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English possessive determiner phrases and coordination
This paper suggests an analysis of English possessives and coordination that is compatible with the treatment of Germanic pronominal case developed by Parrott within the Distributed Morphology framework.
Jeffrey Keith Parrott
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Un tal Ernestico/a certain Ernestico: On the structure of proper names
Proper names are usually assumed to be definite. In this paper we question this assumption by analyzing the Spanish construction un tal ‘X’ ‘a certain ‘X’’.
José Camacho
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Regimes in Babel are Confirmed: Report on Findings in Several Indonesian Ethnic Biblical Texts [PDF]
The paper introduces the presence of three statistical regimes in the Zipfian analysis of texts in quantitative linguistics: the Mandelbrot, original Zipf, and Cancho- Solé-Montemurro regimes.
Situngkir, Hokky
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In this article we compare the acquisition of determiners in bilingual children acquiring Italian simultaneously with German or Swedish. We are concerned with cross-linguistic differences in the rate of acquisition and we discuss in particular the ...
Tanja Kupisch, Petra Bernardini
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A reply to Kubota and Levine on gapping [PDF]
In a series of papers Kubota and Levine give an account of gapping and determiner gapping in terms of hybrid type logical grammar, including anomalous scopal interactions with auxiliaries and negative quantifiers. We make three observations: i) under the
Morrill, Glyn +1 more
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Human linguisticality and the building blocks of languages [PDF]
This paper discusses the widely held idea that the building blocks of languages (features, categories, and architectures) are part of an innate blueprint for Human Language, and notes that if one allows for convergent cultural evolution of grammatical ...
Haspelmath, M.
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Frequently Observed Grammatical Errors of Japanese EFL Learners: Their Theoretical Implications [PDF]
This preliminary study investigates what grammatical errors are most frequently observed in Japanese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners even after the six years of English learning. By a series of free writing tasks, 2691 English sentences were
YAMADA, Toshiyuki
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ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie +4 more
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Why English Exhibits Determiner-Possessor Complementarity and Slovene Doesn’t
The aim of the paper is to provide an explanation for the following difference between English and Slovene: whereas in English a definite determiner and a possessor are in complementary distribution, in Slovene the two categories are perfectly ...
Frančiška Lipovšek
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