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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 144-167, March 2026.
Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
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Unaccusative Constructions in the Bakhtyiyari Dialect of Masjed Soleyman [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2014
Unaccusative constructions are one place predicates and their single core argument, like a passive predicate, functions as un undergoer rather than actor.
Vali Rezaei, Farkhonde Shojaei
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Acting as causing change

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 644-658, September 2024.
Abstract The paper defends a version of the view that agency is a causal power, the “causing view.” After sketching the view, and explaining how it differs from its rivals, various challenges are assessed. A family of objections says that causing change is neither necessary nor sufficient for acting.
Maria Alvarez
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The obligatoriness of arguments

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract A common diagnostic for distinguishing between arguments and adjuncts is obligatoriness/optionality: as a rule of thumb, arguments are obligatory and adjuncts are optional. However, there are many examples of optional arguments, which have led researchers to question the usefulness of this diagnostic and sometimes even the very distinction ...
Katie Van Luven, Ida Toivonen
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Causativity in zero and overt nominalizations: An experimental study [PDF]

Linguistica Pragensia
We experimentally evaluate three patterns of deverbal nominalizations derived by means of zero, -ing and Romance suffixes (i.e., -(at)ion, -ment, and -ance) in English as to whether they can express causativity and anticausativity like their base verbs ...
Gianina Iordăchioaia, Jeannique Darby
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Processing of Transitivity Alternations and Frequency-Based Accounts in Greek Adult Language

Languages, 2022
The processing and resolution of syntactically ambiguous structures is accounted for by serial autonomous and multiple constraint satisfaction models differently.
Georgia Fotiadou
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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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Syntactic and Semantic Distribution of the Ingressive Copulas pasidarė and tapo in Modern Lithuanian: A Corpus-based Analysis

Lietuvių Kalba, 2021
In an earlier publication (Mikulskas 2018), a contrastive study of the syntactic and semantic properties of the copular verbs virto ‘turned into’ (lit. ‘fell over’) vs.
Rolandas Mikulskas
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Description and analysis of the {e-} intr prefix of the Wayoro language (Ayuru, Tupi stock)

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2013
In Wayoro, verbs preceded by the intransitive {e-} prefix are one place verbs. The evidence for this is: use of absolutive personal prefixes as the sole argument markers required by the verb; and the ability of those personal prefixes to co-occur with ...
Antonia Fernanda de Souza Nogueira
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SE in Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2021
This article provides an overview of Spanish SE, covering the main empirical facts, analyses and theoretical issues that it raises, and exploring the prospects to unify all uses –which are over a dozen in the literature– under one same object that keeps ...
Antonio Fábregas
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