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Psych-verbs and Th-theory
Adriana Belletti,Luigi Rizzi +1 more
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This article is published in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.The article was published on 1988-08-01. It has received 770 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Philosophy of language.read more
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Severing the External Argument from its Verb
TL;DR: In this paper, Davidson drew a clear distinction between arguments and adjuncts, and pointed out that ignoring temporal relations, sentences like "We bought your slippers in Marrakesh" ignore temporal relations.
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Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar
TL;DR: In this article, the potential role of UG in second language (L2) acquisition is considered and three different positions are reviewed: (a) the claim that UG is not available to L2 learners; (b) the Claim that Universal Grammar is fully available; and (c) The Claim that the L2 learner's access to UG was mediated by the mother tongue.
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The neurology of syntax: language use without Broca's area.
TL;DR: Five empirical arguments are presented: experiments in sentence comprehension, cross-linguistic considerations, grammaticality and plausibility judgments, real-time processing of complex sentences, and rehabilitation, which indicate that language is a distinct, modularly organized neurological entity.
The Syntax of Event Structure.
TL;DR: It is argued that an event structure can provide a distinct and useful level of representation for linguistic analysis involving the aspectual properties of verbs, adverbial scope, the role of argument structure, and the mapping from the lexicon to syntax.
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The syntax of event structure.
TL;DR: This article propose a configurational theory of event structure and examine how it contributes to a lexical semantic theory for natural language, arguing that an event structure can provide a distinct and useful level of representation for linguistic analysis involving the aspectual properties of verbs, adverbial scope, the role of argument structure, and the mapping from the lexicon to syntax.
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Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use
TL;DR: The best available introduction to Chomsky's current ideas on syntax made accessible to the non-specialist can be found in this article, where Lightfoot, Newmeyer, and Moravcsik present an excellent contribution to the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
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Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar
TL;DR: This book investigates a wide variety of semantic rules, stating them in considerable detail and extensively treating their consequences for the syntactic component of the grammar, and proposes radically new approaches to the so-called Crossover Principle, the control problem for complement subjects, parentheticals, and the interpretation of nonspecific noun phrases.
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Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing
TL;DR: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1985.