Subjects are not all alike: Eye-tracking the agent preference in Spanish [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Experimental research on argument structure has reported mixed results regarding the processing of unaccusative and unergative predicates. Using eye tracking in the visual world paradigm, this study seeks to fill a gap in the literature by presenting new
Beatriz Gómez-Vidal +3 more
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Brain Regions Involved in Underlying Syntactic Processing of Mandarin Chinese Intransitive Verbs: An fMRI Study [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2021 According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis, intransitive verbs are divided into unaccusative and unergative ones based on the distinction of their syntactic properties, which has been proved by previous theoretical and empirical evidence.
Xin Wang +6 more
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The syntax of wh-questions in unaccusative and (Un)ergative structures in Mehri language: A Phase-based approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The Mehri Language is an endangered language spoken in eastern Yemen, a sub-group of the Semitic language family, and a Southern Arabic language. The syntax of Mehri wh-questions has not been explored within minimalism; hence, there is a morpho-syntactic
Abdul-Hafeed Fakih +2 more
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Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations. [PDF]
Nat Lang Linguist TheoryAbstract Samoan deverbal nominalizations show a crosslinguistically rare tripartite-inactive alignment where unaccusative, unergative, and transitive subjects are distinguished by inalienable genitive, alienable genitive, and ergative case, respectively, with objects being marked like unaccusative subjects (Mosel 1992).
Hopperdietzel J, Alexiadou A.
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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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Unergatives are different: Two types of transitivity in Samoan
Glossa, 2018 This paper provides arguments in favour of a non-unified treatment of transitive and unergative verbs, based upon the patterning of unergative constructions in the ergative-absolutive language Samoan. Building upon a proposal by Massam (2009; to appear),
Rebecca Tollan
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Agents Strongly Preferred: ERP Evidence from Natives and Non-Natives Processing Intransitive Sentences in Spanish [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2022 Are non-native speakers able to process their second language in a native-like way? The present study used the Event-Related Potentials’ (ERPs) method to address this issue by focusing (1) on agent vs.
Adam Zawiszewski +2 more
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Reactivation of unaccusative and unergative verbs in Mandarin [PDF]
Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 2021 Abstract Intransitives can be classified into two subclasses: unaccusative verbs and unergative verbs. According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis, the difference between unaccusatives and unergatives lies in where the single argument is generated in the underlying syntactic structure.
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Talking about the weather: Two construals of precipitation events in English
Glossa, 2019 Weather expressions such as It is raining have proven challenging for linguistic researchers; not only do weather expressions often have special linguistic properties, but languages show considerable variation in the morphosyntactic expression of such ...
Beth Levin, Bonnie Krejci
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Real-time production of unergative and unaccusative sentences in normal and agrammatic speakers: An eyetracking study [PDF]
Aphasiology, 2011 Jiyeon Lee, Cynthia K Thompson
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