Objectives: Lexical access problems are one of the limitations observed in children with developmental language disorders during initial years schooling. Semantic context has a powerful influence on lexical access. The cross-modal visual-auditory picture-word interference paradigm is method for studying adults and children's Because few studies have examined Persian-speaking children, present s...

unlike the languages we know, some of the arabic sentences form without any verbs. arab grammarians call these sentences, which contain a subject and a predicate without any linking verbs, nominal sentences. examining theses sentences indicates that their predicate is composed of one of the following words or structures: 1. noun, 2. prepositional phrase, 3. an adverb of time or place, 4. a nomi...

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...

This paper examines the syntactic properties of Serbian modal verb trebati ‘need’, which appears in environment ‘NP – ‘need’ finite da-clause’. I show that is a raising and preverbal NP (raised) subject. Trebati (φ-)agrees with only optionally, surprising since other verbs agree their subjects obligatorily. Furthermore, subject free to remain embedded clause, suggesting operation not triggered ...

whether or not there is a verbal passive construction in persian has been ‎highly controversial. traditional grammarians and most linguists have ‎argued that there is a structural passive construction in persian, similar to ‎that observed in english. within the framework of the minimalist ‎program, but more in the spirit of emonds’s (2006) division of analytic ‎passives into verbal and adjectiv...

Abstract Old and Early Middle English did not yet have modal sentential adverbs of low probability. Norse such words, either. From the 13th century onwards first epistemic prepositional phrases Anglo-Norman origin functioning as adverbials consisting preposition per/par nouns adventure , case chance were borrowed into English. In late 15th an analogous hybrid form per-hap(s) combination French ...

This thesis investigates how the syntactical behavior as well as the semantics of verbs can be grounded in the cognitive architecture responsible for action representations. Psychological research on action representation in the human brain is discussed. Based on this, a composite conceptual space for action representation is formalized to model as closely as possible human action representatio...