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Spontaneous speech: Quantifying daily communication in Spanish-speaking individuals with aphasia.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Observable disruptions in spontaneous speech are among the most prominent characteristics of aphasia. The potential of language production analyses in discourse contexts to reveal subtle language deficits has been progressively exploited, becoming ...
Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro +2 more
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Against a low subject analysis of causatives of unergatives
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2023 Contrary to the long-standing assumption that the causative alternation is limited to unaccusative verbs, direct causatives of unergatives have recently been attested in a variety of languages (Massam 2009; Legate 2014; Nash 2017, 2021; Tollan 2018; Tollan & Oxford 2018; Kouneli 2021; Myler 2022; Krishnan & Sarma 2023).
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A decomposition analysis of Agents
GlossaAgents and Causers are standardly analyzed as external arguments introduced by v or Voice. According to this approach, the two arguments are independent and unrelated. However, evidence from the distribution patterns of various adjuncts (nonarguments) in
Mingjiang Chen
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Revisiting verbs of emission: an update on some relevant theoretical accounts of lexical specification and argument structure of emission verbs [PDF]
Logos et Littera: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, 2016 The paper addresses the question of what semantic properties lexicalized in verbs determine their syntactic behavior in intransitive motion events and in resultative constructions in English and Serbian ...
Natasa Milivojevic
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The rise of ergativity in Hindi: assessing the role of grammaticalization [PDF]
, 2009 This article investigates the origins and development of the ergative patterning in Hindi. Following traditional Indo-Aryan scholarship, two evolutions are discerned: (i) the reanalysis of a passive as an ergative construction, and (ii) the development ...
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter argues that despite formal resemblances, Latin perfect tense BE-periphrases of the type amatus sum ‘I was loved’ are not the historical source of Romance present tense passives like Italian sono amato and French je suis aimé (both meaning ‘I
Danckaert, Lieven
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Diminutive Verbal Suffixes In Finnish [PDF]
, 2008 Finnish languagesuffixesdiminutive modifiersProceedings of the 2008 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.© 2008 Solveiga Armoskaite and Päivi ...
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Counterfactuals and the loss of BE in the history of English [PDF]
, 2008 In the course of the ME period, HAVE began to encroach on territory previously held by BE. According to Rydén and Brorström (1987); Kytö (1997), this occurred especially in iterative and durational contexts, in the perfect infinitive and modal ...
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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Activa, mitjana i passiva: la morfosintaxi de la veu [PDF]
, 2014 This paper is concerned with the variation found with respect to how languages morphologically mark argument structure (AS) alternations, a variation that I take to be related to the realization of the syntactic Voice head.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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