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Not all diatheses are created equal: Evidence from semantic drifts
Glossa, 2022 This paper examines the distribution of Modern Hebrew semantic drifts across four diatheses (voices): transitives, unaccusatives (anticausatives), adjectival (stative) passives, and verbal (eventive) passives.
Noa Brandel
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Support‐Verb Constructions with Objects: Greek‐Coptic Interference in the Documentary Papyri?1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 382-403, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Support‐verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that fill the predicate slot, for example, to make a suggestion in I made the suggestion yesterday. The article examines direct‐object structures with support‐verb constructions in Greek documentary papyri from fourth‐ to mid‐seventh‐century Egypt.
Victoria Beatrix Fendel
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An Agent‐First Preference in a Patient‐First Language During Sentence Comprehension
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other domains and other species, the evidence is limited to languages that place agents first, and so the bias could also be learned from usage frequency.
Sebastian Sauppe +5 more
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Agree and the subjects of specificational clauses
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 251-279, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article investigates agreement in Persian sentences with a specificational copular clause embedded under the epistemic modal tavānestan ‘can’. We argue that this structure is a raising structure. It exhibits agreement on both the embedded and modal verbs.
Susana Bejar, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
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Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Silent gesture is not considered to be linguistic, on par with spoken and sign languages. It is claimed that silent gestures, unlike language, represent events holistically, without compositional structure. However, recent research has demonstrated that gesturers use consistent strategies when representing objects and events, and that there ...
Chuck Bradley, Ronnie Wilbur
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(Non-)homogeneity in Dutch impersonal passives of unaccusatives [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 This paper sheds new light on the behaviour of telic predicates, particularly unaccusatives (opstijgen ‘take off’, vallen ‘fall’), in the Dutch impersonal passive (= ImpersP) construction.
Mara van Schaik-Rădulescu
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Lowest theme vowels or highest roots? An ‘unaccusative’ theme-vowel class in Slovenian
Glossa, 2022 This paper focuses on the e/i theme vowel class of verbs in Slovenian to bring together two seemingly unrelated debates: (i) the debate on the correlation between theme vowel classes with certain argument structures and (ii) the debate on the status of ...
Marko Simonović, Petra Mišmaš
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Discrete Entailment-Based Linking and -EE Nouns in English [PDF]
, 2007 Barker (1998) argues that since the referent of an -ee noun can be an indirect object, a direct object, a prepositional object, or a subject, -ee nouns cannot be described as a syntactic natural class.
González, Luis
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Parameters of variation between verb-subject and subject-verb order in late Middle English [PDF]
, 2007 This article sets out to clarify the contribution of syntactic properties and subject weight for variation between verb-subject and subject-verb order in a database of fourteenth and fifteenth-century prose. It sets out the syntactic structures which are
Warner, Anthony
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Verbs' unaccusativity in existential constructions
Journal of Child Language Acquisition and DevelopmentThe Unaccusative Hypothesis(UH) advocates the dominance of syntactic structure in assigning semantic values to sentence arguments. The same thematic roles should only be assigned by the same syntactic configuration.
Zhangyan Miao
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