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Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation
Languages, 2022 Gender agreement between determiners and nouns, and gender agreement between third-person clitics and their referents, are notoriously difficult to acquire by bilingual speakers who lack them in their first language, or in one of their first languages ...
Liliana Sánchez +3 more
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
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Agentive reflexive clitics and transitive 'se' constructions in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 This paper investigates the structure of transitive sentences that contain a non-doubling reflexive clitic such as Juan se lavó todos los platos and María se leyó un libro. Though these are traditionally labelled unselected (non-core) agreeing datives or
Grant Armstrong
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Isogloss, 2022 The A/A'-distinction underpins case, agreement, and binding properties of moving DPs. It also determines possible movement paths (cf. the Ban on Improper Movement).
Suzana Fong
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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A reanálise dos clíticos «me» e «te» em estruturas de redobro pronominal no dialeto mineiro
Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2012 Resumo: Neste artigo, analisamos a ocorrência das formas pronominais me e te em estruturas de redobro. Argumentamos que, em alguns falares mineiros, essas formas estão sendo reanalisadas como prefixos de concordância para os traços de pessoa [+falante] e
Ricardo Machado Rocha
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An experimental study on the discourse properties of Romanian direct objects [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2022 Differential Object Marking (DOM) and Clitic Doubling (CD) have been argued to signal prominence of the marked direct object (DO) along various dimensions, such as animacy, referentiality, topicality, affectedness.
Alina Tigău
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Engineering Reports, Volume 7, Issue 7, July 2025.The method achieves significant performance breakthroughs in machine translation through deep integration of linguistic features at different granularities. ABSTRACT The transformer model addresses the efficiency bottleneck caused by sequential computation in traditional recurrent neural networks (RNN) by leveraging the self‐attention mechanism to ...
Wenjing Yao, Wei Zhou
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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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