ing away from the intermediate levels in (28), focus on the edges of this scheme: from the diachronic perspective, the hypothesis that the original resultative meaning of present perfect in Old Russian transformed into the meaning of simple past is theoretically well founded and supported by the data. In modern Russian, there are no other past forms available than the ‘leftovers’ of what used t...

This document describes an on-going project of developing a grammar of Korean, the Korean XTAG grammar, written in the TAG formalism and implemented for use with the XTAG system enriched with a Korean morphological analyzer. The Korean XTAG grammar described in this report is based on the TAG formalism (Joshi et al. (1975)), which has been extended to include lexicalization (Schabes et al. (198...

This chapter offers an overview of the little studied Polish impersonal construction which is made up of an auxiliary or copular verb in 3SG.N and a passive or resultative -n-/-tparticiple bearing the singular neuter inflection -e. I describe the morphological form and syntactic behaviour of this construction, demonstrate that it is not only functionally impersonal but also syntactically subjec...

0. Introduction The Modern Greek future marker [Ta] has long been recognized as deriving from an earlier, Medieval Greek formation based on the main verb ["Telo] ‘want’ used as an auxiliary (so Psicharis 1884, Meillet 1912, among others). The details of this development, however, are far from clear. Complicating the picture is the fact that a vast array of Medieval Greek future formations based...

Recent studies have shown that in French initial accents occur more frequently at the start of a focus domain. We investigated whether this tendency also holds when the focus domain starts with an auxiliary (since function words have a different prosodic status than content words). We therefore compared semi-spontaneous utterances in Verum Focus, which signals a contrast in response to a claim ...

The study describes the acquisition of verb by typically developing Amharic-speaking children. It recruitedcross-sectional research design to gather speeches’ data from thirty-two children using picture description, spontaneous elicitation, and story-tellingtasks. Thedata were audio- recorded, transcribed IPA, analyzed. result showed that most ofAmharic speakingchildren’s verbs appeared as sing...

Introduction. For “subject question” it is traditionally presumed, that the subject in interrogative word or combination. From logical point of view not correct, because such sentence yet found, and combination just “help” searching for it. In English, marked by different syntactic means, example, absence auxiliary verb. Also question a formal particle “there” shows up; however, its functions a...

The Unaccusativity Hypothesis (UH) holds that intransitive verbs are divided into two broad classes, namely unaccusatives and unergatives. While there is evidence that the UH holds cross-linguistically, it is known that languages do not divide the intransitives into two uniform groups. We investigate the unaccusative-unergative distinction in Turkish by an offline grammaticality judgment task u...

We examined whether event knowledge about the roles that nouns play in specific events interacts with the morphological form of active and passive verbs during short SOA (250 ms), noun-verb semantic priming. In Experiment 1, we investigated how quickly participants pronounce verbs inflected with -ing or -ed (arresting vs. arrested) when preceded by primes consisting of a good-agent or a goodpat...

In this paper we present a prototype of a system aimed at event extraction using linguistic patterns with semantic classes. The process is aided with an auxiliary tool for mapping verb statistics across messages. The sentence analyzer uses linguistic associations, based on VerbNet across the message and between messages' sentences to select semantic role fillers. We restrict ourselves to the co...