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Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT Mayan languages show variation in the morphosyntactic distribution of absolutive objects. A now commonly‐adopted analysis ties this variation to differences in object movement and agreement. In so‐called ‘high‐absolutive’ languages, objects consistently raise to a position above the ergative subject, where they are targeted for ϕ $\phi $‐Agree
Justin Royer, Jessica Coon
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Intervention effects in wh-chains: the combined effect of syntax and processing
Glossa, 2019 This study in experimental syntax investigates the factors affecting the acceptability of embedded clauses featuring a left-dislocated phrase below a fronted wh-phrase.
Cecile De Cat +1 more
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Expanding the Typology of Absolutive Syntax in Mayan: Evidence From Northern Mam
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3, May/June 2025.ABSTRACT Past work on Mayan languages has divided the family into two groups based on syntactic ergativity: ‘high‐absolutive’ languages in which objects raise to a position above the ergative subject and enter into Agree with a high probe and ‘low‐absolutive’ languages in which objects remain low and enter into Agree with a low probe.
Willie Myers
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THE SYNTACTIC PROPERTIES AND DISTRIBUTIONS OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS INSAMBORI LANGUAGE
Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2019 This article aims at describing the syntactic properties and distributions of Personal Pronouns in Sambori Language, a language spoken by the people who occupy Sambori Village and others nearby villages in Lambitu, a montainous district of Bima Regency ...
Arafiq Arafiq +3 more
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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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Serbo-Croat Clitics and Word Grammar [PDF]
, 2007 Serbo-Croat has a complex system of clitics which raise interesting problems for any theory of the interface between syntax and morphology. After summarising the data we review previous analyses (mostly within the generative tradition), all of which are ...
Hudson, Richard, Čamdžić, Amela
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Syntax, 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
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Um caminho para o estudo dos pronomes
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 1997 In "The tipology of structural deficiency: on the three grammatical classes", A. Cardinaletti and M. Starke propose a partition of personal pronouns into three classes: strong, weak, and clitic.
Mirta Groppi
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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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On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring
IsoglossThis study investigates the production of clitic pronouns by monolingual Italian children aged 4;9-10;11, using a sentence repetition task including sentences with one or two restructuring verbs.
Anna Cardinaletti +2 more
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