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Swandana, I. Wayan, I. Ketut Artawa, I. Nyoman Udayana, and Ketut Widya Purnawati. "The Argument Structure and Its Semantic Role of Reporting Verbs in Balinese Language." International Journal of Social Sciences World (TIJOSSW) 4, no. 2 (2022): 187–96. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7272943.

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Verbs can determine the type and number of arguments that must be present in a clause. The more complex the structure of a verb, the more linguistic problems that arise and need to be studied. Reporting verbs in Balinese which have a complex clause structure because the argument can be filled by either a noun phrase unit or a clause. This research aims to determine the argument structure and the semantic role of the reporting verbs in Balinese. The written data was obtained from stories in Balinese and the Spoken data were obtained from Balinese language teachers. The results showed that the a

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Ariasih, Ni Luh Putu, and I. Nyoman Sedeng. "Argument structure of transition and transfer verbs." International journal of linguistics, literature and culture 8, no. 3 (2022): 67–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/ijllc.v8n3.2076.

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This study entitled Argument Structure of Transition and Transfer Verbs. It focused on the argument structure which maps the grammatical relation and the semantic roles. This study aimed to recognize the grammatical relations of transition and transfer verbs of slides verbs arguments and to explain the semantic roles of transition and transfer verbs of slides verbs arguments. This study is library research. The data of this study were collected from Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) which was related to transition and transfer verbs. The documentation method and note-taking techni

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VULCHANOVA, MILA. "ARGUMENTS FOR GOOD OR BAD: SENSITIVITY TO ARGUMENT STRUCTURE AND IDIOM PROCESSING ACROSS POPULATIONS." Journal of Bulgarian Language 69, PR (2022): 23–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.47810/bl.69.22.pr.02.

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This paper addresses approaches to verb argument structure from the point of view of the information which can be assumed to be lexically encoded in the verb. It explores ways in which speakers’ sensitivity to verbs can be investigated experimentally across types of expressions, including idioms/non-literal language, and reports findings from recent empirical research in that domain. Keywords: lexically encoded information, verbs, argument structure, sensitivity, idiom processing

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Ondondo, Emily Ayieta. "Kisa Argument Structure in Valency Theory." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science VIII, no. XI (2024): 528–51. https://doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2024.8110044.

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Language is used to talk about the world, typically structured in sentences that consist of a topic (subject) and a comment (predicate). The main verb, as the head of the predicate, is the most important part of a sentence as it determines the presence of role players in the sentence as its arguments. Different verbs require various numbers and types of arguments with specific thematic roles. Each verb in a sentence, therefore, assigns thematic roles to its arguments and this forms the argument structure of a language as a language universal property. Kisa, a Bantu language spoken in Western K

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Sahkai, Heete, and Ann Veismann. "Predicate-argument structure and verb accentuation in Estonian." Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 6, no. 3 (2015): 123–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2015.6.3.05.

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This paper reports the results of a production study whose aim was to ascertain whether Estonian exhibits the regularity whereby verbs are unaccented when they are in focus together with an adjacent object. The study also examined whether this regularity holds when the verb is in sentence-final position, or when it is separated from the object by an intervening adjunct. The results suggest that in all these cases the verb is unaccented, unlike when it is complemented only by an adjunct. More generally, these results show that Estonian belongs to the category of languages with plastic sentence

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Oomen, Marloes. "Iconicity in argument structure." Sign Language and Linguistics 20, no. 1 (2017): 55–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sll.20.1.03oom.

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Abstract A long tradition of psych-verb research in spoken languages has demonstrated that they constitute a class of their own, both semantically and syntactically. This study presents a description and analysis of psych-verbs in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) in order to investigate whether this verb type displays comparable peculiarities in sign languages. The study is primarily based on data from the Corpus NGT (Crasborn et al. 2008). Firstly, the data indicate that all psych-verbs in NGT select a subject Experiencer. Secondly, it is shown that there is an iconic property of psych-

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Modina, V. V. "Experimental research on argument structure." Rhema, no. 4 (December 30, 2023): 27–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/2500-2953-2023-4-27-46.

