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[Submitted on 15 Oct 2026] Title:From Parallels to Divergence: Language Models' Learning of Action Nominal Constructions View a PDF of the paper titled From Parallels to Divergence: Language Models' Learning of Action Nominal Constructions, by Iskar Deng and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Action nominal constructions (ANCs) express events in nominal form, with their argument marking following patterns found in clauses or ordinary noun phrases. In this paper, we investigate how different grammatical configurations affect language models' learning of ANCs and related constructions, and how these learning preferences compare with typological distributions in natural languages. We use a grammar-engineered method for synthetic corpus construction that combines shared semantic input from natural corpora with computational grammars. We construct 96 target languages varying in clause word order, noun-phrase word order, alignment, complement system, and ANC strategy. For each language, we train GPT-2-small models from scratch and evaluate them using targeted minimal pairs covering 34 grammatical phenomena. The results show typological parallels in basic clause configurations but divergences in complement systems and ANC strategies, with models also learning combinations rare or unattested in natural languages. This partial alignment suggests that natural language distributions may reflect both general learning pressures and functional demands not fully captured by model learning experiments. Comments: 41 pages, including appendices Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL) Cite as: arXiv:2610.22468 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2610.22468v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.22468 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Iskar Deng [view email] [v1] Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:43:47 UTC (566 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled From Parallels to Divergence: Language Models' Learning of Action Nominal Constructions, by Iskar Deng and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)