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Valency
About: Valency is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1632 publications have been published within this topic receiving 26141 citations.
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TL;DR: Examining whether speakers of a verb-medial language (English) wait to consult verb transitivity information before constructing filler-gap dependencies finds evidence for reading disruption when the verb was intransitive, although no such reading difficulty was observed when the critical verb was embedded inside a syntactic island structure, which blocks filler- gap dependency completion.
Abstract: Much work has demonstrated that speakers of verb-final languages are able to construct rich syntactic representations in advance of verb information. This may reflect general architectural properties of the language processor, or it may only reflect a language-specific adaptation to the demands of verb-finality. The present study addresses this issue by examining whether speakers of a verb-medial language (English) wait to consult verb transitivity information before constructing filler-gap dependencies, where internal arguments are fronted and hence precede the verb. This configuration makes it possible to investigate whether the parser actively makes representational commitments on the gap position before verb transitivity information becomes available. A key prediction of the view that rich pre-verbal structure building is a general architectural property is that speakers of verb-medial languages should predictively construct dependencies in advance of verb transitivity information, and therefore that disruption should be observed when the verb has intransitive subcategorization frames that are incompatible with the predicted structure. In three reading experiments (self-paced and eye-tracking) that manipulated verb transitivity, we found evidence for reading disruption when the verb was intransitive, although no such reading difficulty was observed when the critical verb was embedded inside a syntactic island structure, which blocks filler-gap dependency completion. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that in English, as in verb-final languages, information from preverbal noun phrases is sufficient to trigger active dependency completion without having access to verb transitivity information.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis that uses an empty verbal head that takes the elements before the finite verb as arguments or adjuncts is presented. But the analysis uses techniques that were developed independently for the analysis of Incomplete Category Fronting.
Abstract: In this article I discuss examples of multiple constituents before the finite verb in German. I provide an analysis that uses an empty verbal head that takes the elements before the finite verb as arguments or adjuncts. The empty verbal head that is used for the analysis of multiple frontings is identical to the empty verbal head that is used to account for the analysis of verb first sentences (verb movement). The analysis uses techniques that were developed independently for the analysis of Incomplete Category Fronting.
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TL;DR: In this article, the valency of Cu ions in the orthorhombic and tetragonal phases of high-Tc superconductor Ba2YCu3Oy (6.22
Abstract: The valency of Cu ions in the orthorhombic and tetragonal phases of high-Tc superconductor Ba2YCu3Oy (6.22
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TL;DR: It is shown that, for any odd prime p, integers n?3 and k?2 such that k divides p?1, there are exactly (pn?2?1)/2+pn?3?1 nonisomorphic connected half-transitive metacirculants of order pn and valency 2k.
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