Topic-Focus Articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber [PDF]
, 2010 This paper deals with the form/function mapping of information structure on word-order in two Berber lects, Taqbaylit (Kabyle) and Tashelhit (Shilha). We claim that the general assumption according to which Berber should be strictly VSO is wrong, and we ...
Fleisch, Axel, Mettouchi, Amina
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Grammatical Object Passives in Yucatec Spanish
LanguagesYucatec Spanish displays a type of sentence that appears to mix elements of an active impersonal and a passive. For example, “te castigaron por mi tío” may be interpreted as “you were punished by my uncle”, where a by-phrase headed by the preposition por
Grant Armstrong
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Morphosyntactic knowledge of clitics by Portuguese heritage bilinguals [PDF]
, 2014 FirstView ArticleThis paper focuses on the linguistic competence of adult Portuguese–German bilinguals in their heritage language, European Portuguese (EP), which they acquired at home in early childhood in the context of German as the majority ...
Andersen +21 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 356-365, November 2024.
David Langslow
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The Transitivity Index: Using Transitivity as a continuous measure to account for clitic case alternation in Spanish causative constructions. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Guajardo G.
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On past participle agreement in transitive clauses in French [PDF]
, 2008 This paper provides a Minimalist analysis of past participle agreement in French in transitive clauses. Our account posits that the head v of vP in such structures carries an (accusativeassigning) structural case feature which may apply (with or without
Radford, A, Vincent, M
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A Preliminary Examination of the Impact of Working Memory Training on Syntax and Processing Speed in Children with ASD. [PDF]
J Autism Dev Disord, 2022 Delage H +3 more
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Persian object clitics and the syntax-morphology interface [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceThis paper presents a descriptive overview and formal analysis of the use of pronominal clitics for realizing various types of arguments in Persian, with particular emphasis on object clitics in the verbal domain.
Samvelian, Pollet, Tseng, Jesse
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Pronominal cliticization in European Portuguese : a postlexical operation [PDF]
, 1999 Pronominal clitics in the Romance languages are known to display affix-like behaviour. This fact has led to proposals, such as Zwicky (1987) and Halpern (1995) for European Portuguese (EP), that pronominal clitics behave like lexical affixes because they
Vigário, Marina
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Working memory training in children with developmental language disorder: Effects on complex syntax in narratives. [PDF]
Front Rehabil Sci, 2022 Delage H +3 more
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