This article discusses the reasons why Chinese learners of English avoid using phrasal verbs in an English community context or when using English as an interlanguage in China. The avoidance of phrasal verbs often leads to ineffective communication. By adopting appropriate pedagogical and methodological approaches or providing proper guidance to learning, Chinese learners of English may achieve...

The use of corpus-based findings in order to inform L2 teaching materials have been emphasized by many researchers owing to the fact that the studies of authentic texts have revealed some inconsistencies between the use of grammatical structures in corpora, and those found in language textbooks that are based purely on hunch. Therefore, by comparing a textbook corpus with the British National C...

Romanian auxiliary verbs exhibit certain peculiar properties that set them aside from other Romance counterparts. It will be suggested that the di erences between Romanian auxiliaries and French and Italian auxiliaries can be accounted for in terms of di erent syntactic structures. While in French and in Italian the auxiliary verb, the non nite one and the complements combine in a at structure,...

We discuss two constructions (long scrambling and ECM verbs) which challenge most syntactic theories (including traditional TAG approaches) since they seem to require exceptional mechanisms and postulates. We argue that these constructions should in fact be analyzed in a similar manner, namely as involving a verb which selects for a " defective " complement. These complements are defective in t...

The object of the study is parenthetical constructions, represented in language by three types — modal, reflexive and appellative. Modal introductory constructions denote modal status a proposition. In epistemic units act as reflection marking. Appellative have an illocutionary function influencing addressee. purpose this article to analyze appellative with predicates one subclasses proposition...

This paper introduces a novel unsupervised approach to semantic role induction that uses a generative Bayesian model. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first model that jointly clusters syntactic verbs arguments into semantic roles, and also creates verbs classes according to the syntactic frames accepted by the verbs. The model is evaluated on French and English, outperforming, in both c...

Previous studies of the lexical aspect of verbs following Vendler (1967) cannot account for verbs of degree achievements (Dowty 1979, Hay et al. 1999, among others). Building on recent studies on “scale structure” (Hay et al. 1999, Rappaport Hovav & Levin 2010, among others). We introduce a new aspectual feature [±scale] into the traditional Vendler system in order to more comprehensively accou...

The present paper was to discuss how the use of progressive forms with stative verbs has changed in present-day English and what teachers should do deal this issue grammar teaching. discussion based on theoretical framework aspect verbs. Data collected from three corpus-informed textbooks show that there been being a change grammatical usage, specifically form In particular, traditional views s...

While recent studies of Athabaskan middle verbs have attempted to find a unified semantic motivation for their presence, iterative verbs, which are a subset of middle verbs, have generally been analyzed as divergent, having a grammatical, rather than semantic, motivation. In this paper, we present a quantitative analysis of iteratives from traditional Dena'ina (Athabaskan, Alaska) narratives. T...