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Syntactic Complexity Phenomena Are Better Explained Without Empty Elements Mediating Long-Distance Dependencies. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract We report the results of two acceptability judgment experiments on English materials, which were designed in order to help disentangle predictions of syntactic theories with transformations from nontransformational theories. The materials in these experiments were motivated from examples from Pickering & Barry (1991), who provided intuitive ...
da Cunha Y, Gibson E.
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Parallel Architecture: From Problems and Mysteries to Solutions and Explanations. [PDF]
Top Cogn SciAbstract We argue that Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture (PA) is the right way to think about the architecture of the language faculty. The critical property of this architecture is that it allows for genuine explanation by allocating different aspects of linguistic phenomena to appropriate corresponding representations and capacities.
Culicover PW, Varaschin G.
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A manysi ditranzitív igék szintaxisa szemantikai megközelítésből [PDF]
Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2016 The syntax of the Mansi ditransitive verbs from the aspect of their semantics *** The paper investigates the ditransitive constructions and the ditransitive verbs of the Mansi language.
Sipőcz, Katalin
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"Wh"-phrases and "wh"-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021 In this paper I explore wh-phrases and wh-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). Simplex and complex wh-phrases in LAC can be divided into eleven semantic categories.
Aiqing Wang
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How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama-Nyungan, Australia). [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Sentence production is a stage‐like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus must necessarily influence sentence production, psycholinguistic studies of diverse languages are comparatively rare.
Kidd E +4 more
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The Syntax of Mandarin Long Gei Passives Revisited
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2023 This article examines the syntactic structure of long gei passives in Mandarin Chinese and argues against the prepositional analysis of gei in long passives.
Huang Rui-heng Ray
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Prepositions in Brazilian Portuguese: on the rise of a novel system
Revista Linguística, 2023 The study examines the prepositional system of Brazilian Portuguese, considering the loss of the dative preposition a (to) in constructions with dative arguments and differential object marking (DOM), as well as in unaccusatives predicates with ...
Heloisa Maria Moreira Lima Salles
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VERBAL COLLOCATIONS IN THE SPOKEN ALBANIAN CORPUS IN KOSOVO [PDF]
Езиков свят, 2023 This paper aims to examine verbal collocation in the spoken corpus of Albanian in Kosovo. Lexical and semantic components that are repeated in a linguistic context are known as collocations.
Adelajda Baftiu, Bardh Rugova
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Properties of applied objects in Kiswahili and Kindendeule
Studies in African Linguistics, 1998 This paper examines objects which are licensed by the applicative affix in the Bantu languages of Kindendeule and Kiswahili. The data show that all verbs can take the applicative suffix deriving transitive verbs from intransitive verbs, and ditransitive ...
Deo Ngonyani
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Argument Structure and Ditransitive Verbs in Japanese [PDF]
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2004 Ditransitive verbs such as send and give appear in two distinct structures in English, the double object and the to-dative constructions. It is well known that the two differ semantically and syntactically. In some recent works, it is suggested that the semantic differences observed by Bresnan (1978), Oehrle (1976) and others, and the structural ...
Shigeru Miyagawa, Takae Tsujioka
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