Interfaces as locus of historical change
... Clause Fusion, by which a biclausal surface structure gives rise to a monoclausal construction through Reanalysis. With regard to Clause Fusion, the following universal principle is assumed to hold. (21) The Heir-Apparent Principle (Harris and Campbell 1995:193) When the two clauses are made one by ...
... Clause Fusion, by which a biclausal surface structure gives rise to a monoclausal construction through Reanalysis. With regard to Clause Fusion, the following universal principle is assumed to hold. (21) The Heir-Apparent Principle (Harris and Campbell 1995:193) When the two clauses are made one by ...
SynTagRus – a deeply annotated corpus of Russian1 Abstract. The
... (3) morphological peculiarities ‘толковать 1 is a transitive verb which has passive forms but it has no perfective aspect; толковать 2 is, formally, a transitive verb (even though its direct object can only be realized by certain pronouns in the accusative case, like толковали чтонибудь, <такое, сво ...
... (3) morphological peculiarities ‘толковать 1 is a transitive verb which has passive forms but it has no perfective aspect; толковать 2 is, formally, a transitive verb (even though its direct object can only be realized by certain pronouns in the accusative case, like толковали чтонибудь, <такое, сво ...
falls
... Different verbs for animate and inanimate subjects NENETS moqnas’ (animate) vs. xəwəs’ (inanimate), cf. məntas’ ‘to fall from above’ (both animate and inanimate). Animate: falling forwards or backwards. NENETS t’indas’ (forwards) vs. lasas’ (backwards). Animate: agentivity shift. MOKSHA vel’ams ...
... Different verbs for animate and inanimate subjects NENETS moqnas’ (animate) vs. xəwəs’ (inanimate), cf. məntas’ ‘to fall from above’ (both animate and inanimate). Animate: falling forwards or backwards. NENETS t’indas’ (forwards) vs. lasas’ (backwards). Animate: agentivity shift. MOKSHA vel’ams ...
Explaining similarities between main clauses and nominalized
... and the former nominalized verb becoming the new main verb. As a consequence of this reanalysis, the marking of the core arguments of the former nominalization gains a new status: the possessor marking is reanalyzed as marking a core argument (attested examples include GENITIVE > NOMINATIVE, ACCUSAT ...
... and the former nominalized verb becoming the new main verb. As a consequence of this reanalysis, the marking of the core arguments of the former nominalization gains a new status: the possessor marking is reanalyzed as marking a core argument (attested examples include GENITIVE > NOMINATIVE, ACCUSAT ...
On Representations in Morphology Case, Agreement and Inversion
... Since Georgian is at least prima facie an ergative language (or possibly more accurately, as Harris 1981 argues at length, an 'active' language: see section 1.1.2.2 below), one might raise the question of which NP in a clause is properly called its subject. The syntactic evidence on this point is qu ...
... Since Georgian is at least prima facie an ergative language (or possibly more accurately, as Harris 1981 argues at length, an 'active' language: see section 1.1.2.2 below), one might raise the question of which NP in a clause is properly called its subject. The syntactic evidence on this point is qu ...
Workshops I_IV
... Dmitry V. Gerasimov Argument encoding in Paraguayan Guarani ditransitives: A typological perspective Tupí-Guaraní languages are well known for their distinctive person indexing system in canonical transitive clauses, which is dependent on person hierarchy. However, three-participant constructions in ...
... Dmitry V. Gerasimov Argument encoding in Paraguayan Guarani ditransitives: A typological perspective Tupí-Guaraní languages are well known for their distinctive person indexing system in canonical transitive clauses, which is dependent on person hierarchy. However, three-participant constructions in ...
Irregular Verbs
... Jerry slammed the car door on his thumb. He is in horrible pain. “Is” is a linking verb in this sentence. Because it stands alone, it is not an auxiliary verb. At other times, an action or condition is ongoing, happening predictably, or occurring in relationship to another event or set of events. In ...
... Jerry slammed the car door on his thumb. He is in horrible pain. “Is” is a linking verb in this sentence. Because it stands alone, it is not an auxiliary verb. At other times, an action or condition is ongoing, happening predictably, or occurring in relationship to another event or set of events. In ...
