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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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The acquisition of clitic objects in Modern Greek : single clitics, clitic doubling, clitic left dislocation [PDF]

, 2013
The present study is concerned with Single Clitics, as weil as with Clitic Doubling and Clitic Left Dislocation constructions and will test the Uniformity Hypothesis (Sportiehe 1992), according to which all three constructions involve the same underlying
Marinis, Theodore
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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
doaj  

Speaker self-profiling through discursive indexation and syntactic encoding in Spanish radio talk

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2017
Syntactic and discursive choices in context can constitute resources for the interactional profiling of the direct participants. This study analyzes the frequencies with which speakers index themselves, as well as the syntactic functions they preferably ...
Miguel A. Aijón Oliva
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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
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SPECIFIC CASES OF SUBORDINATE CLAUSES IN COPULATIVE POSITION [PDF]

Езиков свят
The article examines specific cases of complex sentences with copulative predication, in which the subordinate clauses cannot be interpreted as substitutes in subject position. The discussion focuses on particular features of impersonal and subjectless
Dimitar Georgiev
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The intensifying accusative clitic ga ‘it’ in Serbian: From syntax to pragmatics

, 2022
We explore the intensifying accusative clitic (IAC) ga (‘it’) in Serbian, which has no explicit antecedent, neither introduced in the previous discourse, nor contextually available for deictic reference, thus resembling standard ‘dummy’ pronouns. We argue that the IAC ga is referential — it refers to a specific Topic Situation (TS). Specifically, it is
Milosavljević, Aleksandra, Milosavljević, Stefan   +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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Argumentos x núcleos focales: el estatus de clíticos que duplican SSNN en español Argumentos x núcleos focais: o status de clíticos que duplicam SNs em espanhol Arguments and focus heads: the status of NP-doubling clitics in Spanish

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2006
Este trabalho apresenta uma análise gerativa de clíticos de Caso acusativo envolvidos em construções de reduplicação em espanhol. Demonstrará que este tipo de clítico não constitui um elemento único, e, sim, que pode ser dividido em dois grupos, o dos ...
Paulo Correa
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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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