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Evidence for head raising in Kiswahili relative clauses

Studies in African Linguistics, 2001
The author presents evidence from Kiswahili supporting a head-raising analysis recently proposed in Kayne (1994) and Bianchi (1999), in which the relative clause is generated as a complement of the determiner.
Deo Ngonyani
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Cas d’absence d’article en français : difficultés des apprenants et proposition d’une analyse unifiée

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2011
Given the difficulties encountered by learners of French in deciding whether in a noun phrase an article is to be used or not, we consider that it is necessary for them to apprehend the general function of the determiner in opposition to the cases of the
Lidia Lebas-Fraczak
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Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Arabic

SAGE Open, 2014
This article discusses the status of prenominal and postnominal adjectives in Arabic. It is argued that Kremers’s treatment of adjectives is non-economic as it generates two different syntactic representations for prenominal and postnominal adjectives ...
Mahmoud S. Al Mahmoud
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Noun phrase in Cape Verdean

Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2013
This paper presents a study on the Cape Verdean noun phrase, undertaking a comparison with European Portuguese (EP), Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Guinea-Bissau Creole (Kriyol).
Wânia Miranda
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On the Behaviour of the English Negative Quantifier no in Sentential Negation Tests

Atlantis, 2022
In this article I show that, when compared to other English negative quantifiers, no behaves unexpectedly when diagnostic tests of sentential negation are applied.
Susagna Tubau
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Kanuri DP Hypothesis: A Minimalist Approach

Arbitrer, 2020
This paper examines the structure of Kanuri DP (structure) Hypothesis within the framework of Abney (1987) and Chomsky (1995) Minimalist Programme (MP).
Baba Kura Alkali Gazali
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Morphosyntactic Features Versus Morphophonological Features in L2 Gender Acquisition: A Cross-Language Perspective

Languages, 2022
This paper aims to demonstrate the reliability of morphosyntactic versus morphophonological features in the acquisition of L2 gender of inanimate nouns across languages.
Jennifer Markovits Rojas
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From Slovene into English: Identifying Definiteness

ELOPE, 2008
The paper addresses some typical instances of the translator’s failure to recognize definite reference in Slovene, which, in turn, results in an inappropriate determiner selection in English.
Frančiška Lipovšek
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Determinante e doppio determinante nel code-switching arabo-italiano

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
This article explores the phenomenon of code-switching, specifically focusing on bilingual Arabic-Italian determiner phrases which consist of a determiner, such as an article or a demonstrative, followed by a noun phrase as a complement.
Yasmina Moussaid
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Bidirectional Language Contact Effects at the DP Domain: The Case of Greek and Vlach Aromanian Speakers

Languages, 2022
We investigate the effects of the historical language contact of Modern Greek (MG) with Vlach Aromanian (VA) in bilingual speakers of three generations living in Epirus, Greece.
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, Alexandra Prentza, Maria Kaltsa   +2 more
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