BACKGROUND Hispanic workers have higher rates of injury and death on construction worksites than workers of other ethnicities. Language barriers and cultural differences have been hypothesized as reasons behind the disparate rates. METHODS We conducted two series of focus groups with union and non-union Hispanic construction workers to ask them about their perceptions of the causes for the un...

This paper presents an analysis of indirect passives in Japanese in terms of event structure and qualia structure proposed in the framework of the generative lexicon (Pustejovsky 1995). On the assumption that the event structure of the indirect passive construction is based on the causative structure, the present analysis accounts for the adversative interpretation of indirect passive sentences...

Research on Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, has been hampered due to the lack of selectable markers for genetic manipulation. We report the construction of a mutant strain of L. pneumophila lacking loxA, a chromosomally encoded β-lactamase, that has enhanced sensitivity to ampicillin. Also described are a method for converting Legionella strains to ampicill...

A rather well-known aspect of French Stylistic Inversion is the impossibility of having a nominal object either precede or follow the inverted subject. A similar phenomenon is found in cases of French Stylistic Inversion with causative and perception verbs. The nominal subject of the infinitival complement can never appear with the inverted subject of the causative or perception verb. Both phen...

“Noun phrase number is a privileged source of information as to the semantic structure of predicates.” So concludes a recent article by Lidz, Gleitman, and Gleitman (2003: 169), which purports to demonstrate the viability of a “universalist” mapping between syntax and semantics as opposed to an “emergentist” view of the mapping, attributed to Goldberg (1999) and Tomasello (2000). Lidz et al. (2...

Since ages, architects and artists worldwide have focused on usage of durable stones as marble and limestone for construction of beautiful and magnificent historic monuments as European Cathedrals, Roman, and Greek temples, Taj Mahal etc. But survival of these irreplaceable cultural and historical assets is in question these days due to their degradation and deterioration caused by number of bi...

Abstract Talmy’s (1991; 2000a; 2000b) influential work on motion events provides a strong two-way typology that can examine and account for the of language, but this framework is basically synchronic. It may not be equally valid to explain language change. In paper, we apply event integration theory its latest development, The Macro-event Hypothesis (Li, 2020, 2023), development causative verb ...