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Discrete Entailment-Based Linking and -EE Nouns in English [PDF]

, 2007
Barker (1998) argues that since the referent of an -ee noun can be an indirect object, a direct object, a prepositional object, or a subject, -ee nouns cannot be described as a syntactic natural class.
González, Luis
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Visual Form and Event Semantics Predict Transitivity in Silent Gestures: Evidence for Compositionality

Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023
Abstract Silent gesture is not considered to be linguistic, on par with spoken and sign languages. It is claimed that silent gestures, unlike language, represent events holistically, without compositional structure. However, recent research has demonstrated that gesturers use consistent strategies when representing objects and events, and that there ...
Chuck Bradley, Ronnie Wilbur
wiley   +1 more source

Parameters of variation between verb-subject and subject-verb order in late Middle English [PDF]

, 2007
This article sets out to clarify the contribution of syntactic properties and subject weight for variation between verb-subject and subject-verb order in a database of fourteenth and fifteenth-century prose. It sets out the syntactic structures which are
Warner, Anthony
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Inacusatividade e inergatividade no PB

Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011
This paper presents a descriptive analysis of intransitive verb behavior in Brazilian Portuguese, specially the verbs known as unaccusative ones. We propose a prototypical analysis of this verb class, because the tests proposed by the literature do not ...
Larissa Ciríaco, Márcia Cançado
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Verbos de movimiento en ruso y español: una vez más sobre la intransitividad dividida

Estudios de Lingüística, 2004
This paper investigates the relationship between the syntactic configuration of two classes of intransitive verbs of motion (the unaccusative and unergative verbs), on the one hand, and certain semantic properties of the respective predicates,
Volha Batsiukova
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Three levels of root insertion in Basque intransitive verbs

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2012
Intransitive verbs in Basque vary depending on their subject case and auxiliary selection: (i) some of them (considered unaccusatives and inchoatives) always have an absolutive subject and an intransitive auxiliary; (ii) others (prototypical unergatives)
Ane Berro
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Tense and aspect in aphasia and semantic dementia

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Impairment in past tense production as well as interaction between tense and aspect have been found in both fluent and non-fluent aphasia (e.g. Dragoy & Bastiaanse, 2013).
Vasiliki Koukoulioti, Stavroula Stavrakaki   +1 more
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L2 acquisition of unaccusative verbs in pre-intermediate middle school learners through indirect DDL: A study on change-of-state verbs and verbs of occurrence

Applied Corpus Linguistics
Jina Son, Seyeon Park, Youjung Park, Hyebin Seo   +3 more
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Vestigial ergativity in Shughni: At the intersection of alignment, clitic doubling, and feature-driven movement

Glossa, 2020
This paper provides an account of two related aspects of the past-tense morphosyntax of Shughni (Eastern Iranian): (i) the use of second-position clitics, rather than the verbal suffixes of the present tense, to index past-tense subjects’ φ-features; and
Clinton Parker
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To What Extent Does Split Intransitivity of the Adult Target Affect Children’s Emerging Verb Patterns? [PDF]

Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2014
The Unaccusative Hypothesis has produced several diagnoses for determining whether a given intransitive verb is unaccusative or unergative. While some are suggested to be language-specific, like ne in Italian or pleonastic “there” in English, others have
John M. Ryan
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