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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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DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2007 This paper examines free small clauses, which, unlike dependent small clauses, exhibit peculiar properties: (a) they are restricted to occur with individual level and event adjectives, (b) they have to appear with the subject postposed. After considering
Mary Aizawa Kato
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Three levels of root insertion in Basque intransitive verbs
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2012 Intransitive verbs in Basque vary depending on their subject case and auxiliary selection: (i) some of them (considered unaccusatives and inchoatives) always have an absolutive subject and an intransitive auxiliary; (ii) others (prototypical unergatives)
Ane Berro
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A protocol for psych verbs [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2016 So-called psychological verbs such as Italian temere ‘fear’, preoccupare ‘worry’, and piacere ‘like’ present an extremely varied argument structure across languages, that arranges these two roles in apparently opposite hierarchies and assigns them ...
Giuliana Giusti, Rossella Iovino
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Child Development Research, Volume 2011, Issue 1, 2011., 2011 This study investigates from a developmental point of view the lexical, morphological, and syntactic characteristics of verb production during the first stages of language acquisition. The spontaneous productions of children with different mean length of utterance (MLU) were analysed, examining the relative production of different types of verbs ...
Laura D′Odorico +4 more
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Subject inversion in non-native Spanish [PDF]
, 2014 This study presents new empirical evidence on the L2 acquisition of Spanish SV–VS contrasts, a syntax-pragmatics interface phenomenon. Results from a context-dependant preference task involving unergative and unaccusative verbs in different focus ...
Alexiadou +113 more
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Phasage: a phase based account of English existential constructions [PDF]
, 2011 English existentials have received much attention in the generative literature as they exhibit certain properties that are difficult to capture under standard theoretical assumptions. The aim of this paper is to provide, in one fell swoop, an account
Harwood, William
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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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SUPERPOSITION OF GRAMMATICAL AND STATISTICAL LEARNING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE: AN EYE‐TRACKING STUDY
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 276-312, April 2025.Abstract In this paper, data from an eye‐tracking study on auxiliary selection in L2 Italian are reported. The data suggest that learners of Italian over time and with increasing experience can process the same compound past verbs in two apparently commutable ways within the same experimental session.
Stefano Rastelli
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