Turkish EFL Learners’ Acquisition of Psych Verbs and Unaccusative Verbs: A Replication Study on Underpassivization and Overpassivization [PDF]
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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Psych verbs, the linking problem, and the acquisition of language [PDF]
Hartshorne, O'Donnell, Sudo, Uruwashi, Lee, and Snedeker (in press).
Jesse Snedeker +2 more
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Information Structure and Word Order Canonicity in the Comprehension of Spanish Texts: An Eye-Tracking Study [PDF]
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
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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Psych verbs: the behavior of ObjExp verbs in Brazilian Portuguese
Psychological verbs, especially Object Experiencer verbs, are widely discussed in the linguistic literature because of their peculiar syntactic and semantic properties.
Márcia Cançado
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Heads and layers in agglutination: A case in deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese
Using deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese, this study shows that agglutinative complex predicate formation is done by recursive application of Merge to roots and functional heads.
Nakajima Takashi
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On the acquisition of Spanish psych predicates
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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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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The Syntactic Distribution of Object Experiencer Psych Verbs in Heritage Spanish
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 Halloran Gonzalez
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دراسة براجمالغوية لأفعال العاطفة في اللغة الإنجليزية والقاهرية. [PDF]
هذا البحث هو محاولة لفهم أفعال الانفعالات باللغتين الإنجليزية والعربية القاهرية من حيث فئاتها النحوية والدلالية. يوضح أوجه التشابه والاختلاف بين أفعال المشاعر في اللغة الإنجليزية الفصحى والعربية القاهرية.
اسراء عطية حسين سالم عابد
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