Change of State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection

To appear in BLS 28, 2002. Change of State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection1 MALKA RAPPAPORT HOVAV The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The first hypothesis, that argument projection is aspectually driven, finds perhaps its earliest explicit statement as Tenny’s (1987, 1992, 1994) Aspectual Interface Hypothesis and has subsequently been quite widely adopted (e.g., Arad 1998, Borer 1998). Proponents of this hypothesis often establish a connection between direct objecthood and notions such as telicity (van Hout 1996, Ritter & Ros...

study of cohesive devices in the textbook of english for the students of apsychology by rastegarpour

this study investigates the cohesive devices used in the textbook of english for the students of psychology. the research questions and hypotheses in the present study are based on what frequency and distribution of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices are. then, to answer the questions all grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading comprehension passages from 6 units of 21units th...

Representing Verbs as Argument Concepts

Verbs play an important role in the understanding of natural language text. This paper studies the problem of abstracting the subject and object arguments of a verb into a set of noun concepts, known as the “argument concepts”. This set of concepts, whose size is parameterized, represents the finegrained semantics of a verb. For example, the object of “enjoy” can be abstracted into time, hobby ...

Performance comparison of land change modeling techniques for land use projection of arid watersheds

The change of land use/land cover has been known as an imperative force in environmental alteration, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. This research was mainly aimed to assess the validity of two major types of land change modeling techniques via a three dimensional approach in Birjand urban watershed located in an arid climatic region of Iran. Thus, a Markovian approach based on two suit...

Verbs Aspect and Argument Structure