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Linking Meaning to Language: Linguistic Universals and Variation [PDF]
, 2012 To use natural language, speakers must map the participants in events or states in the world onto grammatical roles. There remains considerable disagreement about the nature of these so-called linking rules (Levin & Rappaport Hovav, 2005).
Hartshorne, Joshua Keiles +4 more
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Studies in Polish Linguistics, 2020 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 ...
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Clitic-doubling and (non-)configurationality [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we investigate Greek, an optional clitic doubling language not subject to Kaynes generalization (Jaeggli 1982), and we argue that in this language, doubled DPs are in A-positions. We propose that Greek clitics are formal features that move,
Alexiadou, Artemis +1 more
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Directionality in the psych alternation: a quantitative cross-linguistic study
Linguistic TypologyLanguages display global preferences for transitive, intransitive or underspecified roots in their verbal lexicon and correspondingly for the use of processes for deriving related concepts with different valency (cf. Nichols, Johanna, David A. Peterson &
Rott Julian Andrej +2 more
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LinguisticsTransitive causative change of state (TCoS) verbs elicit scalar readings, distinguishing them between: upper-bounded verbs (e.g., dry), denoting a culminating change of state, and lower-bounded verbs (e.g., wrinkle), denoting a change from a zero to a ...
Fritz-Huechante Paola +1 more
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Pragmatics before Syntax? Evidence from U-Shaped Acquisition [PDF]
This study examines the claim that structures that hinge on the interfaces between syntax and other cognitive systems (i.e. external interfaces) are more problematic for learners than those that do not depend on this interface (i.e.
Inmaculada Gómez Soler
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PP licensing in nominalizations [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we compare the distribution of PPs introducing external arguments in nominalizations with PPs introducing external arguments in the verbal domain.
Alexiadou, Artemis +2 more
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Deriving Verb Predicates By Clustering Verbs with Arguments [PDF]
, 2017 Hand-built verb clusters such as the widely used Levin classes (Levin, 1993) have proved useful, but have limited coverage. Verb classes automatically induced from corpus data such as those from VerbKB (Wijaya, 2016), on the other hand, can give clusters
Rouhizadeh, Masoud +4 more
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