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LANGUAGE IN INDIA Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow Acquisition of English Intransitive Verbs by Urdu Speakers Acquisition of English Intransitive Verbs by Urdu Speakers

open access: yes, 2020
The aim of the study is to investigate the distinction made in the use of English intransitive verbs by Urdu speakers. It, further, explores the effect of task variation on the acquisition of intransitive verbs and focuses on whether the distinction in ...
Ph.D B A Sharada   +14 more
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Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization

open access: yesEcography, Volume 2026, Issue 5, May 2026.
In ecosystems, species interact in various ways with other species, and with their local environment. In addition, ecosystems are coupled in space by diverse types of flows. From these links connecting different ecological entities can emerge circular pathways of indirect effects: feedback loops.
Benoît Pichon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Split intransitivity in Japanese is syntactic: Evidence for the Unaccusative Hypothesis from sentence acceptability and truth value judgment experiments

open access: yesGlossa, 2017
Split intransitivity (SI) is the generalization that intransitive verbs form two subclasses: the subjects of some intransitives behave like direct objects of transitive verbs, whereas the subjects of other intransitives behave like transitive subjects ...
Shin Fukuda
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Expletive Constructions and Agreement in Labeling Theory

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I explain how agreement occurs in English expletive constructions, in accord with recent work in the Minimalist Program. I develop a proposal that relies on feature unification and probe‐goal agreement, as well as the notion that internal merge of arguments generally applies freely.
Jason Ginsburg
wiley   +1 more source

Morphology of intransitive verbs in the Agar dialect of Dinka

open access: yes
This article describes the morphology of intransitive verbs in the Agardialect of Dinka, a Western Nilotic language which exhibits an extreme degree ofnon-concatenative morphology. Intransitive verbs comprise three groups: verbs thatare clearly simple, i.
Andersen, Torben
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
wiley   +1 more source

The Errors of Transitive and Intransitive Verbs by Two Japanese L1 Children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
application/pdfThis study investigated the longitudinal development of transitive and intransitive verbs by two Japanese L1 children and found they Produced both transitive and intransitive verbs in their early stage of development.
中石, ゆうこ   +2 more
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
wiley   +1 more source

A MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS IN LASI

open access: yes, 2021
Lasi is one of the dialects of Sindhi language, which is spoken in district Lasbela, Balochistan (Ali, Zafar & Brohi, 2021; Ali, et al., 2022). This study investigates the process of morphological properties of transitive and intransitive verbs in ...
*Zahid Ali, **Muhammad Azam, ***Asadullah, ****Zafarullah
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Processing auxiliary selection with Italian intransitive verbs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
For intransitive verbs in languages with a choice of perfective auxiliaries, off-line acceptability judgments conform to a semantically based Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy (ASH) (Sorace 2000, 2004).
Sorace, Antonella   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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