Simulating the referential properties of Dutch, German and English Root Infinitives in MOSAIC [PDF]
, 2008 Children learning many languages go through an Optional Infinitive stage in which they produce non-finite verb forms in contexts in which a finite verb form is required (e.g. ‘That go there’ instead of ‘That goes there’).
Pine, JM, Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F
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Modelling the development of Dutch Optional Infinitives in MOSAIC. [PDF]
, 2002 This paper describes a computational model which simulates the change in the use of optional infinitives that is evident in children learning Dutch as their first language.
Pine, J M, Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F
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Simulating the temporal reference of Dutch and English Root Infinitives. [PDF]
, 2004 Hoekstra & Hyams (1998) claim that the overwhelming majority of Dutch children’s Root Infinitives (RIs) are used to refer to modal (not realised) events, whereas in English speaking children, the temporal reference of RIs is free.
Pine, J M, Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F
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Modelling the Development of Children’s use of Optional Infinitives in Dutch and English using MOSAIC [PDF]
, 2006 In this study we use a computational model of language learning (MOSAIC) to investigate the extent to which the Optional Infinitive (OI) phenomenon in Dutch and English can be explained in terms of a resource-limited distributional analysis of Dutch and ...
Pine, J M, Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F
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Neophilologica, 2006 The target of this work is an analysis of Spanish linguistic constructions, the so-called “nominalized infinitives” that are popular in the Spanish language.
Joanna Wilk-Racięska
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Dative experiencers and (null) subjects in Peninsular Spanish infinitives
Isogloss, 2022 Dative experiencers have been argued to have certain subject properties in finite domains. The question thus arises whether they can ever be controlled like structural (null) subjects.
Peter Herbeck
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The Cognitive Discourse Parameters of Directive Speech Acts in Modern Ukrainian
Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2022 The article presents a comprehensive multifaceted analysis of directive speech acts (based on modern media texts from the popular Ukrainian newspaper Day) taking into account the following approaches: 1) cognitive-semantic, with the projection of ...
Oleksandr Mezhov +2 more
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On the T(ense) and Asp(ect) in the derivation of infinitives in Portuguese
Isogloss, 2023 In this paper, we discuss the morphosemantics of aspect and tense in the Portuguese infinitives. Specifically, within Distributed Morphology framework (Halle & Marantz, 1993), in advancing Resende & Pires de Oliveira (2022)’s recent proposal, we approach
Roberta Pires de Oliveira +1 more
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Modelling the developmental patterning of finiteness marking in English, Dutch, German and Spanish using MOSAIC [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper we apply MOSAIC (Model of Syntax Acquisition in Children) to the simulation of the developmental patterning of children’s Optional Infinitive (OI) errors in four languages: English, Dutch, German and Spanish.
Pine, JM +3 more
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The nominalized infinitive in French : structure and change [PDF]
Linguística, 2010 Many European languages have both nominal and verbal nominalized infinitives. They differ, however, in the degree to which the nominalized infinitives possess nominal and verbal properties.
Petra Sleeman
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