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On the position of ECM subjects : a case study from Japanese
Linguistica Brunensia, 2021 On the basis of new empirical data from Japanese, this paper argues that in the ECM construction where CP is projected in the embedded clause, the embedded subject undergoes A-movement to Spec of embedded CP, but not to the matrix object position.
Hideki Kishimoto
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Complementizer agreement is not allomorphy: A reply to Weisser (2019)
Glossa, 2020 Weisser (2019) reanalyzes the Breton rannig, Busan Korean interrogative complementizer alternations, and West-Germanic complementizer agreement as allomorphy instead of agreement, and proposes a set of diagnostics to distinguish allomorphy from agreement.
Astrid van Alem
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Micro-Contact in Southern Italy: Language Change in Southern Lazio under Pressure from Italian
Languages, 2022 This paper explores a novel case of contact-induced change due to micro-contact within Italy, where various Italo-Romance languages coexist (Standard Italian, Italiano Regionale ‘regional Italian’, and numerous local languages).
Valentina Colasanti
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Linguistica, 2016 This article analyzes the distribution of conditional clauses in multiple complementizer constructions, showing that preposed adverbial clauses could occupy in early Italo-Romance varieties different specifier positions within the left periphery of ...
Nicola Munaro
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Complementizer agreement with coordinated subjects in Polish
Glossa, 2018 This paper examines complementizer and verbal agreement with coordinate subjects in Polish. It shows that while certain patterns are possible, others (logically equally plausible ones) are not.
Barbara Citko
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Complementizer Drop And IP Complementation in Japanese
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2000 The main purpose of the present paper is to provide a principled account for a phenomenon called "Complementizer Drop" in the dialects of Japanese and its related phenomena in teens of the head-raising approach without recourse to the ECP or GB-type ...
Fukuda, Minoru
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On evidentiality in American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023 This paper discusses the indirect evidential markers dizque in American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese by focusing on the Spanish varieties of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Lima (Peru), and the Brazilian Portuguese variety of São Paulo (Brazil).
Gabriel Martínez Vera
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Deconstructing categories syncretic with the nominal complementizer
Glossa, 2018 This paper investigates the internal structure of categories syncretic with the complementizer from a nanosyntactic perspective (cf. Starke 2009; 2014; Caha 2009). The (emotive factive) that-complementizer in Germanic, Romance, Hellenic, Slavic and Finno-
Eric Lander, Lena Baunaz
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Phase-edge properties and complementizer omission
Isogloss, 2015 This paper deals with the diachrony of complementizer omission (C-omission) in some Italian clauses. C-omission is restricted to clauses with [-realis] mood in Old as well as in Modern Italian, and to some types of declarative clauses in Modern ...
Irene Franco
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Microvariation in Catalan and Occitan complementizers: the so-called expletive se
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010 The present paper offers further independent evidence for the functional projection INT(errogative) in the left periphery of the sentence (Rizzi 2001) that is needed for an adequate analysis of interrogative clauses in Catalan and Occitan Pyrenees ...
Gemma Rigau, Jordi Suïls
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