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Background and aims Impaired production of third person accusative pronominal clitics is a signature of language impairment in French-speaking children.
Philippe Prévost +5 more
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On Double Clitics in Interrogatives in a Northern Italian Dialect
Following recent studies (see for instance Poletto 2000) on the higher functional field, in this paper I aim to give a contribution to the cartography of the CP projection, by examining the behaviour of subject and object clitics in the Northern Italian ...
Nicoletta Penello
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The formal heterogeneity of allocutivity
Despite recent growth in formal work on allocutive marking, little work to date has considered the nature of cross-linguistic differences in the syntax of allocutive varieties, and what relationships, if any, exist among them.
Bill Haddican, Deepak Alok
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
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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ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]
This chapter argues that despite formal resemblances, Latin perfect tense BE-periphrases of the type amatus sum ‘I was loved’ are not the historical source of Romance present tense passives like Italian sono amato and French je suis aimé (both meaning ‘I
Danckaert, Lieven
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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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Subject Clitics: New Evidence from Old Nubian
This article treats a set of subject cross-referencing morphemes in the medieval Nilo-Saharan language Old Nubian, traditionally called “personal endings.” Based on an analysis of their syntactic distribution and morphology, I argue that this set can be ...
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
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Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan
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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VP-fronting in Czech and Polish : a case study in corpus-oriented grammar research [PDF]
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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