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Se middle voice and reflexives

Isogloss
Yucatec Spanish, a contact variety spoken in Yucatan, Mexico, carries many features that have been attributed to years of contact with Yucatec Maya. The current study investigates bilingual and monolingual speakers’ differentiation of the middle and ...
Kathryn Bove
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The syntax of naming constructions in European Portuguese dialects: variation and change

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2012
This paper discusses the syntax of naming constructions with the verb chamar ‘to call’. We show that in some varieties of European Portuguese the verb chamar displays an alternation in the expression of the named entity, which is manifested by the ...
Adriana Cardoso, Catarina Magro
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The relationship between verb meaning and argument realization: What we learn from the processing of agent-implying intransitive verbs in Japanese. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Luk ZP.
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The uses of clitic si in Child Italian

Isogloss
This paper investigates the different uses of the clitic si in Child Italian. Through a corpus study on spontaneous productions of children aged 1;4-3;4, we check whether all functions of si are realized by children and we give a new perspective from ...
Chiara Dal Farra, Silvia Silleresi, Artemis Alexiadou, Uli Sauerland, Maria Teresa Guasti   +4 more
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Coexpression and synexpression patterns across languages: comparative concepts and possible explanations. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Haspelmath M.
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Verbal Valency- Decreasing Patterns in Persian [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2014
This article deals with different valency-changing patterns across languages. We refer to the configuration of arguments that a predicate needs to express a proposition as its valence pattern (or  argument structure(Grimshaw 1990).
Rezvan Motavalian
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A prosodic morphophonological analysis of the trilateral perfect passive verbs in Qassimi Arabic. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2022
Alkhudair R, Aljutaily M.
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Visual form of ASL verb signs predicts non-signer judgment of transitivity. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Bradley C, Malaia EA, Siskind JM, Wilbur RB.   +3 more
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Alternating arguments of Polish psych verbs

Glossa
This paper focuses on the Experiencer Object (EO)/Experiencer Subject (ES) alternation in Polish. This alternation is viewed here as distinct from the causative/anticausative alternation, because eventive EO verbs do not pattern like change of state (COS)
Anna Bondaruk, Bozena Rozwadowska
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Corpus and Experimental Analysis of Passive Structures in Garrusi Kurdish

Languages
In this study, we investigate the formation of passive structures in Garrusi Kurdish across two datasets: experimental and narrative free speech. For our data collection, we interviewed 30 native speakers of this language variety, located in Mehraban ...
Hiwa Asadpour, Masoumeh Zarei
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