Sketch-Based Elicitation on the Morphosyntactic Properties of Object-Experiencer Psych Verbs in Catalan and Spanish
Abstract
In this investigation of the psych alternation of object-experiencer psych verbs in Catalan and Spanish on Mallorca, novel elicitation methodology was employed, using visual stimuli to analyze seven morphosyntactic properties. Speakers’ behavior between languages and lexemes is compared quantitatively. Here: voice, non-experiencer type and tense are verb-dependent; voice is language-dependent; non-experiencer type, person of the experiencer and tense correlate with voice. These results provide insights into how speakers construct psych verb sentences and highlight the benefits of elicitation methods to supplement theory and corpus data.
open access | peer reviewed
Submitted: March 14, 2025 | Accepted: Sept. 4, 2025 | Published April 29, 2026 | Language: en
Keywords Object-experiencer verbs • Voice • Elicitation • Catalan • Spanish • Psych alternation
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