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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study investigated whether some Japanese intransitive verbs, called agent-implying intransitive verbs, are processed differently from other ordinary intransitive verbs.
Zoe Pei-Sui Luk
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Hybrid intransitives in Basque
Glossa, 2020 This paper deals with a group of agentive verbs in Eastern dialects of Basque that show mixed unergative and unaccusative properties. Although they pattern with unergatives in certain aspects, they combine with an absolutive subject and the auxiliary ‘be’
Ane Berro, Anna Pineda
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Differences in the Processing of Chinese Transitive and Intransitive Verbs at the Behavioral Response and Neural Activity Levels [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesIn Chinese, intransitive verbs can take direct objects in certain constructions, and transitive verbs can also be used without objects. These characteristics have long sparked debates about whether verbs can be divided into intransitive and transitive ...
Xin Wang, Dandan Liang, Yiming Yang
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Preschoolers' Early Sentence Comprehension: Comparing Bilingual and Monolingual Children and the Role of Executive Function and Vocabulary Development. [PDF]
Dev SciABSTRACT Previous research into children's comprehension of syntactic structures has investigated early awareness of transitive and intransitive structures amongst monolingual children but research into bilingual children's understanding of the same sentence structures is lacking. This study compared 46 3–5‐year‐old bilingual children who spoke English
Rodenhurst N, Messenger K.
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Representations of Nonlocal Syntactic Dependencies Feed Verb Learning in Infancy. [PDF]
Dev SciABSTRACT The ability to represent both local and nonlocal syntactic dependencies emerges in an infant's second year of life, raising questions about how these early syntactic representations interact with language learning in other domains. Using wh‐questions as our case study, we investigate how infants’ syntactic dependency acquisition interacts with
Perkins L, Ying Y, Williams A, Lidz J.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 When presented with a novel verb in a transitive frame (X is Ving Y), young children typically select a causative event referent, rather than one in which agents engage in parallel, non-causative synchronous events.
Sudha Arunachalam +2 more
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Intransitive verbs in Enets: A contribution to the typology of split intransitivity
Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft, 2019 This paper contributes to the typology of “active-stative” split intransitivity and middle voice with a detailed case study: it proceeds from a typological comparison of the two phenomena, which are usually treated apart, to an analysis of the Enets data
Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky
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Constructions Containing jɑ- in Laki Dialect [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2020 The main objective of the current study is to examine the constructions containing jɑ- /-je in Laki within the framework of Goldbergˊs Constructional Grammar on the basis of a descriptive-analytic method.
Ramieh Geravand +3 more
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HELPING LEARNERS UNDERSTAND AND USE EXPRESSIONS WITH „GET”
Journal of Social Sciences, 2023 Considering a great number of expressions with „get”, teachers do not have to avoid them while teaching English Language. In teaching process, however the mere attention of expressions with „get” is enough to incite confusion among the students.
CATERENCIUC, Svetlana
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The Icelandic preposition hjá ‘at’: Its role in canonical intransitive sentences
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 This paper seeks to explain the roles that the preposition hjá plays in canonical intransitive sentences in Icelandic. According to Hopper and Thompson’s (1980) transitivity hypothesis, this type of intransitive sentence is characterised by the ...
Toshiko Yamaguchi
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