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The paper describes key areas in current experimental research on argument structure. We discuss the experiments that compare verb classes in order to test the argument structure complexity hypotheses and to highlight common argument structure features. Then we present research on argument structure alternations, carried out both on groups of various verbs and on single verb root appearing in various syntactic contexts. Finally, we examine the experiments that focus on the role of argument structure in incremental sentence production.

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Baranovska, Olga. "PREDICATE- ARGUMENT STRUCTURE OF EMOTIVE VERBS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE." Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu «Ostrozʹka akademìâ». Serìâ «Fìlologìâ» 1, no. 10(78) (2020): 13–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2519-2558-2020-10(78)-13-16.

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This paper seeks to explore the category of emotiveness of the verb units in the lexico-semantic system of the English verb. The article characterizes the evolution of methods in this investigation of lexical units, basic notions of cognitive grammar, in particular. The predicate- argument structure of the verbs that designate emotive states has been defined. The conditions for the realization of grammatical structures have been presented. The survey studies the classification of the verbs according to their syntactic constructions, taking into account the relation of the subject and the objec

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Thompson, Cynthia K., Borna Bonakdarpour, Stephen C. Fix, et al. "Neural Correlates of Verb Argument Structure Processing." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19, no. 11 (2007): 1753–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.11.1753.

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Neuroimaging and lesion studies suggest that processing of word classes, such as verbs and nouns, is associated with distinct neural mechanisms. Such studies also suggest that subcategories within these broad word class categories are differentially processed in the brain. Within the class of verbs, argument structure provides one linguistic dimension that distinguishes among verb exemplars, with some requiring more complex argument structure entries than others. This study examined the neural instantiation of verbs by argument structure complexity: one-, two-, and three-argument verbs. Stimul

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Manik Septianiari Putri, Ni Wayan. "Argument Structure of Slide Verb in English." e-Journal of Linguistics 13, no. 2 (2019): 327. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/e-jl.2019.v13.i02.p11.

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Various languages in the world have their own systems, especially in terms of verb classification. It can determine argument in the structure. This paper is intended to analyze the interaction between syntax and semantics in terms of the argument structure of the slide verb in English. The main theory used in this study was the theory of argument structure proposed by Kim & Sells (2008). The result of analysis showed that two kinds of slide verb: bounce and slide are intransitive and transitive verbs. The specifier (SPR) of the sentence structure functions as the agent; the Complement (COM

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Wolfe-Quintero, Kate. "The connection between verbs and argument structures: Native speaker production of the double object dative." Applied Psycholinguistics 19, no. 2 (1998): 225–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716400010055.

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AbstractThis study is an investigation of the patterns and strength of the connections between English dative verbs and the double object dative (DOD) argument structure in native speaker production. The subjects completed three written production tasks using dative and other verbs from different semantic classes of verbs. The results show that alternating dative verbs varied in their patterns of connection to argument structures, but were consistent in the strength of their connection to the DOD argument structure across subjects and tasks. There was no support for production differences due

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Arunachalam, Sudha, and Sandra R. Waxman. "Fast mapping from argument structure alone." LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2 (July 6, 2011): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.542.

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Parents often utter verbs when their referents are not co-present. We therefore ask whether toddlers can discover a verb’s meaning from its argument structure alone. Toddlers (21-months) heard a novel verb in either transitive or intransitive sentences. They then viewed two test scenes, a causative and a synchronous event, and heard, “Find dacking!” Within 2.5s of the novel verb’s onset, toddlers who had heard transitive sentences reliably preferred the causative scene. The results (1) indicate that 21-month-olds discover verb meaning using argument structure cues, even absent a co-occurring e

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Maouene, Josita, Nitya Sethuraman, Mounir Maoene, and Linda B. Smith. "An Embodied Account of Argument Structure Development." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 36, no. 1 (2010): 261. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v36i1.3916.

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:All information enters the cognitive system through the body. Thus, it is possible that the body—and its morphology—may play a role in structurng knowledge and acquisition. This idea is particularly cogent in the case of verbs, since early learned verbs are about bodily actions and since recent advanc-es in cognitive neuroscience (Pulvermueller, 2005; James and Maouene, 2009) indicate that the neural processing of common verbs activates the brain regions responsible for the specific body parts that perform those actions. Here we provide initial e

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Emirkanian, Louisette, Leslie Redmond, and Adel Jebali. "Maîtrise des clitiques datifs dans les structures bitransitives en français L2 par des apprenants anglophones : influence de la structure argumentale de la L1." Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics 24, no. 3 (2021): 30–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.37213/cjal.2021.26419.

