Brain imaging studies have identified a left-lateralized network of regions that are engaged when monolinguals read. However, for individuals who are native speakers of two languages, it is unclear whether this pattern of activity is maintained across both languages or if it deviates according to language-specific properties. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate single-w...

We demonstrate an approach for inducing a tagger for historical languages based on existing resources for their modern varieties. Tags from a Present Day English Bible are projected to a Middle English Bible using multiple alignment approaches and are smoothed with a bigram tagger. Finally, we train a maximum entropy tagger on the output of the bigram tagger on the target text and test it on ta...

Within the framework of minimalist syntax, it is argued that core-syntax derivation verbs in OE and ME (up to approx. 1450) regulated by two licensing T(ense) heads (that is, T Probes) plus a v head (or Probe), all which are charge interpreting τ–features. acts as Probe v-0 (its Goal) order interpret [+/–past] τ–features for strong verbs. This capacity rely on ablaut distinction between Pret. 1...

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the aspectual properties of middle constructions in English. English middle constructions are non-eventive sentences deno ting a property of the grammatical subject. Middle formation seems to have certain similarities with passivization as both processes involve demotion or deletion of the external argument and promotion of the internal argument to...