Implicit causality in Romanian interpersonal verbs
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2022/13/0027/000569Keywords:
Implicit causality, Verbs, Pronoun resolution, Next mention, RomanianAbstract
Natural languages display a great variety of devices that may be used to express causal relations, ranging from prepositions and sentence connectives to verbs. This paper focuses on the way different classes of verbs affect subsequent discourse in terms of implicit causality. We report on an offline sentence-continuation study that tested next-mention preferences triggered by four Romanian verb classes and compare these results with verbal biases observed in other languages.
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