Syntactic bootstrapping and semantic bootstrapping are often seen as rival hypotheses for learning the meaning of verbs. While both theories have different starting points, both credit the child with sensitivity to syntactic information in the input. Hirsh-Pasek and Golinkoff (1997) conducted experiments to examine whether young children are capable of exploiting the syntactic frames in which t...

Sen [6] proved that by confining voters to value restricted (acyclic) domains voting paradoxes (intransitive relations) can be avoided in aggregation by majority. We generalize this result to any neutral monotone aggregation. In addition, we show that acyclicity is neither necessary nor sufficient for transitivity for neutral non-monotone aggregation: we construct a cyclic transitive domain and...

............................................................................................................................... 1 1 Introducing inanimate unergatives ...................................................................................... 2 1.1 The domain of intransitive verbs ..................................................................................... 2 1.2 The domain of...

Until the 1990’s the only known finite linear spaces admitting line-transitive, pointimprimitive groups of automorphisms were Desarguesian projective planes and two linear spaces with 91 points and line size 6. In 1992 a new family of 467 such spaces was constructed, all having 729 points and line size 8. These were shown to be the only linear spaces attaining an upper bound of Delandtsheer and...

Bastiaanse, Koekkoek And Van Zonneveld (2003) hypothesized that individuals with Broca’s aphasia have problems with sentences in which the verb and its arguments are not in their base position. The present study is meant to test this hypothesis with the help of verbs with alternating transitivity: transitive: the boy breaks the glass; intransitive or unaccusative: the glass breaks. Superficiall...

Dayak Ngaju is one of the many Indonesian languages ​​originating from Austronesian family. language used by speakers Central Kalimantan. This study aims to determine continuous directed verbal constructions in based on a typology and then compare it with Balinese. type research descriptive qualitative. Methods data collection using interview method are also considered. The typological approach...

The Malay-Tolitoli (BMTLI) language is unique, especially in the field of morphology. This study aims to determine prefix and its application (BMTLI). research was conducted using a generative morphology with model developed by Halle, namely IP (Item Process), data derived from interviews observations native speakers. results this indicate that language, there derivation process use "Ba-" where...

Nonstative verbs from various lexical fields are often classified as either manner or result verbs—a distinction implicated in language acquisition (Behrend 1990, Gentner 1978, Gropen et al. 1991), as well as in argument realization. Intuitively speaking, manner verbs specify as part of their meaning a manner of carrying out an action, while result verbs specify the coming about of a result sta...

We propose a new method for detecting verb alternations, by comparing the probability distributions over WordNet classes occurring in two potentially alternating argument positions. Existing distance measures compute only the distributional distance, and do not take into account the semantic similarity between WordNet senses across the distributions. Our method compares two probability distribu...

The present article investigates the stress pattern system of Central Sarawani Balochi (CSB), spoken in Sarawan located in Sistan and Baluchestan province of the Islamic Republic of Iran, based on metrical theory as developed in Hayes (1995). Correspondingly, the present research illustrates the position of primary and secondary stress in mono-morphemic words, verbal paradigms, compound words, ...