Results 51 to 60 of about 5,184 (222)

The syntax of Greek split reciprocals

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.
Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
wiley   +1 more source

Verbos de movimiento en ruso y español: una vez más sobre la intransitividad dividida

Estudios de Lingüística, 2004
This paper investigates the relationship between the syntactic configuration of two classes of intransitive verbs of motion (the unaccusative and unergative verbs), on the one hand, and certain semantic properties of the respective predicates,
Volha Batsiukova
doaj   +1 more source

EXPLORING COGNATE OBJECT CONSTRUCTIONS IN JAPANESE

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2021
Exploring Cognate Object Constructions in Japanese. The aim of this paper is to explore Cognate Object Constructions in Japanese. To do so, we will rely on the definitions that have been proposed in the literature to account for this phenomenon, as well
Mihaela-Alina PLOSCARU
doaj   +1 more source

Small clause results revisited [PDF]

, 2013
The main purpose of this paper is to show that argument structure constructions like complex telic path of motion constructions (John walked to the store) or complex resultative constructions (The dog barked the chickens awake) are not to be regarded as "
Mateu, Jaume
core  

Culmination phenomena across languages

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 5, September/October 2024.
Abstract This article examines culmination phenomena from a cross‐linguistic perspective. It provides an overview of various (non‐)culmination readings that sentences in different languages may receive in light of much prior literature on this topic, especially from the past 2 decades.
Éva Kardos
wiley   +1 more source

Agentive Reading in the Middle: The Structure of Polish reflexiva tantum

Studies in Polish Linguistics
Morphosyntactic marking connected with the Middle contexts, broadly speaking expressing the involvement and affectedness of the subject (Cotticelli Kurras and Rizza 2013, Inglese 2020), tends to give rise to characteristic Voice syncretism, i.e., the ...
Marcin R. Dadan
doaj   +1 more source

Tense and aspect in aphasia and semantic dementia

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Impairment in past tense production as well as interaction between tense and aspect have been found in both fluent and non-fluent aphasia (e.g. Dragoy & Bastiaanse, 2013).
Vasiliki Koukoulioti, Stavroula Stavrakaki   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Just pair‐merge

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 527-549, September 2024.
Abstract Two structure‐building operations are currently posited in minimalist theory: an operation forming sets (set merge), and an operation forming ordered pairs (pair‐merge). I argue that pair‐merge is sufficient to generate syntactic relations, so set merge, also called simple merge, should be eliminated from syntactic theory on grounds of ...
Ken Safir
wiley   +1 more source

VARIATION IN THE ORDER SV/VS IN UNACCUSATIVE VERBS AND INCHOATIVE: A STUDY FOCUSED IN FORMAL WRITING OF LAGES COUNTY, SANTA CATARINA STATE

Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2016
This study investigates the variation of SV/VS in declarative sentences containing unaccusative and inchoatives verbs. This work has used some reader’s letters from the newspapers of the municipality of Lages – Santa Catarina State, Brazil – from the 19
Laiza de Sena, Felício Wessling Margotti   +1 more
doaj  

Subject to change: Agreement and Case

Glossa
In contemporary colloquial Hebrew, unaccusative verbs may fail to exhibit ϕ-agreement with their subject when the latter appears postverbally, but not when it appears preverbally.
Nofar Rimon
doaj   +2 more sources