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Dative (first) complements in Basque
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2012 This article examines dative complements of unergative verbs in Basque, i.e., dative arguments of morphologically “transitive” verbs, which, unlike ditransitives, do not co-occur with a canonical object complement.
Beatriz Fernández, Jon Ortiz de Urbina
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Revisit adjective distribution in Chinese
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2017 This study re-classifies Chinese monosyllabic adjectives and verbs in light of ‘scale structure’. It examines how various adjectives are associated with different scalar layers of verbs.
Wenchao LI
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Linking Particle Semantic Roles in Hawrami Deverbal Noun Phrases [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایرانPrevious studies have focused mostly on the syntactic features of the linking particle (Ezafe) in simple noun phrases with little attention paid to its semantic representations and functions specifically within the context of deverbal noun phrases.
Jabbar Mirani +3 more
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Unaccusative or unergative: The case of the English verb to die
Roczniki Humanistyczne, 2016 The study examines the class status of the verb TO DIE in English. The verb under scrutiny (treated as a member of a semantically coherent class of disappearance verbs, together with disappear, expire, lapse, perish, vanish ) is tested against the six syntactic unaccusativity diagnostics valid for English.
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Objects in motion verb phrases
Glossa, 2019 This article investigates the syntactic and semantic relationship between the unselected object and the unergative verb in examples like Mary waltzed John around the room.
Alison Biggs
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Going Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Martínez de la Hidalga G +2 more
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The transitivity of borrowed verbs in Basque: an outline
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2003 In this paper I will study the main patterns that Basque speakers follow when they choose the auxiliary used with verbs borrowed from neighbouring languages.
Xabier Alberdi
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The Distribution of Subjects in L2 Spanish by Greek Learners. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Margaza P, Gavarró A.
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Visual form of ASL verb signs predicts non-signer judgment of transitivity. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Bradley C +3 more
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Unergative Verbs in Norwegian Intransitive Expletive Constructions
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2006 N ...
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