objectives : the study was designed to investigate the impairment of the ability to discriminate between nouns and verbs, resulting from the damage to the left-hemisphere, a condition which could lead to linguistic disorders proportionate to the depth and extent of the damage. various experimental and clinical investigations have demonstrated that nouns and verbs may, independent of one another...

Morphological processing by French children was investigated in two experiments. The first showed that second and third graders read pseudowords such as chat-ure (cat-ish) composed of an illegally combined real stem and real derivational suffix faster and more accurately than they read matched pseudowords composed of a pseudostem and a real derivational suffix (e.g., chot-ure) or a pseudostem a...

The current study aims at exploring the role of causativization as one of the causes stated in the literature for overpassivization of English unaccusatives in an Iranian context.The study was conducted using three data collection procedures, an Oxford Placement Test, a Grammaticality Judgment Task, and a Production Task. The results revealed that causativization errors with non-alternating una...

this paper provides an analysis of persian verbs within the framework of optimality theory. to be more specific, it mainly cocentrates on past and present stems of persian verbs. since analyzing this subject within the derivational framework would result phonological rules which are not natural, it is analysed by optimality theory which is one of the constraint-based approach. based on this, we...

Abstract In the paper we argue against traditional assumption about relationship between morphology and harmony in Hungarian according to which monomorphemic polymorphemic (suffixed) forms behave same way harmonically within domain of harmony. We show that harmonic properties root are inherited by morphologically complex based on this can override phonological restrictions propose an Optimality...

the current paper is an outlook toward lexical aspect and its types exist as a semantic parameter in verb and indicate trend of doing task of verb in terms of continuance, iteration, duration etc. although discourse aspect is considered as independent factor in verb morphology, but the resultant syntactic reflection does not solely corresponds to grammatical aspect; instead, it includes lexical...

verb system and its construction are two of the most important issues in the grammar of middle iranian languages. comparing the construction of verbs in middle iranian languages and dialects reveals their relation with old iranian languages. the aim of this research therefore is first to review the construction of verbs in bactrian as one of the eastern middle iranian languages and second to fi...

the relationship between verbs and their arguments is a widely debated topic in linguistics. this important area of research explores current theories of how a verb’s semantics can determine the morphosyntactic realization of its arguments. according to levin (2005) event structure and aspectual structure are the first determining factors in argument realization. so, in this article we aimed to...

In Early Modern Persian prose and verse, verbs with a present stem accompanied by grapheme "-y" have been used to express modal concepts of imperative and command or invocation and request. Researchers, regardless of the historical changes of Early Modern Persian, believe that this structure of  subjunctive 2nd person singular has been used to express imperative mood, and that &q...