The effect of lexicalization biases on cross-situational statistical learning of novel verbs
Language and CognitionLanguages vary in the mapping of relational terms onto events. For instance, English motion descriptions favor manner (how something moves) verbs over path (where something move) verbs, whereas those of other languages, like Spanish, show the opposite ...
Nathan R. George +3 more
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Prepositions and prepositional verbs in classical Arabic [PDF]
, 1983 The thesis consists of two parts. The first one is connected with the establishment of Preposition as a word class, and with that class of Prepositions whose association with the governing word is accounted for in a transformational generative grammar ...
Fiteih, Mohammad Soliman Ibrahim
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Discourse Backgroundedness and the Manner-of-Speaking Islands
, 2022 It has been generalized in the linguistics literature that the complement clause selected by a manner-of-speaking verb (e.g. "shout", "mumble") are islands -- in particular, Manner-of-Speaking islands (MoS Islands).
Jiayi Lu, Dingyi Pan, Judith Degen
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Manner-of-Speaking Island effect with "say+adv" constructions
, 2023 It has been shown that the complement clause of a Manner-of-Speaking (MoS) verb forms islands that restrict extraction of the embedded constituents. The backgroundedness account holds that the constituents within the complements of the MoS verbs are ...
Jiayi Lu, Dingyi Pan, Judith Degen
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Motion Verbs in Italian and the Manner/Direction Complementarity
, 2023 This paper presents an empirical analysis of Italian directed motion verbs and manner of motion verbs; the research is based on a lexical resource of 234 verbs subdivided into six classes.
Simonetta Vietri
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Familiar Verbs Are Not Always Easier Than Novel Verbs: How German Pre-School Children Comprehend Active and Passive Sentences [PDF]
, 2013 Many studies show a developmental advantage for transitive sentences with familiar verbs over those with novel verbs. It might be that once familiar verbs become entrenched in particular constructions, they would be more difficult to understand (than ...
Tomasello, Michael +11 more
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Reporting direct speech in Spanish and German. Manner-of-speaking and thinking-for-translating
, 2023 [EN] This chapter focuses on the translation of manner-of-speaking expressions in a Spanish to German translation corpus of narrative texts, the translation unit examined being reporting verbs introducing direct speech.
Molés-Cases, Teresa
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Syntactic variants and natural syntax : Greek infinitive clauses dependent on verbs of speaking and thinking [PDF]
, 2010 This paper explains a very well-known feature of Classical Greek syntax from the perspective of Natural Syntax. Most grammars of Classical Greek state that infinitive clauses could be dependent on both verbs of speaking and thinking in Classical Greek ...
Kavčič, Jerneja, Jerneja Kavčič
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Manner and Causation in Movement Verbs [PDF]
, 2019 This paper investigates the semantic underpinnings of the distinction between two syntactic types of “manner of movement” verbs in Levin (1993), namely the RUN and ROLL classes. According to Levin\u27s (1993) and Levin & Rappaport\u27s (1995) work on
Geuder, Wilhelm, Weisgerber, Matthias
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Communication verbs in Risâletü'n-Nushiyye [PDF]
, 2021 Yunus Emre tarafından mesnevi türünde yazılan Risâletü’n-Nushiyye, edebî değeri ve taşıdığı dil malzemesi yanında Anadolu sahasında manzum nasihatname geleneğinin öncüsü olması bakımından da önem arz etmektedir.
Doğru, Fatih, Fatih DOĞRU
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