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Investigating Three Morphemes “-ænæ”, “-æwæ” and “-æɾæ” in Hawrami: Postposition or Case Marker [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2015 In this paper we have investigated three frequent morphemes in Hawrami of Paveh, namely, “-ænæ”, “-æwæ” and “-æɾæ”. The nature of these morphemes is unknown. They are attached to nouns with a meaning like that of adpositions. We aim to explore what these
Fateme Yousefirad +1 more
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In this paper, I outline the Peeling theory of Case (Starke 2005) and apply it to Case phenomena in adpositional phrases. The Peeling theory says that DPs are base generated with a number of Case related functional projections on top of them, and when ...
Pavel Caha
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The typology of government by adpositions: towards an understanding of “differential”
GlossaAdpositions may govern case, and there is dramatic variation in the case values found. Different adpositions often govern different cases, which means that we need to partition (or split) the adpositions according to the case(s) they take, as in German ...
Greville G. Corbett
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 This paper is part of Peter Svenonius’ Adposition Seminar at the University of Tromsø which was taught in 2005-2006. The main focus was the distinction between locative path and locative place constructions. The aim of this paper is descriptive in nature
Marleen van de Vate
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Some notes on Italian ethnic adjectives
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2017 In this paper, we deal with ethnic adjectives in Italian, arguing against the dichotomy between ‘thematic’ and ‘classificatory’ ethnic adjectives, recently assumed by Alexiadou and Stavrou (2011). Building on Manzini and Savoia (2011), Manzini and Franco
Ludovico Franco
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Analyzing the case markers of Persian noun on Azerbayjani Turkish speakers’ speech, based on 4-M model [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2020 This paper attempted to study the case markers of Persian noun in Azerbaijani speakers’ speech on the basis of the 4-M model. Based on the understanding that in bilingual speech, one of the languages is normally dominant over the other, Myers-Scotton ...
Abdolhossein Heydari
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Event Segmentation in Language and Cognition
Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 7, July 2026.Abstract A hallmark of human cognition is the ability to segment streams of dynamic stimuli into discrete event units. Currently, most of the evidence about event segmentation comes from English speakers. Could cross‐linguistic differences in how events are encoded affect how speakers of different languages form cognitive event units?
Sarah Hye‐Yeon Lee +2 more
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 4, April 2026.Abstract To navigate in and communicate about the continuous world we experience, our minds segment this experience into discrete event units. Yet, languages differ in how they package core aspects of events into linguistic units. Here, we ask how event units in language and cognition relate to each other, and how this relation might change during ...
Bilge Tınaz, Ercenur Ünal
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Reanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021 This paper presents a new analysis of a class of words previously analyzed as postpositions in the Papuan language Fataluku. Closer examination reveals that these words exhibit verbal characteristics, such as taking verbal morphology and occupying the ...
Tyler M. Heston
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Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2017 The main aim of this writing is to formulate the theory of universal grammar. The formulation made is taken form discussion on a close look at the universal grammar which of summary proposed by Greenberg and Hawkins.
Soepomo Peodjosoedarmo
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