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Subject inversion in non-native Spanish [PDF]
, 2014 This study presents new empirical evidence on the L2 acquisition of Spanish SV–VS contrasts, a syntax-pragmatics interface phenomenon. Results from a context-dependant preference task involving unergative and unaccusative verbs in different focus ...
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Categorial-selectional features in expletive constructions: A minimalist approach [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسیExpletives, or the so-called dummy subjects, are syntactic objects that contribute nothing to the semantics. For many linguists, these elements constitute the strongest argument of the requirement for propositions to be built from a subject and a ...
Mazdak Anoushe
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Resultatives and Unaccusatives: A Parametric View [PDF]
, 2009 This paper capitalizes on two peculiar properties of Mandarin Chinese resultative constructions that pose problems for a general theory of argument structure and parametric theory: (a) the widespread existence of unergative objectless resultatives, and ...
Huang, C.-T. James James
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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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Against the Unaccusative Analysis of Reflexives
, 2004 In this paper we argue that the unaccusative analysis of reflexive verbs must be discarded, as reflexives systematically fail syntactic tests of unaccusativity. They are unergative entries, whose subject is an external argument, unlike the subject of unaccusatives.
Reinhart, T., Siloni, T.
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The Distribution of Subjects in L2 Spanish by Greek Learners. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Margaza P, Gavarró A.
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Differential patterns of noun-verb naming and the verb argument complexity in persons with aphasia and normal elderly adults [PDF]
, 2013 The purpose of the study was to investigate 1) whether persons with aphasia (PWA) showed differential patterns between noun and verb naming tasks compared to normal elderly individuals (NEI) and 2) whether the two groups showed differential effects of ...
Kwag, Eun Jung, Sung, Jee Eun
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Real-time production of unaccusative vs. unergative sentences in normal and agrammatic speakers: an eyetracking study [PDF]
, 2010 This study examined real-time production of unergative and unaccusative verbs in sentences in 13 controls and 9 agrammatic speakers, using eyetracking. Speakers constructed a sentence, using written words.
Lee, Jiyeon, Thompson, Cynthia
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Topicalization and the question of lexical passives in Chinese [PDF]
, 2010 This paper is one argument for a theory of grammatical relations in Chinese in which there are no grammatical relations beyond semantic roles, and no lexical relation-changing rules.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2001 This paper demonstrates how second language acquisition research can inform textbook writers and language teachers. It begins with a summary of research which indicates that inappropriate passives are produced and accepted by learners with a variety of ...
Patricia A. Balcom
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