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Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 613-652, December 2024.Abstract We use fieldwork data about cross‐clausal scrambling in Balkar (Turkic) to clarify the nature of movement and its constraints. Balkar has a variety of embedded nominalized clauses, with different subject cases and possibilities for movement.
Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis
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'Give' Constructions in the Papuan Languages of Timor-Alor-Pantar
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 This paper describes three-participant ‘give’ constructions in ten Papuan languages of the Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) family. Generally lacking a class of simple ditransitive root verbs, TAP languages express ‘give’ events by means ...
Marian Klamer, Antionette Schapper
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Comparing linguistic judgments and corpus frequencies as windows on grammatical competence: A study of argument linearization in German clauses [PDF]
, 2008 We present an overview of several corpus studies we carried out into the frequencies of argument NP orderings in the midfield of subordinate and main clauses of German.
Harbusch, K., Kempen, G.
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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Why *John can't contribute Mary money. Constructional behavior of contribute verbs [PDF]
, 2016 Este artículo examina la estructura conceptual de las principales construcciones en las que aparecen los verbos de contribución de Levin (1993), concretamente las construcciones ditransitiva y dativa que alternan a menudo.
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Questions on transitivity [PDF]
, 2010 This handout (it isn’t a paper) presents phenomena and questions, rather than conclusions, related to the concept of transitivity. The idea is to return to these questions at the end of the Workshop to see if we can have a clearer consensus about the ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 308-326, July 2024.Abstract This paper presents the results of a corpus study on the Wycliffe Bible and the King James Bible, examining the distribution of the pronouns who(m)/which and the complementiser that in relative clauses with a personal referent. The data indicate that the decisive factor in both periods was the function of the gap (subject vs.
Julia Bacskai‐Atkari
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Obsolescence and abortive innovations in variationist approaches to language change
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 4, July/August 2024.Abstract The focus of most variationist studies of linguistic change to date has been the emergence and increase of new forms. The opposing process—obsolescence, or the decline and loss of older variants—is less well understood. Addressing several calls for more attention to be paid to obsolescence and its properties, this article surveys case studies ...
Marisa Brook
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Indirect object and benefactive predications in Chadic: A typological sketch
Studies in African Linguistics, 2013 The aim of the present study is to propose, for the first time, a typology of the forms and functions related to the indirect object and benefactive predications in Chadic languages.
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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Regulation &Governance, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 657-673, July 2024.Abstract Rules lie at the core of many disciplines beneath regulatory studies. Such a broad interest inevitably comes with fragmented understandings and technical choices that hinder knowledge cumulation and learning. This introduction tackles these limitations through an encompassing analytical blueprint from measurement theory.
Alessia Damonte, Giulia Bazzan
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