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The objective of this study is to measure the influence of L1 verb argument structure, as well as verb meaning, on the mastery of dative clitics in French as a second language for a group of Anglophone learners. More specifically, we focus on ditransitive structures. While French and English share the V NP PP structure, English also has a double-object structure, V NP NP, for a subset of verbs. The results of our study show that L1 argument structure influences the mastery of dative clitics in French, especially for verbs that only accept the double-object structure in English. Further, the be

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Yani, La, Ketut Artawa, Made Sri Satyawati, and I. Nyoman Udayana. "Verbal Clause Construction of Ciacia Language: Syntactic Typology Study." e-Journal of Linguistics 13, no. 2 (2019): 242. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/e-jl.2019.v13.i02.p05.

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Typology study of Ciacia language (CL) in various linguistic aspects has not been conducted yet. It is the first study that focus on syntactic typology. Ciacia language is one of local languages in Buton Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province. The study focuses on five main problems, they are (1) How is the base construction of verbal clause in CL? (2) How are the predicate and structure argument constructions of verbal clause in CL, (3) How are the simple predicate and complex predicate constructions of verbal clause in CL? (4) How are valency and valency change mechanism of verbal clause const

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Coopmans, Cas W., and Gert-Jan Schoenmakers. "Incremental structure building of preverbal PPs in Dutch." Linguistics in the Netherlands 37 (October 27, 2020): 38–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.00036.coo.

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Abstract Incremental comprehension of head-final constructions can reveal structural attachment preferences for ambiguous phrases. This study investigates how temporarily ambiguous PPs are processed in Dutch verb-final constructions. In De aannemer heeft op het dakterras bespaard/gewerkt ‘The contractor has on the roof terrace saved/worked’, the PP is locally ambiguous between attachment as argument and as adjunct. This ambiguity is resolved by the sentence-final verb. In a self-paced reading task, we manipulated the argument/adjunct status of the PP, and its position relative to the verb. Whi

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Thompson, Cynthia K., Borna Bonakdarpour, and Stephen F. Fix. "Neural Mechanisms of Verb Argument Structure Processing in Agrammatic Aphasic and Healthy Age-matched Listeners." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22, no. 9 (2010): 1993–2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21334.

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Processing of lexical verbs involves automatic access to argument structure entries entailed within the verb's representation. Recent neuroimaging studies with young normal listeners suggest that this involves bilateral posterior peri-sylvian tissue, with graded activation in these regions on the basis of argument structure complexity. The aim of the present study was to examine the neural mechanisms of verb processing using fMRI in older normal volunteers and patients with stroke-induced agrammatic aphasia, a syndrome in which verb, as compared to noun, production often is selectively impaire

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Trips, Carola, and Achim Stein. "Contact-Induced Changes in the Argument Structure of Middle English Verbs on the Model of Old French." Journal of Language Contact 12, no. 1 (2019): 232–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-01201008.

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This paper investigates contact-induced changes in the argument structure of Middle English verbs on the model of Old French. 1 We study two issues: i) to what extent did the English system retain and integrate the argument structure of verbs copied from French? ii) did the argument structure of these copied verbs influence the argument structure of native verbs? Our study is based on empirical evidence from Middle English corpora as well as a full text analysis of the Ayenbite of Inwyt and focusses on a number of verbs governing a dative in French. In the first part of the paper we define the

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Braine, Martin D. S., Ruth E. Brody, Shalom M. Fisch, Mara J. Weisberger, and Monica Blum. "Can children use a verb without exposure to its argument structure?" Journal of Child Language 17, no. 2 (1990): 313–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900013799.

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ABSTRACTWe hypothesize that canonical sentence schemas (e.g. Agent—verb-Patient) can sometimes assign argument structure to verbs. In particular, they provide a default argument structure early in learning when a verb's lexical entry may record the nature of the action but lack a specific argument structure. To test the theory and its application to causative verb errors (e.g. stay it there), novel action verbs were modelled, some as causative, some as intransitive, and some unmarked for transitivity. Spontaneous usage was recorded, along with responses to agent-questions (‘What is the [Agent]

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Fioravanti, Irene, and Francesca Malagnini. "IL VERBO TRA LESSICO E TESTO: ANALISI DI PRODUZIONI SCRITTE DI APPRENDENTI DI ITALIANO L2." Italiano LinguaDue 15, no. 2 (2023): 210–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2037-3597/21946.

