this study explores the nature of relatively free word order of verbs and their arguments in persian. based on the theory of phases and multiple spell-out which is an instantiation of minimalist program, we attempt to account for the restrictions on these word order variations. having a direct interaction with the syntax-phonology interface rather than a purely syntactic one, these restrictions...

English as a foreign language that is widely used in the world provides challenge to every learner. Grammar rules are one of challenges faced by learners, especially Subject-verb Agreement rules. This article aims analyze types common errors made students and determine with highest percentage found. With qualitative quantitative descriptive design, this study chose Education Study Program, FKIP...

Urdu/Hindi has SOV default word order and an immediately preverbal default focus position [1, 2]. When focus is syntactically determined relative to the verb, verb focus is difficult to realize by position. We were therefore interested in the interplay between syntax and prosody with respect to verb focus in languages such as Urdu/Hindi and investigated the prosody associated with verb focus in...

Verbs are the centerpiece of the sentence, and understanding of verb meanings is essential for language acquisition. Yet verb learning is said to be more challenging than noun learning for young children for several reasons. First, while nouns tend to denote concrete objects, which are perceptually stable over time, verbs tend to refer to action events, which are temporally ephemeral, and the b...

The purpose of this article is to illustrate the differences between psychophysical (e.g. heikottaa, ‘feel weak’) and physical (e.g. janottaa, ‘be thirsty’) causative emotion verbs in Finnish by studying the factors that determine the temporal structure of the causative emotion verb + infinitive 1 -construction. The focus, in other words, is whether the situation expressed by the infinitive 1 v...

In Mwotlap (north Vanuatu), most verb phrases consist of two or more verb roots chained together 〈V1-V2...〉, acting like a single verb. Although a clear case of verb serialization, such phrases reveal a strong asymmetry between their free verb head (V1), and what appears to be little more than a post-head modifier (V2). Because the resulting “macro-verb” can only refer to a single action, its i...

This experiment investigates the acquisition of (true) light verb constructions (in the sense of Kearns 1988/2002) as well as other constructions that involve a light verb in Cypriot Greek. Focusing on the acquisition of the light verb kamno ‘do/make’, this study aims to identify (i) whether light verb constructions are more frequent in Cypriot Greek than in Standard Modern Greek, (ii) what the...

INTRODUCTION Neuroimaging and lesion studies indicate a left hemisphere network for verb and verb argument structure processing, involving both frontal and temporoparietal brain regions. Although their verb comprehension is generally unimpaired, it is well known that individuals with agrammatic aphasia often present with verb production deficits, characterized by an argument structure complexit...

This paper investigates the syntax and semantics of two verbal suffixes in Indonesian. The are suffix –kan -i. Many linguists have studied -kan, whereas –i got less attention. discusses conjunction with –i. marks a causative verb, locative verb. A verb has FIGURE object, GROUND object. proposed analysis employing alignment patterns showed more revealing result main functions

Verbs (in lemma form) and syntactic frames are automatically extracted from the ATB.! In order to acquire an argument structure for the verbs,!I only considered structure that is internal to the maximal Verb Phrase (VP) projection of the verb. However, within the VP, all sisters of the verb are excluded except for those in a close semantic relationship to the verb.! This is facilitated by the f...