The paper presents a procedure for generating prefixed verbs in Croatian comprising combinations of one, two or three prefixes. The result of this generation process is a pool of derivationally valid prefixed verbs, although not necessarily occuring in corpora. The statistics of occurences of generated verbs in Croatian National Corpus has been calculated. Further usage of such language resourc...

L1 transfer is generally regarded as an important characteristic of L2 acquisition, also one of the sources of learners’ errors. One of the primary transfer between English and Chinese lies in the verb usage since verbs that are transitive in Chinese may be intransitive in English, or vice versa. In the previous studies, the investigation on the syntactic transfer in verb transitivity is only o...

Although considerable work exists on the subject of ellipsis resolution, there has been very little empirical, corpus-based work on it. We propose a system which will take free text and (i) detect instances of Verb Phrase ellipsis, (ii) identify their antecedents and (iii) resolve them, providing an end-to-end solution. For each of the steps, manually developed methods and machine learning tech...

Basing himself largely on areal and typological arguments, Güldemann (2010) claims that neither Proto-Niger-Congo nor Proto-Bantu had more than a “moderate” system of derivational verb suffixes (“extensions”), and that both proto languages lacked inflectional verb prefixes. Although drawing largely on the same materials as Hyman (2004, 2007a,b), he arrives at the opposite conclusion that Niger-...

We show how the domain of locality in a TAG elementary tree, (Frank 1992), can be extended through adjunction to include optional arguments for a dass of motion verbs and how the adjunctions can be restricted appropriately through the use of semantic features. Same examples of motion verbs we consider are shown in Table 1, which categorizes the verbs according to Levin classes (Levin 1993). Not...

New theories of cognition posit an intimate link between higher cognitive processes and the sensorimotor areas of the brain. In a reaction time-based translation task, second language (L2) speakers responded to action verbs using a microphone or a response pad. A significant interaction among Response Modality, Verb Type, and Proficiency indicated that more proficient L2 speakers took significa...

This article reports the structure of associations among 101 common verbs and body parts. The verbs are those typically learned by children learning English prior to 3 years of age. In a free association task, 50 adults were asked to provide the single body part that came to mind when they thought of each verb. Analyses reveal highly systematic and structured patterns of associations that are a...

Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) were asked to name pictures and perform a multiplechoice word-picture matching task with verbs and nouns. AD patients were significantly more impaired with verbs than nouns for both naming and word-picture matching, and their patterns of semantic naming errors differed for verbs and nouns. One subgroup of AD patients was compromised on both naming and word...

I use the label verbs of communication to designate verbs of the following type: warn, admit, threaten, state, deny, request, guess and assert. All of these are verbs which refer to some aspect of an interaction between persons which at least partly involves communication. The term "verbs of communication" has been chosen rather than the otherwise common term "speech act verbs" since those aspe...

Temporal information is important in the construction of situation models, and many languages make use of perfective and imperfective aspect markers to distinguish between completed situations (e.g., He made a cake) and ongoing situations (e.g., He is making a cake). Previous studies in which the effect of grammatical aspect has been examined have shown that perfective sentences are often proce...