Weather expressions such as It is raining have proven challenging for linguistic researchers;
not only do weather expressions often have special linguistic properties, but languages …

The paper investigates valency coercion effects in Italian by means of an acceptability rating
task on nine argument structure constructions. The experimental design follows in …

The purpose of this study was to look at how the contrastive lexical approach influenced
Saudi EFL learners' writing proficiencies. Forty‐six Saudi EFL learners from the College of …

En este trabajo se estudian, a través de un análisis de corpus llevado a cabo en el CORPES
XXI, los posibles usos transitivos del verbo dormir en la variedad peninsular del español …

The aim of the present paper is two-fold. On the one hand, we demonstrate that the
Hungarian pseudo-object egyet 'one. ACC'and its adjectivized (and pluralized) versions …

Talking About the Weather: A Case Study of Precipitation Verbs Page 1 University at Buffalo
September 7, 2017 Talking About the Weather: A Case Study of Precipitation Verbs Beth Levin …

This paper offers a Spanish-English contrastive corpus-based study of the possible transitive
uses of the verbs dormir and sleep in Peninsular Spanish and the American and British …

Cognate object constructions (COCs) are known for their idiosyncratic properties in that they
consist of an intransitive verb that takes an NP whose head is a verbal noun that is …

This paper examines aspectual cognate objects in Hungarian. Its main contribution lies in
the syntactic and semantic analysis of three classes of accusative pseudo-objects, which are …

Abstract [eng] Latvian may express continuative aspect by means of a complex construction
which consists of a verb and a locative phrase headed by an action noun from the same …