This paper deals with paraphrastic relations in Italian. In the following sentences: (a) Max strappò delle lacrime a Sara 'Max moved to tears' and (b) fece piangere made cry', verbs differ syntactically semantically. Strappare 'tear/rip/wring' is transitive, fare ‘have/make’ causative, 'cry' intransitive. Despite this, translation of as legitimate therefore paraphrase (b). theoretical linguisti...

Mendriq is a moribund language spoken by Orang Asli in Kuala Lah, Kelantan, Malaysia. This language is spoken by only 245 people in three villages, namely Kampung Kuala Lah, Kampung Baru and Kampung Kuala Stail. This paper analyzes transitive and intransitive verb phrases in Mendriq. The primary data of Mendriq language were obtained through fieldwork funded by a research grant (UKM-GUP-PLW-08-...

This paper focusses on the English adjectival resultative construction, as exempliied in examples (1)-(4). (1) John hammered the metal at. (2) The river froze solid. (3) The dog barked itself hoarse. (4) The dog barked the neighbours awake. Result predication occurs with both transitive and intransitive verbs. In the transitive case, the result state is predicated of the object (1). For intrans...

How might syntactic bootstrapping apply in Turkish, which employs inflectional morphology to indicate grammatical relations and allows argument ellipsis? We investigated whether Turkish speakers interpret constructions differently depending on the number of NPs in the sentence, the presence of accusative case marking and the causative morpheme. Data were collected from 60 child speakers and 16 ...

â â â â â â â â â  from al-ayn to the dictionary of transitive and intransitive verbs â  in the holy quran â â â sayyedreza soleyman zadeh najafi * â abstract â words are of paramount importance in our daily life because they are used to transfer meanings and internal feelings and also make communication possible. choice of words is a factor that may highly impress the addresses. at first, word...

1 Current approaches Over the last fteen years, following Perlmutter and Postal's work (1983), there has been constant interest in the problem raised by transitivity alternations. In their work Perlmutter and Postal argued that the single argument of intransitive verbs may either be generated as an object of the verb (unaccusative verbs) or as a subject (unergative verbs) (cf. Bassac, 1997). A ...

time, aspect, person, number and active and middle voices are the categories based on which the verbal structure of the ancient iranian languages are studied. according to the prevailing viewpoint, middle voice is the means by which a transitive root is changed to an intransitive one. this viewpoint has its origin in the verbal roots transitive when conjugated in the active voice and intransiti...

time, aspect, person, number and active and middle voices are the categories based on which the verbal structure of the ancient iranian languages are studied. according to the prevailing viewpoint, middle voice is the means by which to change a transitive root to an intransitive. this viewpoint has had its origin in the verbal roots transitive when conjugated in the active voice and intransitiv...

Abstract This paper offers new evidence from Stau, Geshiza, and Khroskyabs to address the question of directionality in valency-changing derivations Sino-Tibetan. Examining causative anticausative verb stem pairs adds that Proto-Sino-Tibetan, a number intransitive stems are derived transitive stems, some cases as result * N ‑ prefixation, other voicing alternation independent prefixation. In ad...