Overpassivisation, a phenomenon in which passive morphology is applied to intransitive verbs, common feature the interlanguage of L2 English learners. This study examines overpassivisation among L1 Malay ESL tertiary students concerning type verb and proficiency level. A total 499 higher educational institutions Malaysia completed grammaticality judgment test involving items with unaccusative u...

Abstract This article analyzes quantitatively the effect of five linguistic features on position object in Early Middle English. Four them have long been explored literature: type, length, clause type and verbal cluster (±auxiliary). The fifth feature, labilty, has so far given less attention. Lability is possibility that a verb alternates between an unaccusative transitive frame without morpho...

We suggest here a Growing Trees approach for the description of acquisition various syntactic structures in Hebrew, based on main results reported Friedmann and Reznick (this volume) our own research corpus natural productions. The heart account is that stages follow geometry tree, along lines cartographic analysis clause, with early corresponding to small portions adult which keeps growing gro...

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This paper extends a previous claim that auxiliary selection in the present perfect of monadic verbs reflects a pattern grounded in lexico-aspectual properties of individual verbs though mediated through their syntax. A novel argument in support of this conclusion is made, based on the cross-contextual typology of auxiliaries, showing that the cross-linguistic distribution of auxiliaries in the...

1 Introduction One of the central controversies in sentence processing concerns the role of structural factors. The touchstone for the two main competing schools of thought, structure-based and constraint-based, are garden-path sentences, such as The horse raced past the barn fell, discussed in sentence processing literature since at least Bever (1970), and in general the resolution of ambiguit...

This paper aims to investigate the typology of resultative constructions (henceforth RC) in Korean, to provide their relevant constraints and finally to propose formal structures of RCs in a unified way. RCs refer to a formation that combines a simple sentence with a result phrase or an expression denoting the result of an action. For example, red in Lee painted the wall red, a result phrase ca...