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The Plural is Unmarked: Evidence from Turkish, Hungarian and German
Glossa, 2023 Quantity distinctions are morphologically indicated in the majority of languages.However, the marking of these distinctions exhibits a high degree of cross-linguistic variation with respect to the number of quantity categories, their agreement properties,
Artemis Alexiadou +4 more
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Cross-linguistic variation in modality systems: The role of mood
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 The St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish) subjunctive mood appears in nine distinct environments, with a range of semantic effects, including weakening an imperative to a polite request, turning a question into an uncertainty statement, and creating an ...
Lisa Matthewson
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Cross-linguistic variation in 'before'-clauses
LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts, 2011 No abstract.
Yael Sharvit, Lyn Shan Tieu
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Linguistic Discovery, 2010 The aim of this paper is to explore the degree to which semantic maps and conceptual spaces may comprehensively describe cross-linguistic variation by discussing the types of phenomena that may be consistently represented in a unified account.
Caterina Mauri
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Cross-Linguistic Variation and Efficiency [PDF]
, 2014 Abstract This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural choices from which selections are made in performance, e.g.
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At the crossroads of typology and language(s) in use
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsA long-standing issue in linguistic typology concerns the relationship between cross-linguistic generalization and the empirical foundations on which such generalizations are built.
Silvia Ballarè +2 more
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Case variation in coordination: Danish vs. Faroese
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2009 This paper is primarily concerned with inter- and intra-individually variable case-form mismatches inside coordinate determiner phrases (CoDPs). For English, the phenomenon is both socially salient (e.g., O'Conner & Kellerman 2009, among many others) and
Jeffrey K. Parrott
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Cognitive decline is a disabling and variable feature of Parkinson disease (PD). While cholinergic system degeneration is linked to cognitive impairments in PD, most prior research reported cross‐sectional associations. We aimed to fill this gap by investigating whether baseline regional cerebral vesicular acetylcholine transporter ...
Taylor Brown +6 more
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Interactions Among Morphology, Word Order, and Syntactic Directionality: Evidence from 55 Languages
EntropyThis study investigates interactions among morphology, word order, and syntactic directionality across 55 languages from 11 families. We quantify morphological richness (moving-average mean size of paradigm), word order flexibility (entropy), and ...
Wenchao Li, Haitao Liu
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Glossa, 2017 In this paper, we offer some preliminary remarks on the syntax-semantics of the nominal system in Cape Verdean (CV) in comparison to English, with the aim of having a better understanding of Number Neutral Languages (Chierchia 2010; 2015).
Jair Martins, Roberta Pires de Oliveira
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