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Élargissement de la valence verbale — Les verbes causatifs et semi-causatifs et le problème de la pronominalisation des compléments argumentaux // The widering of the verbal valence — the causative and semi-causative verbs and the problem of argument pronominalization [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2015 The causative and semi-causative periphrases represent a syntactic context in the framework of which the valence of a predicate is modified. Its redefinition generates new stematics by fusionning two autonomous argumental structures. For each causative
Jiří Jančík
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The Acceptability Of Clitic And Tonic Accusative 3rd Person Pronouns In Written Brazilian Portuguese
Diadorim: revista de estudos linguísticos e literários, 2017 Com base na Teoria de Princípios e Parâmetros (CHOMSKY, 1995), apresento uma análise diacrônica das interrogativas-Q do Português Europeu (PE) seguida de uma comparação com as mesmas estruturas no Português Brasileiro (PB). Paralelamente, faço uma breve análise dos padrões de interrogativas-Q em entrevistas sociolinguísticas gravadas em dois momentos ...
Cândido Samuel Fonseca De Oliveira +1 more
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How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees
Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 391-424, June 2026.Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
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GlossaWe examined the acquisition of third-person accusative clitics (e.g., lo, la, los, las) in L2 Spanish among Brazilian Portuguese (BP) speakers. In BP, the animacy of the referent is the main feature constraining accusative pronoun use while, in Spanish ...
Abril Jimenez +2 more
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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An Account of Clitics in Shabaki with Reference to Wackernagels Law [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper the behavior of clitics in Shabaki a northwestern Indo-Iranian language spoken in Nineveh plains in Iraq is discussed in detail with respect to forms and distributions and much more interestingly with respect to sensitivity to Wackernagel
Dr. Abbas H. J. Sultan
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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 144-167, March 2026.Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
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ReChat: A Task‐Based Chatbot for EV Charging Management Optimization
IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.ReChat is a multilingual task‐based chatbot for EV charging management, combining supervised intent classification with a deterministic and safe task‐to‐action mapping. Experiments on six languages and an end‐to‐end Telegram prototype validate its monitoring and control capabilities.
Pablo Donate +5 more
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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 469-488, December 2025.ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
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Are Asturian clitics distinctly distinct?
, 2022 This chapter is focused on an idiosyncratic feature of Asturian in the context of other neighboring Romance languages. In all these languages, the regular clitic forms for the third person dative and the third person accusative cannot cluster together ...
Lorenzo González, Guillermo José
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