Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming

EFL learners' learning of English verb argument structure

Towards an Inventory of English Verb Argument Constructions

This paper outlines and pilots our approach towards developing an inventory of verb-argument constructions based upon English form, function, and usage. We search a tagged and dependencyparsed BNC (a 100-million word corpus of English) for Verb-Argument Constructions (VACs) including those previously identified in the pattern grammar resulting from the COBUILD project. This generates (1) a list...

The cerebellum and English grammatical morphology: evidence from production, comprehension, and grammaticality judgments.

Three neuropsychological experiments on a group of 16 cerebellar patients and 16 age- and education-matched controls investigated the effects of damage to the cerebellum on English grammatical morphology across production, comprehension, and grammaticality judgment tasks. In Experiment 1, participants described a series of pictures previously used in studies of cortical aphasic patients. The ce...

Serial Verb Constructions in English and Chinese

Traditionally, the term serial verb construction refers to a sequence of verbs or verb phrases in a sentence in which there is no intervening conjunction. The English expression go eat, for example, might be considered as a kind of serial verb construction since there is no infinitive or other morphosyntactic marker present to indicate a coordinating or subordinating relationship between the tw...

Argument Composition in Korean Serial Verb Constructions ∗

The so-called serial verb construction (SVC) is a complex predicate structure consisting of two or more verbal heads but denotes one single event. This paper discusses the grammatical properties of Korean SVCs and provides a lexicalist, construction-based analysis couched in the typed-feature structure grammar, HPSG. In particular, we identify four different types of the SVCs in Korean, each of...