Abstract In Spanish, a SVO language with variable word order, post-verbal subjects have been proposed to be favored for particular verb categories. For instance, based on agentivity, unaccusatives are favor VS as whole. Motion verbs regarded generally favoring order. An alternative analysis is presented here, using data from two conversational corpora. recategorized their predicted tendency inc...

the present study is an attempt to explore the effect of one of the pragmatic elements of discourse (namely the conceptualizable agent) on overpassivization of english unaccusative verbs. through employing the questionnaire originally used by ju, (2000), 206 iranian intermediate and advanced english majors were asked to choose the more grammatical form (active or passive) in target sentences wi...

We investigate the behaviour of Rasmussen’s invariant s under the sharp operation on knots and obtain a lower bound for the sharp unknotting number. This bound leads us to an interesting move that transforms arbitrary knots into non-alternating knots.

let $g$ be a finite group‎. ‎we denote by $psi(g)$ the integer $sum_{gin g}o(g)$‎, ‎where $o(g)$ denotes the order of $g in g$‎. ‎here we show that‎ ‎$psi(a_5)< psi(g)$ for every non-simple group $g$ of order $60$‎, ‎where $a_5$ is the alternating group of degree $5$‎. ‎also we prove that $psi(psl(2,7))