Neuropsychological dissociations between regular and irregular past tense verb processing have been explained in two ways: (a) separate mechanisms comprising a rule-governed process for regular and a lexical-associative process for irregular verbs; (b) a single system drawing on phonological and semantic knowledge. The latter account invokes phonological impairment as the basis of poorer perfor...

BACKGROUND The Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) is a brief questionnaire and measures headache-related disability. This study aimed to translate and cross-culturally adapt the original English version of the MIDAS to German and to test its reliability. METHODS The standardized translation process followed international guidelines. The pre-final version was tested for clarity and compreh...

Abstract This article revives an accentuation of ιαται present in a number medieval minuscules that has been neglected by most critical editions the Greek New Testament since Erasmus. It argues there is good external and internal evidence for reading Mark 5:29 as tense-form ( ἰᾶται ) rather than universally accepted perfect ἴαται ). The witnesses provides both viable interpretations. Although o...

Contemporary studies of the semantics of tense and aspect tend to rely on syntactic hypotheses that are at odds with those of a phrase-structure based and lexicalist approach to syntax, such as that embodied in HPSG. For instance, de Swart (1998) explicitly assumes that tense relations originate in a syntactic position distinct from that of the head verb of the clause; and the approach to aspec...

Long-distance verb-argument dependencies generally require the integration of a fronted argument when the verb is encountered for sentence interpretation. Under a parsing model that handles long-distance dependencies through a cue-based retrieval mechanism, retrieval is hampered when retrieval cues also resonate with non-target elements (retrieval interference). However, similarity-based interf...

Previous research in child language acquisition identifies discrepancies between child and adult use of verbal inflectional morphology In this paper, we consider a case of partial undergeneralization where children's use of the-ed and-ing endings seems constrained by the aspectual class of the host verb. Children, more than adults, seem reluctant to generalize the imperfective morpheme to state...

The paper discusses several complex transfer problems and their prospective solutions within an English-to-Swedish spoken language translation system. The emphasis in the text is on transfer problems which are not lexically triggered, concentrating mainly on the translation of differences in mood and tense. Laying the groundworks for the translation part, the treatment of verb-phrase syntax and...

In other verbs, singular∼plural vowel alternations were not lost, but were simply rearranged. For example, in strong verbs like hëlfen ‘help’, nëmen ‘take’, and geben ‘give’ (classes IIIb, IV and V, respectively) the 1sg formwas rebuilt tomatch the plural, as in (2a) (ibid., §242). The result was a new alternation within the present tense paradigm, parallel to a separate pattern of alternation ...