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Glossa, 2019 The Unaccusative Hypothesis (UH) has been extensively studied in linguistics, but, to date, it has not been tested by means of ERPs. The present study aimed to experimentally test the UH hypothesis in Basque and determine what the electrophysiological ...
Adam Zawiszewski +2 more
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Hybrid intransitives in Basque
Glossa, 2020 This paper deals with a group of agentive verbs in Eastern dialects of Basque that show mixed unergative and unaccusative properties. Although they pattern with unergatives in certain aspects, they combine with an absolutive subject and the auxiliary ‘be’
Ane Berro, Anna Pineda
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In the south slavonic garden: landscaping the landscape od arguments and non-arguments
Linguistica, 2016 This paper deals with morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of the so-called Cognate Object Construction with particular reference to Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. The relevance of an examination of such morphologically robust languages
Marijana Marelj
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Isogloss, 2022 This paper investigates the Italian Word Order variation in the position of subjects (S) with respect to finite predicates (V) in two adult populations: L1-Italian speakers and L1-French L2-Italian speakers.
Caterina Tasinato, Emanuela Sanfelici
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Unaccusative Constructions in the Bakhtyiyari Dialect of Masjed Soleyman [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2014 Unaccusative constructions are one place predicates and their single core argument, like a passive predicate, functions as un undergoer rather than actor.
Vali Rezaei, Farkhonde Shojaei
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Anticausatives are semantically reflexive in Norwegian, but not in English
Glossa, 2016 In this paper we will discuss cross-linguistic variation in semantic entailment patterns in causative alternations. Previous work has probed this issue with data from elicited semantic judgements on paired linguistic forms, often involving linguistic ...
Antonella Sorace +4 more
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Glossa, 2020 This paper provides an account of two related aspects of the past-tense morphosyntax of Shughni (Eastern Iranian): (i) the use of second-position clitics, rather than the verbal suffixes of the present tense, to index past-tense subjects’ φ-features; and
Clinton Parker
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External versus internal possessor structures and inalienability in Russian [PDF]
, 2003 This study deals with the choice between two external possessor structures in Russian: the possessive dative and the U + genitive PP. Is shows that this choice is primarily related to the thematic role of the possessor adjunct, which can vary with the ...
Paykin, Katia, Van Peteghem, Marleen
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Stability and Change in Intransitive Argument Structure
Open Linguistics, 2019 The argument structure of verbs is pretty uniform across languages. Thus, verbs of `falling’ involve a Theme and an optional Causer and verbs of `working’ an Agent.
van Gelderen Elly
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West Flemish verb-based discourse markers and the articulation of the Speech Act layer [PDF]
, 2014 This paper focuses on the West Flemish discourse markers located at the edge of the clause. After a brief survey of the distribution of discourse markers in WF, the paper proposes a syntactic analysis of the discourse markers ne and we.
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