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Transitive Unergatives in Pazar Laz
Glossa, 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 ...
Balkiz Ozturk
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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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Why Unergatives Select Themselves a Fake Reflexive [PDF]
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008 Grove, Kyle Wade
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Going Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Can native competence be achieved in a second language? Here, we focus on the Language Distance Hypothesis that claims that early and proficient bilinguals can achieve native competence for grammatical properties shared by their two languages, whereas ...
Gillen Martínez de la Hidalga +2 more
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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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Syntactic Priming As a Test of Argument Structure: A Self-paced Reading Experiment [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Using data from a behavioral structural priming experiment, we test two competing theoretical approaches to argument structure, which attribute different configurations to (in)transitive structures.
Isabel Oltra-Massuet +6 more
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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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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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To What Extent Does Split Intransitivity of the Adult Target Affect Children’s Emerging Verb Patterns? [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2014 The Unaccusative Hypothesis has produced several diagnoses for determining whether a given intransitive verb is unaccusative or unergative. While some are suggested to be language-specific, like ne in Italian or pleonastic “there” in English, others have
John M. Ryan
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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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