Two eye-monitoring studies examined when unexpressed schematic participant information specified by verbs is used during sentence processing. Experiment 1 compared the processing of sentences with passive and intransitive verbs hypothesized to introduce or not introduce, respectively, an agent when their main clauses were preceded by either agent-dependent rationale clauses or adverbial clause ...

In this paper, we show that one benefit of FUG, the ability to state global conslralnts on choice separately from syntactic rules, is difficult in generation systems based on augmented context free grammars (e.g., Def'mite Clause Cn'anmm~). They require that such constraints be expressed locally as part of syntactic rules and therefore, duplicated in the grammar. Finally, we discuss a reimpleme...

This paper employs qualitative and quantitative methods to study verb phrase errors made by Chinese non-English majors in their writing, collected in Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC), on the basis of contrastive analysis and error analysis. The purpose is to offer English learners methods to help improve their English proficiency and put forward some suggestions on English language teachin...

In recent years many scientific journals noticed an increasing number of submissions of plagiarized papers. The Editor-in-Chief of an important international journal, that receives very many submissions every year, recently privately wrote us “I had to reject on such basis over a dozen of submissions just this year”. The smaller size of our journal limits the number of such situations, but does...

In English, transitive events can be described in various ways. The main possibilities are active-voice and passive-voice, which are assumed to have distinct semantic and pragmatic functions. Within the passive, there are two further options, namely be-passive or get-passive. While these two forms are generally understood to differ, there is little agreement on precisely how and why. The passiv...

This study is entitled Passive Clauses Argument Structure of Give Verbs in Corpus Contemporary American English (COCA). It concerned with the argument structure which mapped to grammatical relation. aimed recognize relations passive clauses have “give verbs”. library research. The data this were taken from (COCA) clauses. To collect data, documentation method and note-taking technique applied. ...

Two central components of GB theory, the Binding Theory and the Case-theoretic account of Amovement, crucially depend on reanalysis. If binding in (1a) is to respect c-command, to must somehow “reanalyze” with the verb. Similarly, in the derivation of psuedopassives such as (1b), the Case-assigning powers of the preposition must transfer to the verb for subsequent removal by the passive morpheme.

in the present article the frequency and percentage distribution of different verb tenses have been analyzed in books of 1, 2 and 3 of masnavi. the hypothesis is that it is possible to identify the degree of realism, narrative stylistic and some aspects of grammatical voice by using the feature of tense. the theoretical framework is based on systematic functional grammar and traditional grammar...

A previous study of passive constructions has suggested that these are much more frequent in Sesotho than in English spontaneous speech (Demuth, 1989). This has raised a number of questions regarding the possible effects of the input on the apparently earlier acquisition of passives in Sesotho. This paper explores the distribution of passives in Sesotho child-directed speech. It aims to provide...