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The lexicon-syntax interface and the syntax-discourse interface: native-like and optional knowledge in advanced L2 Spanish Crist bal Lozano Universidad Aut noma de ...
This tells us something about the relationship between the direct and to-object ... you ve come across this phenomenon: de of le ... and Agent in the ...
GRS LX 700 Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory Week 11. Maturation, passives, A-chains and phases Continuity or Maturation? Pretty well accepted that there is ...
(b) siimaa-ne (baaii-kaDun) kapaDe Seema-ERG maid-from clothes. dhuw-uun ghet-l-e ... We will get this one prepared by her. 11. aaii-ne madZhyaa-kaDuun kavitaa ...
The transitive-intransitive unaccusative difference did not reach significance, ... Intransitive verbs fall into two classes based on the thematic role assigned to ...
CAS LX 522 Syntax I Week 10b. VP shells Small clauses Last time we talked about small clauses like: I find [Bill intolerable]. I consider [Bill incompetent].
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Auxiliary selection Molte ragazze telefonano many girls phone Many girls are ... Logically, if we re going to have binary branching and three positions for ...
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Telic/Atelic comes from the Greek word telos, meaning end' Telic descriptions ... Telic and Atelic event descriptions give different criteria for individuation ...
Gradience in Split Intransitivity. Mara van Schaik - The Turkish Pattern - The Threads ... verbs have various degrees of unaccusativity' or unergativity' ...
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Every non-theta-marked DP is assigned a thematic role according to the ... Beretta & Munn (1998) screened 15 to find 6. Hagiwara (1993) screened 70 to find 10 ...
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Poplack Looking at the constraints on code-switching of this sorts can help us understand the nature of (at least fluent) bilingual language representation.
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Bill filled the tank (with water). *Bill filled water (into the tank) ... give(GM-J pact, US car maker, 30% stake) Analysts have been expecting a GM-Jaguar pact ...
percent first pass regressions (the percent of trials on which a regressive eye ... the post-verbal NP (the vet), first pass time (Figure 1) and go-past time ...
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(In English, Aux moves to T: I am not eating green eggs & ham) T has a weak [uclause-type:] feature. When valued by [clause-type:Q], it becomes strong.
Thematic Roles. Sara sang the song. Agent. Kim drank a coffee. Patient ... Agent instrument / experiencer patient / theme source / goal / location. Agens-Gef lle ...
CAS LX 522 Syntax I Episode 7b. Case and agreement, and the passive Ch. 6 continues Case Recall that pronouns in English show distinctions in case: Subject pronouns ...
Unaccusative verbs (non-agentive subjects) Survey of computational ... Non-agentive subjects behave ... The non-agentive subject was at some point an object ...
... e.g., build a house and running ten miles, are not so astonishing naturally. ... is likely to cause more astonishment than finding transitive predicates ...
... that implicit speaker attitudes on factive propositions are a context shifting ... Mono-clausal factive sentences ... paper are factive simple sentences, ...
Semantic role names in a meaning representation. Sam opened the door with a key. ... Semantic Roles Names in a Meaning Representation. These sentences do not ...
... named Seabiscuit, who really wasn't named Seabiscuit, but was actually named ... long sentence, would call him Seabiscuit; actually, it didn't baffle him, as ...
Move- : Move any constituent anywhere (subject to other constraints) ... Pied-piping. spec. V ` VP. NP. V. I ` IP. NP. I. buy. NP. t. Who bought what ? C ` CP. spec. C ...
CHRONOS 7 University of Antwerp September 19, 2006 Fake Past and Covert Emotive Modality Sumiyo Nishiguchi Stony Brook University snishigu@ic.sunysb.edu
e.g., cherry blossoms are blooming, the leaves became green, and the weather became warmer. ... Japanese: cherry blossoms Americans: longer daytime - Mo ...
but the causative analysis of unaccusative verbs faces a problem posed by the ... but groups of ROOTS a ROOT either contains a CAUSATIVE feature, or it doesn't. ...
Tips on Being a Successful Movie Vampire ... I shall call the police. ... give(GM-J pact, US car maker, 30% stake) Analysts have been expecting a GM-Jaguar pact ...
There was no significant change in performance on the control tasks. ... Ringing. Swimming. Chopping. Licking. Roaring. Sewing (A) Climbing. Drinking. Throwing ...
Putting Meaning Into Your Trees Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania Columbia University New York City January 29, 2004 Outline Introduction Background: WordNet ...
*Pat today ate lunch. Adverb positions Generally speaking, where an adverb attaches depends on its meaning. vP for manner adverbs, TP for temporal adverbs,
CAS LX 522 Syntax I Encounter 8a. The DP 7.1-7.2 Determiners vs. adjectives There are a number of things that can come before nouns in a noun phrase: fluffy bunny ...