This article investigates the nature of lexical information in the lexical entries of Persian transitive verbs. In the first experiment transitive verbs were categorized into five groups. What ...

There are two kinds of interrogative sentences. The first type are affirmation questions wherein the speaker is trying to get the addressee to assert whether or not a proposition underlying the ...

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct., 2005), pp. 267-298 (32 pages) A distinctive syntactic feature of the Chaozhou dialect group is the use of the same morpheme in the passive and ...

A small clause is the syntactic equivalent of the basic proposition. Small clauses occur in sever constructions. Some examples are shown below. The small clauses are enclosed in square brackets. The ...