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Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction [PDF]
, 2008 Rapid acquisition of linguistic categories or constructions is sometimes regarded as evidence of innate knowledge. In this paper, we examine Polish children's early understanding of an idiosyncratic, language-specific construction involving the ...
Bańko +15 more
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Morphosyntactic realignment and markedness change in Late Latin: Evidence from charter texts
Pallas, 2016 This paper discusses how the Latin accusative became the unmarked default case and how this markedness turn is related to the morphosyntactic realignment of the grammatical relations in Late Latin.
Timo Korkiakangas
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Does Hungarian have a case system? [PDF]
, 2008 I argue that case markers in Hungarian are best thought of as ‘fused postpositions’. There is no need to set up a separate syntactic or morphological [Case] attribute as such.
Spencer, Andrew
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German particle verbs and pleonastic prepositions [PDF]
, 2006 This paper discusses the behaviour of German particle verbs formed by two-way prepositions in combination with pleonastic PPs including the verb particle as a preposition.
Rehbein, Ines, van Genabith, Josef
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Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 This paper has a twofold aim: to present a unified analysis of ditransitive constructions and transitivity alternations (dative/accusative alternations) in Spanish.
Anna Pineda
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The Emergence of Accusative Case in Copala Triqui
Linguistic Discovery, 2022 This paper argues that the noun ‘body’, the accusative particle, and dative preposition man are synchronically three different parts of speech in modern Copala Triqui.
George Aaron Broadwell
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Covert nominative and dative subjects in Faroese
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2009 This paper presents the results of a recent survey of dative subjects in Faroese, using a judgment task and data elicited from interviews with native speakers.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
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The Morphology of Case and Possession in Balkar: Evidence that Oblique Cases Contain Accusative
Languages, 2023 This paper uses facts about case allomorphy and possessive morphology in Balkar, a Turkic language spoken in southern Russia, to contribute to the examination of the internal structure of case.
Colin Davis
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Glossa, 2018 In some languages with DOM, the exponents of DOM and dative are homophonous, e.g. in Spanish and Hindi. I argue that this pattern is not due to DOM objects and indirect objects being represented identically in syntax, but due to syncretism between ...
András Bárány
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Comparing Agreement System in Kalhori Kurdish with Laki, Surani, and Kormanji [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2017 Agreement, case marking, and word order are three important means to represent grammatical relations. Languages use these means according to their features.
Mehdi Mehdizadeh +3 more
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