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, 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
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Anticausatives compete but do not differ in meaning: a French case study
SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 In French as in many other Romance and Germanic languages, verbs undergoing the causative/anticausative alternation divide into two morphological and three distributional classes.
Martin Fabienne, Schäfer Florian
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Argument structure and morphology: the case of en-prefixation revisited
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2007 In this paper I argue that en-prefixed words in Catalan and English (e.g. amorN 'love' > [[en+amor]V+ar]V 'to make someone fall in love'; nobleA > [en+noble]V are not exceptions to the Right-hand Head Rule (RHR; Williams 1981a).
Susanna Padrosa Trias
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Unaccusative or unergative: The case of the English verb to die
Roczniki Humanistyczne, 2016 The study examines the class status of the verb TO DIE in English. The verb under scrutiny (treated as a member of a semantically coherent class of disappearance verbs, together with disappear, expire, lapse, perish, vanish ) is tested against the six syntactic unaccusativity diagnostics valid for English.
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Licensing of Floating Nominal Modifiers and Unaccusativity in Japanese [PDF]
, 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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Linking Particle Semantic Roles in Hawrami Deverbal Noun Phrases [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایرانPrevious studies have focused mostly on the syntactic features of the linking particle (Ezafe) in simple noun phrases with little attention paid to its semantic representations and functions specifically within the context of deverbal noun phrases.
Jabbar Mirani +3 more
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Differential patterns of noun-verb naming and the verb argument complexity in persons with aphasia and normal elderly adults [PDF]
, 2013 The purpose of the study was to investigate 1) whether persons with aphasia (PWA) showed differential patterns between noun and verb naming tasks compared to normal elderly individuals (NEI) and 2) whether the two groups showed differential effects of ...
Kwag, Eun Jung, Sung, Jee Eun
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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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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2003 This article analyzes morphological evidence from Basque to support one basic claim: that subjects of the object-experiencer (i.e. frighten-type) psych verbs are internal arguments. The derivational suffix -garri provides the relevant evidence.
Xabier Artiagoitia
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