• Anticausatives are semantically reflexive in Norwegian but not in English 

      Lundquist, Bjørn; Corley, Martin; Tungseth, Mai; Sorace, Antonella; Ramchand, Gillian C (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-29)
      In this paper we will discuss cross-linguistic variation in semantic entailment patterns in causa- tive alternations. Previous work has probed this issue with data from elicited semantic judge- ments on paired linguistic forms, often involving linguistic negation and contradiction. We contribute to the debate in the form of a related psycholinguistic experiment that taps into direct judgements ...
    • Aspect and verbal preposition 

      Ramchand, Gillian; Tungseth, Mai (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2006)
      In this paper, we explore some previously unanalysed interactions between verbal aktionsart and prepositional complementation in Norwegian, namely the alternations between a DP object and PP complements with på ‘on/at’ and til ‘to/at’. We argue that a simple account based on [±telic] or [±quantized] features cannot be correct. Instead, we generalize the notion of path and homomorphism, and integrate ...