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3rd person possessives: Old Portuguese and Modern Brazilian Portuguese
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2014 This paper addresses some comparative aspects of the 3rd person possessive pronouns seu and dele in Modern Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Old Portuguese (OP).
Maria Aparecida Torres Morais +1 more
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The Spray/Load and Dative Alternations: Aligning VP Structure and Contextual Effects. [PDF]
, 2016 The theoretical and experimental work presented in this thesis investigates the spray/load and dative alternations. The purpose is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the alternations in terms of their syntactic structures and to account for how ...
D'Elia, Samuel C
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evoling/dative-sickness: publication version
, 2017 Supplementary materials to "Dative Sickness: A Phylogenetic Analysis of Argument Structure Evolution in ...
Michael Dunn
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Speaker self-profiling through discursive indexation and syntactic encoding in Spanish radio talk
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2017 Syntactic and discursive choices in context can constitute resources for the interactional profiling of the direct participants. This study analyzes the frequencies with which speakers index themselves, as well as the syntactic functions they preferably ...
Miguel A. Aijón Oliva
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Rethinking French dative clitics in light of frozen scope effects
, 2021 Frozen scope effects as found in double object constructions in English are shown to be found in French too. They arise when an indirect object is doubled with a dative clitic as in clitic left or right dislocation but not otherwise. This minimally suggests that dative clitics do not simply represent the counterpart of prepositional indirect objects ...
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AN ARGUMENT FOR NON‐AGREE‐DRIVEN MOVEMENT
Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 229-253, August 2024.Abstract This paper argues for the occurrence of movement that is not the by‐product of an Agree relation in which a probe searches for a goal. The hypothesis that not all instances of movement might be feature‐driven was entertained in early Minimalism, but it has nevertheless become widely assumed that all instances of syntactic movement should be ...
Saurov Syed, Andrew Simpson
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639‐3: con) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. This paper presents the first comprehensive overview of the A'ingae phonology, including descriptions of (i) the language's phonemic inventory, (ii) phonotactics and a number of related phonological rules, (iii) nasality and ...
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
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IsoglossIn this paper we argue for a division in the category of ethical datives by identifying a new type of dative: the commitment dative. These datives are clitics that appear in directive sentences, always refer to the speaker, have no effect on the at ...
Olga Borik, Ismael Teomiro
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SPECIFIC CASES OF SUBORDINATE CLAUSES IN COPULATIVE POSITION [PDF]
Езиков святThe article examines specific cases of complex sentences with copulative predication, in which the subordinate clauses cannot be interpreted as substitutes in subject position. The discussion focuses on particular features of impersonal and subjectless
Dimitar Georgiev
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The clitics mechanism in French and Italian [PDF]
, 2009 The article concentrates on the question of the composition, the internal ordering and the placement of clitic-clusters (C-clusters) in French and Italian, though clitic data from other languages are drawn in occasionally. The system proposed is top-down
Seuren, Pieter A. M.
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