Complements - eesl542dwinter2012
... Cari stopped looking at the clothes. (Cari didn't continue to look at the clothes.) Cari stopped to look at the clothes. (Cari took a break from what she was doing to look at the clothes.) The second sentence is actually an adjunct of purpose, with the phrase in order omitted: Cari stopped in order ...
... Cari stopped looking at the clothes. (Cari didn't continue to look at the clothes.) Cari stopped to look at the clothes. (Cari took a break from what she was doing to look at the clothes.) The second sentence is actually an adjunct of purpose, with the phrase in order omitted: Cari stopped in order ...
Predicative argument marking: The case of
... verb. Predicative arguments are NPs that share with canonical arguments the properties distinguishing arguments from adjuncts, but differ from them by the fact that they do not denote an entity involved in the verbal event, but a property predicated of the referent of another argument of the same ve ...
... verb. Predicative arguments are NPs that share with canonical arguments the properties distinguishing arguments from adjuncts, but differ from them by the fact that they do not denote an entity involved in the verbal event, but a property predicated of the referent of another argument of the same ve ...
The telicity parameter revisited
... measured or quantified (but not bare mass or bare plural nominals), and (ii) stand in the Incremental Theme relation to their governing verb (‘Incremental Theme’ in the sense of Dowty 1991, based on Krifka 1986, 1989). Notice that these are precisely the conditions under which a direct object determ ...
... measured or quantified (but not bare mass or bare plural nominals), and (ii) stand in the Incremental Theme relation to their governing verb (‘Incremental Theme’ in the sense of Dowty 1991, based on Krifka 1986, 1989). Notice that these are precisely the conditions under which a direct object determ ...
Infinitive or ing-Form? - Stefan M. Moser`s Homepage
... • The teacher reminded the children to bring their swimming things. Remark 3. Dare has two fundamentally different meanings. With object it means “defy or challenge someone to do something”: • She was daring him to disagree. In this form it always is verb + to infinitive. Without object it means “ha ...
... • The teacher reminded the children to bring their swimming things. Remark 3. Dare has two fundamentally different meanings. With object it means “defy or challenge someone to do something”: • She was daring him to disagree. In this form it always is verb + to infinitive. Without object it means “ha ...
Get-passives, Raising, and Control
... Two further arguments in favor of the view that the participle in a get-passive can’t be eventive are given by Alexiadou (2005). The first is that there are some doubleobject verbs which freely allow externalization of either goal or theme in a verbal passive (25), but do not allow goal externalizat ...
... Two further arguments in favor of the view that the participle in a get-passive can’t be eventive are given by Alexiadou (2005). The first is that there are some doubleobject verbs which freely allow externalization of either goal or theme in a verbal passive (25), but do not allow goal externalizat ...
November 20, 2003 Chapter 16 Lexical Semantics
... We can use more word meanings that can be explicitly listed in the lexicon. There are productive processes for creating new senses from those explicitly listed, including • Metaphor • Metonymy ...
... We can use more word meanings that can be explicitly listed in the lexicon. There are productive processes for creating new senses from those explicitly listed, including • Metaphor • Metonymy ...
Adjectival Participles Bearing on Unaccusativity Identification
... are morphologically identical, i.e. they are represented with the same affix, {-ed} and {-men-}, for English and MG. respectively. In ‘have’ languages (perfective aspect: have en), such as English, however, the phenomenon of APPs is rather marginally productive, especially with unaccusative verbs. M ...
... are morphologically identical, i.e. they are represented with the same affix, {-ed} and {-men-}, for English and MG. respectively. In ‘have’ languages (perfective aspect: have en), such as English, however, the phenomenon of APPs is rather marginally productive, especially with unaccusative verbs. M ...
Events, Processes, and States
... are achievements in Vendler's scheme, count as performances, along with such clear Vendler-scheme accomplishments as grow up and build a house (p. 175). It is not unreasonable to integrate the two schemes by regarding Vendler accomplishments and achievements as two subspecies of the more encompassin ...
... are achievements in Vendler's scheme, count as performances, along with such clear Vendler-scheme accomplishments as grow up and build a house (p. 175). It is not unreasonable to integrate the two schemes by regarding Vendler accomplishments and achievements as two subspecies of the more encompassin ...
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE f
... In ″active voice″ subject acts upon object, while in ″passive voice″ object is acted upon by subject, It can also be said, when doer of work is the subject of the sentence that is called active voice, but when the affected person or thing is the subject of the sentence that sentence is called passiv ...
