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Changes in Psych-verbs: A reanalysis of little v

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2014
The present paper examines psych-verbs in the history of English. As is well-known, object experiencers are reanalyzed as subject experiencers in many of the modern European languages.
Elly van Gelderen
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Psych verb production and comprehension in agrammatic Broca's aphasia [PDF]

Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2009
This study examined the factors that affect agrammatic sentence production by testing eight agrammatic aphasic participants' comprehension and production of active and passive sentences using two types of English psych verbs, those with an Experiencer-marked subject (Subject-Experiencer (SubExp)) and those with an Experiencer-marked object (Object ...
Cynthia K Thompson, Miseon Lee
exaly   +5 more sources

Why bother? What our eyes tell about psych verb (non) causative constructions

Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2022
We present an eyetracking study that investigates how linking is achieved during real-time comprehension of Spanish sentences with causative psych verbs and alternative case marking.
Carolina A Gattei, Alejandro Wainselboim, Yamila Sevilla   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Phy-inside-psych adjectives

Corela, 2020
Contrary to adjectives like amusing and touching, certain Ving/ant adjectives have a psych reading without originating from a psych verb, such as jaw-dropping 'surprising' in English and marrant 'amusing' in French.
Isabelle Haïk
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Psych verbs, the linking problem, and the acquisition of language. [PDF]

Cognition, 2016
In acquiring language, children must learn to appropriately place the different participants of an event (e.g., causal agent, affected entity) into the correct syntactic positions (e.g., subject, object) so that listeners will know who did what to whom.
Hartshorne JK, O'Donnell TJ, Sudo Y, Uruwashi M, Lee M, Snedeker J.   +5 more
europepmc   +7 more sources

Psych Light Verb Constructions in Old Catalan: Patterns and Contrasts with Present-Day Catalan

Languages
This study aims, first, to contribute to our understanding of the regularities of light verb constructions (LVCs) by identifying syntactic–semantic patterns and, secondly, to provide data and reflections on how syntactic analyzability and semantic ...
Jordi Ginebra Serrabou
exaly   +3 more sources

Backward binding as a psych effect: A binding illusion?

Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft, 2017
Bound anaphors inside subjects challenge the c-command requirement for binding. At least in some languages, experiencer-object verbs such as worry or please are reported to license this type of backward dependence.
Temme Anne, Verhoeven Elisabeth
exaly   +2 more sources

Alternating arguments of Polish psych verbs

Glossa
This paper focuses on the Experiencer Object (EO)/Experiencer Subject (ES) alternation in Polish. This alternation is viewed here as distinct from the causative/anticausative alternation, because eventive EO verbs do not pattern like change of state (COS)
Anna Bondaruk, Bozena Rozwadowska
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Acceptability of Different Psychological Verbal Constructions by Heritage Spanish Speakers from California

Languages, 2021
This study set out to investigate whether US Heritage Spanish features a more streamlined verbal paradigm in psych verb constructions compared to standard varieties of Spanish, where HS speakers find an invariable third-person singular form acceptable ...
Viola G. Miglio, Stefan Th. Gries
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On the acquisition of Spanish psych predicates

Isogloss, 2022
Spanish psych verbs like gustar (‘like’/‘please’) have a non-agreeing dative experiencer that asymmetrically c-commands the agreeing nominative theme (e.g., Cuervo 2003). Intervention accounts (Friedmann et al.
Victoria Mateu
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