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Voiced Obstruents in Mien and Old Chinese Reconstructions
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2020 This paper presents additional data from Chinese loanwords into Hmong-Mien documenting the existence of prenasalization in Old Chinese, focusing on one variety: Jiangdi Mien.
Guillaume Jacques
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LEXICALIZATION IN MORPHOLOGY: A CASE STUDY OF THE ANTICAUSATIVE PREFIX IN TAQBAYLIT BERBER [PDF]
Studii de gramatică contrastivăWhat makes lexicalization an intriguing topic in morphology? It is not so much the semantic mismatch between a base and its ‘derived’ form, but the question of how lexicalization is underlyingly represented.
Amazigh Bedar
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Mandenkan, 2013 In this paper, after presenting the main particularities of the phonology and morphosyntax of Bakel Soninke, we provide a detailed analysis of the morphosyntactic mechanisms involving transitivity: morphologically unmarked transitivity alternations and ...
Denis Creissels, Anna Marie Diagne
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Reflexive verbs in Hebrew: Deep unaccusativity meets lexical semantics
Glossa, 2017 Reflexive verbs in Modern Hebrew show specific morphological marking: only one of the seven verbal templates in the language can be used for reflexives.
Itamar Kastner
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Drifting between passive and anticausative: reply to replies [PDF]
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Kulikov, Leonid
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Restrictions on reflexive and anti-causative readings in nominalizations and participles
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2011 This article discusses the absence of reflexive or self-caused readings in certain types of participles and de-verbal nominalizations, like the hanging of the suicidal patient and The suicidal patient was hanged yesterday.
Björn Lundquist
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unified analysis of passives and anticausatives
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2006 Starting from the basic observation that, across languages, the anticausative variant of an alternating verb systematically involves morphological marking that is shared by passive verbs, the goal of this paper is to provide a uniform and formal account of these arguably two different construction types.
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Verbalizing nouns and adjectives: The case of behavior-related verbs
Glossa, 2020 In languages such as French, it is possible to derive from nouns or adjectives unergative verbs that intuitively describe ways of behaving, for example, diplomatiser ‘behave like a diplomat’, or bêtifier ‘behave like an idiot’.
Christopher Pinon, Fabienne Martin
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The conceptualization of change of state events and the labile alternation in Spanish [PDF]
, 2017 Las teorías sobre la conceptualización de los eventos de cambio de estado (cf. Haspelmath 1993) han tenido una enorme presencia en los estudios sobre la alternancia causativo-inacusativa a partir del trabajo de Levin y Rappaport Hovav (1995), tanto en ...
Vivanco, Margot
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