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Lo studio presenta un’analisi linguistica e testuale di produzioni scritte di italiano L2, con particolare attenzione alle forme verbali usate dagli apprendenti. L’analisi linguistica ha riguardato il verbo da un punto di vista sia grammaticale sia lessicale. Inoltre, il verbo è stato osservato in una precisa struttura argomentale (Verbo + Oggetto diretto), per indagare se fossero rispettate le restrizioni semantiche imposte dal verbo nella selezione degli argomenti. Parallelamente, l’analisi si è concentrata anche sulla scelta e sull’uso dell’avverbio, con lo scopo di osservare come gli appre

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Anjarningsih, Harwintha Yuhria, Kharisma Ulinnuha, and Myrna Laksman-Huntley. "Verb Structure and Grammatical Encoding in the Spontaneous Speech of Indonesian Speakers with Broca’s Aphasia." Ranah: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa 12, no. 2 (2023): 302. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/rnh.v12i2.4749.

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This study aimed to obtain the characteristics of verb structure in the speech of Indonesian speakers with Broca’s aphasia and their relation to the Argument Structure Complexity Hypothesis (ASCH) and grammatical encoding. There are three questions, namely the interrelationships of verbs and syntactic functions, interrelationship of verbs and semantic functions, and the contribution to the ASCH and grammatical coding. Eight participants took part, divided into four with aphasia and four Non-Brain Damaged (NBD) participants as controls. The research used an experimental research method. The ins

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Zhou, Xiaotao, and Jun Wang. "An aspectual account of constructions headed by unergatives and unaccusatives." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9, no. 2 (2022): 401–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.20018.zho.

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Abstract This article presents an aspectual account of the interface between lexicon and syntax. Following Tenny’s AIH (Aspectual Interface Hypothesis), we assume that only the aspectual property of lexical information is sensitive and predictive to argument structure. Based on this assumption, the article claims that aspectual roles associated with measuring-out and delimitedness offer a single and unified account of argument structure. To begin with, a peculiar focus is given to the direct internal argument which serves as the only measuring-out role and participates the measurement constrai

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NISBET, TIM. "Meaning, metaphor, and argument structure." Journal of Linguistics 56, no. 3 (2019): 629–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002222671900029x.

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This paper challenges what it calls the semantic determinist hypothesis (SDH) of argument licensing, according to which the syntactic realisation of a verb’s arguments is a function of its semantic properties. Specifically, it takes issue with ‘event schema’ versions of the SDH applied to the English ditransitive alternation (give/send {Jesse the gun/the gun to Jesse}), which claim a systematic, syntactically predictive distinction between ‘caused possession’ and ‘caused motion’. It is first shown that semantic and syntactic irregularities among the alternating verbs disconfirm such a mapping.

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Yang, Yongzhong. "The Argument Structure of the Middle Construction and Its Derivation." Linguistic Forum - A Journal of Linguistics 3, no. 2 (2025): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14812578.

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Middle constructions are a well-studied topic in linguistics. Based on a summary of the features of middle verbs, this paper proposes that middle constructions are composed of two verbs, of which the first verb, serving as the predicate, denotes an action characteristic of conventional property or features, while the second verb, serving as a complement clause, denotes result. The combination of the two verbs denotes a complete event. Based on this, it is argued that all middle constructions must be of this nature in terms of underlying structure. Once this assumption has been accepted, many l

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MCCLURE, KATHLEEN, JULIAN M. PINE, and ELENA V. M. LIEVEN. "Investigating the abstractness of children's early knowledge of argument structure." Journal of Child Language 33, no. 4 (2006): 693–720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000906007525.

