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Agent Demotion in German and Polish

Linguistik Online, 2022
This paper provides a contrastive account of agent demotion in German and Polish. While agent demotion is a relatively broad term that is often used including mere backgrounding, the focus is on lexical and morphosyntactic means that allow for agents to
Jochen Matthies
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Reporting Eye‐Tracking Research in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism: A Synthesis and Field‐Specific Guidelines

Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 250-294, March 2025.
Abstract Eye tracking has taken hold in second language acquisition (SLA) and bilingualism as a valuable technique for researching cognitive processes, yet a comprehensive picture of reporting practices is still lacking. Our systematic review addressed this gap.
Aline Godfroid (she/her), Brittany Finch (she/her), Joanne Koh (she/her)   +2 more
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Alternating arguments of Polish psych verbs

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This paper focuses on the Experiencer Object (EO)/Experiencer Subject (ES) alternation in Polish. This alternation is viewed here as distinct from the causative/anticausative alternation, because eventive EO verbs do not pattern like change of state (COS)
Anna Bondaruk, Bozena Rozwadowska
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Small clause results revisited [PDF]

, 2013
The main purpose of this paper is to show that argument structure constructions like complex telic path of motion constructions (John walked to the store) or complex resultative constructions (The dog barked the chickens awake) are not to be regarded as "
Mateu, Jaume
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Some characteristics of deverbal nominals in Slavic and Romance languages [PDF]

, 2016
In this paper we will investigate the nature of deverbal nominals across languages. Deverbal nouns are typically classified according to their word-formation model: affixation and conver-sion.
Kovačić, Vinko, Matracki, Ivica Peša
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.
Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
wiley   +1 more source

Culmination phenomena across languages

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 5, September/October 2024.
Abstract This article examines culmination phenomena from a cross‐linguistic perspective. It provides an overview of various (non‐)culmination readings that sentences in different languages may receive in light of much prior literature on this topic, especially from the past 2 decades.
Éva Kardos
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Against Covert A-Movement in Russian Unaccusatives [PDF]

, 2011
Linguistic
Polinsky, Maria, Potsdam, Eric
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Just pair‐merge

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 527-549, September 2024.
Abstract Two structure‐building operations are currently posited in minimalist theory: an operation forming sets (set merge), and an operation forming ordered pairs (pair‐merge). I argue that pair‐merge is sufficient to generate syntactic relations, so set merge, also called simple merge, should be eliminated from syntactic theory on grounds of ...
Ken Safir
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Prepositional Verbs and the Individual-/Stage-Level distinction

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Drawing on Catalan, we show how the aspectual classification of intransitive prepositional verbs is, partially, a predictor of their argument structure properties.
Isabel Oltra-Massuet, Víctor Acedo-Matellán   +1 more
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