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Unsupervised Discovery of Unaccusative and Unergative Verbs
CoRR, 2021 We present an unsupervised method to detect English unergative and unaccusative verbs. These categories allow us to identify verbs participating in the causative-inchoative alternation without knowing the semantic roles of the verb. The method is based on the generation of intransitive sentence variants of candidate verbs and probing a language model ...
Sharid Loáiciga +2 more
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Constructions Containing jɑ- in Laki Dialect [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2020 The main objective of the current study is to examine the constructions containing jɑ- /-je in Laki within the framework of Goldbergˊs Constructional Grammar on the basis of a descriptive-analytic method.
Ramieh Geravand +3 more
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An Agent‐First Preference in a Patient‐First Language During Sentence Comprehension
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other domains and other species, the evidence is limited to languages that place agents first, and so the bias could also be learned from usage frequency.
Sebastian Sauppe +5 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 169-202, July 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, we examine the behaviour of so‐called passive and middle aorist forms in the Greek reflected in the Genesis of the Septuagint. The Septuagint, and Biblical Greek more generally, displays a considerable aberration with respect to other varieties of Ancient Greek regarding the relative frequency of passive vis‐à‐vis middle aorist ...
Eystein Dahl, Liana Tronci
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A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire–infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 183-222, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Catalan, like Italian and French, displays (notwithstanding certain complications) a pattern in causatives under facere such that the causee can be realized as dative only where its complement is “transitive.” We propose an analysis of this pattern based on Cyclic Agree.
Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan
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Hybrid intransitives in Basque
Glossa, 2020 This paper deals with a group of agentive verbs in Eastern dialects of Basque that show mixed unergative and unaccusative properties. Although they pattern with unergatives in certain aspects, they combine with an absolutive subject and the auxiliary ‘be’
Ane Berro, Anna Pineda
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Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 223-249, June 2023., 2023 Abstract It was first observed over a decade ago that the presence of experiencers leads to degradation in English tough movement. In the literature, this has been linked to either syntactic or semantic intervention. I will show that a crucial piece of data has been ignored in this debate, the possibility of extracting the tough adjective without the ...
Martin Salzmann
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Agree as information transmission over dependencies
Syntax, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 466-507, December 2022., 2022 Abstract In contemporary Minimalism agreement is the result of a syntactic operation. In contrast to Merge, Agree does not build structure, its role being to transmit morphological features from one head to another. We provide an alternative perspective on agreement in a Minimalist idiom, one that cuts the ontological pie in a different way. Syntax has
Marina Ermolaeva, Gregory M. Kobele
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Person matters in impersonality
Syntax, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 147-187, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction where the internal argument is the only overt argument and the external argument, although semantically present, does not have any morphological reflex. This article argues that, despite its intransitive shape, the impersonal involves a particular kind of Voice projection that we term ...
Ane Berro, Ane Odria, Beatriz Fernández
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Spanish Anticausative Inherent Reciprocals and Syntactic Reciprocals with Se*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 470-510, December 2021., 2021 Abstract Within the debate about the heterogeneity of unaccusative structures, the aim of this paper is to distinguish two types of Spanish marked anticausative inherent reciprocals (AIRs) from other syntactic reciprocals (SRs) with se. Several diagnostics show that AIRs such as mezclarse ‘get mixed’ are symmetric, unaccusative, telic, and show ...
Lucía Quintana Hernández
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