How an idea germinates into a projext or the intransitive resultative construction with Entity-Specific change-of-state verbs [PDF]
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2014 This study discusses how seven of Levin’s (1993) entity-specific change-of-state verbs (i.e. bloom, blossom, flower, germinate, sprout, swell, and blister) are subsumed into the intransitive resultative construction by highlighting and making use of the ...
Andreea Rosca
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Analysis of argument structure constructions in a deep recurrent language model [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational NeuroscienceUnderstanding how language and linguistic constructions are processed in the brain is a fundamental question in cognitive computational neuroscience. This study builds directly on our previous work analyzing Argument Structure Constructions (ASCs) in the
Pegah Ramezani +5 more
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KA…HOO CONSTRUCTIONS IN TAIWAN SOUTHERN MIN [PDF]
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2009 Taiwan Southern Min ka and hoo have been broadly investigated in the literature (e.g., Cheng et al. 1999, Lien 2002, Tsao 2005). However, very little of the previous research has focused on the interaction between these two functional words.
Hui-Chi Lee
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Grammatical Representations of the Verb Phrase in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from Syntactic Priming in Five-Year-Olds [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: Debates regarding how to represent verb phrases (VPs) consisting of the verb plus the complement and the aspectual marker -le in Mandarin Chinese remain an issue.
Dong-Bo Hsu
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Analysis of argument structure constructions in the large language model BERT [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial IntelligenceUnderstanding how language and linguistic constructions are processed in the brain is a fundamental question in cognitive computational neuroscience.
Pegah Ramezani +5 more
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The Path argument of resultative constructions [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 The premise of the paper is that resultative constructions involve an abstract Path argument by which the secondary predicate is treated as an endpoint to a path of a change of state/location, rather than a pure state/location.
Imola-Ágnes Farkas
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Applying constructional approach to second language teaching and learning [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The inevitability of addressing constructional approach in modern linguodidactics is caused by the crisis in teaching practices aimed at providing students with a set of static information.
Ivanova Svetlana Viktorovna +1 more
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You are driving me up the wall! A corpus-based study of a special class of resultative constructions
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2022 This paper focuses on resultative constructions from a computational and corpus-based approach. We claim that the array of expressions (traditionally classed as idioms, collocations, free word combinations, etc.) that are used to convey a person’s change
Gloria Corpas Pastor
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Pedagogical and Theoretical Issues around the Resultative Verb Compound Construction in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, 2021 In this study, I discuss pedagogical and theoretical issues of the resultative verb compound (RVC) construction, such as chi-wan ‘eat-finish’ and pao-lei ‘run-tired’ in Mandarin Chinese.
I-hao Woo
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The Interaction between ‘Present Perfect’ Interpretation and Simple Verbs’ Event Type in Persian [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2020 The present perfect construction (called ‘quotative past tense’ in Persian grammars) receives different interpretations under the influence of such factors as the verb’s lexical meaning, arguments, adverbs, and other contextual linguistic and situational
Roohollah Mofidi, Zeynab Rabbany
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