Abstract It is well-known that children whose native language Japanese first begin vocalizing potential verbs at about the age of 2 years and continue to utter ungrammatical forms which are not used in adults’ speech as well correct ones until approximately 5 when their acquisition completes, with virtually no erroneous uses observed. Interestingly enough, process proceeds a manner parallel cau...

The acquisition of argument structures has been studied by a variety of second language acquisition scholars within the past two decades (Atay, 2010; Can, 2009; Chay, 2006, & Kras, 2007, among others). In the present study, ‘Predicate’ as the most substantial element of a sentence is investigated. There are three English verb-types which seem to be more problematic for Persian EFL learners: (a)...

0. Introduction Whenever we learn a novel word, whatever its grammatical category, what we are learning is a label for a whole category of things in the world. The word “dog,” for example, refers not to an individual dog, but to the whole set of dog-like things in the world. Likewise, the word “jump” refers not to a single instance of jumping, but to an entire category of jumping events. A larg...

We use the term " argument structure " to refer to the syntactic configuration projected by a lexical item. It is the system of structural relations holding between heads (nuclei) and their arguments within the syntactic structures projected by nuclear items. While a lexical entry is more than this, of course, argument structure in the sense intended here is nothing other than this. Argument st...

The existing literature on Bantu verbal semantics demonstrated that inherent semantic content of verbs pairs directly with the selection of tense, aspect and modality formatives in Bantu languages like Chasu, Lucazi, Lusamia, and Shiyeyi. Thus, the gist of this paper is the articulation of semantic classification of verbs in Kiswahili based on the selection of TAM types. This is because the sem...

This paper traces the historical development of kanji, the Chinese characters used in the Japanese orthographic system. The paper outlines the structural principles which underlie their composition, both in respect to single kanji and to their combination in compound words. Discussion also pays attention to their usage and frequency, as well as to the various script reforms that have affected t...

We respond to Horvath and Siloni’s (2013) continued arguments against the reflexivization analysis of anticausatives, which we show suffer many of the same problems Beavers and Koontz-Garboden (2013) identified with the arguments in Horvath and Siloni (2011). In Beavers and Koontz-Garboden (2013) (BKG) we point to methodological, empirical, and conceptual inadequacies in Horvath and Siloni’s (2...