Ama Verbs in Comparative Perspective

Dative verbs: A crosslinguistic perspective∗

In a recent paper, M. Rappaport Hovav and B. Levin (2008) challenge the predominant view of the English dative alternation, which takes all alternating verbs to have two meanings and, concomitantly, associates each meaning with a particular syntactic realization (e.g. S. Beck and K. Johnson 2004, G. Green 1974, K. Hale and S.J. Keyser 2002, H. Harley 2003, M. Krifka 1999, 2001, R. Oehrle 1976, ...

Automatic Classification of Hindi Verbs in Syntactic Perspective

We report of a rule based, knowledge-base driven tool to automatically classify Hindi verbs in syntactic perspective. We also report of developing the largest lexical resource for Hindi verbs along with the information on their class based on valency and some syntactic diagnostic tests as well as their morphological/inflectional type. We use this resource to develop the tool to automatically cl...

Passives in Comparative Perspective

The Ama and Chiropractic

The State and Territory Competition Policy Reform Acts of 1995 applied the competitive conduct rules to Australian professions, including the medical profession, for the first time. The competitive conduct rules are basically the prohibitions on restrictive trading practices contained in Part IV of the Trade Practices Act. As the medical profession was effectively sheltered from the operation o...

Verbs and nouns from a cross-linguistic perspective

s. 139 Grammatical expression of Quality, Lexical expression of Quality, Quantity, and Location Quantity, and Location in the clause in the clause