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Parallel Architecture: From Problems and Mysteries to Solutions and Explanations
Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 843-854, October 2025.Abstract 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.
Peter W. Culicover, Giuseppe Varaschin
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I. Ditransitive constructions: A typological overview [PDF]
, 2010 This paper gives an overview of morphosyntactic properties and lexical classes of ditransitive constructions in the world's languages.
Malchukov, Andrej +2 more
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Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 8, August 2025.Abstract 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 ...
Yanis da Cunha, Edward Gibson
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Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 7, July 2025.Abstract 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.
Evan Kidd +4 more
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On regression modeling in varieties research
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 57-77, March-June 2025.Abstract One particularly prominent methodological development in linguistics is what has been termed the “quantitative turn”: Not only are more and more studies using statistical tools to explore data and to test hypotheses, the complexity of the statistical methods employed is growing as well.
Stefan Th. Gries
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Dative (first) complements in Basque
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2012 This article examines dative complements of unergative verbs in Basque, i.e., dative arguments of morphologically “transitive” verbs, which, unlike ditransitives, do not co-occur with a canonical object complement.
Beatriz Fernández, Jon Ortiz de Urbina
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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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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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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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