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Elements in the Restrictive Relative Clause: Resumptive Pronoun or Null Operator [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2019 ersian relative clause is a post-nominal subordinate clause; that is, Persian relative construction which can be followed by a demonstrative has ‘Det N RC’ word order. The configuration of relative structure follows the base generated analysis: head noun
Solmaz Mahmoudi
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Additive Particle in Turkic Languages of the Volga-Kama Sprachbund
Oriental Studies, 2021 Introduction. The paper deals with the functions of the additive clitic =DA in three Turkic languages of the Volga-Kama Sprachbund: Chuvash, Tatar, and Bashkir.
Alina A. Russkikh, Sofia A. Oskolskaya
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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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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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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Little research has explored how language dominance may affect the development and ultimate attainment of morphosyntax in a situation of widespread and social bilingualism, where exposure to both languages starts early on and can be sustained over time.
Adriana Soto‐Corominas +2 more
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Irony Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Research, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2026.ABSTRACT This study examined verbal irony comprehension in monolingual and bilingual autistic children, focusing on irony recognition, intention understanding, cue use while deciphering ironic meanings, and error patterns. A low‐verbal, multimodal task was used to minimize linguistic and metalinguistic demands.
Maria Andreou +2 more
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