Principal investigator

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Verhoeven

Research assistants

Julian A. Rott

Paola A. Fritz-Huechante

Student assistant

Jette Fortmann

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Materials


Here you have access to the conducted studies as well as further information surrounding the used material.

Feel free to contact us concerning open questions!


Current second project phase


Further information will follow shortly

 


Completed first project phase


Forced-Choice-Studies on word order with experiencers present::

  • German
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Korean

Split-100-Studies on method comparison:

  • German
  • Greek

Assessment studies on backward binding with experiencers:

  • German (Jan 2014)
  • German (Nov 2014)
  • Chinese (April 2014)
  • Hungarian (May 2014)
  • English (May 2015)

 

More information concerning the first project phase can be found at "The Syntactic and Pragmatic Prominence of Experiencers"


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About

In the current project stage, the role of the morphological root of psych verbs and the syntactic and semantic properties of the morphological processes that occur in cases of psych-alternation (for instance causativization and decausativization, conversion, double derivation) will be investigated empirically via typologically adequate and methodologically variegated data collection and analyses.

Recent

Belgian Journal of Linguistics
Features or scales in verb meaning? Verb classes as predictors of syntactic behaviour

Linguistic Evidence Online Proceedings
Word order acceptability and word order choice

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
Backward binding as a psych effect: A binding illusion?

Experiencers

Experiencers and the predicates that select for them (e.g. fascinate, please) are a major focus in theoretical linguistics, as they show effects that differ markedly from the regular behavior of canonical verb structures (as in e.g. hit), making them a touchstone for models of language of various persuasions.