How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages

S Riesberg, K Malcher, NP Himmelmann - Language, 2019 - muse.jhu.edu
Agents have been claimed to be universally more prominent than verbal arguments with
other thematic roles. Perhaps the strongest claim in this regard is that agents have a …

Examining voice choice in Tagalog: A corpus of web-based Tagalog

N Adricula - Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of …, 2023 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
This study is a corpus-based analysis of web-based Tagalog (Austronesian) investigating
how different prominence features influence voice in basic, declarative, transitive clauses. A …

Expectation and integration processes in flexible word order processing: interactions of voice and verb semantics in Tagalog

IP Bondoc, AJ Schafer - Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2024 - Springer
A key recent discussion in the sentence processing literature centers on the primary
mechanism of the human processing system: the extent to which it engages in a consistent …

Examining the Role of Inherent and Derived Prominence in Tagalog Voice and Word Order

N Adricula - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Languages across the world exhibit a robust preference for privileging the role of Actors in
an event. For example, Actors tend to be mapped to the most prominent grammatical …

Specification predication: Unexpectedness and cleft constructions in Tagalog

A Latrouite - Faits de Langues, 2021 - brill.com
Abstract English exhibits a large number of cleft constructions. Out of these constructions,
the English it-cleft construction, which may express more than one information-structural …

[PDF][PDF] RRG—Abstract grammar vs. processing model

RD Van Valin Jr - rrg.caset.buffalo.edu
RRG—Abstract grammar vs. processing model Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. Page 1 RRG—Abstract
grammar vs. processing model Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. University at Buffalo, The State …