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Structuring participles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In this paper we discuss three types of adjectival participles in Greek, ending in -tos and –menos, and provide a further argument for the view that finer distinctions are necessary in the domain of participles (Kratzer 2001, Embick 2004).
Alexiadou, Artemis   +1 more
core  

Oraciones ergativas e inergativas: desdoblamiento sintáctico-temático [PDF]

open access: yesSintagma, 2003
Unaccusative and intransitive sentences: syntactic and thematic unfolding. The essential aim of this paper is to characterize the universal and parametric stipulations for the unfolding of the syntactic functions and thematic roles that allow the ...
Erundina Garcerán Infantes
doaj  

Talking about the weather: Two construals of precipitation events in English

open access: yesGlossa, 2019
Weather expressions such as It is raining have proven challenging for linguistic researchers; not only do weather expressions often have special linguistic properties, but languages show considerable variation in the morphosyntactic expression of such ...
Beth Levin, Bonnie Krejci
doaj   +2 more sources

Experiencers and goals in German unaccusatives

open access: yes, 2001
So-called 'Psychological Predicates' have prov.en particularly problematic for a mapping from lexical argument structure to positions in syntactic structure if one adopts the view that: (I) this mapping should be uniform. (II) the inventory of 'thematic roles' should be kept to a minimum.
Borik, Olga, Brandt, Patrick
openaire   +3 more sources

Existential unaccusativity and new discourse referents

open access: yesGlossa, 2018
It is well-known that new information strongly disprefers subject position in English (Horn 1986; Prince 1981; 1992; Beaver et al., 2005), even though English allows indefinite subjects. English is therefore seen as one of the many languages that adheres
Patricia Irwin
doaj   +2 more sources

Licensing of Floating Nominal Modifiers and Unaccusativity in Japanese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Licensing of VP-internal floating nominal modifiers (FNMs), including numeral quantifiers, has been used as a diagnostic test for unaccusativity in Japanese, under the assumption that FNMs and their associates must be in a local syntactic relation at ...
Fukuda, Shin, Polinsky, Maria
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Split intransitivity in Japanese is syntactic: Evidence for the Unaccusative Hypothesis from sentence acceptability and truth value judgment experiments

open access: yesGlossa, 2017
Split intransitivity (SI) is the generalization that intransitive verbs form two subclasses: the subjects of some intransitives behave like direct objects of transitive verbs, whereas the subjects of other intransitives behave like transitive subjects ...
Shin Fukuda
doaj   +2 more sources

Time course of grammatical encoding in agrammatism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Two on-line sentence production experiments explored the time course of grammatical encoding in normal and agrammatic speakers. Incremental models suggest grammatical encoding proceeds in a word-by-word manner, without advanced planning.
Lee, Jiyeon   +2 more
core  

Going Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol, 2021
Martínez de la Hidalga G   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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