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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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The on-line processing of unaccusativity in Greek agrammatism [PDF]
, 2013 We investigated the on-line processing of unaccusative and unergative sentences in a group of eight Greek-speaking individuals diagnosed with Broca aphasia and a group of language-unimpaired subjects used as the baseline. The processing of unaccusativity
Balaguer +18 more
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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) +2 more
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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
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Agent, causer and instrument PPs in Greek : implications for verbal structure [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we investigate the distribution of PPs related to external arguments (agent, causer, instrument, causing event) in Greek. We argue that their distribution supports an analysis, according to which agentive/instrument and causer PPs are ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +1 more
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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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Zu satzfinaler Subjektposition, Unakkusativität und C-Domäne im Jiddischen
Linguistik Online, 2017 The article examines structures of Yiddish clauses in which the kernel verb contains only one NP. The thematic role of an accessible NP is patient/theme, whereas the agent-NP remains vacant.
Pawel Mecner
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Counterfactuals and the loss of BE in the history of English [PDF]
, 2008 In the course of the ME period, HAVE began to encroach on territory previously held by BE. According to Rydén and Brorström (1987); Kytö (1997), this occurred especially in iterative and durational contexts, in the perfect infinitive and modal ...
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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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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Quintú Quimün, 2017 Este trabajo discute la realización del sujeto en inglés como Lengua Segunda en casos de mapeos no canónicos entre roles temáticos y funciones sintácticas, específicamente en estructuras inacusativas.
Teresa Parodi, María Fernanda Casares
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