The aim of this paper is to show the alternation pattern of verbs in Hindi. The work is guided by Beth Levin’s work on English verb classes and alternations where English verbs are classified semantically according to their argument structure [1]. There is a strong belief that the semantic nature of verbs is largely dependent on its argument structure. The nature of the Hindi verbs shows that a...

This paper describes the types of thematic role categories verbal clause arguments in Toba Batak language (BBT). syntactic study is conducted through a qualitative approach with listening technique collecting oral and written data. Then data processed commensurate 'agih' methods, which are described distributional informal methods. The results show that category clauses BBT divided into two par...

Noninterference provides a control over information flow in a system for ensuring confidentiality and integrity properties. In the literature this notion has been well studied as transitive noninterference and intransitive noninterference. In this paper we define a framework on the notion of conditional noninterference, which allows to specify information flow policies based on the semantics of...

In this paper, we intend to describe and discuss the grammatical status of V1-V2 (Cy/vy) constructions found in Mbya Guarani which can express simultaneous events, among other meanings, involve a single clause. We suggest here that verbal complex be treated as case asymmetrical serialization because it contains verbs from major lexical class, occupying V1 slot, followed by more restricted intra...

Unaccusativity, or split intransitivity, refers to the generalization that intransitive verbs divide into two subclasses, unaccusatives and unergatives. While the core arguments of unaccusatives share common properties with direct objects of transitive verbs, the core arguments of unergatives do so with transitive subjects. The Unaccusative Hypothesis (Perlmutter 1978; Burzio 1986) accounts for...

Four experiments support the hypothesis that syntactically relevant information about verbs is encoded in the lexicon in semantic event templates. A verb's event template represents the participants in an event described by the verb and the relations among the participants. The experiments show that lexical decision times are longer for verbs with more complex templates than verbs with less com...

Patients with ideomotor apraxia (IM) are frequently more impaired in the production and imitation of object-related (transitive) than non-object-related, symbolic (intransitive) gestures, but reasons for this dissociation, and its anatomical underpinnings, remain unclear. Our theoretical model of praxis (Buxbaum, 2001) postulates that left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) gesture representations st...

What is the relation between consciousness and self-consciousness? In recent philosophy of mind, we are accustomed to underlining their independence. It is often emphasized that a person can be conscious of a host of objects, features, and states of affairs unrelated to her. When a person is conscious of the sky, or consciously experiences the blueness of the sky, she is not attending to hersel...

this study explores the person/number suffixes in laki in a descriptive-analytic method. having a broad distribution, these suffixes can attach to subject and object nps, prepositions, and verbs. by considering the uniform syntactic behavior of subjects of transitive and intransitive predicates and it’s contrast with the behavior of objects of transitive predicates, the authors show that these ...

According to the original description by Rizzolatti and colleagues, the prerequisite of triggering the discharge of mirror neurons (MNs) is the interaction of the hand with an object. On the other hand, several studies reported that the MN system in humans can be activated also by non object-directed (intransitive) movements. This difference between human and monkey MN systems has been consider...