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Factors Causing Overpassivisation of Unaccusative Verbs by Japanese Learners of English
Theory and Practice of Second Language AcquisitionIt has been reported that second language (L2) learners of English including Japanese learners of English (JLEs) overpassivise unaccusative verbs although it is a kind of intransitive verbs.
Hiromu Okamura, Tomohiko Shirahata
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Procedia, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014 Akbar Abbasi, Fateme Mirjani Arjenan
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The Syntax of Unaccusative Verbs in Moroccan Arabic: A Minimalist Approach
International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and TranslationThe present paper explores the syntax of unaccusative verbs in Moroccan Arabic (MA) within the theoretical framework of the Minimalist Program (MP). The study aims to delimit the gap in the literature concerning the analysis of unaccusative verbs in the context of MA. The primary objective of this research is to apply the VP split hypothesis to account
Yasmina EL Haddari, Houda Kably
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To be or not to be: A corpus-based study of unaccusative verbs and auxiliary selection
, 2012 Since the introduction of the Unaccusative Hypothesis (Perlmutter, 1978), there\r have been many further attempts to explain the mechanisms behind the division\r in intransitive verbs. This paper aims to analyze and test some of theories of unaccusativity\r using computational linguistic tools.
Richard Brutti
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Atelic unaccusative verbs and cognate objects in Hungarian
ARGUMENTUM, 2020 Imola-Ágnes Farkas
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Lowest theme vowels or highest roots? An ‘unaccusative’ theme-vowel class in Slovenian
Glossa, 2022 This paper focuses on the e/i theme vowel class of verbs in Slovenian to bring together two seemingly unrelated debates: (i) the debate on the correlation between theme vowel classes with certain argument structures and (ii) the debate on the status of ...
Marko Simonović, Petra Mišmaš
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Support‐Verb Constructions with Objects: Greek‐Coptic Interference in the Documentary Papyri?1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 382-403, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Support‐verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that fill the predicate slot, for example, to make a suggestion in I made the suggestion yesterday. The article examines direct‐object structures with support‐verb constructions in Greek documentary papyri from fourth‐ to mid‐seventh‐century Egypt.
Victoria Beatrix Fendel
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Isogloss, 2022 This paper investigates the Italian Word Order variation in the position of subjects (S) with respect to finite predicates (V) in two adult populations: L1-Italian speakers and L1-French L2-Italian speakers.
Caterina Tasinato, Emanuela Sanfelici
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An Agent‐First Preference in a Patient‐First Language During Sentence Comprehension
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other domains and other species, the evidence is limited to languages that place agents first, and so the bias could also be learned from usage frequency.
Sebastian Sauppe +5 more
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Agree and the subjects of specificational clauses
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 251-279, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article investigates agreement in Persian sentences with a specificational copular clause embedded under the epistemic modal tavānestan ‘can’. We argue that this structure is a raising structure. It exhibits agreement on both the embedded and modal verbs.
Susana Bejar, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
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