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A protocol for psych verbs [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2016 So-called psychological verbs such as Italian temere ‘fear’, preoccupare ‘worry’, and piacere ‘like’ present an extremely varied argument structure across languages, that arranges these two roles in apparently opposite hierarchies and assigns them ...
Giuliana Giusti, Rossella Iovino
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Alternating arguments of Polish psych verbs
GlossaThis 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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-Able adjectives and the syntax of psych verbs
Glossa, 2018 This paper deals with some restrictions on the formation of -able adjectives from object experiencer verbs in comparison to subject experiencer verbs, focusing on English and Greek.
Artemis Alexiadou
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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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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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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 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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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 +5 more
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Glossa, 2020 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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Some puzzling findings regarding the acquisition of verbs
Language Development Research, 2023 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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Verbos y nombres psicológicos: juntos y revueltos
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2012 En este artículo ofrecemos un estudio sobre las propiedades semánticas y –en menor medida, morfológicas– de los predicados psicológicos. Ponemos especial énfasis en las propiedades que parecen afectar de forma similar a verbos (odiar, preocupar(se)) y a ...
Rafael Marín, Cristina Sánchez Marco
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