The roles of topicalization, parallel function and verb semantics in the interpretation of pronouns

Linguistics ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 17 (5-6) ◽  
Author(s):  
ALFONSO CARAMAZZA ◽  
SHALINI GUPTA
Keyword(s):  
Verb Semantics

Verb Semantics and a Reversed ACE

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Xu ◽  
Megan Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Verb Semantics

scholarly journals The roles of verb semantics, entrenchment, and morphophonology in the retreat from dative argument-structure overgeneralization errors

Language ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Ambridge ◽  
Julian M. Pine ◽  
Caroline F. Rowland ◽  
Franklin Chang
Keyword(s):  
Argument Structure ◽  
Verb Semantics

EXPLORING ENGLISH VERBS OF MOTION AT THE SYNTAXSEMANTICS INTERFACE (AN ANALYTICAL OVERVIEW)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliya Gontarenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Verb Semantics ◽  
Verbs Of Motion ◽  
Motion Verb

This article provides an overview of research papers which explore English verbs of motion at the syntax-semantics interface. Among the issues addressed are controversial aspects of motion verb semantics. It is argued that the theoretical principles of construction grammar help to determine whether the meaning of motion is attributed to the verb or the syntactic construction.

Predication Within a Neo-Davidsonian Approach to Verb Semantics

1992 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 171-189
Author(s):  
Antonio Sanfilippo
Keyword(s):  
Verb Semantics

Acquiring phenomena at the syntax/semantics interface in L2 Spanish

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 67-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes ◽  
Theodoros Marinis
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
Advanced Learners ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Verb Semantics ◽  
Syntactic Features ◽  
Interface Phenomena ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
The Subject

Recent second language (L2) acquisition research has proposed that purely syntactic features are easier to acquire and less vulnerable than ones involving the interfaces (Sorace, 2004; Serratrice et al. 2004). The present paper addresses this issue by investigating the acquisition of the Spanish personal preposition a in English L2 learners of Spanish. The distribution of a in direct object NPs relates to the specificity/definiteness of the NP, the animacy/agentivity of the subject, and verb semantics (Torrego 1998; Zagona 2002). 33 English L2 learners of Spanish of different proficiency levels, and 14 Spanish controls participated in an acceptability judgement task. The results showed significant differences between native speakers and L2 learners of all proficiency levels, who performed at chance, and support the claim that L2 learners have difficulties acquiring structures involving the syntax/semantics interface. However, the advanced learners showed sensitivity to the least complex condition providing evidence that interface phenomena may be acquirable.

The acquisition of the active transitive construction in English: A detailed case study

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna L. Theakston, ◽  
Robert Maslen, ◽  
Elena V. M. Lieven, ◽  
Michael Tomasello,
Keyword(s):  
Argument Structure ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Event Semantics ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Verb Semantics ◽  
Levels Of Use ◽  
Simultaneous Move ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractIn this study, we test a number of predictions concerning children's knowledge of the transitive Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) construction between two and three years on one child (Thomas) for whom we have densely collected data. The data show that the earliest SVO utterances reflect earlier use of those same verbs, and that verbs acquired before 2;7 show an earlier move towards adult-like levels of use in the SVO construction and in object argument complexity than later acquired verbs. There is not a close relation with the input in the types of subject and object referents used, nor a close adherence to Preferred Argument Structure (PAS) before 2;7, but both early and late acquired verbs show a simultaneous move towards PAS patterns in selection of referent type at 2;9. The event semantics underpinning early transitive utterances do not straightforwardly fit prototype (high or inalienable) notions of transitivity, but rather may reflect sensitivity to animacy and intentionality in a way that mirrors the input. We conclude that children's knowledge of the transitive construction continues to undergo significant development between 2;0 and 3;0, reflecting the gradual abstraction and integration of the SVO and VO constructions, verb semantics, discourse pragmatics, and the interactions between these factors. These factors are considered in the context of a prototype for the transitive construction.

Semantics and morphosyntax in predictive L2 sentence processing

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Hopp
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Sentence Comprehension ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Lower Sensitivity ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
L2 Processing ◽  
Verb Semantics ◽  
Anticipatory Processing ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
L1 English

AbstractIn the context of current approaches to anticipation in native and non-native sentence processing, this paper investigates whether late second-language (L2) learners integrate morphosyntax, i.e. case marking, and verb semantics to generate anticipations in L2 sentence comprehension. In a visual-world eye-tracking experiment with 45 L1 English L2 learners of German and 12 German natives, German natives are found to integrate morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic information in anticipatory processing, while L2 learners only rely on lexical-semantic information for prediction. Moreover, there is no indication that increasing proficiency leads to the involvement of morphosyntax in predictive L2 processing. We discuss reasons for the lower sensitivity to morphosyntax in anticipatory L2 sentence processing.

scholarly journals The role of verb semantics in genitive alternations: genitive of negation and genitive of intensionality

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara H Partee ◽  
Vladimir Borschev ◽  
Elena Paducheva ◽  
Yakov Testelets ◽  
Igor Yanovich
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
Object Position ◽  
Verb Semantics

Our goal is to capture what the different instances of Gen/Nom and Gen/Acc have in common semantically while still respecting the multiplicity of factors involved and not predicting more uniformity than is actually found. Our main idea is to treat Gen Neg and Gen Int as a “diathesis shift”, a “demotion” into a noncanonical subject or object position, semantically of type (e,t), thereby accounting for “decreased individuation/ referentiality”.

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