Research has shown that language processing relies on rich knowledge about common events and their participants (see McRae and Matsuki, 2009, for a review). This generalized event knowledge is learned ...

Talk to most people about grammar and you’re likely to hear a lot about little issues that are, essentially, language trivia — matters like when to use “whom,” how to use “between” and whether you can ...

Voice is a grammatical category, an operator, that has no directly link to conceptual structure. Voice is a complex issue, but it appears to mark a prominent object that the speaker chooses to make ...

There is a kind of Chinese VR (verb-resultative) constructions in which the meanings of verb and complement (stands as the “result”) are relatively independent and decomposable. We call it “phrasal VR ...

As far as SimpleNLG is concerned, a complement is anything that comes after the verb. When you label something as a complement and hand it to simplenlg to be realized, SimpleNLG will place it, no ...

ABSTRACT: The path event frame reveals the structure of typical motion events. 去 (qù, go) and “go”, as a pair of typical path verbs, imply clear and discernible paths in their meanings. Therefore, ...

To first-time learners of the English language, what could easily be its most baffling aspect is its use of the so-called causatives. English uses this strange grammatical structure to denote ...