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The Case Of Subjects In The Romance Causative
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992 This paper addresses the problem of the realization of the subject embedded under the Romance causative verb. There is ample evidence that the subject appears inside the embedded VP complement of the causative, and is Case marked by the embedded verb. It
Rosen, Sara Thomas
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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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Prepositional Verbs and the Individual-/Stage-Level distinction
GlossaDrawing on Catalan, we show how the aspectual classification of intransitive prepositional verbs is, partially, a predictor of their argument structure properties.
Isabel Oltra-Massuet +1 more
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PP Relative clauses and intervention effects: comparing unergative and weather verbs
Fórum Linguístico, 2019 The asymmetry between subject and object relative clauses has been attested in processing studies with adults (WANNER; MARATSOS, 1978; WARREN; GIBSON, 2002) and children (UTZERI, 2007; ADANI; SEHM; ZUKOWSKI, 2012).
Marina R. A. Augusto +2 more
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On the Unmarked Passivized Unergative Construction in Mandarin
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2022 This paper introduces a particular construction named the unmarked passivized uneragtive construction (UPUC). The aim of this paper is to explore the underlying structure of UPUC from generative syntax perspective. In this construction, the subject is an Affectee, affected by the following VO sequence. The VO sequence denotes a passive meaning.
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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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Tense and aspect in aphasia and semantic dementia
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Impairment in past tense production as well as interaction between tense and aspect have been found in both fluent and non-fluent aphasia (e.g. Dragoy & Bastiaanse, 2013).
Vasiliki Koukoulioti +1 more
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A note on cognate objects: Cognation as doubling
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2012 This note considers some of the problems raised by so-called “cognate objects” in the light of Hale & Keyser’s (1993, 1997, 1998) analysis of unergative verbs, which involves incorporation of a noun occupying the internal argument position.
Ángel Gallego
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Verbs' unaccusativity in existential constructions
Journal of Child Language Acquisition and DevelopmentThe Unaccusative Hypothesis(UH) advocates the dominance of syntactic structure in assigning semantic values to sentence arguments. The same thematic roles should only be assigned by the same syntactic configuration.
Zhangyan Miao
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Superlexical versus lexical prefixes
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2005 This paper is intended to justify the classification of all the Rus- sian prefixes into lexical and superlexical. It gives semantic and syntactic criteria for distinguishing between the two groups, includ- ing: the idiosyncratic or spatial lexical ...
Eugenia Romanova
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