Bishop (2000) has recently raised the question of discriminating between grammatical SLI, pragmatic impairment, and social cognition problems linked to a spectrum of autistic behaviour. In this paper we report pilot findings which indicate that grammatical SLI may be associated with a lexical deficit in verbs that involve interpersonal action, and in particular verbs whose meanings involve ment...

BACKGROUND: Classical aphasiology, based on the study of stroke sequelae, fuses speech fluency and grammatical ability. Nonfluent (Broca's) aphasia often is accompanied by agrammatism; whereas in the fluent aphasias grammatical deficits are not typical. The assumption that a similar relationship exists in primary progressive aphasia (PPA) has led to the dichotomization of this syndrome into flu...

In this paper we present an approach to train subatom embeddings for verbs. For each verb we learn not just one embedding, but several. One for the verb itself and embeddings for each grammatical role of this verb. For example, for the verb ‘to give’ we learn four embeddings: one for the lemma ‘give’, one for the subject, one for the direct object and one for the indirect object of it. We are e...

only two voices have been represented in italian grammar. if we look at the passive constructions from a pragmatic point of view, it can be seen as a language strategy being classified as an event. this change of perspective creates different structures. in this article we shall study a speaker’s change of perspective in attention to the valence theory. according to this theory, a verb on the b...

meaning. As Lehmann (1995[1982]:129) puts it, “[g]rammaticalization rips off the lexical features until only the grammatical features are left”. The original meaning of a grammaticalizing item plays an important role in its further development (Hopper & Traugott 1993:3). That is, the etymology of a grammaticalizing item constrains its subsequent grammatical functions. This property is called pe...

An tnterpersonal verb such as annoy or admire can be categortzed accordtng to whether tts grammatical subject or grammatical object initiates the interaction described by the verb Such a verb can also be categorized accordtng to whether a denved adjective describes tts grammatical subject (e g , annoying) or tts grammatical object (e g , admirable) Although there has been much speculation (e g ...

We examined the implicit acquisition and mental representation of a novel verb in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD). Patients were exposed to the new verb in a naturalistic manner as part of a simple picture story. We probed grammatical, semantic and thematic matrix knowledge of the verb soon after presentation and again 1 week later. We found partial verb acquisition that was ret...

the verb in russian language is a part of speech which involves several grammatical features. regarding methods of expressing the person, we can classify it in two major groups: personal verbs and non-personal verbs. the difference of these two groups is in their expression and inexpression of the person as a grammatical category. the purpose of this research is to consider ways of declaring th...