The Middle Construction in Minimalist Syntax: English and Slovenian

Aspectual properties of the English middle construction

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the aspectual properties of middle constructions in English. English middle constructions are non-eventive sentences deno ting a property of the grammatical subject. Middle formation seems to have certain similarities with passivization as both processes involve demotion or deletion of the external argument and promotion of the internal argument to...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

PHRASE STRUCTURE IN MINIMALIST SYNTAX by

This thesis is a study of clause architecture within a theory of generative grammar. It discusses four major syntactic hypotheses that have crucial bearing on the design of phrase structure: the Agreement-based Case theory, the internal subject hypothesis (ISH), the uniform three-level X-bar theory, and a hypothesis about string vacuous head movement. In Chapter 2 through Chapter 4, I discuss o...

An Experiment in Minimalist Experimental Syntax

the relationship between listening self efficacy, listening comprehension, gende, and age in male and female english learners

چکیده هدف اصلی تحقیق حاضر مطالعه و بررسی رابطه بین خودکارامدی شنیداری با درک شنیداری بود.همچنین رابطه درک شنیداری وخودکارآمدی شنیداری با جنسیت و رابطه خودکارامدی شنیداری با سن نیز مورد بررسی قرار گرفت.تعداد شصت زبان اموز-سی دختر و سی پسر- کانون زبان ایران در مرکز خرم آباد به صورت تصادفی انتخاب شدند. روشهای به کار رفته در جمع اوری داده ها عبارت بودند ازبرسشنامه خودکارآمدی و تست درک شنیداری لانگ...