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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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Variation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish
Isogloss, 2015 Since Cinque’s (2006:31-32) four-way typology of languages in terms of clitic climbing (CC, herein), those in which CC displays optionality, such as Argentinean Spanish (ArgSp, herein), remain poorly understood. This paper aims to address this need. Here,
Ioanna Sitaridou +2 more
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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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Clitic Climbing, the Raising-Control Dichotomy and Diaphasic Variation in Croatian
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2019 In the paper, we discuss the phenomenon of clitic climbing (CC) out of infinitive complements in contemporary Croatian. Based on the first theoretical work and some empirical findings on CC in Czech and Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (BCS) and the ...
Zrinka Kolaković +2 more
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Pronoun clitics and sentential negation in Portuguese: some elements for grammar description
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2014 In this paper we intend to discuss about the relation between pronoun clitics and sentential negation (NEG) in Portuguese. Wherefore we resume some issues about the Portuguese syntax history trying to find clues that help us understand the nature of the ...
Cristiane Namiuti , Carlos Mioto
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