This is an overall description of ADESSE ("Base de datos de verbos, Alternancias de Diátesis y Esquemas Sintactico-Semánticos del Español"), an online database (http://adesse.uvigo.es/) with syntactic and semantic information for all clauses in a corpus of Spanish. The manually annotated corpus has 1.5 million words, 159,000 clauses and 3,450 different verb lemmas. ADESSE is an expanded version...

The Malay-Tolitoli (BMTLI) language is unique, especially in the field of morphology. This study aims to determine prefix and its application (BMTLI). research was conducted using a generative morphology with model developed by Halle, namely IP (Item Process), data derived from interviews observations native speakers. results this indicate that language, there derivation process use "Ba-" where...

Six studies investigated the relationship between production and comprehension by examining how relative clause production mechanisms influence the probabilistic information used by comprehenders to understand these structures. Two production experiments show that accessibility-based mechanisms that are influenced by noun animacy and verb type shape relative clause production. Two corpus studie...

Bresnan (:-, :, :) proposes that English has a general morphological process of participle-adjective conversion which enables any verbal participle to be used as an adjective. The phenomenon captured by the Participle-Adjective Conversion Rule has been used as key evidence from English that passivisation is a lexical relation change, not a syntactic transformation, and as such...

The ‘pay-to-stay hypothesis’ proposes that subordinate group members help dominants in order to be tolerated in the territory. Accordingly, helpers should be punished if they are not helping sufficiently and should increase helping behaviour thereafter. We tested whether helping and social behaviours of group members of the cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher change according ...

Voice constructions are usually associated with changes in the pragmatic status of the arguments of a clause, and so bear a strong resemblance to topic constructions in terms of their information structuring effects and entailments. Importantly, however, a defining criterion of voice alternations is that they morphologically monitor the changing status of the arguments of the verb, in terms of ...

The title of this study is the syntactic behavior second verb (V2) in Balinese serial verbs and it aims at investigating types composing analyzing V2. theory applied identifying typology by Van Staden Ger Reesink (Senft, ed., 2008), complement adjunct Kroeger (2005) used This research classified as a descriptive-qualitative study. data supporting analysis was collected from written texts short ...

The Principles and Parameters approach aimed to eliminate syntactic rules and constructions in favor of general movement processes and principles, and to account for language-specific syntax by construction-independent parameters. Disappointingly, much systematic syntactic variation, including the cross-linguistic variation in passives that is the topic of this article, turned out not to be red...

Most of the students commit errors in their writing. This research aimed to analyse committed by Eighth-grade changing active voice narration into passive narration. The study assesses both primary reasons for and frequency at which they occur. Sixty from two different Govt. schools were selected conduct this using convenient random sampling. test was used as a data collection tool. descriptive...

When we hear a new voice we automatically form a "first impression" of the voice owner's personality; a single word is sufficient to yield ratings highly consistent across listeners. Past studies have shown correlations between personality ratings and acoustical parameters of voice, suggesting a potential acoustical basis for voice personality impressions, but its nature and extent remain uncle...