Research on language production has focused on the process of utterance planning and involved studying the synchronization between visual gaze and the production of sentences that refer to objects in the immediate visual environment. However, it remains unclear how the visual grouping of these objects might influence this process. To shed light on this issue, the present research examined the e...

The present study is a corpus-based investigation of syntactic priming, i.e. the tendency to reuse syntactic constructions. On the basis of data from the ICE-GB corpus, I analyze two different pairs of syntactic patterns, the so-called dative alternation and particle placement of transitive phrasal verbs. Although it has sometimes been argued that only experimental data can contribute to studie...

It has been argued that language users prefer causal relations to other types of relations (causality-by-default hypothesis, Sanders 2005). A second hypothesis is the continuity hypothesis (Murray 1997), which proposes that readers expect subsequent sentences to be causally congruent and continuous, hence predicting that causal relations are more expected than adversative ones and that causal r...

Biak language, spoken by 50.000 to 70.000 native speakers, belongs the West New Guinea subgroup of Austronesian language family and is in Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya), Indonesia, which found northern part Geelvink Bay. The typology this SVO has an agglutinative pattern nouns are simple.This article aims discuss semantic function particle ma describe its form. technique used analyze data...

Idiomatic expressions are with a figurative meaning different from their literal meaning, and therefore, they cannot be understood literally. This study aims to scrutinize some aspects of the translation idiomatic in mystery movie entitled ‘Murder on Orient Express’. Seventy-seven were found movie. The idioms can categorized as follows: keywords uses (16) nouns adjectives (2), pairs (1), prepos...

In pursuing the mapping between syntax and phonology/prosody, little attention has been paid to kinds of syntactic information that can affect prosody. this paper, we explore Japanese downstep, a process in phrasal phonology. What affects downstep what does not? Specifically, do lexical categories downstep? We investigate effects nouns, adjectives, verbs different settings (e.g., [X1 [X2 N]], [...

Cognitive control is by now a large umbrella term referring collectively to multiple processes that plan and coordinate actions to meet task goals. A common feature of paradigms that engage cognitive control is the task requirement to select relevant information despite a habitual tendency (or bias) to select goal-irrelevant information. At least since the 1970s, researchers have employed propo...

Abstract This paper discusses a theory of conversion (zero derivation) in terms phrasal spellout. In this approach, there are no zero morphemes. Instead, the ‘silent’ meaning components pronounced cumulatively within overt As an empirical case, we discuss adjective/verb ambiguity as narrow . verbs, these roots have both inchoative and causative sense. Following Ramchand (2008), assume that such...

This thesis surveys the interaction between non-verbal predication in matrix clauses and processes of head-movement. Focusing mainly on the syntax of Modern Irish nominal predicates, it is claimed that matrix non-verbal predication can occur without any verbal support. When this happens, non-verbal predicates bear inflectional features directly and behave just like verbs with respect to process...