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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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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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Determiner Phrase or Genitive Phrase? An examination of possessive structures in Danish and English [PDF]

, 2022
This paper seeks to analyze the possessive construction in English and Danish through the lens of two competing analytical frameworks. First, the two frameworks – the Genitive Phrase model and the Determiner Phrase model - are presented and strengths and
Katballe-Kristensen, Peter
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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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Probing the role of bounding, definiteness and other factors: bare noun and determiner use in Guianese French Creole

CogniTextes, 2022
From a cognitive‑semantic perspective, two important conceptual schemas underlie determiner use and the count/mass distinction in languages such as English and French, namely bounding and definiteness.
Evelyn Wiesinger
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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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Gender Agreement: a psycholinguistic and aphasia case study.

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Introduction Some Italian nouns occur as couples like cavallo-cavalla (horse-mare) showing a systematic relation between their grammatical Gender and the sex of their referents. An aphasia case study by Franzon, Bertocci and Semenza (2013) suggested that
Francesca Franzon, Francesca Peressotti
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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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Determiner spreading as DP-predication [PDF]

, 2011
Determiner Spreading (DS) occurs in adjectivally modified nominal phrases comprising more than one definite article, a phenomenon that has received considerable attention and has been extensively described in Greek.
Marinis, Theodore, Panagiotidis, E. Phoevos   +1 more
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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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