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On Scalarity in the Verbal Domain. The Case of Polish Psych Verbs. Part 1: Polish Perfective Psych Verbs and Their Prefixes [PDF]
Polish perfective psych verbs are generally analyzed as inceptive predicates focusing the beginning of an emotional state holding of an experiencer. However, a perfective psych verb can also denote an event of gradual scalar change. In this paper, I argue that on the inceptive reading a perfective psych predicate denotes a transition from a state in ...
Willim, Ewa
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Some puzzling findings regarding the acquisition of verbs
On the whole, children acquire frequent words earlier than less frequent words. However, there are other factors at play, such as an early "noun bias" (relative to input frequency, toddlers learn nouns faster than verbs) and a "content-word bias ...
Joshua Hartshorne +2 more
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The first part of the present article concentrates on noncausal/causal pairs whose noncausal member is a monovalent verb referring to a process typically undergone by concrete inanimate entities. The cross-linguistic variation in the coding of such pairs
Denis Creissels
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Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N
S. Weiss +6 more
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Among the sources of non-culminating readings, we find the agentive properties of the external argument. According to the Agent Control Hypothesis (ACH), the agenthood of the subject licenses a non-culminating interpretation with causative accomplishment
Elisabeth Verhoeven +2 more
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On Psych Verbs and Optional Clitic Doubling in Catalan and Other Ibero-Romance Languages
Although undesired under a theoretical viewpoint, natural languages often show cases of “true” optionality. According to a reformulation of the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2006), highly complex constructions are more susceptible to optionality and ...
Jorge Vega Vilanova
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Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Psych in 2020
Peer review is the driving force of journal development, and reviewers are gatekeepers who ensure that Psych maintains its standards for the high quality of its published papers [...
Psych Editorial Office Psych Editorial Office
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Why bother? What our eyes tell us about psych verb (non) causative constructions
Eyetracking data and supplemental material for paper on Spanish causative psych ...
Carolina Gattei
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Psych reflexive alternation in Ukrainian and Russian [PDF]
This paper investigates the psych reflexive alternation in Ukrainian and Russian with a focus on the EO/ES (Experiencer Object / Experiencer Subject) alternation.
Bożena Rozwadowska +2 more
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Light Verb just as a Little v*
In this paper I argue that the light verb ha in Korean is an overt realization of the v head. Ha/ci alternation in Korean psych verbs makes a strong case for DO/BECOME meanings of v, whose semantic contribution is undetermined and contextualized in ...
Jung, Dukkyo
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