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Crossing the Border Historical and Linguistic Divides Among the Bunaq in Central Timor [PDF]
, 2011 The Bunaq are a Papuan language-speaking people straddling the border of Indonesian West Timor and independent East Timor. This paper looks at the history of the Bunaq as a “border“ people in Timor. “Border“ is interpreted here in two ways, as referring
Schapper, A. (Antoinette)
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Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2015 The semantically fine-grained ditransitive constructions in Mandarin Chinese show complex interaction between lexical semantics, constructional semantics and syntactic frames.
Xinyue Cécilia Yu
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Morphosyntax aspects of ditransitive constructions with the verb DAR ‘to give’ in Portuguese Sign Language [PDF]
Linguística, 2016 In this study we analyze some morphosyntactic aspects of the verb DAR ‘to give’ in LGP (Portuguese Sign Language) in simple declarative sentences, in particular, two properties: (i) the position of the arguments regarding the verb and (ii) the agreement ...
Celda Choupina +2 more
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A FIRST LOOK AT CHEN (KONYAK) ARGUMENT AND CLAUSE STRUCTURES
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021 Chen (Bodo-Konyak-Jingphaw, Tibeto-Burman) is an undocumented language of the Konyak ethnic group. It is spoken in northeast India and northwest Myanmar. This article provides a first description of the Chen simple argument and clause structures.
Hoipo Konyak
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, 2013 Im Kikuyu, einer in Kenia gesprochenen Bantusprache, wird Fokus systematisch durch Wortstellung markiert. In dieser Arbeit werden die verschiedenen Varianten der Markierung von Fokus in Frage-Antwortsequenzen dargestellt. Nach einem Überblick über in der
Schwarz, Florian
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Data from ‘The Dative Alternation Revisited: Fresh Insights from Contemporary British Spoken Data’
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2019 The dataset covers the so-called “dative alternation”. The dative alternation (also referred to as the ditransitive or double-object construction) refers to parallel constructions that have broadly similar meaning but different syntax: i.
Gard B. Jenset, Barbara McGillivray
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Predicates of Indonesian and English Simple Sentences [PDF]
, 2017 This paper was developed from a research report presented in The Third Southern Region of Sumatera TEFLIN held by Sriwijaya University in 2014. Comments recieved by the participants of the seminar and following studies done on the topic made it possible ...
Gulö, I. (Ingatan)
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'Transitivity harmony' in the Rawang language of Northern Myanmar [PDF]
, 2010 Rawang [...] is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by people who live in the far north of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), particularly along the Mae Hka ('Nmai Hka) and Maeli Hka (Mali Hka) river valleys; population unknown, although Ethnologue gives 100 ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Selective transfer in the acquisition of english double object constrctions by brazilian learners
Alfa: Revista de Lingüística, 2013 The present study investigates the acquisition of the English double object constructions (GOLDBERG, 1995) by Brazilian learners. We hypothesize that, due to first language (L1) influences, the prepositional ditransitive construction (John gave a book to
Júlia Vidigal Zara +2 more
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The Expression of Three-Participant Events in Movima
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 In Movima (isolate, Amazonian Bolivia), the structure of transitive clauses is determined by referential properties of the core arguments: the encoding of an argument depends on the relative position of its referent on a referential hierarchy. Movima has
Katharina Haude
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