INTRANSITIVE PHRASAL VERBS WITH PARTICLE 'THROUGH' IN BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS [PDF]
Lire Journal, 2019 The aim of this study is to describe the intransitive phrasal verbs with particlethrough used in the British National Corpus. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method.
Diana Anggraeni
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The integration of contact by impact verbs into the intransitive motion construction
Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2015 The present investigation will analyze the lexical-constructional integration of contact by impact verbs (transitive by origin) into the intransitive-motion construction.
Aneider Iza
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Processing Intransitive Verbs: How Do Children Differ from Adults? [PDF]
Language Learning and Development, 2017 Previous studies have demonstrated that, for adults, differences between unaccusative verbs (e.g., “fall”) and unergative verbs (e.g., “dance”) lead to a difference in processing. However, so far we don’t know whether this effect shows up in children’s processing of these verbs as well.
Koring, Loes +3 more
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Atypical Compound Verb Constructions in Hindi/Urdu [PDF]
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2020 While a lot of research has already been done on defining compound verb constructions and understanding their semantic and pragmatic usages, there is still a gap when it comes to our understanding of atypical compound verb constructions where ...
Drocco, Andrea, Tiwari, Neha
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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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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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Shared Neural Computations for Syntactic and Morphological Structures: Evidence From Mandarin Chinese. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Although psycho‐/neuro‐linguistics has assumed a distinction between morphological and syntactic structure building as in traditional theoretical linguistics, this distinction has been increasingly challenged by theoretical linguists in recent years.
Yu X, Mancha S, Tian X, Lau E.
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Data on Dinka adjectives and intransitive verbs
, 2021 This dataset consists of transcriptions of a number of forms of intransitive verbs from several dialects of Dinka. The dataset was collected in order to investigate the existence of an adjectival word class in the Dinka language, for the paper “On the ...
Blum, Mirella L +3 more
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Analyzing the Phenomenon of English-Chinese Intransitive Verbs with Objects
, 2021 Academics have paid close attention to intransitive verbs with objects as a unique language phenomenon. This article aims to examine the phenomenon of intransitive verbs carrying objects in Chinese from the standpoints of syntactic structure and ...
Cai, Yiqian, Cai, Y. (Yiqian)
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Rethinking the Origins of Cross-Language Effects: How Heard Verbs Influence Japanese- and English-Speaking Children's Attention to the Details of Actions. [PDF]
Dev SciABSTRACT Languages differ in how words carve up the world into categories, and these differences in lexical categories often influence how speakers interpret perceived events. Past research has shown that languages with a single and general word for one domain tend to cue attention more broadly than languages with multiple, more specific verbs.
Hagihara H +3 more
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