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Copyright of Slavistična Revija is the property of Slavisticno Drustvo Slovenije and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Slavistična Revija is the property of Slavisticno Drustvo Slovenije and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Jezikoslovlje is the property of University of Osijek, Faculty of Philosophy and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) affects the cognitive performance of elderly adults. However, the level of severity is not high enough to be diagnosed with dementia. Previous research reports subtle language impairments in individuals with MCI specifically in domains related to lexical meaning. The present study used both off-line (grammaticality judgment) and on-line (lexical decision) tasks to examine aspects of lexical processing and how they are affected by MCI. 21 healthy older adults and 23 individuals with MCI saw complex pseudo-words that violated various principles of word formation in Slovenian and decided if each letter string was an actual word of their language. The pseudo-words ranged in their degree of violability. A task effect was found, with MCI performance to be similar to that of healthy controls in the off-line task but different in the on-line task. Overall, the MCI group responded slower than the elderly controls. No significant differences were observed in the off-line task, while the on-line task revealed a main effect of Violation type, a main effect of Group and a significant Violation × Group interaction reflecting a difficulty for the MCI group to process pseudo-words in real time. That is, while individuals with MCI seem to preserve morphological rule knowledge, they experience additional difficulties while processing complex pseudo-words. This was attributed to an executive dysfunction associated with MCI that delays the recognition of ungrammatical formations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This chapter presents an analysis of Slovenian ditransitive sentences with the goal of contributing new data to the applicative research as well as examining the potential of the syntax-driven approach to the matter. Slovenian ditransitive sentences can be ambiguous between the low and the high applicative readings with the respective structures as proposed in Pylkkanen (2002). Some verbs, however, exclude the high applicative reading and have the low applicative interpretation only. First, this paper spells out the structures of ditransitive sentences in Slovenian, showing that the two different groups of ditransitive verbs do not emerge as a consequence of verbs appearing in different syntactic configurations. Second, in exploring a semantic solution to the problem, Rappaport Hovav and Levin's (2008) division of verbs with respect to the root semantics is followed. Verbs incapable of appearing in the high applicative structure are identified as belonging to the give-type group, their incompatibility with the high applicative being ascribed to the high applicative head's selectional requirement banning give-type roots in the complement VP. The proposal raises the question as to how much argument related semantics can be incorporated into syntactic heads and still maintain the view that argument structure is essentially regulated by the syntactic component. This study of a yet unobserved restriction in Slovenian ditransitive sentences is partially extended to Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian, testing the limits of a syntax-driven approach to argument structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]