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Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory : an illustration with pronominal clitics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent ...
Law, Paul
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model

open access: yesReading 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
wiley   +1 more source

Argumentos x núcleos focales: el estatus de clíticos que duplican SSNN en español Argumentos x núcleos focais: o status de clíticos que duplicam SNs em espanhol Arguments and focus heads: the status of NP-doubling clitics in Spanish

open access: yesDELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2006
Este trabalho apresenta uma análise gerativa de clíticos de Caso acusativo envolvidos em construções de reduplicação em espanhol. Demonstrará que este tipo de clítico não constitui um elemento único, e, sim, que pode ser dividido em dois grupos, o dos ...
Paulo Correa
doaj   +1 more source

On the distribution of adjectives in Romanian : the cel construction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper deals with the variable position of adjectives in the Romanian DP. As all other Romance languages, Romanian allows for adjectives to appear in both prenominal and post-nominal position.
Alexiadou, Artemis, Marchis, Mihaela
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Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences

open access: yesLanguage 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
wiley   +1 more source

The object-gap pseudorelative generalization

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2018
Previous literature contains two different points of view regarding the subject-object asymmetry related to the DP head of pseudorelatives (PRs). Some authors claim that the DP head can only be interpreted as the subject of the embedded predicate ...
Nuria Aldama García
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Learning to Read and Developmental Dyslexia in Hebrew

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
Abstract The study of Hebrew, a non‐European language written in a non‐alphabetic (abjadic) script offers valuable insights into the science of reading beyond the well‐studied alphabetic scripts. Because reading development in Hebrew is shaped by the uniquely Semitic root‐and‐pattern morphology and the abjadic (predominantly consonantal) orthography ...
Adi Shechter, David L. Share
wiley   +1 more source

Improving treebank-based automatic LFG induction for Spanish [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 syntax of Greek split reciprocals

open access: yesSyntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.
Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
wiley   +1 more source

Syntactic Doubling and the Structure of Chains [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
A recent survey of 267 dialects of Dutch (SAND; Barbiers et al.
Barbiers, S.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

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