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On Movement Constraints

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1981
This is an attempt to explain and justify some transformational constraints that are more often than not treated as syntactic conditions. There is a whole range of data that is not accounted for by Ross' original formulation of the constraints.
Oh, Choon-Kyu
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From Reflexive to Passive

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1998
Previous approaches to the passive development from a reflexive marking focus on how the former is similar to the latter semantically and syntactically. I show that the passive evolution is better understood by looking at the internal procedures that the
Sohn, Joong-Sun
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What exactly is Universal Grammar, and has anyone seen it? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Universal Grammar (UG) is a suspect concept. There is little agreement on what exactly is in it; and the empirical evidence for it is very weak.
Dabrowska, Ewa   +3 more
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Categoriile gramaticale ale intensităţii şi comparaţiei în gramaticile tradiţionale ale limbii române [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2015
The article approaches a current issue of great interest for both the theoretical and the applied linguistics. It is about the report between the properties expressed by an adjective or adverb during the act of comparison, which report has been seen as ...
Roxana Marcu-Oniga
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A Cyclic Approach to Simple Cliticization

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1990
: A sentence such as “I am going to find the store” may be reduced to “I[ma] find the store.” This reduction consists of a reduction of the auxiliary, changing “I am” to “I'm,” and an adjunction of infinitival to onto going to derive “gonna.” From there,
Huckabay, Hunter
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Reflexive constructions in the world's languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This landmark publication brings together 28 papers on reflexive constructions in languages from all continents, representing very diverse language types. While reflexive constructions have been discussed in the past from a variety of angles, this is the
Janic, Katarzyna   +3 more
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Categoria gramaticală a intensităţii în gramaticile actuale ale limbii române [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2016
The article approaches a current issue of great interest for both the theoretical and the applied linguistics. It is about the report between the properties expressed by an adjective or adverb during the act of comparison, which report has been seen as ...
Roxana Marcu-Oniga
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Vowel Harmony, Natural Phonology And The Problems Of Borrowing

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1979
The analysis of borrowing has created problems for any phonological theory proposed so far. In recent years a new phonological school, Natural Phonology, has claimed to offer a solution to these problems.
Yavas, Mehmet
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Minimal CP And The Adverb Effect

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2000
New observations about a variety of adverb effects, with both positive and negative effects on acceptability, suggest that adverbs link to and “parentheticalize" a complementizer.
Sobin, Nicholas
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