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Τhematic roles in dementia: the case of psychological verbs

open access: yesProceedings of International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 2021
This study investigates the difficulty of people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), mild and moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the production and comprehension of psychological verbs, as thematic realization may involve both the canonical and non-canonical realization of arguments.
Zimianiti, E.   +2 more
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Why can one be irritabile ‘irritable’ but can not be *divertibile ‘amuse+able’? On Italian -bile adjectives from psychological verbs

open access: yesQuaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, 2014
The paper proposes to set out the domain of application of the adjective forming Italian suffix -bile on the basis of the Aktionsart properties of verbs. In particular, -bile adjectives based on object-experiencer psychological verbs are discussed. It is
Antonietta Bisetto
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Psych verbs: the behavior of ObjExp verbs in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistics, 2023
Psychological verbs, especially Object Experiencer verbs, are widely discussed in the linguistic literature because of their peculiar syntactic and semantic properties.
Cançado Márcia   +3 more
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The puzzle of psychological verbs: (why) are emotion verbs grammatically special?

open access: yes, 2016
This paper addresses the problem of the special behavior of verbs expressing emotions from the perspective of the complexity of emotions as studied in psychology and philosophy. The evolution of the meaning of the word emotion in English provides the starting point for the discussion of the phenomenon of emotion, whose complexity is then argued to find
Rozwadowska, Bożena, Willim, Ewa
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Verbal choice in the ideological construction of romance and migration in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2022
A novel is a composite of ideologies about individuals, groups, events or communities. Central to the construction of ideology is a clause, which survives on the existence of a verb, which could reveal an attitude to a particular ideology.
Usman Muhammed Bello, Yasser Alrefaee
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Psychological Verbs in Aphasic Comprehension

open access: yesProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
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C. Zanini   +4 more
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Familiar Verbs Are Not Always Easier Than Novel Verbs: How German Pre-School Children Comprehend Active and Passive Sentences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Many studies show a developmental advantage for transitive sentences with familiar verbs over those with novel verbs. It might be that once familiar verbs become entrenched in particular constructions, they would be more difficult to understand (than ...
Tomasello, Michael   +11 more
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Manner-of-Motion Verbs and Their Narrative Functions in Gothic Fiction: A Case Study of Poe and Jackson [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی
This study adopted Talmy's (1985, 2000) typological framework of motion events to systematically analyze manner-of-motion verbs in three representative Gothic texts: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) and "The Black Cat" (1843) and Shirley ...
Huda Abd Ali Hattab, Rezvan Motavallian
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Psychological verbs in al-Baha Arabic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This thesis studies psychological verbs in al-bāḥah Arabic (henceforth BA; a dialect used in western Saudi Arabia). Psychological verbs are characterized by having one argument that carries the thematic role of Experiencer and have been the topic of a ...
Alghamdi, Rana Abdullah S
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Catalan psychological verbs: the case of «agradar» and «interessar» [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Abstract: The experiencer’s semantic features, a lively entity conceivable as a proto-agent, allow its syntactic and semantic primacy in most of sentences with Catalan psychological verbs, and explain the flexibility of these predicates to adapt to conceptual schemes of speakers.
Royo, Carles
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