This article investigates the acquisition of psych verbs in diachrony by applying Yang's
(2016) Tolerance and Sufficiency principles. It has been observed that psych verbs change …

Written and spoken language are known to differ substantially (Biber, 1988; 1995; Biber,
Johansson, Leech, Conrad, & Finegan, 1999). Standard written language is highly uniform …

Transitivity is often analyzed from the point of view of the formal and functional factors that
shape morphosyntax. The contribution of language contact is not often highlighted. This …

One way or another, loan words have to be grammatically integrated in the grammar of their
recipient language. For verbs, Wohlgemuth (2009) finds that direct insertion, where native …

The network of prepositional secondary predicate constructions has undergone massive
changes throughout the history of English. While in Old English forms marked with to (eg …

Summary Contact between Early English and British Celtic, Latin, Norse, and French came
about through a myriad of historical, political, and sociocultural developments: invasion …

The paper describes a collection of resources and tools aimed at inserting and utilising
lemma information of lexical verbs in a Middle English corpus. The resources and tools …

This article discusses the relation between impersonal constructions and the reflexive use of
psych verbs of the admire-type copied from Old French to Middle English. The outset of the …

When words are transferred from a source language into a target language, they may
become conventionalized and appear to fully adopt target-language morphosyntactic …

This paper describes the lemmatisation of three annotated corpora of Middle English—the
Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English 2 (PPCME2), the Parsed Corpus of Middle …