There is strong evidence that we automatically simulate observed behavior in our motor system. Previous research suggests that this simulation process depends on whether we observe a human or a non-human agent. Measuring a motor priming effect, this study investigated the question of whether agent-sensitivity of motor simulation depends on the specific action observed. Participants saw pictures...

This list gives index numbers, generators and (for degree up to 15) names (following [CHM98]) for the minimally transitive groups of degree up to 30. Not listed are regular groups – these are obviously minimally transitive and can be easily constructed from a list of isomorphism types of groups. Also excluded are degrees which are prime or p2 – in this case all minimally transitive groups are r...

Ergative languages make up a substantial percentage of the world’s languages. They have a case system which distinguishes the subject of a transitive verb from that of an intransitive, grouping the latter with the object — that is, the object of a transitive verb and the subject of an intransitive verb are in the same case, which we refer to as the nominative. However, ergative languages differ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) adaptation (a.k.a. repetition suppression) paradigm was used to test if semantic information contained in object-related (transitive) pantomimes and communicative (intransitive) gestures is represented differently in the occipito-temporal cortex. Participants watched 2.75 s back-to-back videos where the meaning of gesture was either repeated or chang...

Argument structure, as in the participant roles entailed within the lexical representation of verbs, affects verb processing. Recent neuroimaging studies show that when verbs are heard or read, the posterior temporoparietal region shows increased activation for verbs with greater versus lesser argument structure complexity, usually bilaterally. In addition, patients with agrammatic aphasia show...

The analysis of basic clause structures shows that clauses in Bahasa Siladang consist verbal and non-verbal predication. predicate can be filled by an adjective, noun, numeral or prepositional phrase. the argument structure intransitive requires one NP as only functioning grammatical subject, which agent a patient. Meanwhile, transitive verb two more arguments. presence these arguments sentence...

Children utilize a range of cues in verb learning. The current studies explore children’s weighting two different for verb-meaning: number syntactic arguments and event location. Naigles (1990) demonstrated that children use bootstrapping mapping transitive intransitive verbs—they hypothesize verbs refer to one-participant events two-participant events. Previous work also indicates are sensitiv...

The present paper aims to provide corpus-based description of Czech deverbal nouns that allow for modification by Agent expressed by prepositionless instrumental, A1(Ins). As the starting point we give frequency data of selected nouns derived from transitive verbs. Then we focus on nouns derived from intransitive verbs and show that modification by A1(Ins) is possible not only with nouns derive...

This paper presents the lexical component of the STAttT Question Answering system developed at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. START is able to interpret correctly a wide range of semantic relationships associated with alternate expressions of the arguments of verbs. The design of the system takes advantage of the results of recent linguistic research into the structure of the lexic...

Competitive tournaments appear in sports, politics, population ecology, and animal behavior. All of these fields have developed methods for rating competitors ranking them accordingly. A tournament is intransitive if it not consistent with any ranking. Intransitive contain rock-paper-scissors type cycles. The discrete Helmholtz--Hodge decomposition (HHD) well adapted to describing tournaments. ...