in this article, the causative alternation in persian is discussed. first, it is shown that persian anticausative verbs involve a cause component and an implicit external argument. second, we claim that causative alternation arises when a single change-of-state verb invokes more than one semantic frame (fillmore, 1985): causative frame and anticausative frame. these semantic frames are the resu...

Abstract Children's remarkable ability to generalize beyond the input and resulting overregularizations/ irregularizations provide a platform for discussion of whether morphology learning uses analogy-based, rule-based, or statistical procedures. The present study, testing 115 children (aged 3 10) on an elicited production task, investigated acquisition irregular distribution in Turkish causati...

language is a system of overlapping relations, in a way that the concept of a component would not be transferred except in relation with other components and elements. there are two types of relationship between the linguistic structures: verbal and semantic relationships which are intimately linked to each other, because the word holds the meaning and is a means to express it.  considering the...