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Comparing Agreement System in Kalhori Kurdish with Laki, Surani, and Kormanji [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2017 Agreement, case marking, and word order are three important means to represent grammatical relations. Languages use these means according to their features.
Mehdi Mehdizadeh +3 more
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Irrealis-marked interrogatives as rhetorical questions
Open Linguistics, 2023 I describe and compare two strategies to form rhetorical questions (RQs) in Sm’algyax (Tsimshianic). I show that one kind is isomorphic to ordinary, information-seeking questions, and is compatible with positive and negative answers, while the second is ...
Brown Colin
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Clitic climbing and restructuring in the history of French
Glossa, 2023 This paper constitutes an empirical investigation into the diachrony of clitic climbing (and consequently restructuring) in French based on data from a novel corpus of legal texts, as well as a theoretical analysis of the loss of this phenomenon from the
Christina Sevdali +2 more
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Cinque's functional verbs in French [PDF]
, 2007 This article focuses on the syntax of a number of subcategories of verb in French which are compatible with a following bare infinitive and which express various kinds of grammatical tense, mood, modality, aspect and voice, as well as such (more lexical?
Rowlett, P
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Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2017 It is a well-known fact that the infinite/subjunctive substitution, attested in Balkan languages, correlates with possibility/impossibility of clitic climbing.
Giuseppina Turano
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2016 Previous studies have reported that clitic interpolation and clitic climbing change according to three stages in the history of European Portuguese.
Aroldo Leal de Andrade +1 more
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The influence of linguistic and social factors on the recent decline of French ne [PDF]
, 2002 In this article we present some results showing the decline in radio speech in the use of the French negative particle ne over the last forty years or so.
Armstrong, N., Smith, A.
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Imperatives in Heritage Spanish: Lexical Access and Lexical Frequency Effects
Languages, 2023 Along with declaratives and interrogatives, imperatives are one of the three major clause types of human language. In Spanish, imperative verb forms present poor morphology, yet complex syntax.
Julio César López Otero
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The poetry as reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena [PDF]
, 2013 Many linguists refuse to believe that poetic and especially metrical - texts can provide reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena. In this article, I show that the Medieval Greek poetry represents an exception.
Soltic, Jorie
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Disentangling Words, Clitics, and Suffixes in Uyghur
Languages, 2023 Turkic languages have been shown to form words using a wide range of word-formation strategies, such as suffixation, cliticization, and auxiliaries. The present paper offers a detailed description of word formation in Uyghur, compares the patterns in ...
Travis Major, Connor Mayer, Gülnar Eziz
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