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Abstract This study investigates the role of diglossic and orthographic features in reading comprehension in Arabic. Specifically, it probes the independent contribution of language, metalinguistic, and decoding skills in the spoken language and in Standard Arabic to reading comprehension in the abjad writing system of Arabic.
Elinor Saiegh‐Haddad, Rachel Schiff
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Speaker self-profiling through discursive indexation and syntactic encoding in Spanish radio talk
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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Learning to Read and Developmental Dyslexia in Hebrew
Abstract The study of Hebrew, a non‐European language written in a non‐alphabetic (abjadic) script offers valuable insights into the science of reading beyond the well‐studied alphabetic scripts. Because reading development in Hebrew is shaped by the uniquely Semitic root‐and‐pattern morphology and the abjadic (predominantly consonantal) orthography ...
Adi Shechter, David L. Share
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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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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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The intensifying accusative clitic ga ‘it’ in Serbian: From syntax to pragmatics
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 +1 more
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The Where and How of Clitic Order [PDF]
L’objectif principal de ce travail est de montrer que l’ordre des clitiques pronominaux ne peut pas être déterminé par la syntaxe, dans la mesure où on explore cette hypothèse en incluant non seulement des clitiques liés à un argument, mais aussi les ...
Bonet, Eulàlia
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Estudio del empleo de los pronombres clíticos en un corpus oral de La Habana (Cuba)
Esta investigación tiene por objeto un estudio del uso de los pronombres átonos (clíticos) en un corpus oral de La Habana (Cuba): El habla culta de la generación joven de La Habana.
Milagros Aleza
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On the scope of the referential hierarchy in the typology of grammatical relations [PDF]
In the late seventies, Bernard Comrie was one of the first linguists to explore the effects of the referential hierarchy (RH) on the distribution of grammatical relations (GRs).
Bickel, Balthasar
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AN ARGUMENT FOR NON‐AGREE‐DRIVEN MOVEMENT
Abstract This paper argues for the occurrence of movement that is not the by‐product of an Agree relation in which a probe searches for a goal. The hypothesis that not all instances of movement might be feature‐driven was entertained in early Minimalism, but it has nevertheless become widely assumed that all instances of syntactic movement should be ...
Saurov Syed, Andrew Simpson
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