this paper investigates the nature of absolutive case and the syntactic mechanisms underlying its licensing. to this end, two recent minimalist approaches to the syntactic derivation of ergative structure will be introduced. drawing on evidence from the syntactic derivation of clauses with intransitive complex predicates in kurdish, it will be established that the absolutive case is checked by ...

One of important issues in the field of implication and aggression is        "منصوب به نزع خافض". It is an idiom related to  مفعول به "”. By referring to its definition, a syntactic-semantic analysis will be done in this paper. It tries to indicate what is the relationship between word and meaning and to what extent Arabic syntax focu...

this paper presents an investigation of the structure of persian clauses which display verb phrase ellipsis. to this end, verb phrase ellipsis in persian will be discussed in the light of the two theoretically significant approaches to ellipsis, namely, structural versus non-structural. drawing on data from persian and running the independently devised syntactic tests, we will argue that the or...

the meaning of an idiomatic expression cannot be transparently worked out from the meanings of its constituent words due to its figurative and unpredictable nature. consequently, the syntactic composition and the structural paradigm of an idiomatic expression are supposed to be the same in every context. however, this is not the case in the institutionalized second language varieties of english...

Modern deep neural networks achieve impressive performance in engineering applications that require extensive linguistic skills, such as machine translation. This success has sparked interest probing whether these models are inducing human-like grammatical knowledge from the raw data they exposed to and, consequently, can shed new light on long-standing debates concerning innate structure neces...

over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. unfortunately, conference paper titles (cpts) have only recently begun to receive attention. the aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of cpts in applied linguistics. a data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...