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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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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 Agreement and the Licensing of DPs: An Account in Terms of Referential Anchoring
LanguagesIn this paper, I argue that the phenomenon of complementizer agreement in West Germanic and the distribution of DPs in German can be given a common explanation in terms of an approach in which context values are not freely assigned via an interpretive ...
Roland Hinterhölzl
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Vocatives and Vocative Particles in the Syntax-pragmatics Interface in Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2021 Vocatives are small but important expressions in the meaning of an utterance. They are defined as a means of drawing an addressee's attention, in order to “establish or maintain a relationship between this addressee and some proposition” (Lambrecht, 1996,
Abbas Ali Ahangar, Zahra Mozaffari
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Search downward: Minimal Search-based Agree
Glossa, 2023 This paper explores empirical merits of a version of Agree that is defined based on Minimal Search (MS-Agree). Compared to the standard Agree, MS-Agree, essentially a search algorithm, uniquely allows the independent assignment of its search target and ...
Alan Hezao Ke
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On the locus and licensing of edge features
Glossa, 2021 Assuming Chomsky’s (2000; 2001) phase-based model, this paper deals with the issue of how the features that trigger successive cyclic A’-movement are lexically encoded and licensed.
Jairo Nunes
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Circumventing the ‘That-Trace’ Effect: Different Strategies between Germanic and Romance
Languages, 2021 In our paper, we deal with the Germanic–Romance language contact, focusing on Cimbrian, a Germanic minority language spoken in Northern Italy. Specifically, we focus on the violation of the well-known that-trace filter, as it appears to be an interesting
Andrea Padovan +2 more
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A special case of long distance agreement in Marathi
Glossa, 2020 This paper discusses an unexplored case of long distance agreement (LDA) in Marathi in which agreement takes place across an embedded subjunctive clause. In this construction, three distinct heads- an embedded verb, a matrix verb and what appears to be a
Renuka Ozarkar
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When hypotaxis looks like parataxis: embedding and complementizer agreement in Teiwa
Glossa, 2020 Teiwa, an Alor-Pantar language of the Trans-New Guinea family, has been characterized as expressing speech reports not with complementation, but with combinations of two clauses juxtaposed under a single intonation contour with no morphological ...
Bart Hollebrandse +2 more
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Feature licensing and the number interpretation of bare nominals in Wolof
Glossa, 2023 Crosslinguistically, bare nominals (BNs) are often number-neutral, i.e., their number interpretation does not imply any commitment to a singular or plural interpretation.
Suzana Fong
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