TY - JOUR
T1 - What is a verb? Linguistic, psycholinguistic and developmental perspectives on verbs in Germanic and Semitic languages
AU - Smolka, Eva
AU - Ravid, Dorit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© John Benjamins Publishing Company.
PY - 2019/12/31
Y1 - 2019/12/31
N2 - Verbs constitute one of the basic building blocks of a clause, setting the structure of arguments and expressing the relationships among nouns in various thematic roles. In general terms, verbs are lexical items expressing verb-oriented notions such as activities, processes, and states. In morphology-rich languages, the syntactic and lexical roles of verbs are mediated by typologically-oriented morphological means. The current Special Issue contrasts the structure and functions of verbs in languages from two morphologically rich, yet typologically different families. The articles in the Special Issue present spoken and written aspects of verbs in usage and development in German (a Germanic language) on the one hand, in Hebrew, Neo-Aramaic, and Arabic (Semitic languages), on the other. From a theoretical linguistic perspective, we ask how the different typological features of these languages affect the function of verbs in sentences, and from a psycholinguistic perspective, we ask how typological differences affect the processing of verbs in the mature minds of adults and in the developing minds of children.
AB - Verbs constitute one of the basic building blocks of a clause, setting the structure of arguments and expressing the relationships among nouns in various thematic roles. In general terms, verbs are lexical items expressing verb-oriented notions such as activities, processes, and states. In morphology-rich languages, the syntactic and lexical roles of verbs are mediated by typologically-oriented morphological means. The current Special Issue contrasts the structure and functions of verbs in languages from two morphologically rich, yet typologically different families. The articles in the Special Issue present spoken and written aspects of verbs in usage and development in German (a Germanic language) on the one hand, in Hebrew, Neo-Aramaic, and Arabic (Semitic languages), on the other. From a theoretical linguistic perspective, we ask how the different typological features of these languages affect the function of verbs in sentences, and from a psycholinguistic perspective, we ask how typological differences affect the processing of verbs in the mature minds of adults and in the developing minds of children.
KW - Growth potential
KW - Hebrew morphology
KW - Morphological priming
KW - Network analysis
KW - Peer talk
KW - Prefixed verbs in German
KW - Preschool
KW - Semantic priming
KW - Socio-economic status (SES)
KW - Verb lexicon
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U2 - 10.1075/ml.00003.int
DO - 10.1075/ml.00003.int
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AN - SCOPUS:85078857000
VL - 14
SP - 169
EP - 188
JO - Mental Lexicon
JF - Mental Lexicon
SN - 1871-1340
IS - 2
ER -