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The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Second Language Processing: Knowledge Gains From the Past and Future Outlook

Language Learning, Volume 73, Issue S2, Page 95-138, December 2023., 2023
Abstract The past decades have seen an explosion of research using electrophysiological or neuroimaging techniques for studying the neurocognitive underpinnings of second language (L2) processing. Although this field has a shorter history than does research on language learning more generally, important insights into the neurocognitive basis of L2 ...
Janet G. van Hell
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Clitic placement at the syntax‐phonology interface: A case study of Berber*

Studia Linguistica, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 615-651, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Berber1 clitics are argued to follow the main verb but may appear in a position preceding the verb in the presence of a Complementiser, Negation or Tense. However, there are cases involving a subset of these categories yet the clitics still follow the verb.
Abdelhak El Hankari
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Agree and the subjects of specificational clauses

Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 251-279, September 2023., 2023
Abstract This article investigates agreement in Persian sentences with a specificational copular clause embedded under the epistemic modal tavānestan ‘can’. We argue that this structure is a raising structure. It exhibits agreement on both the embedded and modal verbs.
Susana Bejar, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
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A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire–infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan

Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 183-222, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Catalan, like Italian and French, displays (notwithstanding certain complications) a pattern in causatives under facere such that the causee can be realized as dative only where its complement is “transitive.” We propose an analysis of this pattern based on Cyclic Agree.
Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan
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Unexpected Partitive Articles in Francoprovençal*

Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 101-129, April 2022., 2022
Abstract This contribution seeks to add to our knowledge on ‘partitive articles’ (like the French element du in Je bois du vin, ‘I drink (some) wine’) in a highly endangered language spoken in France, Switzerland and Italy, namely Francoprovençal. Based on recent fieldwork data (2017) from the Aosta Valley and data from the ALAVAL atlas project, we ...
Elisabeth Stark, Jan Pavel Davatz
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Adversative Conjunction and Neighboring Discourse Features in Old Church Slavic (Codex Marianus), with Comparative Notes on the Same Phenomena in Greek, Gothic and Classical Armenian*

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 128-183, March 2022., 2022
Abstract The system of adversative conjunction in the Old Church Slavic Gospels is characterized by two pure adversatives, nŭ and the much less frequent obače, together with two other forms, a and že, which are employed with equal or greater frequency in non‐adversative conjunctive roles. The relationship between nŭ and a is complex.
Jared S. Klein
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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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Clitic climbing (or lack thereof) and the Copy Theory of Movement

Glossa, 2019
Based on consideration of understudied clitic-climbing facts from Spanish and other Romance varieties, I provide a new argument for Lower Copy Pronunciation within the Copy Theory of Movement.
Julio Villa-García
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“Clitic climbing” in Hittite

Indo-European Linguistics, 2023
Abstract Cross-linguistically, clitic climbing occurs when clitics that belong syntactically and semantically to the subordinate clause (most commonly non-finite, rarely finite) appear in the main clause, i.e., they climb out of the subordinate clause into the main clause.
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LA STRUCTURE FORMÉE DU VERBE "A VREA" ‘VOULOIR’ ET DE L’INFINITIF EN ROUMAIN

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2020
The Structure Made of the Verb a vrea “want” and the Infinitive in Romanian. Based on a corpus containing old language texts as well as texts illustrating the regional varieties of Modern Romanian, the present article brings forth the peculiarities ...
Isabela NEDELCU
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