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On triple auxiliation in Romance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Romance languages divide into three classes, as far as perfective auxiliation is concerned: as well as languages showing a binary contrast (e.g., French) and languages showing no contrast (e.g., Spanish), several varieties exist in which auxiliation ...
Loporcaro, Michele
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Lexical causatives and causative alternation in Basque [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Lexical causative alternation in Basque occurs with verbs which express a change in the form, location or psych-state of the subject. Aside from certain idiosyncrasies associated with specific roots, this kind of lexical alternation is highly regular is ...
Oyharçabal, Bernard,
core   +3 more sources

Resultatives and Unaccusatives: A Parametric View [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper capitalizes on two peculiar properties of Mandarin Chinese resultative constructions that pose problems for a general theory of argument structure and parametric theory: (a) the widespread existence of unergative objectless resultatives, and ...
Huang, C.-T. James James
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Subjects are not all alike: Eye-tracking the agent preference in Spanish. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2022
Gómez-Vidal B   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Real-time production of unaccusative vs. unergative sentences in normal and agrammatic speakers: an eyetracking study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This study examined real-time production of unergative and unaccusative verbs in sentences in 13 controls and 9 agrammatic speakers, using eyetracking. Speakers constructed a sentence, using written words.
Lee, Jiyeon, Thompson, Cynthia
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Subject inversion in non-native Spanish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study presents new empirical evidence on the L2 acquisition of Spanish SV–VS contrasts, a syntax-pragmatics interface phenomenon. Results from a context-dependant preference task involving unergative and unaccusative verbs in different focus ...
Alexiadou   +113 more
core   +1 more source

An application of second language acquisition research to ESL grammar teaching: What to do with novel passives

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2001
This paper demonstrates how second language acquisition research can inform textbook writers and language teachers. It begins with a summary of research which indicates that inappropriate passives are produced and accepted by learners with a variety of ...
Patricia A. Balcom
doaj  

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