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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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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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A Study of Inflectional Categories of Noun in Sistani Dialect [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2017 The present article aims to provide a synchronic study of the inflectional or morpho-syntactic categories of noun in Sistani dialect. These categories comprise person, number, gender or noun class, definiteness, case, and possession.
Abbas Ali Ahangar +2 more
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Languages, 2018 The present study explores two morphological differences in direct object expression between Spanish and Catalan: Differential Object Marking (DOM), and the accusative clitics el /l/ vs. ho /u/.
Silvia Perpiñán
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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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Cuadernos de Literatura, 2020 The aim of this research is to study the use of the clitic pronouns le / les with plural referent of [+human] feature, in a written corpus of university students from the Argentina NEA region.
Hugo Roberto Wingeyer +1 more
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Object Person Marking in two under-represented Spanish dialects of Mexico
Isogloss, 2023 This paper is about a clitic-like form lo that appears in two under-studied dialects of Mexico in the context of transitive clauses. The distribution of this clitic-like form in these dialects is at odds with Standard Mexican Spanish which does not ...
Renato García González +1 more
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Systems of pronominal enclitics in old russian language of 14th and 15th centuries (with testaments and treaties of princes of North-Eastern Rus’) [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2018 The Standard Russian language has completely lost the system of pronominal enclitics, but it did exist in Old Russian. This article deals with systems of pronominal enclitics attested in testaments and treaties of princes of North-Eastern Rus’.
Ksenia Doikina
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Generalized Phasal Defectivity in Brazilian Portuguese
Isogloss, 2022 Brazilian Portuguese displays a cluster of apparently unrelated properties that set it aside within Romance. On the one hand, it has lost its third person possessive pronouns (cf. Oliveira e Silva 1985, Perini 1985, Cerqueira 1996, and Müller 1996), its
Jairo Nunes
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Second language acquisition of Italian accusative and dative clitics [PDF]
Second Language Research, 2007 This experimental study investigates the acquisition of Italian accusative and dative clitics by English adult speakers. These pronouns are non-existent in English. Results from a grammaticality judgement task show that Italian accusative and dative clitics develop slowly but gradually in Italian second language (L2) grammars.
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