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Subjects of perfective unaccusative verbs are reactivated post-verbally, unlike those of unergative and imperfective unaccusative verbs. This study explores unaccusativity and verbal aspect in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS).

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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Syntax

Background:

  • Unergative verbs assign agent theta roles to subjects, while unaccusative verbs take theme subjects.
  • Linguistic theory posits that theme subjects of unaccusative verbs originate in a post-verbal position before moving to a pre-verbal subject position.
  • Understanding the syntactic processing of verb types and aspect is crucial for theories of sentence comprehension.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the processing of unaccusative and unergative verbs in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS).
  • To examine the interplay between verbal aspect (perfective vs. imperfective) and verb type (unaccusative vs. unergative) on subject processing.
  • To test the hypothesis that subjects of perfective unaccusative verbs are processed differently due to movement.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-modal lexical priming experiment was employed.
  • Participants processed sentences in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) featuring unergative and unaccusative verbs with different aspects.
  • Neural (re-)activation patterns of subjects were tracked during sentence processing.

Main Results:

  • The subject of perfective unaccusative verbs showed post-verbal (re-)activation, consistent with movement from a post-verbal position.
  • This post-verbal (re-)activation pattern was not observed for unergative verbs.
  • Imperfective unaccusative verbs did not elicit the same post-verbal (re-)activation as perfective unaccusative verbs.

Conclusions:

  • The findings support the theory of movement for subjects of perfective unaccusative verbs.
  • Verbal aspect significantly influences the processing of unaccusative subjects.
  • This research provides empirical evidence for the syntactic and processing distinctions between verb types and aspects in BCS.