We explore the properties of Catalan verbalizing suffix -ej(ar), centering on intransitive verbs. After presenting rich variety outputs that this allows, we focus two generalizations. The first one has to do with consistent eventive nature verbs derived suffix, even from bases count as individual-level predicates, like colour adjectives or proper names. Importantly, their eventivity is orthogon...

categories (the Verb Island hypothesis; see Tomasello, 2000). Early evidence for this view came from children’s spontaneous production. For example, Tomasello (1992) found that his one-year-old daughter restricted most verbs to a single construction type, failing to use them in alternate permissible constructions which she had used with other verbs. For example, while draw was used with locativ...

This study aims to explain the basic structure of Riau Malay clauses using a linguistic typology approach. Data obtained from oral and written data. The method used is Sudaryanto (2005). discussion based on opinion Jufrizal (2012). results showed that BMR were in form (1) non-verbal whose predicates are nouns (pronouns), adjectives, numerals, prepositions which located one argument before predi...

Bastiaanse, Koekkoek And Van Zonneveld (2003) hypothesized that individuals with Broca’s aphasia have problems with sentences in which the verb and its arguments are not in their base position. The present study is meant to test this hypothesis with the help of verbs with alternating transitivity: transitive: the boy breaks the glass; intransitive or unaccusative: the glass breaks. Superficiall...

How do children learn a verb’s argument structure when their input contains nonbasic clauses that obscure verb transitivity? Here we present a new model that infers verb transitivity by learning to filter out non-basic clauses that were likely parsed in error. In simulations with childdirected speech, we show that this model accurately categorizes the majority of 50 frequent transitive, intrans...

Students struggle to learn use phrasal verbs in written English. Books, writings, and social media quotes can all be used as sources. Phrasal are the most common English language. However, students must also understand form of verb order avoid making errors when writing. This study aimed analyze students' narrative texts eleventh grade SMAN 1 Pati was search for types verbs, solutions suggestio...

The paper deals with the status of intransitivity in the global economy of the language in Hindi/Urdu. While arguing for the basic character of intransitive basis (on morphonological and syntactic grounds), in the first section, I also show (second section) that the behaviour of reflexive pronouns and emphatics in Hindi/Urdu is typical of languages which display a single base for both uses (ref...

This paper is a contribution to natural logic, the study of logical systems for linguistic reasoning. We construct a system with the following properties: its syntax is closer to that of a natural language than is first-order logic; it can faithfully represent simple sentences with standard quantifiers, intransitive and transitive verbs, converses (for passive sentences), subject relative claus...

This paper presents a corpus-based study on prolongations in spontaneous Mandarin. Prolongations are mainly produced for hesitation, but also for emphasizing a discourse focus and signalling an explicit feedback. 786 prolongation occurrences are investigated in terms of the position, the part of speech and the segment and tone types. Prolongations are often found in word-final, phrase-final and...