On się with Reflexive Subject Experiencer Verbs in Polish

Oriented Adverbs and Object Experiencer Psych-Verbs

Non agentive’ object experiencer verbs (e.g. interest) as well as achievement verbs (e.g. find) are traditionally taken to be incompatible with oriented adverbs like cleverly. Research on large corpora disconfirms this claim. This paper accounts for the distribution of these ’weakly agentive’ verbs with dispositional adverbs (cleverly, patiently) and psychological adverbs (sadly, anxiously), fo...

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,...

Lessons in medicine, mortality, and reflexive verbs.

ing the program’s structure to achieve a purpose (shielding the federal government from health care costs) that was not part of the deal 50 years ago. The proposal would predicate ongoing federal funding on the states’ agreement to a new budgeting arrangement that forced them to accept and absorb enormous financial risk by altering their obligations to pregnant women, children, and parents, whi...

Linking Experiencer-Subject Psych Verb Constructions in Modern Greek

Semantic Descriptors: The Case of Reflexive Verbs

This paper presents a semantic classification of reflexive verbs in Bulgarian, augmenting the morphosyntactic classes of verbs in the large Bulgarian Lexical Data Base a language resource utilized in a number of Language Engineering (LE) applications. The semantic descriptors conform to the Unified Eventity Representation (UER), developed by Andrea Schalley. The UER is a graphical formalism, in...