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Fluidity in argument indexing in Komnzo

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2023
This article addresses the verb morphology of Komnzo, a language of Southern New Guinea. It provides a description of verb indexing in Section 1, which is followed by a corpus analysis of a small class of verbs.
Döhler Christian
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Questions on transitivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This handout (it isn’t a paper) presents phenomena and questions, rather than conclusions, related to the concept of transitivity. The idea is to return to these questions at the end of the Workshop to see if we can have a clearer consensus about the ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
Barddal, Johanna   +2 more
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The multiword processing by low‐proficiency Japanese English learners: Meaningfulness and constructions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 672-691, May 2024.
Abstract Recent psycholinguistic research underscores the significance of multiword units in language processing and acquisition, aligning with the Chunk‐and‐Pass framework. In this study, 55 low‐proficiency Japanese English learners and 27 native English speakers undertook a phrasal decision task featuring two trigram types: syntactically and ...
Takumi Kosaka
wiley   +1 more source

Transitivity and transitivity alternations in Rawang and Qiang [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper is more about presenting phenomena and questions related to the concept of transitivity in Tibeto-Burman languages that I hope will stimulate discussion, rather than presenting strong conclusions.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
wiley   +1 more source

Linking Particle Semantic Roles in Hawrami Deverbal Noun Phrases [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران
Previous studies have focused mostly on the syntactic features of the linking particle (Ezafe) in simple noun phrases with little attention paid to its semantic representations and functions specifically within the context of deverbal noun phrases.
Jabbar Mirani   +3 more
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Quantification at a distance and grammatical illusions in French

open access: yesSyntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 1-47, March 2024.
Abstract Recent research in psycholinguistics supports the hypothesis that retrieval from working memory is a key component of establishing syntactic dependencies in comprehension. This can result in so‐called grammatical illusions. These illusions have been modeled as the result of a content‐addressable retrieval process in sentence comprehension that
Jérémy Pasquereau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicates of Indonesian and English Simple Sentences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper was developed from a research report presented in The Third Southern Region of Sumatera TEFLIN held by Sriwijaya University in 2014. Comments recieved by the participants of the seminar and following studies done on the topic made it possible ...
Gulö, I. (Ingatan)
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The be‐ versus get‐passive alternation in world Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 86-108, March 2024.
Abstract Multifactorial studies of the be:get‐passive alternation are still rare. On the basis of the International Corpus of English, this is the first investigation to use mixed modelling for the passive alternation in world Englishes. Overall, our findings reveal that regional differences are far less important than language‐internal constraints ...
Marianne Hundt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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