1 Introduction Restructuring verbs (Rizzi 1982) exhibit certain properties: they trigger clitic climbing, long NP-Movement and auxiliary change. The aim of this paper is to propose a mechanism which is able to give a unitary account of this class of verbs. The analysis will focus mainly on the first two properties and will be carried out within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Gram...

This paper discusses whether there are elements in spoken Sinhala that can be appropriately labeled auxiliary verbs, adopting the framework of grammaticalization theory (Hopper and Traugott 1993). While auxiliaries are thought of as a nearly universal cross-linguistic category (Steele 1978), the term is not mentioned in standard works on Sinhala (Gair and Paolillo 1997, Gair 1998). On the basis...

The use of corpus-based findings in order to inform L2 teaching materials have been emphasized by many researchers owing to the fact that the studies of authentic texts have revealed some inconsistencies between the use of grammatical structures in corpora, and those found in language textbooks that are based purely on hunch. Therefore, by comparing a textbook corpus with the British National C...

The Unaccusativity Hypothesis (UH) holds that intransitive verbs are divided into two broad classes, namely unaccusatives and unergatives. While there is evidence that the UH holds cross-linguistically, it is known that languages do not divide the intransitives into two uniform groups. We investigate the unaccusative-unergative distinction in Turkish by an offline grammaticality judgment task u...

Jeoung (2020) argues that certain predicates in Indonesian are categorially ambiguous between auxiliaries and lexical verbs. Moreover, she claims the auxiliary reading has been overlooked analyses of so-called crossed control Indonesian. As we show this reply, however, is fact independent control.

This paper reports on a cross-linguistic study of ‘be’ verbs in Czech, English and Norwegian, viz. být, be være, drawing data from the fiction part International Comparable Corpus (Čermáková et al. 2021). The identifies two main uses verbs: auxiliary linking, plus an ‘other’ category which includes minor (often) language-specific uses. reveals marked proportional differences how three languages...

The present study investigated Japanese lexical and syntactic compound verbs (V1þV2) using Shannon’s concept of entropy and redundancy calculated using corpora from the Mainichi Newspaper and a collection of selected novels. Comparing combinations of a V2 verb with various V1 verbs, syntactic compounds were higher in entropy than lexical ones while neither differed in redundancy. This result su...

1. INTRODUCTION. This paper discusses whether there are elements in colloquial Sinhala that can be appropriately labeled AUXILIARY verbs, and what evidence there is to motivate such a label. While auxiliaries are thought of as a nearly universal lexical category (Steele 1978), the term is not mentioned in standard works on Sinhala (Gair & Paolillo 1997, Gair 1998), which warrants a closer exami...

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...

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