Mimetic Verbs and Innovative Verbs in the Acquisition of Japanese

Mimetic verbs and meaning

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Motion and Path in the Acquisition of Japanese Intransitive Verbs

Ditransitive Verbs in Japanese

the double object and the to-dative constructions. It is well known that the two differ semantically and syntactically. In some recent works, it is suggested that the semantic differences observed by Bresnan (1978), Oehrle (1976) and others, and the structural properties noted by Barss and Lasnik (1986), Larson (1988), and others, can both be captured by postulating an extra head for the Double...

Disambiguating Japanese compound verbs

The purpose of this study is to disambiguate Japanese compound verbs (JCV) based on two methods: (1) a statistical method which makes use of collocational or semantic information about different verb combinations, and (2) a manual rule-based method which utilises verbal and nominal semantic features. We also present a combined method where the output of the statistical method is fed into the ru...

The role of Persian causative markers in the acquisition of English causative verbs

     This project investigates the relationship between lexical semantics and causative morphology in the acquisition of causative/inchoative-related verbs in English as a foreign language by Iranian speakers. Results of translation and picture judgment task show although L2 learners have largely acquired the correct lexico-syntactic classification of verbs in English, they were constrained by ...