Research in communication disorders suggests that training linguistically complex forms will generalize to untrained, simpler forms with similar structural properties (see Thompson, 2007 for review). The present study investigated generalization patterns from transitive verbs to two classes of intransitive verbs following administration of Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST; Edmonds, Nadeau & Kiran, 2009). Based on the Argument Structure Complexity Hypothesis (ASCH; Thompson, 2003), it was predicted that greater generalization would occur to unergatives because unergatives bear a structural relationship to transitive verbs and unaccusatives do not. Results at post-treatment supported the hypothesis with both intransitive verb types showing generalization and slightly higher effect sizes observed for unergative than for unaccusative verbs. At maintenance, this pattern was not maintained due to improvements in production of unaccusative verbs. Results support the findings of Edmonds et al. (2009) that administration of VNeST results in gains on measures of untrained, semantically related verbs as well as standardized measures of lexical retrieval and connected speech. These results also suggest that training transitive verbs results in slight generalization to untrained intransitive verbs; however, it is inconclusive whether unergative and unaccusatives intransitives show differential improvement. / Communication Sciences

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-01-06T14:43:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1250752 bytes, checksum: f895e82ebec46f142680436b04edadd0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-06T14:43:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1250752 bytes, checksum: f895e82ebec46f142680436b04edadd0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-30 / The syntactic-semantic-discursive agglutination is a process concerning to the junction of the complement in the verb designed by Traditional Grammar (GT) as intransitive, having no material occupation as the object. However, in some situations, these verbs can be used like complement materialized in the syntax plan, with the syntactic-semantic-discursive detachment. This phenomenon is caused by enunciative reasons. Therefore, we had as main objective to analyze the syntactic-semantic-discursive agglutination and detachment of the verbs defined by the Traditional Grammar in an enunciation perspective, using, for this, printed reports. In order to answer this need, we developed the following specific objectives: to characterize the syntactic-semantic-discursive agglutination/ detachment as an enunciative phenomenon; analyze the meaning of a linguistic element (the verb) through two biases: theme (contextual meaning) and linguistic significance (in dictionaries sense) by combining with the active comprehension; understand how the syntactic-semantic-discursive agglutination and detachment are used in targeted verbs in a printed report, observing the thematic content, compositional elements and the style; discuss the factors that provide the syntactic-semantic-discursive agglutination the syntactic-semantic-discursive detachment in selected verbs for analysis. For this purpose, we used the theoretical construct defended by Bakhtin / Voloshinov (1981, 1926), Bakhtin (2003), as well as researchers of the linguistic thought from the Bakhtin Circle. Our corpus comprised twenty-two printed reports of Veja magazine, published in the period from 1968 to 2013 and selected in <http://veja.abril.com.br/acervodigital>. At first, we discuss the thematic content, compositional elements and the style of chosen reports. Subsequently, we analyze the syntactic-semantic-discursive agglutination in the verbs die, live, sunrise, fall, mature, aging, fight, react, dream, cry, smile, sleep, grow and laugh. And subsequently, we described some of the syntactic-semantic-discursive detachment in some of these verbs. Thus, we can say that, in this work, a syntactic phenomenon (the intransitive verbs) was observed by the Theory of Enunciation, according to Bakhtin / Voloshinov (1981). / A aglutinação sintático-semântico-discursiva é um processo que diz respeito à junção do complemento no verbo concebido pela Gramática Tradicional (GT) como intransitivo, não tendo a ocupação material do lugar de objeto. No entanto, em algumas situações, estes verbos podem ser usados com o complemento materializado no plano da sintaxe, havendo a desaglutinação sintático-semântico-discursiva. Este fenômeno é provocado por motivações de ordem enunciativa. Para tanto, tivemos como objetivo geral analisar a (des)aglutinação sintático-semântico-discursiva em uma perspectiva enunciativa nos verbos definidos pela GT como intransitivos, utilizando, para isso, reportagens impressas. No propósito de atender a esta necessidade, desenvolvemos os seguintes objetivos específicos: caracterizar a aglutinação e a desaglutinação sintático-semântico-discursiva como um fenômeno enunciativo; analisar o sentido de um elemento linguístico (verbo) através de dois vieses: tema (sentido contextual) e significação linguística (sentido dicionarizado), associando à compreensão ativa; compreender como a aglutinação e a desaglutinação sintático-semântico-discursiva são usadas nos verbos escolhidos em uma reportagem impressa, observando o conteúdo temático, os elementos composicionais e o estilo; discutir os fatores que proporcionam a (des)aglutinação sintático-semântico-discursiva nos verbos selecionados para a análise. Para tal propósito, recorremos ao construto teórico defendido por Bakhtin/Volochinov (1981, 1926), Bakhtin (2003), além de pesquisadores do pensamento linguístico do Círculo de Bakhtin. Nosso corpus foi composto por vinte e duas reportagens impressas da Revista Veja, publicadas no período de 1968 a 2013 e pesquisadas no site <http://veja.abril.com.br/acervodigital>. A princípio, discutimos o conteúdo temático, os elementos composicionais e o estilo das reportagens escollhidas. Posteriormente, analisamos a aglutinação sintático-semântico-discursiva nos verbos morrer, viver, nascer, cair, amadurecer, envelhecer, lutar, reagir, sonhar, chorar, sorrir, dormir, gritar, crescer e rir. E, posteriormente, discorremos sobre a desaglutinação sintático-semântico-discursiva em alguns destes verbos. Com isso, podemos dizer que, em nossa tese, um fenômeno sintático (os verbos intransitivos) foi observado à luz da Teoria da Enunciação, conforme pontuaram Bakhtin/Volochinov (1981).

