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Noncanonical Obligatory Control
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract Intensive research on Obligatory Control (OC) in the past 2 decades has revealed a rich crosslinguistic terrain of deviations from the classical format. Five types of noncanonical OC are surveyed here: Finite control, controlled overt pronouns, partial control, proxy control and crossed control.
Idan Landau
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A protocol for psych verbs [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2016 So-called psychological verbs such as Italian temere ‘fear’, preoccupare ‘worry’, and piacere ‘like’ present an extremely varied argument structure across languages, that arranges these two roles in apparently opposite hierarchies and assigns them ...
Giuliana Giusti, Rossella Iovino
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Structural Ambiguity and the Architecture of Language1
Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 35-63, April 2024.Abstract This article investigates what structural ambiguity reveals about the architecture of language. It analyzes two basic types of structural ambiguity, constituent ambiguity and chain formation ambiguity, and illustrates with a small class of selected case studies how they interweave.
Jordi Fortuny
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Causation and semantic control. Diagnosis of incorrect uses in minorized languages
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2003 Data obtained about the use of language for special purposes can be a valuable tool for checking theoretical predictions concerning semantics and syntax of certain kinds of verbs.
Igone Zabala
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Auxiliary selection in Italian restructuring: An insight into the size of the clause
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 85-122, March 2024.Abstract In Standard Italian, restructuring clauses are characterized by apparently optional transparency effects in the choice of the clausal perfect auxiliary. In the perfect periphrasis, the auxiliary associated with the modal verb can be either HAVE or the one corresponding to the lexical verb (BE or HAVE).
Irene Amato
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Laboratory Phonology, 2018 A production experiment was run to examine how information structure and verbal semantics affect word ordering and nuclear stress placement in intransitive sentences in Venezuelan Spanish.
Ana Olssen, Erwin La Cruz, Sasha Calhoun
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A case study in underspecification of UG: External Pair Merge of v and T
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 123-147, March 2024.Abstract Previous works have explored the options of Pair Merging R and v as well as T and C, respectively, yielding R‐v and T‐C with various consequences. This paper proposes that v and T can yield the complex head v‐T, an amalgam formed by external Pair Merge.
Andreas Blümel
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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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Diagnosing unaccusativity in Kawahíva
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2022 Unaccusativity, the division of intransitive verbs into two distinct classes, is usually argued for based on a class of cross-linguistic diagnostics, e.g., passivization. However, I diagnose unaccusative verbs in Kawahíva, an endangered Amazonian language, despite the traditional diagnostics being missing.
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The development of using function word “zài” to learn novel verbs in young Mandarin speakers
PsyCh Journal, Volume 13, Issue 1, Page 31-43, February 2024.Abstract The present research examined whether Mandarin‐speaking children could use function words to learn novel verbs and recognize verbs in a new sentential context. In Experiment 1, 3‐ to 6‐year‐old children were taught two novel verbs supported by the verb marker “zài.” The 5‐ and 6‐year‐old children successfully used the function word “zài” to ...
Zhigang Li +3 more
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