This work deals with the semi-automatic generation of subcategorization frames (SCFs) of Spanish verbs; specifically, given a set of verbs in Spanish and their respective sense, their SCFs are obtained. The acquisition of SCFs in Spanish has been approached in different works: in some the frames are generated manually, while in others they are obtained semi-automatically from a tagged corpus; u...

Although the age of acquisition of a language has an effect when learning a second language, the similarity between languages may also have a crucial role. The aim of the present study is to understand the influence of this latter factor in the acquisition of morphosyntactic information. With this purpose, two groups of highly proficient early Catalan-Spanish bilinguals were presented with a re...

In our recent paper, ‘Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax’ (Journal of Child Language 31, 61–99), we presented data from two-year-old children to examine the question of whether the semantic generality of verbs contributed to their ease and stage of acquisition over and above the effects of their typically high frequency in the language to which children are expos...

An important aspect of training students a non-philological specialty is the formation foreign language communicative competence. Successful development latter impossible without all its basic components, one which grammatical competency as knowledge elements and ability to use them in communication, on hand, connections patterns established between phenomena concepts they express, other hand.T...

h?r?m? is a g?r?n? dialect and subset of g?r?n?-z?z? linguistic branch and is considered as one of northwest iranian dialects. h?r?m? is a preserved dialect and have preserved the archaic phonetic and inflective characteristics, so etymological study of this dialect leads to considerable points in more accurate identification of iranian languages. in this article, etymological study of some ver...

Typically, processing is more accurate and efficient for concrete than abstract concepts in both healthy adults and individuals with aphasia. While, concreteness effects have been thoroughly documented with respect to noun processing, other words classes have received little attention despite tending to be less concrete than nouns. The aim of the current study was to explore concrete-abstract d...