This study entitled Mapping Grammatical Relations of English Verbs, concerns on numbers arguments that a verb could assign and how an argument is syntactically motivated in clauses which the mood declarative. involves to library research, method was applied this descriptive describes linguistics phenomena like what it actually is. The data were taken from Corpus Contemporary American (COCA) by ...

Languages vary in how they encode motion events. For example, English motion verbs often encode the manner of the motion while Spanish motion verbs encode the path. Efficient verb learning has been argued to involve the acquisition of language specific lexicalization biases. When given a novel verb paired with a single motion event, English speakers interpret it as a manner verb, Spanish speake...

Bilingual speakers often engage in code-switching, that is the use of lexical items and grammatical features from two languages one sentence. Malaysia a particularly interesting context for study code-switching because Malay-English widely practiced across formal informal situations, available literature reveals there great diversity switch patterns this language pair. One most remarkable chara...

Abstract The article introduces and discusses a computer-assisted study that seeks to shed light on the frequency use of central modal verbs ( can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would ) in research (further: RA) abstracts applied linguistics published Inner Outer Circles English, respectively. is informed by construal English are comprised Circle, where spoken as mother tongue (...

English unaccusative verbs pose great difficulties to second language learners. The distinction between non-alternating and alternating unaccusative verbs makes the learning task even more difficult. This study conducts a contrastive study of how Chinese learners acquire these two types of verbs in terms of acquisition sequence, acquisition problem and developmental patterns. It finds that non-...

Young English learners typically have vocabularies dominated by nouns, while their Mandarin learning counterparts have relatively more verbs. Novice language learners must initially learn words from the situational contexts in which they appear, since they have limited access to syntactic or semantic context. These studies explore whether differences in these situational contexts could account ...

Early vocabularies typically contain more nouns than verbs. Yet, the strength of this noun-bias varies across languages and cultures. Two main theories have aimed at explaining such variations; either that relative importance vs. verbs is specific to language itself, or extra-linguistic factors shape early vocabulary structures. To address debate, present study compares distribution within same...

Akhtar [Akhtar, N. (1999). Acquiring basic word order: Evidence for data-driven learning of syntactic structure. Journal of Child Language, 26, 339–356] taught children novel verbs in ungrammatical word orders. Her results suggested that the acquisition of canonical word order is a gradual, data-driven process. The current study adapted this methodology, using English verbs of different frequen...

A method of anaphoral resolution of zero pronouns in Japanese language texts using the verbal semantic attributes is suggested. This method focuses attention on the semantic attributes of verbs and examines the context from the relationship between the semantic attributes of verbs governing zero pronouns and the semantic attributes of verbs governing their referents. The semantic attributes of ...