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Linguistic Inquiry, 2008 Two strategies of case marking in natural languages are discussed. These are defined as two violable constraints whose effects are shown to converge in the case of differential object marking but diverge in the case of differential subject marking.
Malchukov, A. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7117-7848 +1 more
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Complexity and Simplification in Language Shift
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper examines the question of linguistic complexity in two shift ecologies in northeastern Russia. It is frequently claimed that language shift results in linguistic simplification across a range of domains in the grammars of shifting speakers ...
Jessica Kantarovich +5 more
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Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022 We investigate the correlations between A- and P-lability for verbal arguments with other typological parameters using large, syntactically annotated corpora of online news in 28 languages.
Natalia Levshina, John A. Hawkins
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The Curious Case of Bivalent Marks [PDF]
Developmental Cell, 2009 Bivalently marked chromatin, containing both histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) and H3K27 trimethylation, is a hallmark of developmentally regulated paused promoters in mammalian embryonic stem cells. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Akkers et al. report that Xenopus tropicalis embryos transition through early development without the requirement for ...
Herz, Hans-Martin +2 more
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Rethinking case marking and case alternation in Estonian [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper, we argue for a view of case marking that does not treat case as the passive realisation of other morpho-syntactic properties of a construction but as independently bringing information to a clause.
Merilin Miljan +3 more
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Nominal relations in systemic dependency grammar
Studies in African Linguistics, 1988 Traditionally dependency grammar recognizes heads and dependents as primitive elements [Tesniere 1959, Robinson 1970, Hudson 1984]. I have suggested [Owens 1984b, 1985a] that these notions are dispensable ones and in this paper support this point with ...
Jonathan Owens
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Differential Case-Marking in Hindi [PDF]
, 2005 Contains fulltext : 247496.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
De Hoop, H., Narasimhan, B.
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German children's comprehension of word order and case marking in causative sentences [PDF]
, 2008 Two comprehension experiments were conducted to investigate whether German children are able to use the grammatical cues of word order and word endings (case markers) to identify agents and patients in a causative sentence and whether they weigh these ...
Abbot-Smith, K +15 more
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Transitivity of Spanish perception verbs: a gradual category?
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 This article examines to what extent perception verbs occurring in a syntactically transitive scheme are also semantically transitive. Indeed, since the perception process represents a mental rather than a physical contact between the perceiver/subject ...
Renata Enghels
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An experimental approach to case marking in Romanian elliptical comparatives [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2022 The main goal of this paper is to experimentally assess the case marking alternation on the subject remnant in Romanian gapped comparatives, in order to illustrate the limits of introspective informal judgments as the sole source of data and to show ...
Gabriela Bîlbîie
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