Results 71 to 80 of about 5,184 (222)
Case and event structure [PDF]
, 2013 I argue in this paper for a novel analysis of case in Icelandic, with implications for case theory in general. I argue that structural case is the manifestation on the noun phrase of features which are semantically interpretable only on verbal ...
Svenonius, Peter
core
NON-TYPICAL MIDDLES IN TAIWAN SOUTHERN MIN [PDF]
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2012 This paper discusses non-typical middles that involve resultative verbal compounds in Taiwan Southern Min. This paper first applies tests to prove that the patient NP before the compound in question is a subject, not a topic, and thus this compound ...
Huei-Ling Lin
doaj
The processing of subject-verb agreement with postverbal subjects in Italian
Glossa PsycholinguisticsThe processing of subject-verb number agreement has been extensively studied when the subject precedes the verb; by contrast, agreement processing in dependencies in which the subject follows the verb has been less investigated.
Andrea Listanti +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Transfer and Universal Grammar in Unaccusative Constructions Errors
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2008 Common errors are examined in subject expletive pronouns use with unaccusative predicates in the written production of Spanish high-intermediate adult students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in an institutional setting. What these errors have in
Marciano Escutia
doaj +1 more source
Three levels of root insertion in Basque intransitive verbs
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2012 Intransitive verbs in Basque vary depending on their subject case and auxiliary selection: (i) some of them (considered unaccusatives and inchoatives) always have an absolutive subject and an intransitive auxiliary; (ii) others (prototypical unergatives)
Ane Berro
doaj +2 more sources
Limits on P: filling in holes vs. falling in holes
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 All Germanic languages make extensive use of verb-particle combinations (known as separable-prefix verbs in the OV languages). I show some basic differences here distinguishing the Scandinavian type from the OV West Germanic languages, with English ...
Peter Svenonius
doaj +1 more source
Some characteristics of deverbal nominals in Slavic and Romance languages [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper we will investigate the nature of deverbal nominals across languages. Deverbal nouns are typically classified according to their word-formation model: affixation and conver-sion.
Kovačić, Vinko, Matracki, Ivica Peša
core +2 more sources
The Auditory Comprehension of Unaccusative Verbs in Aphasia [PDF]
, 2014 Some persons with aphasia, particularly those diagnosed with a Broca’s aphasia, exhibit a delayed time course of lexical activation in canonically ordered S-V-O sentences (Ferrill et al., 2012) and delayed re-activation of displaced arguments in ...
Love, Tracy +4 more
core
Topics in Linguistics, 2016 Transitivity alternation refers to the causative/inchoative alternation of some unaccusative verbs. Different languages use different patterns to show transitivity alternation morphologically.
Dehghan Farzaneh, Rezvani Reza
doaj +1 more source
Laboratory Phonology, 2018 A production experiment was run to examine how information structure and verbal semantics affect word ordering and nuclear stress placement in intransitive sentences in Venezuelan Spanish.
Ana Olssen, Erwin La Cruz, Sasha Calhoun
doaj +2 more sources