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 ...
Joshua Keiles Hartshorne +2 more
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Changes in Psych-verbs: A reanalysis of little v [PDF]
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 verbs in English and Mandarin [PDF]
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2014 2014-2015 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ...
Candice Chi-Hang Cheung +1 more
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Turkish EFL Learners’ Acquisition of Psych Verbs and Unaccusative Verbs: A Replication Study on Underpassivization and Overpassivization [PDF]
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2022 The processability account anticipates that learners will make more underpassivization errors than overpassivization errors since passivization entails more processing.
Seray Tanyer, Samet Deniz
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Information Structure and Word Order Canonicity in the Comprehension of Spanish Texts: An Eye-Tracking Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Word order alternation has been described as one of the most productive information structure markers and discourse organizers across languages. Psycholinguistic evidence has shown that word order is a crucial cue for argument interpretation.
Carolina A. Gattei +4 more
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Valence orientation and psych properties: Toward a typology of the psych alternation
Open Linguistics, 2020 Languages differ with respect to the morphological structure of their verbal inventory: some languages predominantly derive intransitive experiencer-subject verbs from more basic transitive experiencer-object verbs by morphosyntactic operations such as ...
Rott Julian A. +2 more
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The Syntactic Distribution of Object Experiencer Psych Verbs in Heritage Spanish
Languages, 2020 This paper contributes to our understanding of the grammatical architecture of heritage languages and, specifically, the role of lexical semantics, by examining the syntactic distribution of Spanish psych verbs.
Becky Gonzalez
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(Anti)Causativization of psych verbs in Spanish and Japanese [PDF]
Language SciencesAltres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UABThere is a notable typological contrast between psych verbs in Japanese and Spanish. Japanese derives Experiencer-Object verbs (e.g.
Ayumi Shimoyoshi
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Psych verbs: the behavior of ObjExp verbs in Brazilian Portuguese
LinguisticsPsychological verbs, especially Object Experiencer verbs, are widely discussed in the linguistic literature because of their peculiar syntactic and semantic properties.
Luana Lopes Amaral
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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
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