The main purpose of this paper is to provide experimental evidence that two syntactic reflexes of split intransitivity in German the selection of perfective auxiliaries and the impersonal passive construction are sensitive to an aspectual/thematic hierarchy of verb classes. We show that there is a split between ‘core’ verbs that elicit categorical intuitions from native speakers, and ‘intermedi...

Mendriq is a moribund language spoken by Orang Asli in Kuala Lah, Kelantan, Malaysia. This language is spoken by only 245 people in three villages, namely Kampung Kuala Lah, Kampung Baru and Kampung Kuala Stail. This paper analyzes transitive and intransitive verb phrases in Mendriq. The primary data of Mendriq language were obtained through fieldwork funded by a research grant (UKM-GUP-PLW-08-...

This paper investigates how syntactic knowledge interfaces with other cognitive systems by analysing the production of postverbal subjects, V(erb)–S(ubject) order, in an L1 Spanish–L2 English corpus and a comparable English native corpus. VS order in both native and L2 English is shown to be constrained by properties operating at three interfaces: (i) LEXICON–SYNTAX: the verb is unaccusative (U...

Persian and Turkish exhibit a number of striking similarities: (a) many verbal concepts are expressed by complex predicates (CPr), consisting of a non-verbal (NV) element and a light verb (LV) (Foli et al 2005, Megerdoomian 2002, Kornfilt 2003), (b) both languages exhibit scrambling, and (c) they both mark direct objects for specificity (Karimi 2005, Enc 1991). However, there are also some impo...

the acquisition of argument structures has been studied by a variety of second language acquisition scholars within the past two decades (atay, 2010; can, 2009; chay, 2006, & kras, 2007, among others). in the present study, ‘predicate’ as the most substantial element of a sentence is investigated. there are three english verb-types which seem to be more problematic for persian efl learners:...

1. The scope of this study 2. The morphology/syntax interface 3. Toward semantics and LF 4. Voice phrases and Case theory 5. Wieder and the unaccusative/unergative distinction 6. Two classes of result verbs 7. Wieder in predicative and attributive participial phrases 8. Wieder and sloppiness 9. Counterdirectional wieder? 10. Conclusion Appendix 1: Zimmermann on DowtyÕs (1979) ÒagainÓ Appendix 2...

This paper examines the syntax and semantics of unaccusative verb wystarczać/wystarczyć ‘to suffice’ in Polish. We argue that this is polysemous. Besides its idiosyncratic meaning suffice’, it may also mean be enough’ or have enough’. The three above-mentioned meanings are associated with different syntactic structures. found nominative argument. second surfaces existential clauses genitive DP ...