Passives and Their Meaning

Langacker, Ronald W.; Munro, Pamela

doi:10.2307/412694

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“…Passivization is often characterized as an intransitivizing phenomenon (see, e.g., Dixon, 1994), on the basis that in languages that mark transitivity morphologically, passives always pattern like intransitives (Langacker & Munro, 1975). More relevant to psycholinguistic research on English is the fact that passive verb forms of monotransitive verbs cannot take DOs.…”

Section: Study 1: Passivesmentioning

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Verb subcategorization frequencies: American English corpus data, methodological studies, and cross-corpus comparisons

Gahl

Jurafsky

Roland

2004

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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Verb subcategorization frequencies (verb biases) have been widely studied in psycholinguistics and play an important role in human sentence processing. Yet available resources on subcategorization frequencies suffer from limited coverage, limited ecological validity, and divergent coding criteria. Prior estimates of verb transitivity, for example, vary widely with corpus size, coverage, and coding criteria. This article provides norming data for 281 verbs of interest to psycholinguistic research, sampled from a corpus of American English, along with a detailed coding manual. We examine the effect on transitivity bias of various coding decisions and methods of computing verb biases.

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Section: Study 1: Passivesmentioning

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Verb subcategorization frequencies: American English corpus data, methodological studies, and cross-corpus comparisons

Gahl

Jurafsky

Roland

2004

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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“…[13] Dixon, (1977: 412) cites Langacker & Munro's (1975) claim that the conflation between reflexive and passive/antipassive is in fact typologjcally common. (See also Lichtenberk, 1985;Haiman, 1985: 143.…”

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Pragmatics and the grammar of anaphora: a partial pragmatic reduction of Binding and Control phenomena

1987

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The properties of gaps are intrinsically significant in that the language learner can confront little direct evidence bearing on them, so that it is reasonable to assume that they reflect deeper principles of UG, the biologically determined endowment that will be the primary concern for those interested more in the nature of the human mind than in the arrangement of data in the environment (Chomsky, 1982:19.Some concepts and consequences of the theory of Government and Binding).

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“…RPCs are not specific to Indo-European languages; they also can be found in such languages as Uto-Aztecan (Langacker and Munro 1975).…”

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Theoretical Analysis of Reflexivization in the Framework of Applicative Grammar

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1986

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Passives and Their Meaning

Cited by 87 publications

References 5 publications

Verb subcategorization frequencies: American English corpus data, methodological studies, and cross-corpus comparisons

Verb subcategorization frequencies: American English corpus data, methodological studies, and cross-corpus comparisons

Pragmatics and the grammar of anaphora: a partial pragmatic reduction of Binding and Control phenomena

Theoretical Analysis of Reflexivization in the Framework of Applicative Grammar

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