Understanding any communication depends on the listener or reader recognizing that some
words refer to what has already been said or written (his, its, he, there, etc.). This mode of …

This thesis is concerned with German psychological verbs, ie verbs characterized by the fact
that one of their arguments is associated with a psychological process. These psych verbs …

Psych verb constructions show peculiar properties. They appear to project the same θ-
relations into inverse configurations (John fears sharks/Sharks frighten John). Furthermore …

A new approach to the interaction of binding and intensification is advanced. While most
current approaches to (eg Reinhart & Reuland 1993, Huang & Liu 2001, among others) take …

Psychological verbs and psychological adjectives (often referred to as psych predicates)
describe emotions and mental states. They can also be defined as predicates that take …

This paper discusses two types of verbal alternation in Brazilian Portuguese that have the
same profiled syntactic structure, but differ in their semantic representations and in their …

This chapter discusses the properties of a few verb classes and argument alternations in
Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP). In order to do this, it adopted the …

This paper presents a descriptive analysis of intransitive verb behavior in Brazilian
Portuguese, specially the verbs known as unaccusative ones. We propose a prototypical …

Durch ihr besonderes Verhalten haben psychologische Verben, und Experiencer-Objekt-
Verben im Besonderen, in der linguistischen Forschung Berühmtheit erlangt. In vielen …

Bound anaphors inside subjects challenge the c-command requirement for binding. At least
in some languages, experiencer-object verbs such as worry or please are reported to …