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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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A note about the plural imperative -d marker
Quintú Quimün, 2020 In this note, we argue that the -d marking that appears in Spanish Peninsular varieties in the context of plural imperatives does not express subject agreement. Our proposal is that its syntactic position is the one of participant clitic pronouns.
Antonio Fábregas
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A broader perspective on point of view: logophoricity in Ogonoid languages [PDF]
, 2006 Logophoric marking in the Ogonoid family (Benue-Congo, Niger-Congo) differs significantly from most other logophoric reference systems in that these languages employ distinct verbal suffixes in logophoric domains, in addition to regular participant ...
Bond, Oliver
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From hierarchies to features : person splits and direct-inverse alternations [PDF]
, 2008 In the recent literature there is growing interest in the morpho-syntactic encoding of hierarchical effects. The paper investigates one domain where such effects are attested: ergative splits conditioned by person. This type of splits is then compared to
Alexiadou, Artemis +1 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 356-365, November 2024.
David Langslow
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Lingua: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajarannya, 2018 This study focuses on the behavior of pronouns persona /te/ to express aspects and possessions in the structure of the Masbagic sasak language sentence.
Hani Agustina
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VP-fronting in Czech and Polish : a case study in corpus-oriented grammar research [PDF]
, 2005 Fronting of an infinite VP across a finite main verb - akin to German "VP-topicalization" - can be found also in Czech and Polish. The paper discusses evidence from large corpora for this process and some of its properties, both syntactic and information-
Meyer, Roland
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Filled-gap effects in sentence processing: different accounts compared
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2008 It is widely accepted that the human sentence parsing mechanism is subject to real-time constraints that demand some decisions to be made on-line. One of the areas of research in sentence processing has been to look at how long-distance dependencies ...
Leticia Pablos
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A binary system of complementizers in Cimbrian relative clauses [PDF]
, 2012 The system of Cimbrian relative clauses manifests itself in a complex scenario: two different complementizers occur in this context: i) the ‘autochthonous’ (Germanic) bo, cognate of Southern German wo, and ii) the ‘allochthonous’ ke, borrowed from ...
Bidese, Ermenegildo +2 more
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Adapting the Core Language Engine to French and Spanish
, 1996 We describe how substantial domain-independent language-processing systems for French and Spanish were quickly developed by manually adapting an existing English-language system, the SRI Core Language Engine.
Bouillon, Pierrette +2 more
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