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In the current debate about the abstractness of children's early grammatical knowledge, Tomasello & Abbott-Smith (2002) have suggested that children might first develop ‘weak’ or ‘partial’ representations of abstract syntactic structures. This paper attempts to characterize these structures by comparing the development of constructions around verbs in Tomasello's (1992) case study of Travis, with those of 10 children (Stage I–II) in a year-length, longitudinal study. The results show some evidence that children's early knowledge of argument structure is verb-specific, but also some evidenc

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Sánchez Cárdenas, Beatriz, and Carlos Ramisch. "Eliciting specialized frames from corpora using argument-structure extraction techniques." Terminology 25, no. 1 (2019): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/term.00026.san.

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Abstract Frame Semantics provides a powerful cross-lingual model to describe the conceptual structure underlying specialized language. Building specialized frames is challenging because of the complex nature of predicate-argument structures, and because of the domain-specific uses of general-language predicates. Our semi-automatic method elicits semantic frames from specialized corpora. It aims to discover lexical patterns that reveal the structure of specialized frames and to populate them with corpus-based data. Firstly, we automatically extracted verb-noun triples from corpora using bootstr

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Massam, Diane. "Predicate Argument Structure in Haitian Creole." Revue québécoise de linguistique 18, no. 2 (2009): 95–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/602655ar.

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AbstractThis paper outlines the argument properties of Haitian Creole verbs, including intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive verbs, within a lexical framework which includes a level of Lexical Conceptual Structure and a level of Predicate Argument Structure. There is assumed to be a relatively free mapping relation between these two levels in order to explain the many possible variations in argument structure that most verbs exhibit. We see that there are at least two detransitivizing operations in Haitian Creole: one which operates freely and one which must be adverb-licensed. Transitive

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Oeinada, I. Gede, Ni Luh Sutjiati Beratha, I. Nengah Sudipa, and Made Sri Satyawati. "The Argument and Semantic Structures of Japanese Verb Give." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11, no. 3 (2021): 244. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1103.03.

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This study examines four Japanese synonymous verbs that have the same equivalent in English, namely GIVE. These four Japanese synonymous verbs are ageru, kureru, kizou suru, and kifu suru. This study used a qualitative descriptive method. Example sentences for the data were taken from Balance Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese corpus data. The theories applied in this study are argument structure theory and Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory. Based on the analysis, there were selectional restrictions found in the argument structure of these synonymous verbs that can be used to distingui

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Castro, Miriam Buendía. "Verb dynamics." Terminology 18, no. 2 (2012): 149–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/term.18.2.01bue.

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This paper describes conceptual dynamicity as reflected in the verbs in specialized texts. All the examples used to illustrate this phenomenon are taken from a corpus of meteorological texts, and are typical of processes and actions within the TROPICAL CYCLONE frame. In this study, we analyze verb meaning as well as argument structure. Our results show that the basic meaning of each verb profiles the meaning of the term tropical cyclone in different ways, and provides a way to access the multidimensionality of terms and the concepts they designate. We also classify the verbs most frequently ac

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MAOUENE, JOSITA C., NITYA SETHURAMAN, MOUNIR M. MAOUENE, and SANGO OTIENO. "Contingencies between verbs, body parts, and argument structures in maternal and child speech: a corpus study." Language and Cognition 8, no. 2 (2015): 237–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2014.48.

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abstractPrior work on argument structure development has shown connections between abstract verb meaning and argument structure; neuroimaging and behavioral studies have shown connections between verb meaning and body effectors. Here we examine the contingencies between verbs, their most likely body region pairing, and argument structure. We ask whether the verbs used in six common syntactic frames are specifically linked to one of three main regions of the body:head, arm, leg.The speech of 20-month-olds (N= 67), 28-month-olds (N= 27), and their mothers (N= 54) (CHILDES: MacWhinney, 2000) was

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Hayashishita, J. R., Daiki Tanaka, and Ayumi Ueyama. "A linguistically-informed way of introducing Japanese verbs to second language learners." Journal of Japanese Linguistics 36, no. 1 (2020): 29–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2019-2017.

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AbstractThis paper describes how the Japanese speakers’ knowledge is organized in regards to verbs, and proposes a linguistically-informed way of introducing it to second language learners. It is maintained by a number of researchers that each verb is stored with the information of its argument structure in the speaker’s mental lexicon. That is, a given verb is stored with the information of how many arguments it takes and what types of arguments they are. In this paper, capitalizing on this assumption, we will maintain that the knowledge of the native speakers of Japanese is organized in such

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Ji, Jing. "Serial Verbs Constructions as Double-headed Syntactic Structures: Evidence from Igbo." International Journal of Language and Linguistics 12, no. 5 (2024): 187–93. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijll.20241205.13.

