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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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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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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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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, Marc Olivier, Raffaella Folli   +2 more
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Modal particles in Albanian subjunctive, infinitive and supine constructions: presence vs absence of clitic climbing

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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Gone without the verb: clitic interpolation and clitic climbing in the history of European Portuguese

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, Cristiane Namiuti-Temponi   +1 more
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The Archetypal Invariant of Cyclicity: Syntax, Myth and Gender as Topological Models of Continuity Based on the Example of Proto-Turkic Contacts and the Cult of Osiris

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
This interdisciplinary study investigates the universal archetypal principle of cyclicity, which manifests synchronously in historically and geographically unrelated systems.
Assiya R. Nurdubaeva
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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, habib gowhari, Gholamhosein Karimi Doostan, Tayebeh Khoshbakht   +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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Object Person Marking in two under-represented Spanish dialects of Mexico

Isogloss, 2023
This paper is about a clitic-like form lo that appears in two under-studied dialects of Mexico in the context of transitive clauses. The distribution of this clitic-like form in these dialects is at odds with Standard Mexican Spanish which does not ...
Renato García González, José Fernando Chapa Barrios   +1 more
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