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Diachronic change and variation in use
Isogloss, 2023 Previous studies have demonstrated that in spontaneous speech, Rioplatense Spanish speakers—in contrast to speakers of Peninsular Spanish—sometimes produce clitic-doubled accusative nominal objects.
Esther Rinke +2 more
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The projected directive construction and object case marking in Finnish
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 This article examines object case marking in a Finnish verb structure called the Projected Directive Construction, e.g. Liisa pyysi Matti-a lähte-mä-än ‘Liisa asked Matti to leave’ (Liisa.NOMINATIVE asked Matti-PARTITIVE leave-INF-ILLATIVE).
Yrjö Lauranto
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Subjects with accusative Case in Japanese: Phasal transfer and anti-locality
GlossaThis paper presents a new argument for phasal transfer and anti-locality based on an analysis of subjects with accusative Case in Japanese. I first show that the distribution of subjects with accusative Case closely interacts with the types of CPs: while
Masahiko Takahashi
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Differential Object Marking in Spanish: state of the art
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 This state of the art tries to cover as much as possible about the properties, conditions and analyses of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Spanish.
Antonio Fábregas
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Persons and Pronouns: Exploring Clitics in Judeo-Spanish
Isogloss, 2022 Optional versus obligatory clitic doubling and the person-case constraint (PCC) repair constitute two puzzles researchers haven’t fully addressed.
Naomi Kurtz
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Ergative Verbs in English and Arabic
مجلة كلية الفقهErgativity is one the distinctive features that differentiate between two types of languages: ergative languages such as Basque and Eskimo languages and non-ergative languages such as Indo European languages.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ameer Ali Hussein Al Majtoomy +1 more
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Case Endings in Standard Arabic
الآداب, 2018 This study aims briefly at describing and analyzing some aspects of Case endings in Standard Arabic. This is because that Case seems to play a significant role in the grammar of not only Arabic but also in the grammar of many other languages.
محمد علي محمد قرابش
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The oblique anticausative in Lithuanian
Baltistica, 2014 This article examines Lithuanian structures with accusative functioning as a subject. It pursues the idea that this accusative is of old origin. This hypothesis is based on a detailed comparison with Old Icelandic, revealing striking similarities within ...
Valgerður Bjarnadóttir
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The rise of ergativity in Hindi: assessing the role of grammaticalization [PDF]
, 2009 This article investigates the origins and development of the ergative patterning in Hindi. Following traditional Indo-Aryan scholarship, two evolutions are discerned: (i) the reanalysis of a passive as an ergative construction, and (ii) the development ...
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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Latin verbs with double accusative and their passivization
Pallas, 2016 The goal of this paper is to re-examine the behaviour of Latin verbs taking double accusative from the perspective of functional-typological research on the so-called “ditransitive constructions”.
Maria Napoli
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