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Little v and cross-linguistic variation
Linguistik Aktuell, 2016The main claim of this paper is that little v is responsible for a range of grammatical properties of the predicate phrase that it selects for. Bilingual light verb constructions in several code-switching varieties provide strong evidence for this claim.
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Cross-linguistic variation in metonymies for PERSON
Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2015This paper investigates metonymies for person in Chinese and English in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics with an emphasis on cross-linguistic variation. Our central goal is to highlight the important role of cultural elements on the use of metonymy. Three main types of cross-linguistic variation were found at different degrees of granularities of
Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts
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Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Layered Structure of PP
2020This chapter provides a novel observation concerning cross-linguistic variation regarding NP-ellipsis (henceforth NPE) inside articulated PPs and considers its theoretical implications. It first shows that although NPE is equally available in nominals in English, Chinese, and Japanese, the parallel pattern breaks down when NPE takes place within PPs ...
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Measure words, plurality, and cross-linguistic variation
Linguistic Variation, 2015In the context of Borer’s (2005) theory of nominal classification, the aim of this paper is to explain why measure words in some languages (English, French, Hebrew) necessarily take an -s(two bottles of milkversus*two bottle of milk)while in other languages (Azeri, Persian, Ojibwe) measure words can surface without plural marking (the equivalent oftwo ...
Eric Mathieu, Gita Zareikar
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Cross-linguistic variation in children’s multimodal utterances
2018AbstractOur ability to use language is multimodal and requires tight coordination between what is expressed in speech and in gesture, such as pointing or iconic gestures that convey semantic, syntactic and pragmatic information related to speakers’ messages.
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Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Processing of Aspect
2014The present study investigates the cross-linguistic processing of aspect in English and German. Three self-paced reading experiments provide evidence that coercion of a (simple) past accomplishment into an activity reading causes processing difficulty in English (Experiment 1), but not in German (Experiments 2 and 3). We attribute this cross-linguistic
Bott, Oliver +4 more
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Cross-linguistic variation in the syntax of subjects
2014In this chapter, by focusing on two dimensions of cross-linguistic variation, I discuss the hypothesis that parameters are limited to properties of the functional lexicon, which have an impact on the core computational operations. In one case, variation concerns the probe head and the operation Move: the features which drive verb movement can be ...
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Cross-linguistic variations in L2 morphological awareness
Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000This study investigated the effects of L1 processing experience on L2 morphological awareness. Preliminary cross-linguistic comparisons indicated that morphological awareness in two typologically distinct languages, Chinese and English, differs in several major ways.
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