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Abstract: In current Catalan, the verbs semblar and parèixer are two verbs mostly synonyms distributed territorially in a unequal way: While verb parèixer persists in the Valencian Country, in the Balearic Islands and in the northwestern Catalan, the verb semblar coexists with parèixer. [...]

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Abstract: The Latin verbal ending -at, found in etymons of forms of the 3rd person present indicative (1st conjugation), present subjunctive (2nd and 3rd conjugations), imperfect indicative and conditional (all conjugations), has generally become -a (cantat " canta) in Catalan. However, [...]

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The paper examines aspectual and selectional properties of Old Catalan prefixed verbs in comparison with their non prefixed counterparts. We ground our analysis on Talmy’s (1985, 2000) notion of verb framed and satellite framed languages and on Mateu (2002, 2003) and Mateu & Rigau [...]