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Variability in the Syntax of Idioms
ELOPE, 2017 Given that the meaning of idioms is not predictable from the literal meaning of their parts, we can broadly define idioms as expressions with a non-compositional interpretation.
Marko Hladnik
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Headlines in The Guardian editorials: the syntax and semantics of noun phrases
Мова: класичне, модерне, постмодерне, 2021 The Guardian editorial headline is viewed as a two-component structure punctuated with colons in which the first part names the topic and the second one provides its comment.
Larysa Pavlenko
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The evolution of possessive phrases and the rise of DP in French, Spanish, and Portuguese
Glossa, 2022 This paper deals with the evolution of nominal expressions with prenominal possessives in Romance languages. Until now, the prevalent view has been that their historical development follows one of the two diachronic paths: either they stop co-occurring ...
Alexandra Simonenko, Anne Carlier
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Determiners and quantifiers in Spanish: types, tests and theories
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2018 This article provides an overview about the main facts and analytical options in the domain of determiners and quantifiers in Spanish. It covers the main classification of determiners and their basic syntactic and semantic properties (§1), the ...
Antonio Fábregas
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) is a key region for language comprehension and production. Previous studies point to a preferential involvement of left anterior IFG (aIFG) in lexical and semantic processes, while the posterior IFG (pIFG) has been ...
Byurakn Ishkhanyan +11 more
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2017 This paper discusses the syntax of relative clauses in European Portuguese (EP) by focussing on the status of the relativizer que in restrictive and appositive relative clauses.
Elisabeth Aßmann, Esther Rinke
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023 Previous evidence suggests clitics and determiners do not enter the same type of gender agreement relations in contact varieties of Spanish, despite proposals that treat clitics as determiners (big DP – Determiner Phrase – hypothesis) (Uriagereka 1995 ...
Liliana Sánchez +3 more
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008 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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Description and determination in Tanti Dargwa NPs
Linguistics, 2022 This paper focuses on the noun phrase in Tanti Dargwa (East Caucasian) and presents evidence for the distinction between modifiers proper (adjectival phrases, participial relative clauses and non-genitive adnominal NPs) and determiner-like elements ...
Lander Yury
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The Acquisition of French Determiners by Bilingual Children: A Prosodic Account
Languages, 2022 The present longitudinal study investigates the acquisition of determiners (articles) in two simultaneously bilingual French-Italian children aged 1;6,12 until 3;5,17, one of them being French-dominant and the other one being Italian-dominant.
Johanna Stahnke
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