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Resultatives and Unaccusatives: A Parametric View [PDF]
, 2009 This paper capitalizes on two peculiar properties of Mandarin Chinese resultative constructions that pose problems for a general theory of argument structure and parametric theory: (a) the widespread existence of unergative objectless resultatives, and ...
Huang, C.-T. James James
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Alignment and word order in Old Japanese [PDF]
, 2009 This paper argues that Old Japanese (eighth century) had split alignment, with nominative-accusative alignment in main clauses and active alignment in nominalized clauses. The main arguments for active alignment in nominalized clause come from ga-marking
Whitman John +2 more
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Transitivity and self-caused readings in Spanish deverbal nouns
Linguistica Brunensia, 2017 This paper examines the structural properties underlying the distribution and interpretation of two types of deverbal nouns in Spanish: miento nominals (e.g. hundimiento 'the sinking') and do/da nominals (e.g.
Natalia Jardón
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Pieces of the be perfect in German and older English [PDF]
, 2008 This paper examines the development of periphrastic constructions involving auxiliary "have" and "be" with a past participle in the history of English, on the basis of parsed electronic corpora.
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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The Origin and Content of Expletives: Evidence from “Selection” [PDF]
, 2010 While expletive there has primarily been studied in the context of the existential construction, it has long been known that some but not all lexical verbs are compatible with there-insertion.
Deal, Amy Rose
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Unergative Verbs in Norwegian Intransitive Expletive Constructions
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2006 N ...
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, 2000 Expletives have always been a central topic of theoretical debate and subject to different analyses within the different stages of the Principles and Parameter theory (see Chomsky 1981, 1986, 1995; Lasnik 1992, 1995; Frampton and Gutman 1997; among ...
Sabel, Joachim
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The syntax of wh-questions in unaccusative and (Un)ergative structures in Mehri language: A Phase-based approach. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Fakih AH, Al-Qumairi SS, Alzubi AAF.
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On the analysis of non-selected datives in Maltese [PDF]
, 2012 This paper provides a descriptive overview of extra-argumental or non-selected datives in Maltese, poorly described in existing grammars. We outline an LFG approach to the facts we describe building on existing LFG work and in particular on Kibort (2008)?
Camilleri, M, Sadler, L
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I Incorporate Nouns of Various Structural Positions and Thematic Roles, Therefore I Am (The Verb) [PDF]
, 2013 The aim of this article is to present an overview of noun-incorporating verbs in Romanian, and to test whether incorporation applies not only to Themes and complements, but to nouns bearing a variety of theta-roles and occupying various structural ...
Baxter, Janeen +3 more
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