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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
wiley   +1 more source

Nasal epenthesis in preverbal accusative clitic pronouns. A variationist study of present-day dialectal European Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022
The paper investigates nasal epenthesis in vowel-initial preverbal 3rd person accusative pronouns in modern dialectal European Portuguese (EP). The study is underpinned by the data from the verbatim transcription section of CORDIAL-SIN, a dialectal corpus of contemporary EP.
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3rd Person Pronominal Clitics in Dialects of Catalan [PDF]

, 1993
En aquest treball es presenta una descripció i una anàlisi de les combinacions de dos clítics pronominals de tercera persona, acusatiu i datiu, en quatre variants dialectals del català.
Bonet i Alsina, Eulàlia
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Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Mayan languages show variation in the morphosyntactic distribution of absolutive objects. A now commonly‐adopted analysis ties this variation to differences in object movement and agreement. In so‐called ‘high‐absolutive’ languages, objects consistently raise to a position above the ergative subject, where they are targeted for ϕ $\phi $‐Agree
Justin Royer, Jessica Coon
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Lack of iteration: A problem for accusative clitic doubling

ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 1996
In this paper I show that accusative clitic doubling in Spanish affects the aspectual interpretation of the VP in that it blocks iterative readings of eventive predicates. The addition of the aspectual problem to the more traditional problems (how can there be two DPs and only one thematic role; why not all DPs can be doubled; and what is the role of ...
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On parallels and differences between clitic climbing and long scrambling & the economy of derivations [PDF]

, 1995
In this paper I show that Clitic Climbing (CC) in Spanish and Long Scrambling (LS) in German (and Polish) are (im-)possible out of the same environments.
Sabel, Joachim
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.
The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
wiley   +1 more source

Syntactic reconstruction in Indo-European : the state of the art [PDF]

, 2016
Interest in syntactic reconstruction was implicit in the work of the founding fathers of the Comparative Method, including Franz Bopp and his contemporaries. The Neo-Grammarians took a more active interest in syntactic issues, concentrating especially on
Barddal, Johanna, Eythórsson, Thórhallur   +1 more
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Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences

Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 77-116, March 2025.
Abstract Adults learning a new language tend to judge unconventional utterances more leniently than fluent speakers do; ratings on acceptable utterances, however, tend to align more closely with fluent speakers. This asymmetry raises a question as to whether unconventional utterances can be statistically preempted by conventional utterances for adult ...
Karina Tachihara, Adele E. Goldberg
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Is Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe) a dialect of Shua?

Studies in African Linguistics, 2023
The endangered language Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe), spoken on the eastern fringe of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, is generally assumed to be a member of the Shua dialect cluster.
Anne-Maria Fehn
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