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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, Lauren Skorb, Yujing Huang   +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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On Psych Verbs and Optional Clitic Doubling in Catalan and Other Ibero-Romance Languages

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022
Although undesired under a theoretical viewpoint, natural languages often show cases of “true” optionality. According to a reformulation of the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2006), highly complex constructions are more susceptible to optionality and ...
Jorge Vega Vilanova
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Psych reflexive alternation in Ukrainian and Russian [PDF]

Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft
This paper investigates the psych reflexive alternation in Ukrainian and Russian with a focus on the EO/ES (Experiencer Object / Experiencer Subject) alternation.
Bożena Rozwadowska, Liudmyla Petryk, Natalia Shlikhutka   +2 more
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Acceptability of Different Psychological Verbal Constructions by Heritage Spanish Speakers from California

Languages, 2021
This study set out to investigate whether US Heritage Spanish features a more streamlined verbal paradigm in psych verb constructions compared to standard varieties of Spanish, where HS speakers find an invariable third-person singular form acceptable ...
Viola G. Miglio, Stefan Th. Gries
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The noncausal/causal alternation and the limits of ambitransitivity in a sample of sub-Saharan languages

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022
The first part of the present article concentrates on noncausal/causal pairs whose noncausal member is a monovalent verb referring to a process typically undergone by concrete inanimate entities. The cross-linguistic variation in the coding of such pairs
Denis Creissels
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The case of an enlightening, provoking and admirable Basque derivational suffix with implications for the theory of argument structure

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2003
This article analyzes morphological evidence from Basque to support one basic claim: that subjects of the object-experiencer (i.e. frighten-type) psych verbs are internal arguments. The derivational suffix -garri provides the relevant evidence.
Xabier Artiagoitia
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VERBOS PSICOLÓGICOS: UNA TAXONOMÍA DE LO HETEROGÉNEO

Lingüística, 2022
Esta nota tiene como objetivo considerar el tratamiento gramatical que han recibido los verbos psicológicos, procurando aportar una reflexión analítica ante algunas problemáticas motivadas por esos enfoques.
Sofía Victoria Iacobuzio, María Luisa Silva   +1 more
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Los complementos de los verbos psicológicos en español y la perspectiva no discreta de la categorización

Estudios de Lingüística, 1998
In this paper I have tried to present the concept of prototype, which has been incorporated in Functionalism and Cognitive Linguistics, as a useful descriptive tool to characterize grammatical functions.
María Antonia Martínez Linares
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Towards a typology of psych verbs: evidence from Spanish

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1992
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Jon Franco
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