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(Non-)homogeneity in Dutch impersonal passives of unaccusatives [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 This paper sheds new light on the behaviour of telic predicates, particularly unaccusatives (opstijgen ‘take off’, vallen ‘fall’), in the Dutch impersonal passive (= ImpersP) construction.
Mara van Schaik-Rădulescu
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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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Auxiliaries and Verb Classes in Child Italian: A Syntactic Analysis of the Development of Aspect
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2015 In this paper we will analyse the production and interpretation of the forms of the present perfect (passato prossimo) in children’s Italian. Young children use past or perfective forms mainly to refer to telic predicates and present or imperfective ...
Paolo Lorusso
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Auxiliary selection and counterfactuality in the history of English and Germanic [PDF]
, 2006 The retreat of BE as perfect auxiliary in the history of English is examined. Corpus data are presented showing that the initial advance of HAVE was most closely connected to a restriction against BE in past counterfactuals. Other factors which have been
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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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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Topics in Linguistics, 2016 Transitivity alternation refers to the causative/inchoative alternation of some unaccusative verbs. Different languages use different patterns to show transitivity alternation morphologically.
Dehghan Farzaneh, Rezvani Reza
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Zum Phasen-Modell in der Syntax
Glottodidactica, 2018 The article examines some aspects of the modern syntax and algorithmic modeling. In 1974, in Dedham, Massachusetts, an international meeting took place which paved the way for the interdisciplinary research field of biolinguistics.
Paweł Mecner
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NON-TYPICAL MIDDLES IN TAIWAN SOUTHERN MIN [PDF]
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2012 This paper discusses non-typical middles that involve resultative verbal compounds in Taiwan Southern Min. This paper first applies tests to prove that the patient NP before the compound in question is a subject, not a topic, and thus this compound ...
Huei-Ling Lin
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Glossa, 2019 The Unaccusative Hypothesis (UH) has been extensively studied in linguistics, but, to date, it has not been tested by means of ERPs. The present study aimed to experimentally test the UH hypothesis in Basque and determine what the electrophysiological ...
Adam Zawiszewski +2 more
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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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