... In ″active voice″ subject acts upon object, while in ″passive voice″ object is acted upon by subject, It can also be said, when doer of work is the subject of the sentence that is called active voice, but when the affected person or thing is the subject of the sentence that sentence is called passiv ...
Context Effects on Frame Probability Independent of Verb Sense
... to correlate with experimental data, the correlation is less than perfect and varies across corpora. We argue that this variability can be explained in terms of discourse context, based on experimental data that show that context has an influence on frame probability for the NP/VP ambiguity in Germa ...
... to correlate with experimental data, the correlation is less than perfect and varies across corpora. We argue that this variability can be explained in terms of discourse context, based on experimental data that show that context has an influence on frame probability for the NP/VP ambiguity in Germa ...
On the Reciprocal in Ndebele - Nordic Journal of African Studies
... 2SG-hungryVR-FV SM-cryVR-Subj 2SG-hungry-FV SM-NEG-cry-NEG ...
... 2SG-hungryVR-FV SM-cryVR-Subj 2SG-hungry-FV SM-NEG-cry-NEG ...
Nominalization – Lexical and Syntactic Aspects
... controlled by conditions and rules of their respective language. This allows them to be underspecified, consisting only of specifications that are not predictable by general rules and principles. Thus, the lexical entries of a language are in fact the place of all and only its idiosyncratic informat ...
... controlled by conditions and rules of their respective language. This allows them to be underspecified, consisting only of specifications that are not predictable by general rules and principles. Thus, the lexical entries of a language are in fact the place of all and only its idiosyncratic informat ...
Information Structure in Tinrin and Neku: topicalisation, impersonal
... Caledonia. Specifically, we shall be looking at topic-shift constructions and the formation of passive structures by the use of impersonal constructions. Another agentless passive construction is also discussed for Tinrin, which exhibits with other constructions a continuum along the active-passive ...
... Caledonia. Specifically, we shall be looking at topic-shift constructions and the formation of passive structures by the use of impersonal constructions. Another agentless passive construction is also discussed for Tinrin, which exhibits with other constructions a continuum along the active-passive ...
Bilingual Complex Verbs - Linguistic Society of America
... followed by a light verb such as do which bears inflections and turns the N+V construction into a verb. For example, bikri kᴐra ‘sale do’ is an N+do construction in Bengali, which means ‘sell’. The V+V structure consists of two or more predicational elements, where the main verb provides the main se ...
... followed by a light verb such as do which bears inflections and turns the N+V construction into a verb. For example, bikri kᴐra ‘sale do’ is an N+do construction in Bengali, which means ‘sell’. The V+V structure consists of two or more predicational elements, where the main verb provides the main se ...
Grimshaw on Inversion
... different meanings to compete, just in case one should emerge as more optimal than the other. Obviously a situation in which Mary loves John was ungrammatical because John loves Mary was grammatical, where both expressions are related to different meanings, would be undesirable. Having the thematic ...
... different meanings to compete, just in case one should emerge as more optimal than the other. Obviously a situation in which Mary loves John was ungrammatical because John loves Mary was grammatical, where both expressions are related to different meanings, would be undesirable. Having the thematic ...
"The Case for Case Reopened", 34-47
... number of ways in which readers have misunderstood my intentions or have acquired expectations for the theory which went beyond anything I had in mind. Here is what I am going to try to do in this paper: 1 will locate the concept of deep cases within traditions of semantic and grammatical inquiry; 1 ...
... number of ways in which readers have misunderstood my intentions or have acquired expectations for the theory which went beyond anything I had in mind. Here is what I am going to try to do in this paper: 1 will locate the concept of deep cases within traditions of semantic and grammatical inquiry; 1 ...
Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case-Checking
... derivation, as the arrows indicate: both subject and object raise to T for case-checking, as in (4). What “goes wrong” is in the morphological interpretation of such a clause. As pointed out above, the SAP is obligatory with a subset of inverse constructions, defined as instances in which the object ...
... derivation, as the arrows indicate: both subject and object raise to T for case-checking, as in (4). What “goes wrong” is in the morphological interpretation of such a clause. As pointed out above, the SAP is obligatory with a subset of inverse constructions, defined as instances in which the object ...