This study about the productivity and near-synonymy of inchoative construction in Peninsular Spanish reveals that at least 25 verbs can enter auxiliary slot. These auxiliaries are recruited from six semantic domains: (1) superlexical inherent verbs, (2) put (3) throw (4) movement (5) manual manipulation (6) destruction. confirms a hierarchical cluster analysis is suited to investigate semantica...

Since Vendler (1967), the event structure and the verbal aspect have been one of the controversial issues in verbal semantics. These issues result from the fact that all the verbs, which belong to each aspectual class, do not behave in the same way within each class. Among four aspectual classes suggested by Vendler (1967), achievement verbs show various behaviors and the subclasses of achievem...

How do children map linguistic representations onto the conceptual structures that they encode? In the present studies, we provided 3–4-year-old children with minimal-pair scene contrasts in order to determine the effect of particular event properties on novel verb learning. Specifically, we tested whether spatiotemporal cues to causation also inform children’s interpretation of transitive verb...

In this paper we will explore the consistent contrast between VV-compounds and non-Wcompounds across seven subgroups of verbs of emotion. The distinctive syntactic features for the contrast include the distribution of the grammatical functions, the cooccrrence restrictions with head nouns and head verbs, the compatibilities with the imperative and evaluative constructions, the aspect, and the t...

predicate P whenever it is possible, instead of using a catalog of thetaroles, which are difficult to justify. The use of abduction operations is limited here to predicates already present in the core event structure. In other words, predicates from the OS introduced by the core event are tried first. In this case, the OS [:at(z, y), at(z, y)] encodes the change of location that is required by ...

We document two cases of partial blocking at the lexicon/semantics interface concerning the interpretation of inchoative French verbs (craquer 'snap', se briser 'break', (se) casser 'break'). One concerns the obligatorily referential interpretation with non-reflexive-marked verbs like casser in a sentence whose pronominal subject il is potentially ambiguous between a referential and a non-refer...

The article addresses verbal aspect in the acquisition of Latvian as a foreign language. textbooks both and other languages, well Japanese learners’ writings are analysed to explore this topic. main issue is use verbs expressing aspectual opposition perfective / imperfective, inchoative stative, Aktionsart prefixed verbs. Verbal an implicit category. It one few categories described grammars but...

predicate P whenever it is possible, instead of using a catalog of theta-roles, which are difficult to justify. The use of abduction operations is limited hereto predicates already present in the core event structure. In other words, predicatesfrom the OS introduced by the core event are tried first. In this case, the OS [:at(z,y), at(z, y)] encodes the change of location that i...

Regarding passive in Persian, two view-points are accessible: some argue that Persian language lack voice and shodan (become) is always an inchoative or linking verb. This status implies the sentences dar baaz shod (the door opens) Ali koshte (Ali was killed) same syntactically they both contain The other perspective concerning maintains has roles: passivization linking. Since Kurdish different...