...I Made Sena Darmasetiyawan; Ben Ambridge Semantics-based approaches to syntax hold that the basic units of language are constructions: form-meaning pairings that have meanings in and of themselves. The aim of the present study was to test this claim using a previously-unstudied construction...

... speaking) [AGENT] [BE] [ACTION] by [PATIENT] . A rival class of approaches – which we term pure syntax approaches – holds that there exists a “syntactic level of representation [that] includes syntactic category information but not semantic information…or lexical content” (Branigan & Pickering...

... developmental and neurophysiological perspectives. We discuss three major aspects: The extent of the analogy between language and action; the necessity to extend research on the yet largely neglected aspect of action syntax; the positive contribution of a developmental approach to this topic. We elaborate...