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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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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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Reverse transfer in clitic collocation a study on Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese
Diacrítica, 2019 This study focuses on reverse transfer, L2 influences on L1, with L1 as the dominant language. It investigates clitic collocation in complex verb phrases, contrasting Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Spanish.
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023 In this paper we propose that verbal clusters with restructuring verbs contain a defective embedded clausal boundary. Additionally, this paper constitutes a methodological and empirical contribution to syntactic microvariation in Occitano-Romance ...
Ares Llop, Anna Paradís
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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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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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