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Sluicing in Basque: a move-and-delete analysis
Fontes Linguae VasconumIn this paper I explore sluicing in Basque, the elliptical phenomenon whereby the interrogative clause is elided, but the wh-remnant is pronounced. Specifically, I address the long-debated question of whether sluicing involves a full-fledged syntactic ...
Irene Macazaga Núñez
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The Problem of English Spatial, Non-spatial and Idiomatic Adpositions in Iranian EFL Environment: A Prototypical Approach [PDF]
Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010 Several studies of L2 learners’ interlanguage have addressed the complexity of the English adpositional system due to several reasons like L1 transfer, lack of knowledge in L2 and the strong collocational relations of prepositions with other elements of ...
Nassim Golaghaei, Firooz Sadighi
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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 Recent work in usage-based linguistics stresses the importance of combining corpus-based analyses with experimental studies. A number of studies have compared the performance of a corpus-based statistical model against the behaviour of native speakers in
Jane Klavan, Ann Veismann
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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 182-202, March 2024.Abstract In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana. However, the localization of Ghanaian English has been continually reversed by ‘corrective’ realignment with world standard English through institutional regimes.
Kofi Yakpo
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Sign order in Slovenian Sign Language locative constructions
Linguistica, 2016 In both sign and spoken languages, locative relations tend to be encoded within constructions that display the non-basic word/sign order. In addition, in such an environment, sign languages habitually use a distinct predicate type – a classifier ...
Matic Pavlič
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Adpositional Supersenses for Mandarin Chinese
CoRR, 2018 This study adapts Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses (SNACS) annotation to Mandarin Chinese and demonstrates that the same supersense categories are appropriate for Chinese adposition semantics. We annotated 15 chapters of The Little Prince, with high interannotator agreement.
Zhu, Yilun +5 more
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Movement triggers and the etiology of grammaticalization: the case of italian postposition fa [PDF]
Sintagma, 2012 This work deals with the Italian particle fa ``ago'', which together with expressions of time measure localizes an event in a certain point preceding the moment of elocution.
Ludovico Franco
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Directions from the GET-GO. On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010 Directional resultatives show puzzling syntactic restrictions. In Romance, broadly speaking, they do not occur at all with manner-of-motion verbs. In Dutch, directional resultatives with mannerof- motion verbs usually force postpositional order in the ...
Marcel den Dikken
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Lähivõrdlusi, 2010 This paper is an investigation of grammatical relations' marking that combines the advances of monolingual analysis with cross-linguistic comparison. It examines adpositions as grammatical relations' markers and the linguistic change which leads to the ...
Leena Kolehmainen
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Double accusative cases in old Persian constructions [PDF]
زبان پژوهیIntroduction The Old Persian language comprises of seven cases, one of which is the accusative case. This case is used in intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive verbs.
Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian +3 more
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