Clause Structure and Verb Series

Verb Bias in Mandarin Relative Clause Processing

Recent research has indicated that a verb’s preferential subcategorization frame plays a fundamental role in guiding the choice of the type of complement that follows a verb. For example, sentences with a sentential complement-biased verb, such as “admitted”, will cause less processing difficulties when it is followed by a sentential complement than when it is followed by a direct object. Such ...

Clitics and Clause Structure

In late Medieval Greek and many modern dialects, pronominal clitics are syntactically adjoined to an IP projection. In another set of dialects they have become syntactically adjoined to a verbal head. In the most innovating dialects (which include Standard Greek) they are agreement affixes. Extending the Fontana/Halpern clitic typology, we propose a trajectory of lexicalization from X clitics v...

verb structure in bactrian

verb system and its construction are two of the most important issues in the grammar of middle iranian languages. comparing the construction of verbs in middle iranian languages and dialects reveals their relation with old iranian languages. the aim of this research therefore is first to review the construction of verbs in bactrian as one of the eastern middle iranian languages and second to fi...

EFL learners' learning of English verb argument structure

Verb argument structure Shanley

representation of these structures (see Tomasello (2000) and references therein, and Sections 13.3.1 and 13.3.2). In theweird word order paradigm, children hear an experimenter describing events using a weird word order (e.g. Ernie Bert pushing or pushing Ernie Bert to describe Ernie pushing Bert) and are then asked to describe similar events in their own words. When the verb is frequent (e.g. ...