Subjects are not all alike: Eye-tracking the agent preference in Spanish [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Experimental research on argument structure has reported mixed results regarding the processing of unaccusative and unergative predicates. Using eye tracking in the visual world paradigm, this study seeks to fill a gap in the literature by presenting new
Beatriz Gómez-Vidal +3 more
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Brain Regions Involved in Underlying Syntactic Processing of Mandarin Chinese Intransitive Verbs: An fMRI Study [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2021 According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis, intransitive verbs are divided into unaccusative and unergative ones based on the distinction of their syntactic properties, which has been proved by previous theoretical and empirical evidence.
Xin Wang +6 more
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The syntax of wh-questions in unaccusative and (Un)ergative structures in Mehri language: A Phase-based approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The Mehri Language is an endangered language spoken in eastern Yemen, a sub-group of the Semitic language family, and a Southern Arabic language. The syntax of Mehri wh-questions has not been explored within minimalism; hence, there is a morpho-syntactic
Abdul-Hafeed Fakih +2 more
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Decomposing unaccusativity: a statistical modelling approach. [PDF]
Lang Cogn NeurosciWhile the two types of intransitive verbs, i.e., unergative and unaccusative, are hypothesised to be syntactically represented, many have proposed a semantic account where abstract properties related to agentivity and telicity, often conceptualised as binary properties, determine the classification.
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Extended Argument Structure : Progressive as Unaccusative [PDF]
Catalan Working Papers in Linguistics, 1999 Our lexical relational analysis of the progressive construction is based on Mateu's (1999) theory of Relational Semantics. Drawing empirical evidence from cross-linguistic studies, we argue that the progressive involves a nominalization process that joins a locative unaccusative structure and the argument structure corresponding to the lexical verb. As
Mateu Fontanals, Jaume +1 more
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Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2022 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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The comprehension of sentences with unaccusative verbs in aphasia: a test of the intervener hypothesis [PDF]
Aphasiology, 2017 Matthew Walenski, Tracy E Love
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Real-time production of unergative and unaccusative sentences in normal and agrammatic speakers: An eyetracking study [PDF]
Aphasiology, 2011 Jiyeon Lee, Cynthia K Thompson
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Do sentences with unaccusative verbs involve syntactic movement? Evidence from neuroimaging [PDF]
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2014 Agnew ZK +3 more
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Unaccusative verbs in Modern Standard Arabic [PDF]
Saudi Journal of Language Studies, 2023 Purpose – The purpose of this research was to analyze the unaccusative verb in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) within the framework of MP in order to answer the research question: How does the single argument of an unaccusative verb, that carries the theme ...
Thana Mahmood Alonini
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