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Interface strategies in monolingual and end-state L2 Spanish grammars are not that different [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 This study explores syntactic, pragmatic, and lexical influences on adherence to SV and VS orders in native and fluent L2 speakers of Spanish. A judgment task examined 20 native monolingual and 20 longstanding L2 bilingual Spanish speakers’ acceptance of
Maria Carmen eParafita Couto +2 more
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Against Covert A-Movement in Russian Unaccusatives [PDF]
Linguistic Inquiry, 2011 Linguistic
Maria Polinsky
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The Leaf Fell (the Leaf): The Online Processing of Unaccusatives [PDF]
Linguistic Inquiry, 2008 Naama Friedmann
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Transitive Unergatives in Pazar Laz
Glossa, 2021 The aim of this study is to show that all unergatives in Pazar Laz involve an overtly filled object position and behave simply on a par with regular transitives, as the availability of an initiator is strictly dependent on the availability of an ...
Balkiz Ozturk
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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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Not all diatheses are created equal: Evidence from semantic drifts
Glossa, 2022 This paper examines the distribution of Modern Hebrew semantic drifts across four diatheses (voices): transitives, unaccusatives (anticausatives), adjectival (stative) passives, and verbal (eventive) passives.
Noa Brandel
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How can a language have double-passives but lack antipassives?
Glossa, 2022 Passivization in Turkish may target both internal and external argument positions, for passives of unaccusatives, unergatives and transitives are possible in the language.
Balkiz Ozturk +2 more
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Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2022 The processability account anticipates that learners will make more underpassivization errors than overpassivization errors since passivization entails more processing.
Seray Tanyer, Samet Deniz
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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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Grammatical encoding of agency in Asturian middle constructions
Glossa, 2021 Middle-passive constructions in Asturian –a Romance language spoken in the diglossic region of Asturias, in northern Spain– appear to optionally allow the occurrence of the reflexive pronoun se in them (esti pan esmigáya(se) fácil; ‘this bread crumbles ...
Imanol Suárez-Palma
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