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Glossa, 2017 This paper introduces a new resource designed to facilitate the quantitative investigation of syntactic variation in spoken language from a comparative perspective.
Anette Rosenbach +5 more
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A Minimalist analysis of Uyghur genitives
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 This paper investigates the syntactic structure of so-called genitive-possessive DPs in Uyghur, a Turkic language. Uyghur genitive-possessives bear suffixes on both the “possessing” entity (comparable to the Saxon genitive ’s in English) and the ...
Politzer-Ahles, Stephen
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RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017 The Azerbaijani and English languages, drawn to the study, belong to different language families from the point of view of morphological and genealogical structure.
Z M Akhmedova
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The Influence of Mother Tongue on the Use of English Resumptive Pronouns by Iranian EFLLs [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and LearningUnderstanding and producing relative clauses (RCs) presents significant challenges for second language learners, particularly when L1 and L2 relativization strategies differ.
Hamed Mowlei-Kuhbanani +3 more
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Glossa, 2021 The paper (Baker & Gondo 2020) studies several issues in Dan morphosyntax: the formal differences between verbs, nouns and adjectives; two types of possessive constructions (with alienable and inalienable head nouns) and their syntactic structures; the ...
Valentin Feodosievich Vydrin
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Why all John’s friends are Dutch, not German; on differences in West Germanic in the interaction between universal quantifiers and genitives [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014 Unlike English and Dutch, German does not allow a genitive to follow a universal quantifier: (i) All John’s friends… (ii) Al Jans vrienden… (Dutch) (iii) *All(e) Johanns Freunde… (German) In this article I show that this discrepancy results from two ...
Robert Cirillo
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Naturalness in English: (A) the genitive, (b) the pronouns
Linguistica, 2003 In Slovenia, the natural syntax of the Klagenfurt brand has been extended to the study of the behav iour of (near-)synonymous syntactic expressions, here called syntactic variants.
Janez Orešnik
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The Conceptual Relationships in N+N Compounds in Arabic Compared to English
Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2023 The current study investigates the semantic or conceptual relations that exist between two compound elements in Arabic based on the theoretical framework of Conceptual Semantics and a modified version of Parallel Architecture called Relational ...
Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh
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Subject case alternation in negated existential, locative, and possessive clauses in Latvian
Kalbotyra, 2018 [full article and abstract in English] The goal of this article is to analyse the alternation between the genitive and nominative cases in Latvian. As the alternation between genitive and nominative cases is possible in all clauses in which the verb ...
Andra Kalnača, Ilze Lokmane
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epík, keramík og klassík. Gerð og beyging fleirkvæðra orða sem enda á -ík
Orð og Tunga, 2020 This article deals with Icelandic polysyllabic nouns of Greek-Latin origin that end in –ík, for example epík ‘epic’, keramík ‘ceramic’, and klassík ‘classic’.
Margrét Jónsdóttir
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