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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 K Hartshorne +2 more
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Changes in Psych-verbs: A reanalysis of little v
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 Japanese: Inchoativity and boundary types [PDF]
Lingua, 2023 Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la ...
Ayumi Shimoyoshi
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Psych verbs: the behavior of ObjExp verbs in Brazilian Portuguese
Linguistics, 2023 Psychological verbs, especially Object Experiencer verbs, are widely discussed in the linguistic literature because of their peculiar syntactic and semantic properties.
Marcia Cançado, Luana Amaral
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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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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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Heads and layers in agglutination: A case in deadjectival psych verbs with-garuin Japanese
Open Linguistics, 2021 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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-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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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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