AN INCHOATIVE PARANOIAC

Causative-Inchoative Alternation in Persian

Genetic analyses of "paranoiac" mutants of Paramecium tetraurelia.

Six mutants of Paramecium tetraurelia with curious "Paranoiac" phenotypes have been isolated and examined. Instead of the normal transient avoiding reactions in Na+ solution, these mutants show "violent avoidances"--backing continuously for 10 to over 60 sec. This behavior corresponds to prolonged membrane excitation excitation.--Genetic analyses establish five genic loci at which mutations giv...

Generative Lexicon Approach to Derived Inchoative Verbs in Korean

Since Vendler (1967), the event structure and the verbal aspect have been one of the controversial issues in verbal semantics. These issues result from the fact that all the verbs, which belong to each aspectual class, do not behave in the same way within each class. Among four aspectual classes suggested by Vendler (1967), achievement verbs show various behaviors and the subclasses of achievem...

Grounding the Lexical Sets of Causative-Inchoative Verbs with Word Embedding

English. Lexical sets contain the words filling the argument positions of a verb in one of its senses. They can be extracted from corpora automatically. The purpose of this paper is demonstrating that their vector representation based on word embedding provides insights onto many linguistic phenomena, such as causativeinchoative verbs. A first experiment aims at investigating the internal struc...

Yet Another Piece of Evidence for the Common Base Approach to Japanese Causative/Inchoative Alternations

This paper presents yet another argument for the view that both the causative and inchoative verbs in the Japanese causative alternation are syntactically equally complex, derived independently from common bases. While morphological considerations alone suggest that such an approach must be taken to account for cases involving equipollent alternations, which have overt morphemes for both the ca...