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Although serial verb constructions (SVCs) are widely observed across languages, there is ongoing debate regarding their syntactic representation, particularly in cases involving shared arguments. Two prominent approaches to SVCs with argument sharing are the double-headed structure proposed by Baker (1989) and the control structure suggested by Collins (1997). This paper presents novel data from Igbo to evaluate these differing approaches. First, we disentangle the confound between covert coordination and SVCs through syntactic and semantic tests, demonstrating that SVCs do exist in Igbo. We t

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AMBRIDGE, BEN, and RYAN P. BLYTHING. "A connectionist model of the retreat from verb argument structure overgeneralization." Journal of Child Language 43, no. 6 (2015): 1245–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000915000586.

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AbstractA central question in language acquisition is how children build linguistic representations that allow them to generalize verbs from one construction to another (e.g.,The boy gave a present to the girl→The boy gave the girl a present), whilst appropriately constraining those generalizations to avoid non-adultlike errors (e.g.,I said no to her → *I said her no). Although a consensus is emerging that learners solve this problem using both statistical and semantics-based learning procedures (e.g., entrenchment, pre-emption, and semantic verb class formation), there currently exist few – i

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Jacques, Guillaume. "Verbal Valency and Japhug / Tibetan Language Contact." Journal of Language Contact 12, no. 1 (2019): 116–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-01201005.

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This paper presents the case of a language with rich indexation and limited case marking (Japhug) extensively borrowing verbs from a language without indexation but with case marking (an unattested Tibetic language close to the ancestor of Amdo Tibetan). It provides a comprehensive survey of the argument structure and transitivity categories of Japhug verbs of Tibetic origin in comparison with those of the corresponding verbs in Amdo Tibetan, the attested Tibetic language closest to the donor of loanwords into Japhug. This survey shows that verbs of Tibetic origin are fully integrated morphosy

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Najmudin, Onin, Puspa Mirani Kadir, and Novita Puspahaty. "Struktur dan Makna Verba Majemuk Bahasa Jepang V1+Komu." Makna: Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi, Bahasa, dan Budaya 6, no. 1 (2020): 31–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.33558/makna.v6i1.2007.

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The verb komu is one of components of the VV lexical compound verbs. This research aims to identify structures and meanings of the lexical V1+komu compound verbs through to the Transivity Harmony Principle (THP) theory. The Transitivity Harmony Principle (THP) was used to examined the combination between V1 and komu as V2 based on argument structures of the verbs. The data gathered from Japanese language novel Ningen no Daichi that contained V1+komu compound verbs. The results showed that komu as a V2 can be combined with any various types of verb in V1, respectively; transitive+komu (e.g oshi

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Dreschler, Gea. "Changes in argument structure." Linguistics in the Netherlands 36 (November 5, 2019): 115–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.00027.dre.

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Abstract English is often contrasted with German and Dutch when it comes to the semantic roles that the subject can express (Hawkins 1986; Los & Dreschler 2012). Specifically, English seems to have more middles (She photographs well) and allows for unusual inanimate subjects (The cottage sleeps four). However, it seems that the semantics of the grammatical subject in Dutch are also changing, as witnessed by recent examples from websites and advertisements, such as Uw fietsenstalling verbetert and Presikhaaf vernieuwt. Although these sentences do not have the adverb that is typical of middl

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Kardana, I. Nyoman, I. Gusti Ngurah Adi Rajistha, and Made Sri Satyawati. "The Predicate Category and Characteristics of Arguments in Balinese Sentences." International Journal of Linguistics 9, no. 5 (2017): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v9i5.11815.

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This study discusses about sentence structure of Balinese language. For the analysis, inductive approach is considered to be important for this study as every language has its particular characteristics described based on the inductive approach. Based on the analysis it was found that predicate of Balinese simple sentences may be filled by verb and non-verb, such as noun, adjective, number, adverb. The number and function of the argument is different among the different predicates. The predicate filled by noun, adjective, adverb, number, and intransitive verb requires one argument functioning

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THEAKSTON, ANNA L., ELENA V. M. LIEVEN, JULIAN M. PINE, and CAROLINE F. ROWLAND. "Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax." Journal of Child Language 31, no. 1 (2004): 61–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000903005956.

