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Subjects are not all alike: Eye-tracking the agent preference in Spanish [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Experimental research on argument structure has reported mixed results regarding the processing of unaccusative and unergative predicates. Using eye tracking in the visual world paradigm, this study seeks to fill a gap in the literature by presenting new
Beatriz Gómez-Vidal +3 more
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Verbs' unaccusativity in existential constructions
Journal of Child Language Acquisition and DevelopmentThe Unaccusative Hypothesis(UH) advocates the dominance of syntactic structure in assigning semantic values to sentence arguments. The same thematic roles should only be assigned by the same syntactic configuration.
Zhangyan Miao
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HAVE and BE + participle of an unaccusative verb
Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Journal, 2017 Among the present-day Scandinavian languages, only Danish and possibly Faroese have a split auxiliary system where unaccusative verbs form perfects with BE, while transitive and unergative verbs form perfects with HAVE (see e.g. Vikner & Sprouse 1988, Platzack 1988, Larsson 2009, 2013); see the Danish examples in (1). 1 Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish
Ida Larsson
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On the Internal Argument(s) of Unaccusative [Verb+Preposition] Structures [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2012 In this paper I use the feature [+/–animate] to distinguish unaccusative [verb+preposition] structures where the verb projects the internal argument from structures where the preposition projects the internal argument.
Castillo Orihuela, Concepción
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Transfer at the level of argument structure or morphology: a comparative study of English and Persian unaccusative and unergative verbs [PDF]
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
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The Time-course of Lexical Reactivation of Unaccusative Verbs in Broca’s Aphasia
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Individuals with Broca’s aphasia typically have difficulty understanding sentences containing syntactic dependencies (e.g., Wh-questions, as in “Which mailman did the policeman push___ yesterday afternoon”).
Natalie Sullivan, Matthew Walenski
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Reflexive verbs in Hebrew: Deep unaccusativity meets lexical semantics [PDF]
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2017 Reflexive verbs in Modern Hebrew show specific morphological marking: only one of the seven verbal templates in the language can be used for reflexives. Yet this morphological marking also appears on anticausative verbs, which have different syntactic and semantic properties.
Itamar Kastner
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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 +1 more
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Lexical causatives and causative alternation in Basque [PDF]
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2003 After offering a brief survey of the features of causative sentences in Basque, mainly on the basis of Dixon's (2000) criteria, the paper deals with Basque lexical causatives, which can be used as either causative or unaccusative verbs.
Beñat Oyharçabal
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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 ...
Natalie Sullivan +4 more
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