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Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 376-392, June 2024.Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour +2 more
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020 Th is paper focuses on the syntax of (argument introducing/valency increasing) serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin languages, providing empirical arguments for the model of grammatical relations advanced in a series of recent works by Manzini and Savoia (2011a,
Ludovico Franco
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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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Towards an Analysis of Complex Motion Event Packaging in South Eastern Huastec (Maya, Mexico)
CogniTextes, 2015 This paper presents an underdescribed way of encoding the Path component of complex motion events in South Eastern Huastec (HSF), a Mayan language spoken in Mexico.
Ana Kondic
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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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The goal-over-source asymmetry in Thai and Korean
Language and CognitionThai and Korean have large inventories of adpositional particles, including source and goal markers. As reported in many languages, Thai and Korean adpositions also prominently exhibit the ‘goal-over-source asymmetry’ at multiple levels.
Kultida Khammee, Seongha Rhee
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Saramaccan, a very mixed language: Systematicity in the distribution of function words? [PDF]
Linguística, 2012 Saramaccan is the descendant of a mixed creole language formerly spoken on Portuguese Jewish-owned plantations in Surinam, South America. Its mixed nature reveals itself in roughly equal numbers of monomorphemic English-derived and Portuguese-derived ...
Norval Smith
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Sámi dieđalaš áigečálaThe article presents a survey of the syntax and semantics of the postpositions alde ’on’ and ala ’onto’ in North Saami. In previous descriptions of Saami adpositions, the main focus has always been on the concrete spatial meanings of the adpositional ...
Jussi Ylikoski
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Instrumental prepositions and case: Contexts of occurrence and alternations with datives
Glossa, 2017 We will argue that instrumentals are the mirror image of dative/genitive obliques. We propose that both sets of adpositions/cases are elementary predicates, expressing a zonal inclusion (part-whole/possession relation); instrumentals reverse the ...
Ludovico Franco, Maria Rita Manzini
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