Abstract As in many other Germanic languages, Modern Danish combines the verb få ‘get’ and a semantic main supine form (the uninflected perfect participle). Three types of construction are found: an agentive type typically interpreted as expressing successful intentional action two non-agentive types: one with ditransitive promotion indirect object to subject status, non-valency-bound Beneficia...

In Tagalog each verb stem v can combine with a certain number of voice affixes(VA). Traditionally, these affixes (actor voice affixes: ‘um-’, ‘mag-’; objective voice affixes: ‘-in’, ‘-an’, ‘i-’) have been said to identify the semantic role of the nominative argument (subject) of the sentence. Yet, as data taken from English 1997 show, they determine the aspectual interpretation of the verb.Thes...

The purpose of this study was to expand EFL learner knowledge of languages and to improve writing proficiency. Verbs often convey the main idea of a sentence, and are the soul of all sentences. Thus, verbs were considered a major category in this research. Verb errors constitute the highest proportions of all grammatical errors found in previous studies. However, previous studies have few discu...

The work presented in this paper examines the time course of antecedent reactivation following movement gaps found in passive sentences. Using a cross-modal lexical priming technique, (re)activation of the subject noun phrase (NP) was examined at various critical points following the verb (near the posited gap) for verbal passive sentences and for active (control) sentences. Subjects made lexic...

Valency lexicons typically describe only unmarked usages of verbs (the active form); however verbs prototypically enter different surface structures. In this paper, we focus on the so-called diatheses, i.e., the relations between different surface syntactic manifestations of verbs that are brought about by changes in the morphological category of voice, e.g., the passive diathesis. The change i...

Abstract In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix - r derives passive from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well anticausative verbs nominal adjectival roots. Second, focus on five media tantum i.e., forms synchronically carry have no counterpart without . Unlike most other these are labile, they can occur in syntactically constructions ...

Referring to other sources is a cornerstone in academic writing and one way of framing someone else’s ideas through reporting verbs. There little research on this phenomenon Portuguese. Most these studies analyze practices without focusing linguistic aspects (Bessa 2011; Hoffnagel 2010), with few verbs (Souza Mendes 2012). The aim paper how are used the Corpus Portuguese for Academic Purposes (...