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In many areas of language acquisition, researchers have suggested that semantic generality plays an important role in determining the order of acquisition of particular lexical forms. However, generality is typically confounded with the effects of input frequency and it is therefore unclear to what extent semantic generality or input frequency determines the early acquisition of particular lexical items. The present study evaluates the relative influence of semantic status and properties of the input on the acquisition of verbs and their argument structures in the early speech of 9 English-spe

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Johnson, Cynthia A., Peter Alexander Kerkhof, Leonid Kulikov, Esther Le Mair, and Jóhanna Barðdal. "Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change." Diachronica 36, no. 4 (2019): 463–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.00014.bar.

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Abstract In contrast to grammaticalization studies of lexical verbs changing into auxiliaries, the realm of semantic changes associated with lexical verbs is an understudied area of historical semantics. We concentrate on the emergence of verbs of success from more semantically concrete verbs, uncovering six conceptual metaphors which all co-occur with non-canonical encoding of subjects in Indo-European. Careful scrutiny of the relevant data reveals a semantic development most certainly inherited from Indo-European; hence, we reconstruct a dat-‘succeeds’ construction at different levels of sch

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Celano, Giuseppe G. A. "Argument-focus and predicate-focus structure in Ancient Greek." Studies in Language 37, no. 2 (2013): 241–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.37.2.01cel.

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In this article, Ancient Greek is shown to allow two word orders, Focus-Verb and Verb-Focus, independently of whether the verb is in focus or in the presupposition. Relying on the behavior of postpositives and Lambrecht’s Principle of Accent Projection, I argue that such word orders are integrated into prosodic constituents where the main sentence accent falls to either the left (Focus-Verb) or the right (Verb-Focus) of the verb. Such an alternation is suggested to be due to a binary iconic contrast whereby the more prominent the focus is, the earlier it is placed.

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Apuge, Michael Etuge. "Multiple Objects, Serial Verbs and the Question of Argument-Sharing." World Journal of Education and Humanities 4, no. 2 (2022): p12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjeh.v4n2p12.

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This paper explores syntactic operations that obtain in multiple object and serial verb constructions in Akoose, a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon. Focus is placed on the structure and types of multi-verb constructions (MVCs), the structure of (MVCs), as well as multiple object constructions (MOCs). The paper also examines argument-sharing in both (MVCs) and (MOCs). The analysis is done following insights from Chomsky (1981, 1995; Miyagawa, 2010). While (MOCs) display predicates with two structural patterns, namely [VP, [NP IO [NP DO]]] and [VP, [NP DO [NP IO]]], serial verb constructions (S

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Dewika, Ni Putu Anna Purna, I. Nyoman Sedeng, and Novita Mulyana. "Passive clauses argument structure of give verbs in corpus of contemporary American English (COCA)." International journal of linguistics, literature and culture 8, no. 3 (2022): 76–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/ijllc.v8n3.2077.

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This study is entitled Passive Clauses Argument Structure of Give Verbs in Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). It is concerned with the argument structure which is mapped to the grammatical relation. This study aimed to recognize the grammatical relations in passive clauses which have “give verbs”. This study is library research. The data of this study were taken from Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) which is concerned with passive clauses. To collect the data, the documentation method and note-taking technique were applied. The descriptive-qualitative method was appl

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FOLLI, RAFFAELLA, and HEIDI HARLEY. "The syntax of argument structure: Evidence from Italian complex predicates." Journal of Linguistics 49, no. 1 (2012): 93–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226712000072.

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This paper provides an analysis of Italian complex predicates formed by combining a feminine nominalization in -ata and one of three light verbs: fare ‘make’, dare ‘give’ and prendere ‘take’. We show that the constraints governing the choice of light verb follow from a syntactic approach to argument structure, and that several interpretive differences between complex and simplex predicates formed from the same verb root can be accounted for in a compositional, bottom–up approach. These differences include variation in creation vs. affected interpretations of Theme objects, implications concern

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Iordachioaia, Gianina. "Event structure and argument realization in English zero-derived nominals with particles." Nordlyd 44, no. 1 (2020): 35–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/12.5205.

