Abstract Bringing together lines of research from sentence processing and lexical access, this empirical study investigates the interplay between (grammatical gender) syntactic (word order) cross-linguistic overlap in L2 German. Eighty-six L1 Spanish-L2 German thirty-six monolingual adults completed a self-paced reading task with noun phrases (NPs) manipulated by L1-L2 gender congruency (congru...

The aim of this article is to describe the morpho-syntactic alternations Old English verbs inaction. method includes analysis syntactic constructions in which inaction are found and themselves, described as argumenthood, morphological case, prepositional government structural complexity. Two types alternation identified on basis affected argument. dative reflexive involve both first second argu...

The main impulse for this study was the difficulty of representing ale nie construction in a currently created syntactic corpus. One two variants involves an unusual interaction with genitive negation. In article, we discuss proposed representations such structures and notice their advantages disadvantages. We also consider features that distinguish interpretation variants, which can aid manual...

This paper examines plural suppletion in the Barguzin dialect of Buryat (Mongolic, Russia), which occurs only accusative and genitive noun phrases. The restricted distribution this process, specifically its absence oblique cases, is significant for recent research on typology feature structure case. For much work vein, would qualify as having an ‘ABA’ pattern, predicted to be unattested. I argu...

Each language has a specific pattern in sentence structure. Based on this, Arabic differs from Tamil since they are two different linguistic families namely Semitic family and Dravidian respectively. Therefore, this research focuses studying languages by exposing similarities dissimilarities between them. This uses contrastive descriptive methodology. finds that there more than whence use of ge...

In Distributed Morphology analyses of German, genitives occurring postnominally to deverbal event nominals such as in die Beschreibung der Bürgermeisterin (‘the description of the mayoress’) are argued to occur in different syntactic positions depending on their interpretation. Whenever they are interpreted in a parallel fashion to the internal argument of the underlying verb, they are assumed ...