According to the dual coding theory, differences in the ease of retrieval between concrete and abstract words are related to the exclusive dependence of abstract semantics on linguistic information. Argument structure can be considered a measure of the complexity of the linguistic contexts that accompany a verb. If the retrieval of abstract verbs relies more on the linguistic codes they are ass...

This study entitled Mapping Grammatical Relations of English Verbs, concerns on numbers arguments that a verb could assign and how an argument is syntactically motivated in clauses which the mood declarative. involves to library research, method was applied this descriptive describes linguistics phenomena like what it actually is. The data were taken from Corpus Contemporary American (COCA) by ...

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...

In this paper, I argue that German shows a phenomenon formally akin to an ergative split. While transitive verbs as in (1a) show a NOM/ACC case pattern with the external argument marked nominative and the internal argument marked accusative (cf. 1b), it can be shown that with reflexively marked anticausatives as in (2a) the nominative theme is base-generated in a position c-commanded by the acc...

This study investigates the relationship between negation variation in Jordanian Arabic and prosody. Inspired by a variationist (Sallakh 2021) which found that transitivity tense had major effects on choice of variants Arabic, we provide phonological acoustic analyses tokens involving transitive intransitive verbs. Our results show verbs are more likely to occur discontinuous ma:- -ʃ because ve...

Two experiments investigated the interaction of intonation boundaries and verb bias during spoken language comprehension in English. An online cross-modal naming task proved to be sensitive to the interaction of prosodic, syntactic, and semantic representations during resolution of a temporary syntactic closure ambiguity (e.g., Whenever the lady checks the room...). The results supported previo...

Recent research has shown that language comprehenders make predictions about upcoming linguistic information. These studies demonstrate that the processor not only analyses the input that it received but also predicts upcoming unseen elements. Two visual world experiments were conducted to examine the type of syntactic information this prediction process has access to. Experiment 1 examined whe...

When presented with a novel verb in a transitive frame (X is Ving Y), young children typically select a causative event referent, rather than one in which agents engage in parallel, non-causative synchronous events. However, when presented with a conjoined-subject intransitive frame (X and Y are Ving), participants (even adults, as we show) are at chance. Although in some instances, children ol...

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...

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...