We used an off-line story continuation task and an online ERP reading task to investigate coreferential processing following sentences that portrayed transfer-of-possession events as either ongoing or completed, using imperfective and perfective verb aspect (e.g., Amanda was shifting/shifted some poker chips to Scott). The story continuation task demonstrated that people were more likely to beg...

Much work has demonstrated that speakers of verb-final languages are able to construct rich syntactic representations in advance of verb information. This may reflect general architectural properties of the language processor, or it may only reflect a language-specific adaptation to the demands of verb-finality. The present study addresses this issue by examining whether speakers of a verb-medi...

Research on the effect of implicit and explicit instruction on developing learners’ explicit knowledge by the use of measures of explicit knowledge abounds in the literature. However, measuring learners’ implicit knowledge employing fine-grained measures has rarely been the concern of researchers in the field. Therefore, the present study is an attempt to scrutinize the effectiveness of implici...

meaning. As Lehmann (1995[1982]:129) puts it, “[g]rammaticalization rips off the lexical features until only the grammatical features are left”. The original meaning of a grammaticalizing item plays an important role in its further development (Hopper & Traugott 1993:3). That is, the etymology of a grammaticalizing item constrains its subsequent grammatical functions. This property is called pe...

Nowadays the TOEFL test is very important. The not only to measure English proficiency, but also for sake of scholarship requirements, and as a requirement graduate from college. This study explores difficulties EFL students in learning ITP Structure Written Expression (SWE) how overcome SWE. uses narrative inquiry design. data used this qualitative obtained information provided by through ques...

This paper presents the mappings between the syntactic information of our broad-coverage domain-independent verb lexicon, VerbNet, to Xtag trees. This mapping between complementary resources allowed us to increase the syntactic coverage of our verb lexicon by capturing transformations of the basic syntactic description of the verbs present in VerbNet. In addition, having these two resources map...