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Four North Saami Ambipositions
We present a study of four North Sámi adpositions that can be used as both prepositions and postpositions and thus be termed “ambipositions”. We advance three hypotheses concerning 1) dialectal differences in use of ambipositions in North Sámi, 2 ...
Baal, Berit Anne Bals +2 more
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Successive Cyclicity, Anti-locality and Adposition Stranding.
This thesis studies movement operations in natural languages. It is observed that certain heads – C° , v°, and, in most languages, P° – cannot be stranded; the complements of these heads never move without pied-piping the heads in question.
Abels, K, Abels, Klaus
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Why flags are bound forms: A discussion with Bill Croft
A flag is a cover term for an adposition or a case-marker, as I explain in my recent 2019 paper on flagging and indexing (in the journal Te Reo, run by the Linguistic Society of New Zealand).
Martin Haspelmath
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Ditransitive Constructions in Lugbarati
This study examines how ditransitive constructions are realized in Lugbarati, a Central Sudanic language of the Moru-Madi subphylum. Lugbarati has both the double object construction (DOC) and what we refer to as the adpositional phrase construction ...
Bebwa Isingoma, Peace Yikiru
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On the change to verb-medial word order in proto-Chinese : evidence from Tibeto-Burman
In attempting to reconstruct the morphosyntax of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, one of the most basic questions to be answered is what was the unmarked word order of the proto-language?
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Abeillé Anne, 2007, Les grammaires d’unification, Paris, Hermès-Lavoisier. Abels Klaus, 2003, Successive Cyclicity, Anti-Locality, and Adposition Stranding, thèse de doctorat, Université du Connecticut, Storrs.
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Multi-source Cross-lingual Delexicalized Parser Transfer: Prague or Stanford?
We compare two annotation styles, Prague dependencies and Universal Stanford Dependencies, in their adequacy for parsing. We specifically focus on comparing the adposition attachment style, used in these two formalisms, applied in multi-source cross ...
Rosa, Rudolf
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Neural modeling and large language models (LLMs) has led to a significant improvement in the quality of machine translation (MT) output. While MT increasingly rivals human output, “translationese”—systematic linguistic fingerprints left by the ...
Lingxi Fan, Hongyang Du, Gan Huang
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WIU1-Event0034 - Adpositions and motion verbs
Attempts to elicit a passive construction in the first minute or so, followed by elicitation of nouns modified by an adposition, switching to elicitation of motion verbs used in sentences from 5:27. .
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Complement Raising, Extraction and Adposition Stranding in Dutch
In Dutch, adpositions can be stranded, typically if their complement is an R-pronoun. The complement usually appears in the left part of the Mittelfeld or in the Vorfeld.
Augustinus, Liesbeth, Van Eynde, Frank
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