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Improving treebank-based automatic LFG induction for Spanish [PDF]
, 2006 We describe several improvements to the method of treebank-based LFG induction for Spanish from the Cast3LB treebank (O’Donovan et al., 2005). We discuss the different categories of problems encountered and present the solutions adopted.
Chrupała, Grzegorz, van Genabith, Josef
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The reorganization of the direct and indirect objects in Romanian language [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2020 The present study, continuing some previous research, highlighted the semantic-syntactic characteristics of the two syntactic positions. Based on the hierarchy of these arguments (transitivity and dative rection), it was found,
Ștefan GĂITĂNARU
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, 2002 Abstract The following chapter is an attempt to solve a particularly troublesome problem in the theory of Transformational Grammar: the problem of ordering and combining clitic pronouns. Perlmutter (1971) shows that the syntax of clitic pronouns in (South-American) Spanish and French cannot be handled by transformations in the ordinary ...
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Expanding the Typology of Absolutive Syntax in Mayan: Evidence From Northern Mam
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3, May/June 2025.ABSTRACT Past work on Mayan languages has divided the family into two groups based on syntactic ergativity: ‘high‐absolutive’ languages in which objects raise to a position above the ergative subject and enter into Agree with a high probe and ‘low‐absolutive’ languages in which objects remain low and enter into Agree with a low probe.
Willie Myers
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms [PDF]
, 2007 This article1 and the three others in this thematic collection are about heads and specifiers, the relationship between them, and how this relationship can change over time.
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Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 77-116, March 2025.Abstract Adults learning a new language tend to judge unconventional utterances more leniently than fluent speakers do; ratings on acceptable utterances, however, tend to align more closely with fluent speakers. This asymmetry raises a question as to whether unconventional utterances can be statistically preempted by conventional utterances for adult ...
Karina Tachihara, Adele E. Goldberg
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.Abstract This study investigates the role of diglossic and orthographic features in reading comprehension in Arabic. Specifically, it probes the independent contribution of language, metalinguistic, and decoding skills in the spoken language and in Standard Arabic to reading comprehension in the abjad writing system of Arabic.
Elinor Saiegh‐Haddad, Rachel Schiff
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Does Hungarian have a case system? [PDF]
, 2008 I argue that case markers in Hungarian are best thought of as ‘fused postpositions’. There is no need to set up a separate syntactic or morphological [Case] attribute as such.
Spencer, Andrew
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On Left and Right Dislocation: A Dynamic Perspective [PDF]
, 2002 The paper argues that by modelling the incremental and left-right process of interpretation as a process of growth of logical form (representing logical forms as trees), an integrated typology of left-dislocation and right-dislocation phenomena becomes ...
Cann, Ronnie +2 more
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