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Syntax, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 376-416, September 2021., 2021 Abstract This article explores the syntax of radically truncated clauses in colloquial Hungarian. I argue that radically truncated clauses arise when, in informal speech situations and under time pressure, the derivation is terminated prematurely, at the VP level, and the bare VP (lacking any of the higher functional projections) is sent to spellout ...
Tamás Halm
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Voice and Little v and VO–OV Word‐Order Variation in Chinese Languages
Syntax, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 44-77, March 2021., 2021 Abstract This article addresses some issues related to Voice and little v. It does so by discussing and analyzing the variation that exists in the Chinese language family with respect to object placement (VO versus OV). It turns out that this variation can be accounted for straightforwardly as long as we assume, first, that Voice and v are sometimes ...
Rint Sybesma
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EXPLORING COGNATE OBJECT CONSTRUCTIONS IN JAPANESE
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2021 Exploring Cognate Object Constructions in Japanese. The aim of this paper is to explore Cognate Object Constructions in Japanese. To do so, we will rely on the definitions that have been proposed in the literature to account for this phenomenon, as well
Mihaela-Alina PLOSCARU
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In the south slavonic garden: landscaping the landscape od arguments and non-arguments
Linguistica, 2016 This paper deals with morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of the so-called Cognate Object Construction with particular reference to Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. The relevance of an examination of such morphologically robust languages
Marijana Marelj
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The Argument Structure of Deverbal Nouns: Evidence from Kurdish (Sanandaji Variety) [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2022 The purpose of this paper is to investigate the argument structure of deverbal nouns, and the restrictions on the mapping of arguments in Sanandaji Kurdish.
Yadgar Karimi, Niaz Tishegaran
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Glossa, 2019 The Unaccusative Hypothesis (UH) has been extensively studied in linguistics, but, to date, it has not been tested by means of ERPs. The present study aimed to experimentally test the UH hypothesis in Basque and determine what the electrophysiological ...
Adam Zawiszewski +2 more
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Functional Projections and Event Structure
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997 The variable behavior verbs in unaccusative/unergative alternation in Dutch, Italian, and Hebrew led Borer(1993) to deny the "lexical-entrydriven approach.
Khym, Hangyoo, Kookiattikoon, Supath
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Verbalizing nouns and adjectives: The case of behavior-related verbs
Glossa, 2020 In languages such as French, it is possible to derive from nouns or adjectives unergative verbs that intuitively describe ways of behaving, for example, diplomatiser ‘behave like a diplomat’, or bêtifier ‘behave like an idiot’.
Christopher Pinon, Fabienne Martin
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Stability and Change in Intransitive Argument Structure
Open Linguistics, 2019 The argument structure of verbs is pretty uniform across languages. Thus, verbs of `falling’ involve a Theme and an optional Causer and verbs of `working’ an Agent.
van Gelderen Elly
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Transitive Unergatives in Pazar Laz
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021 The aim of this study is to show that all unergatives in Pazar Laz involve an overtly filled object position and behave simply on a par with regular transitives, as the availability of an initiator is strictly dependent on the availability of an undergoer argument in line with the Neo-Burzio Dependency proposed for Georgian by Nash (2018). We will show
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