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Embedded stripping in Italian and Complementizer Deletion

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
In this work I propose an experimental analysis of the role of Complementizer Deletion (CD) in embedded stripping in Italian. I follow Wurmbrand (2017), who proposes the existence of a typological bipartition of languages, namely those which only allow ...
Francesca Dal Santo
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Complementizer deletion and the split hypothesis

Isogloss
In Italian and Italo-Romance, the omission of the complementizer takes (at least) three distinct forms: CD1, observable in standard Italian, and CD2 and CD3 available in two Tuscan varieties, respectively in Florentine and Pisano.
Elena Isolani
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A Minimalist Analysis of Persian Restrictive Relative Clause Derivation [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2023
Within the Minimalist Program (MP), Relative clauses (RCs) are considered complementizer clauses (CPs) containing a C with an edge feature [EF] in the form of [wh] and [EPP] but no tense feature. This study investigates Persian RC derivation based on MP.
Abbas Ali Ahangar, Seyedeh Zohreh Aftabi
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I think (that) something’s missing: Complementizer deletion in nonnative e-mails

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Sociolinguistic competence is not often examined in nonnative English acquisition. This is particularly true for features where the variants are neither stylistically nor socially constrained, but rather are acceptable in all circumstances.
Mercedes Durham
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EMPTY CATEGORIES IN TRANSFORMATIONAL RULES

JL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching), 2019
There are three theories that are always developed in any study of language, namely theory of language structure, theory of language acquisition, and theory of language use.
Ruly Adha
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Restrictive relative clauses in Acadian French [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2017
Restricted relatives in Acadian French display the following peculiarities: generalization of que ‘that’ as the relative complementizer; deletion of que ‘that’; orphaned prepositions; failure of subject-verb agreement between the relative noun and the ...
Virginia Hill
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THE SYNTAX OF BI-COMPARATIVES IN MANDARIN CHINESE [PDF]

Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2012
The study attempts to propose a syntactic account of bi-comparatives in Mandarin Chinese under the generative framework. Bi plays a role reminiscent of a prepositional complementizer projecting a self-completed clause (Hsing 2003, Chung 2006), a ...
Cheng-Chieh Su
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Comparing Models on the Optionality of Complementizer Omission

Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Occidentale
Different studies in generative grammar have tried to explain the optionality with respect to the complementizer omission across languages and across structures.
Samo, Giuseppe, Isolani, Elena
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Verb movement in Florentine

Isogloss
Complementizer deletion (CD) in Italo-Romance varieties branches off in two different pathways: CD1, present in standard Italian with a bridge selecting verb and an irrealis embedded verb and CD2, available in Florentine and associated with a bridge or ...
ELENA ISOLANI
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Relative Clauses in Native Lower Sorbian and the Relativizer how

Languages
Native Lower Sorbian, an endangered West Slavic minority language spoken in Germany, possesses a relative clause formation strategy employing the invariant relativizer ak and optional resumption. The focus of this paper lies on the status of ak. In other
Andreas Pankau
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