Verb-particles: placement with respect to reflexive pronouns

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...

Linking Reflexive Verb Structure to Verb Meaning in a Cross-Lingual Lexical Setting

Language typology studies have shown that reflexive verb structures are widely represented in diverse languages. In this paper reflexive verb constructs in Bulgarian, French and Hungarian are compared and described on a paradigmatic level. A classification is provided where key Bulgarian reflexive verb constructs, distributed in semantic classes, are used as a seed data set for defining corresp...

Non-reflexive Non-argumental Clitic Pronouns of Spanish

Pronouns Predict Verb Meanings in Child-Directed Speech

Do statistical regularities between pronouns and verbs help children learn verb meanings? This question is addressed by an analysis of child directed speech. The results show that there are statistical regularities in the co-occurrences of pronouns and verbs that could be used to cue verbs that describe physical motion, psychological states, and features such as transitivity. The learnability o...

A Stratal OT Approach to a Noun-Verb Asymmetry With Respect to Opacity in Korean

This paper revisits the well-known opacity caused by the interaction of post-obstruent tensification and coda cluster simplification in Korean and suggests a new class of data that threatens the validity of previous approaches. The new data shows that the opacity occurs only if the input belongs to a certain morphological category such as verb. Therefore, it calls for a theory in which morpholo...