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Psych reflexive alternation in Ukrainian and Russian [PDF]

open access: yesBeiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft
This paper investigates the psych reflexive alternation in Ukrainian and Russian with a focus on the EO/ES (Experiencer Object / Experiencer Subject) alternation.
Bożena Rozwadowska   +2 more
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Transitivity Alternations in North Sámi

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2016
In North Sámi, verbs that form transitivity alternation pairs are always distinguished morphologically. However, even if morphology is seen as a reflex of the syntax, the syntactic structure underlying transitive and intransitive verbs in North Sámi ...
Julien Marit
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Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Verbs of pain in Romanian such as durea ‘ache’, ustura ‘burn’, and furnica ‘itch’ assign the accusative to their experiencer arguments, unlike other Romance languages, where the experiencer is dative-marked.
Barnes   +18 more
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The labile syntactic type in a diachronic perspective: the case of Vedic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Ancient Indo-European verbal syntax, as attested in early Vedic Sanskrit, exhibits numerous examples of the labile syntactic pattern: several verbal forms can show valence alternation with no formal change in the verb; cf. pres. svadate 'he makes sweet' /
Kulikov, Leonid
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Nonstandard Use of the “Reflexive” Affix -sja in Russian Speech of Bilingual Speakers of Northern Siberia and the Russian Far East

open access: yesLanguages, 2019
One of the features of the oral Russian speech of bilingual speakers of the indigenous languages of Russia is the omission/the overuse of the “reflexive” affix -sja (a “middle voice” marker with a wide range of uses including ...
Irina Khomchenkova   +2 more
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Se middle voice and reflexives

open access: yesIsogloss
Yucatec Spanish, a contact variety spoken in Yucatan, Mexico, carries many features that have been attributed to years of contact with Yucatec Maya. The current study investigates bilingual and monolingual speakers’ differentiation of the middle and ...
Kathryn Bove
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The syntax of naming constructions in European Portuguese dialects: variation and change

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2012
This paper discusses the syntax of naming constructions with the verb chamar ‘to call’. We show that in some varieties of European Portuguese the verb chamar displays an alternation in the expression of the named entity, which is manifested by the ...
Adriana Cardoso, Catarina Magro
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Activa, mitjana i passiva: la morfosintaxi de la veu [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper is concerned with the variation found with respect to how languages morphologically mark argument structure (AS) alternations, a variation that I take to be related to the realization of the syntactic Voice head.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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Anticausatives compete but do not differ in meaning: a French case study

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2014
In French as in many other Romance and Germanic languages, verbs undergoing the causative/anticausative alternation divide into two morphological and three distributional classes.
Martin Fabienne, Schäfer Florian
doaj   +1 more source

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