It is controversial which idioms can occur with syntactic structures. For example, Mary kicked the bucket (figurative meaning: ‘Mary died’) be passivized to The was by ? We present a series of experiments in we test structures are compatible German (for there few experimental data so far) and English, using acceptability judgments. some tested – including left dislocation, scrambling, prefield ...

Comprehension and/or production of noun phrases and sentences requires the selection of lexical-syntactic attributes of nouns. These lexical-syntactic attributes include grammatical gender (masculine/feminine/neuter), number (singular/plural) and countability (mass/count). While there has been considerable discussion regarding gender and number, relatively little attention has focused on counta...

One of important issues in the field of implication and aggression is        "منصوب به نزع خافض". It is an idiom related to  مفعول به "”. By referring to its definition, a syntactic-semantic analysis will be done in this paper. It tries to indicate what is the relationship between word and meaning and to what extent Arabic syntax focu...