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This paper is concerned with the morphosyntax of deverbal zero-derived nominals (e.g., to climb > a climb), which have received much less attention in the literature than suffix-based nominals (cf. the climb-ing, the examin-ation, the assign-ment). In the generative literature, in particular, after Grimshaw’s (1990) seminal work on suffix-based nominals and their possibility to inherit verbal event and argument structure, zero-derived nouns have been claimed to lack such properties: e.g., in syntax-based models of word formation, which take argument realization in deverbal nouns to indicate

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Ausensi, Josep, and Alessandro Bigolin. "On the argument structure realization of result verbs: A syntactic approach." Acta Linguistica Academica 70, no. 1 (2023): 139–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2062.2023.00567.

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AbstractManner/Result Complementarity (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 2010) has been argued to have consequences for argument realization: only manner verbs permit object deletion and non-selected objects. In contrast, result verbs always co-appear with their object, because they are required to express the undergoer of the change that they entail. We discuss new data involving result verbs in constructions where the undergoer of the change encoded by the result verb is not realized as the object of the predicate. We argue these data display result verbs whose root is integrated into the argument

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Mroczyńska, Katarzyna. "Verbal prefixation and realizations of antipassive alternations in Polish." Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW) 3 (December 30, 2017): 169–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/lingbaw.5657.

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Various works on transitivity suggest that aspectual notions may constitute semantic determinants of argument realization. Observations included in these works prompted theories implying that argument realization may be aspectually driven. Following this line of thought, this article presents the results of corpus-based studies on antipassive structure in the Polish language and makes an attempt at confirming the fact that aspectual notion may determine argument realization. The article consists of three main sections. The first one focuses on notions of aspect and various aspectual prop

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MORGAN, GARY, ROSALIND HERMAN, and BENCIE WOLL. "The development of complex verb constructions in British Sign Language." Journal of Child Language 29, no. 3 (2002): 655–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000902005184.

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This study focuses on the mapping of events onto verb-argument structures in British Sign Language (BSL). The development of complex sentences in BSL is described in a group of 30 children, aged 3;2–12;0, using data from comprehension measures and elicited sentence production. The findings support two interpretations: firstly, in the mapping of concepts onto language, children acquiring BSL overgeneralize the use of argument structure related to perspective shifting;secondly, these overgeneralizations are predicted by the typological characteristics of the language and modality. Children under

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Sawaki, Yusuf. "Serial verb constructions in Papuan Malay." LITERA 22, no. 2 (2023): 173–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/ltr.v22i2.60406.

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Serial verb constructions are grammatical constructions that are still debatable by linguists from different schools of theories because of whether they are considered as simple or complex predicates in terms of their various structures found in world’s languages. Creol languages such as Papuan Malay has serial verb constructions interested for further studies because there are lacks of similar studies done in the language. This research describes serial verb constructions in Papuan Malay. Its focus is to investigate syntactic and semantic structures of serial verb constructions. In the resear

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Tambusai, Azhary, Khairina Nasution, and Sofia Rahmi. "Basic Structure of the Riau Malay Clauses." International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 9, no. 08 (2022): 7169–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsshi/v9i08.07.

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This study aims to explain the basic structure of Riau Malay clauses using a linguistic typology approach. Data obtained from oral and written data. The method used is Sudaryanto (2005). The discussion is based on the opinion of Jufrizal (2012). The results showed that the basic clauses of BMR were in the form of (1) non-verbal basic clauses whose predicates are nouns (pronouns), adjectives, numerals, and prepositions which are located one argument before the predicate (2) verbal clauses in the form of transitive and intransitive forms. Verbs that occupy the predicate position in the two claus

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Ziegeler, Debra. "Grammaticalisation through constructions." Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 2 (December 31, 2004): 159–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/arcl.2.06zie.

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Recent arguments by Langacker (2003) on the nature of verb meanings in constructions claim that such meanings are created by entrenchment and frequency of use, and only with repeated use can they become conventionalised and acceptable. Such a position raises the need for a diachronic perspective on Construction Grammar. The present paper investigates the evolution of constructions through the example of thehave-causative in English, which appears to have had its origins as a transfer verb in telic argument structure constructions. When the construction contains a transfer verb, construction me

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