The current study aims at exploring the role of causativization as one of the causes stated in the literature for overpassivization of English unaccusatives in an Iranian context.The study was conducted using three data collection procedures, an Oxford Placement Test, a Grammaticality Judgment Task, and a Production Task. The results revealed that causativization errors with non-alternating una...

in this study, van dijk’s (1998) model of cda was utilized in order to examine the representation of iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by british news casting companies. the analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....

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...

This paper investigates some of the properties of passivization, antipassivization, and two types of causatives in the Tarramiutut subdialect of Inuktitut, within the Role and Reference Grammar framework. Data from the use of the floated quantifier, “atuniit”, as well as interclausal binding will be used to suggest that NPs which express arguments in constructions which, in their most canonical...

The current paper focuses on a descriptive approach to valency decreasing in five SESL (Amharic, Kɨstane, Məsqan, Harari and Endəgaɲ). As result, simple viewpoint does not compel the data analysis comply with an explicitly theorized framework. By using elicitation method, native speakers were consulted access data. It has been debated whether value is semantic or syntactic concept. concept, it ...

The processability account anticipates that learners will make more underpassivization errors than overpassivization since passivization entails processing. Although one study on psych-verbs and a few unaccusatives examined Turkish L2 learners’ acquisition, no research compared single set of acquisitions these verbs together from processing point view. In this regard, the current aims to invest...

News reports are regarded as a reflection of world reality. People around the watching news to get first aid information about incidents or events they need. Hence, languages in are, course, considered neutral, impartial, and unbiased. Thus, this paper attempts provide critical discourse analysis CDA report its online version taken from Guardian newspaper regarding mass shooting Muslims Christc...

In this study, Van Dijk’s (1998) model of CDA was utilized in order to examine the representation of Iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by British news casting companies. The analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....

Aiming at highlighting the important role of print media discourse in the implicit  transfer of  the dominant ideology of discourse context, the present data-driven paper demonstrates  how the lexical features of repetition and synonymy as well as the structural and thematic features of passivization, nominalization and predicated theme were utilized by the discourse producers to mediate betwee...