Learning a verb’s meaning and its associated syntactic structures pose a number of difficult problems for a learner. However, it is widely assumed that there are consistent correspondences between verb meanings and verb syntax, and that knowledge of these correspondences may provide important help to the learner (Gleitman 1990; Grimshaw 1981; Landau & Gleitman 1985; Pinker 1989; Gropen et al. 1...

Locative media art has been a popular topic to study, yet the focus tends be on examining artworks themselves, which have challenged us think about complex interrelations of space, place and time in novel ways. In this paper we offer different view locative by community practices that can emerge through production work. By highlighting how social platform, WhatsApp, facilitated communication ar...

The role that constructions play in a linguistic theory has changed throughout the evolution of generative theories. Construction specific rules are common when transformations are envisioned as tree to tree operations in classical TG. On the other extreme, constructions, as well as all structural properties, are regarded as derived linguistic properties predictable from various principles in r...

While (1) only requires that there exists a gas station nearby, the prominent interpretation of (2) is that all gas stations are far away. We examine two accounts of this kind of contrast. Under one possible explanation, far from decomposes into its negated antonym (henceforth Implicit Negation, or IN, cf. in another context Heim [1]). Under an alternative account, indefinites denote properties...