Encounters with Japanese Verbs: The Categorization of Transitive and Intransitive Action Verbs

AF verbs: transitive, intransitive, or both

As far as the transitivity of AF verbs is concerned, there are two conflicting hypotheses in the Austronesian literature. In the ergative hypothesis (Starosta 1997), AF verbs are uniformly identified as antipassive/intransitive; in the symmetrical-voice hypothesis (Kroeger 1993), AF verbs are claimed to be able to occur as transitive on a par with NAF verbs. In this paper, we address the issue ...

Motion and Path in the Acquisition of Japanese Intransitive Verbs

Mandarin Intransitive Reflexive Verbs and the Unaccusative Hypothesis (Mandarin Intransitive Reflexive Verbs)

The present paper focuses on the Mandarin Intransitive keflexive Verbs. These verbs, such as zi-sha 'to commit suicide', and zi fen 'to burn oneself, are formed with a reflexive morpheme zi-'self' and a root verb. Take the verb zi-sha 'to commit suicide' for example, the reflexive morpheme contributes the reflexive meaning and the root verb sha 'to kill' contributes the meaning`to kill'; hence,...

from al-ayn to the dictionary of transitive and intransitive verbs in the holy quran

â â â â â â â â â  from al-ayn to the dictionary of transitive and intransitive verbs â  in the holy quran â â â sayyedreza soleyman zadeh najafi * â abstract â words are of paramount importance in our daily life because they are used to transfer meanings and internal feelings and also make communication possible. choice of words is a factor that may highly impress the addresses. at first, word...

Syntactic generalization with novel intransitive verbs.

To understand how children develop adult argument structure, we must understand the nature of syntactic and semantic representations during development. The present studies compare the performance of children aged 2;6 on the two intransitive alternations in English: patient (Daddy is cooking the food/The food is cooking) and agent (Daddy is cooking). Children displayed abstract knowledge of bot...