I denna studie diskuteras användningen av de intransitiva positionsverben stå, sitta och ligga, samt deras olika betydelser och användningsområden. Dessa verb kan användas för att beskriva kroppslig position och plats. Tidigare studier har undersökt deras användning i svenska (inklusive engelska, franska, tyska och finska) med fokus på vanliga användningar och mönster, prototyper, typer av subjekt och lokativa komplement, samt skillnader i användningen av intransitiva verb med olika typer av subjekt. En användning som intransitiva verb har i skandinaviska språk är att de kan uttrycka progressiv aspekt vilket kan förklaras utifrån det grammatiska fenomenet pseudokoordination. Syftet med denna undersökning är att undersöka de semantiska egenskaperna hos intransitiva positionsverb i de nordiska språken danska och svenska. Studien bygger på korpusdata från Sketch Engine för att kategorisera förekomster av de tre positionsverben i svenska och danska. Dessa baseras på taggar som beskriver användning av positionsverb, semantiska egenskaper av subjektet och inanimata subjektets orientering. Uppsatsen utmynnar i att beskriva användningen av positionsverben i svenska och danska. Vissa förekomster visade sig sakna semantiska egenskaper. De semantiska egenskaperna mellan svenska och danska gällande positionsverb visar inte en uppenbar skillnad. Vidare forskning kan eventuellt framhäva en möjlig skillnad / This study discusses the use of the intransitive posture verbs stand, sit and lie, as well as their different meanings and areas of usage. These verbs can be used to describe bodily position and location. Previous studies have investigated their use in Swedish (including English, French, German and Finnish) focusing on common uses and patterns, prototypes, types of subjects and locative complements, as well as differences in the use of intransitive verbs with different types of subjects. In Scandinavian languages, one usage of intransitive verbs is that they can express progressive aspect, which can be explained based on the grammatical phenomenon of pseudo-coordination. The purpose of this study is to investigate the semantic properties of intransitive posture verbs in the Nordic languages Danish and Swedish. The study is based on corpus data from Sketch Engine to categorise occurrences of the three positional verbs in Swedish and Danish. These are based on tags that describe the use of positional verbs, semantic properties of the subject, and the orientation of the inanimate subject. The essay results in describing the use of posture verbs in Swedish and Danish. Some occurrences turned out to lack semantic properties. The semantic properties between Swedish and Danish posture verbs do not show an obvious difference. Further research may highlight a possible difference.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine idiomatic structures with ki in the ki-wo [transitive verb] and ki-ga [intransitive verb] constructions. It is argued that for Japanese language learners, it is crucial to be able to understand and produce ki idioms, because they are frequently used in everyday speech. There are often misconceptions regarding ki in the West for those who are fans of Japanese culture due to the influence of martial arts and anime, which paint ki as a spiritual energy that can be controlled and developed. However, upon examining the above mentioned idiomatic structures with ki, it is clear that ki can be expressed as both controllable by the subject of ki (transitive), as well as a thing that acts of its own accord and is spontaneous (intransitive). This thesis somewhat corroborates the studies of W. M. Jacobson, Zoe Pei Sui Luk , and Yoshihiko Ikegami by arguing that intransitive constructions are often used in Japanese, and examining both transitive and intransitive expressions with ki is significant to understanding the meanings produced in ki expressions. It is hoped that analyzing 37 transitive and intransitive idiomatic structures with ki will help Japanese language learners not only understand the syntactic and semantic aspects of transitivity in the Japanese language, but also to help these L2 learners conceptualize the abstract noun ki, which can be defined in so many different ways in a dictionary.