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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 119-150, March 2024.Abstract Degrammaticalisation is an oft‐dismissed category of language change. In this paper evidence is provided for its existence, its triggers, and its conditions. This case study details the development of an understudied Old Italo‐Romance indefinite, covelle, a polarity‐sensitive item roughly translating as ‘anything’ which originated from a Latin
Nicola D’Antuono
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On Left and Right Dislocation: A Dynamic Perspective [PDF]
, 2002 The paper argues that by modelling the incremental and left-right process of interpretation as a process of growth of logical form (representing logical forms as trees), an integrated typology of left-dislocation and right-dislocation phenomena becomes ...
Cann, Ronnie +2 more
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Auxiliary selection in Italian restructuring: An insight into the size of the clause
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 85-122, March 2024.Abstract In Standard Italian, restructuring clauses are characterized by apparently optional transparency effects in the choice of the clausal perfect auxiliary. In the perfect periphrasis, the auxiliary associated with the modal verb can be either HAVE or the one corresponding to the lexical verb (BE or HAVE).
Irene Amato
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The reorganization of the direct and indirect objects in Romanian language [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2020 The present study, continuing some previous research, highlighted the semantic-syntactic characteristics of the two syntactic positions. Based on the hierarchy of these arguments (transitivity and dative rection), it was found,
Ștefan GĂITĂNARU
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Information structure in linguistic theory and in speech production : validation of a cross-linguistic data set [PDF]
, 2007 The aim of this paper is to validate a dataset collected by means of production experiments which are part of the Questionnaire on Information Structure.
Hellmuth, Sam, Skopeteas, Stavros
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In support of long distance agree [PDF]
, 2009 In the recent literature the phenomenon of long distance agreement has become the focus of several studies as it seems to violate certain locality conditions which require that agreeing elements in general stand in clause-mate relationships.
Alexiadou, Artemis +3 more
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IsoglossIn order to choose among different methods when collecting linguistic data, many different factors should be considered. We will argue that the choice of the most appropriate methods depends on whether a construction applies within one linguistic module
Jorge Vega Vilanova, Susann Fischer
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Intervention in agreement and case assignment: the role of doubling
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020 In this paper we will show that there are two types of languages which involve different mechanisms in obviating Minimality Violations/Defective Intervention and Case opacity: Agreement languages of Punjabi/Icelandic-type with default agreement and ...
Mihaela Moreno Marchis, Ludovico Franco
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Catalan pronominalization and information structure: the role of primary accent [PDF]
, 2017 Certain aspects of Catalan pronominalization cannot be described without taking into account how informational content is mapped onto sentence structure. In this paper, some data previously considered in the literature (mainly from Todolí's 'Els pronoms')
Forcadell Guinjoan, Montserrat
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Clitic doubling and pure agreement person features
, 2016 : In this paper, we analyze clitic doubling constructions in dialectal non-standard Brazilian Portuguese. Within the Minimalism Framework, we explain very peculiar aspects of the doubled structures in this language, namely the fact that they occur only ...
Ricardo Machado Rocha, J. Ramos
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