Abstract Although there has been growing interest in the study of demonstratives, a number demonstrative categories remain largely unexplored. This article addresses one gap, presenting preliminary typological overview predicative type used primarily non-verbal predication constructions. The morphosyntax demonstratives is first briefly examined, followed by characterization based on semantic an...

In this paper we address the question of which transitive verbs allow there-insertion in Danish. We propose that two constraints have to be met in order for verbs to appear in Danish there-constructions. Firstly, as have been noted by others, an empty direct object position must be available. This constraint is not sufficient for restricting the set of verbs in there-constructions. We further p...

The article is an attempt at prototypical analysis of English verbs true information by creating situations and identifying propositions from the definitions verbs. In our study, a situation understood as cognitive model typical based on word definition. During definitional verbs, presuppositions were also distinguished. examined 22 information.

This paper begins with a brief overview of the literature on it-clefts. Following this, an approach to the study of it-clefts in English from a Role and Reference Grammar theory perspective (following Van Valin and LaPolla 1997, Van Valin 2003) is presented and several key issues highlighted. The analysis also draws from work by Lambrecht (2001) and Davidse (2000). It is demonstrated that a com...

The processability account anticipates that learners will make more underpassivization errors than overpassivization since passivization entails processing. Although one study on psych-verbs and a few unaccusatives examined Turkish L2 learners’ acquisition, no research compared single set of acquisitions these verbs together from processing point view. In this regard, the current aims to invest...

Unaccusative verbs like fall are special in that their sole argument is syntactically generated at the object position of the verb rather than at the subject position. Unaccusative verbs are derived by a lexical operation that reduces the agent from transitive verbs. Their insertion into a sentence often involves a syntactic movement from the object to the subject position. To explore the neuro...

Verbs like "eat" are special in that they can appear both with a complement (e.g., "John ate ice-cream") and without a complement ("John ate"). How are such verbs with optional complements represented? This fMRI study attempted to provide neurally based constraints for the linguistic theory of the representation of verbs with optional complements. One linguistic approach suggests that the repre...

Verbs and nouns differ not only on formal linguistic grounds but also in what they typically refer to: Verbs typically refer to actions, whereas nouns typically refer to objects. Prior neuroimaging studies have revealed that regions in the left lateral temporal cortex (LTC), including the left posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG), respond selectively to action verbs relative to object nouns. ...

We undertook a detailed investigation of French and English verbs of emotion. Based on a prior classification of French emotion verbs (Mathieu, 2000, 2005), the corresponding English verbs were manually identified. An independent classification for each language yielded 27 shared classes and one class specific to English only. We matched the verbs and the classes crosslinguistically for both se...

This paper presents a system which intends to resolve anaphora in the framework of the Discourse Representation Theory, arrd using a lexicon-grammar of anaphoric verbs, through the application of selection criteria for assignment of a referent to an anaphora. From a semantic representation of text provided by a DRT system implemented in Prolog, the system uses several criteria of selection of r...