : --- A PREDICATION THEORY FOR ENGLISH RESULTATIVES --- p.53 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.53 / Chapter 4.2 --- Bowers' Syntax of Predication --- p.57 / Chapter 4.3 --- An Extension of Bowers' Predication Theory to English Resultative Constructions --- p.60 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Introduction of Double Predication Structure --- p.60 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- The Notion of Causativity --- p.61 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- More about Conflation and Resultative Verbs --- p.62 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- Weakness of Bowers' Structure --- p.65 / Chapter 4.3.5 --- A Modified Structure for Intransitive Resultatives with an Unergative --- p.65 / Chapter 4.3.6 --- A Suggested Structure for Transitive Resultatives --- p.67 / Chapter 4.3.7 --- A Suggested Structure for Intransitive Resultatives with an Ergative --- p.69 / Chapter 4.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.72 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE: --- CANTONESE RESULTATIVE CONSXRUCTIONS --- p.73 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.73 / Chapter 5.2 --- Dou-Constructions --- p.76 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- The Syntactic Properties of Dou-constructions --- p.76 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Null Elements in Cantonese --- p.82 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- The Status of V1 --- p.83 / Chapter 5.3 --- Directional Complements --- p.87 / Chapter 5.4 --- Summary --- p.89 / Chapter CHAPTER SIX: --- A PREDICATION THEORY FOR CANTONESE RESULTATIVES --- p.90 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.90 / Chapter 6.2 --- The Syntactic Derivations of Dou-Resultative Constructions with Intransitive --- p.90 / Chapter 6.3 --- The Syntactic Derivations of Dou-Resultative Constructions with Transitive --- p.93 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Base Positions for NP2 and NP3 --- p.95 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Redupiication and V' Constraint --- p.98 / Chapter 6.4 --- Passive Resultatives --- p.100 / Chapter 6.5 --- A Note on Resultative Dou-Constructions with a Causative --- p.105 / Chapter 6.6 --- A Remark on V-V Compounds --- p.107 / Chapter 6.7 --- Summary --- p.109 / REFERENCES --- p.111

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1980. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND HUMANITIES. / Bibliography: leaves 251-255. / Ph.D.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral). / Includes bibliographical references (p. [89]-91).

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