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Unaccusative verb production revisited: Evidence for dual deficit
, 2014 Popov, S. +2 more
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The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically [PDF]
, 2008 The causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +2 more
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A Unified Analysis for Subject Topics in Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2014 In this paper we discuss the phenomenon of subject topics, consisting of the movement of either a genitive or a locative constituent into subject position in Brazilian Portuguese.
Aroldo Leal de Andrade, Charlotte Galves
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Resultatives and Unaccusatives: A Parametric View [PDF]
, 2009 This paper capitalizes on two peculiar properties of Mandarin Chinese resultative constructions that pose problems for a general theory of argument structure and parametric theory: (a) the widespread existence of unergative objectless resultatives, and ...
Huang, C.-T. James James
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Clitic Climbing and Null Subject Languages [PDF]
, 2002 The aim of this paper is to derive Clitic Climbing from restructuring together with the Null Subject property. Data are drawn mainly from Catalan. I propose a biclausal analysis for restructuring constructions in which clitic climbing (like any clitic ...
Solà i Pujols, Jaume
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Revisit adjective distribution in Chinese
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2017 This study re-classifies Chinese monosyllabic adjectives and verbs in light of ‘scale structure’. It examines how various adjectives are associated with different scalar layers of verbs.
Wenchao LI
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Directions from the GET-GO : on the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions [PDF]
, 2010 Directional resultatives show puzzling syntactic restrictions. In Romance, broadly speaking, they do not occur at all with manner-of-motion verbs. In Dutch, directional resultatives with mannerof- motion verbs usually force postpositional order in the ...
Dikken, Marcel den
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Unaccusative Verbs in Runyambo: Burzio’s Generalization Approach
International Journal of Language and LinguisticsThe study focused on Unaccusative verbs in Runyambo, a Bantu language spoken in Kagera region in Tanzania. The study was specifically conducted at Katera village found at Kyerwa district in Kagera region. The study drew inspiration from Burzio’s Generalization Approach focusing on Intransitive Unaccusative verbs in Runyambo.
Leticia Cyprian +2 more
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Presenting and predicating lower events [PDF]
, 2013 The effects of different forms of predication have been insightfully (and almost exclusively) studied for 'simple' cases of predication, of which the 'presentational sentence' is maybe the paradigm instantiation.
Brandt, Patrick
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Superlexical versus lexical prefixes
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2005 This paper is intended to justify the classification of all the Rus- sian prefixes into lexical and superlexical. It gives semantic and syntactic criteria for distinguishing between the two groups, includ- ing: the idiosyncratic or spatial lexical ...
Eugenia Romanova
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