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Finiteness in Hinuq

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2011
Hinuq (Nakh-Daghestanian language family, Caucasus, Russia) has a rich system of verbal forms. In independent/main clauses there are seven synthetic TAM forms, 20 periphrastic TAM forms, and two heterogeneous TAM forms that cannot be attributed clearly ...
Diana Forker
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Weak function word shift [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains.
Vogel, Ralf
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Subordination in Children’s Writing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper reports an investigation into the use of subordinate clauses in the writing of a class of seven to nine year old children when attempting five different writing tasks.
Allison, P, Beard, Roger, Willcocks, J
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From Subordinate Marker to Discourse Marker: que in Andean Spanish

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005
This paper proposes an analysis of a redundant use of que ('that') found in Andean Spanish as an expression which has undergone a grammaticalization process.
Renaud Beeckmans
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Beyond Verb Meaning: Experimental Evidence for Incremental Processing of Semantic Roles and Event Structure

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
We present an event-related potentials (ERP) study that addresses the question of how pieces of information pertaining to semantic roles and event structure interact with each other and with the verb’s meaning. Specifically, our study investigates German
Markus Philipp   +3 more
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Scrambling and reference in german [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Although the linear order of arguments (and adverbials) in German is relatively free, it underlies certain restrictions; these don’t apply to the so-called unmarked order for arguments (Lenerz 1977) and adverbials (Frey/Pittner 1998).
Lenerz, Jürgen
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Grammar practice : theory and practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Fil: Luque Colombres, María Candelaria. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Fil: Meehan, Patricia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Fil: Oliva, María Belén.
de Maussion, Ana   +5 more
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Complementizers kad and jog(ei) ‘that’ in the 19th century Lithuanian fiction texts

open access: yesLietuvių Kalba
The paper examines the functions of the complementizers kad and jog(ei) ‘that’ in the 19th-century Lithuanian fiction texts. In Lithuanian grammars, the examined complementizers are described as asemantic, i.
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė
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Main clause că ‘that’ in Romanian

open access: yesBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010
Romanian că ‘that’ is the Force head of subordinated clauses (Hill 2004). In this paper I point out that the complementizer că ‘that’ may occur in root (vs.
Virginia Hill
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The conditional particle ka in Waama.pdf

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1991
The particle ka in Waama has an underlying conditional function, and serves most frequently to set up possible worlds in the minds of interlocutors. By virtue of its function as a conditional, it can also mark topics.
Jennifer Rowe
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