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Deletion of Reflexive Clitics with the Verb Custar in European Portuguese: An MTC Account
The impersonal verb custar (lit. ‘cost’) in European Portuguese selects for a dative experiencer argument and an infinitival clause, which may be preceded by the preposition a.
Ana Maria Martins, Jairo Nunes
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Starting from Belleti & Rizzi's (1988) work, there has been a great progress in the understanding of psych predicates, but not as much on the predication involving psych adjectives and nouns.
Beatriz Fernández, Ane Berro
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This article analyzes morphological evidence from Basque to support one basic claim: that subjects of the object-experiencer (i.e. frighten-type) psych verbs are internal arguments. The derivational suffix -garri provides the relevant evidence.
Xabier Artiagoitia
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Psych nouns and adjectives, PPthemes and predication (or a leopard cannot change its spots)
Starting from Belleti Rizzi's (1988) work, there has been a great progress in the understanding of psych predicates, but not as much on the predication involving psych adjectives and nouns.
Beatriz Fernández, Ane Berro
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Alternating arguments of Polish psych verbs
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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Stative verbs and French Verb-Noun compounds: a discreet preference
This paper deals with French nominal Verb-Noun compounds formed on stative verb bases. We assume that word-formation schemas have access to the aspectual and argumental properties of the base verbs and impose fine-grained restrictions on their ...
Florence Villoing
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Adolescent Heritage Speakers: Morphosyntactic Divergence in Estonian Youth Language Usage in Sweden
Heritage language (HL) research has investigated adults and children, while adolescents have garnered far less attention, despite adolescence being a crucial time in the development of idiolects and identities, and, hence, also for language maintenance ...
Mari-Liis Korkus, Virve-Anneli Vihman
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Comprehension of Complex Structures by Persian-speaking Aphasics: The Role of Cognitive Load
Introduction: So far, many studies have investigated the extent and nature of the grammatical deficit in aphasia. However, to the best of our knowledge, this research is the first in the Persian language to inspect the comprehension of patients with ...
Omid Azad
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Case opacity and Cliticization: On intervention and the triggers of different agreement patterns
We will show that there are two types of languages which involve different mechanisms in obviating Minimality Violations/Defective Intervention and Case Opacity: Agreement languages of Punjabi/Icelandic-type with default agreement and Movement ...
Mihaela Marchis Moreno, Ludovico Franco
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The contest of the causer contender and the agent defender
Skilled and impaired language users can fail to understand sentences with noncanonical thematic role ordering. To advance understanding of the cause of the difficulty, we compared noncanonically ordered, object-experiencer-verb (OE) sentences to ...
Margaret Kathleen Ryan +4 more
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