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Functional Projections and Event Structure
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997 The variable behavior verbs in unaccusative/unergative alternation in Dutch, Italian, and Hebrew led Borer(1993) to deny the "lexical-entrydriven approach.
Khym, Hangyoo, Kookiattikoon, Supath
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Constructions Containing jɑ- in Laki Dialect [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2020 The main objective of the current study is to examine the constructions containing jɑ- /-je in Laki within the framework of Goldbergˊs Constructional Grammar on the basis of a descriptive-analytic method.
Ramieh Geravand +3 more
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Prepositions in Brazilian Portuguese: on the rise of a novel system
Revista Linguística, 2023 The study examines the prepositional system of Brazilian Portuguese, considering the loss of the dative preposition a (to) in constructions with dative arguments and differential object marking (DOM), as well as in unaccusatives predicates with ...
Heloisa Maria Moreira Lima Salles
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Extra argumentality - affectees, landmarks, and voice [PDF]
, 2006 This article investigates sentences with additional core arguments of a special type in three languages, viz. German, English, and Mandarin. These additional arguments, called extra arguments in the article, form a crosslinguistically homogeneous class ...
Cheung Hung-Nin +15 more
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Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas, 2021 This study examines and compares the English as a foreign language production of two groups of speakers with respect to certain manifestations of the expression of the subject in discourse.
Marciano Escutia López
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Glossa, 2017 Split intransitivity (SI) is the generalization that intransitive verbs form two subclasses: the subjects of some intransitives behave like direct objects of transitive verbs, whereas the subjects of other intransitives behave like transitive subjects ...
Shin Fukuda
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The acquisition of middles and unaccusatives by Cantonese ESL learners. [PDF]
, 1998 by Chan Mable.Thesis submitted in 1997.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-124).Abstract also in Chinese.Chapter Chapter1 --- Second Language Acquisition Research: Background to the ...
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External versus internal possessor structures and inalienability in Russian [PDF]
, 2003 This study deals with the choice between two external possessor structures in Russian: the possessive dative and the U + genitive PP. Is shows that this choice is primarily related to the thematic role of the possessor adjunct, which can vary with the ...
Paykin, Katia, Van Peteghem, Marleen
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Expletive Constructions and Agreement in Labeling Theory
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I explain how agreement occurs in English expletive constructions, in accord with recent work in the Minimalist Program. I develop a proposal that relies on feature unification and probe‐goal agreement, as well as the notion that internal merge of arguments generally applies freely.
Jason Ginsburg
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Passive and unaccusative in the jieyang dialect of chaozhou [PDF]
, 2005 A distinctive syntactic feature of the Chaozhou dialect group is the use of the same morpheme in the passive and in certain intransitive constructions.
Matthews, S, Xu, H, Yip, V
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