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Categories and paradigms : on underspecification in Russian declension [PDF]
, 2008 In morphological systems of the agglutinative type we sometimes encounter a nearly perfect one-to-one relation between form and function. Turkish inflectional morphology is, of course, the standard textbook example.
Wiese, Bernd, Bernd Wiese
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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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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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Rethinking case marking and case alternation in Estonian [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper, we argue for a view of case marking that does not treat case as the passive realisation of other morpho-syntactic properties of a construction but as independently bringing information to a clause.
Merilin Miljan +3 more
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Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2018 The coral of your lips, the stars of your eyes – the function of the genitive case in a particular kind of genitive metaphor compared to other semantic functions of this case (based on examples in the Polish language) This paper attempts to explicate ...
Monika Szymańska
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Analyse typologique et syntaxique du génitif wolof
Corela, 2015 Genitive is a widely studied construction of languages, Wolof included. But, for Wolof, the proposed analyses have no typological reach. Reading these analyses, we could have the feeling that the genitive construction in Wolof is, from a typological ...
Maximilien Guérin
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De-phrases and specificity in old Romanian [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014 Romanian inherited the Romance de-genitive from Latin. In the 16th century, the de-genitive had an archaic character and was used in the formal register.
Camelia Stan
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Demarcating the Scope of Intensional Genitive in Polish
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i JezikoslovljeIntensional verbs display three intensionality effects in their complement, namely the avail-ability of nonspecific readings, the failure of extensional substitution and the lack of existential import.
Anna Bondaruk, Anna Prażmowska
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Towards a typology of morphological case
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 Adposition phrases in morphologically impoverished languages have a function similar to nouns with morphological cases in morphologically rich languages, leading some researchers to argue that at least some cases belong to the category P. The aim of this
Anna Asbury
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The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Genitive Ending and a Suggestion on its Origin
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2021 The Proto-Semitic genitive ending on triptotic nouns is commonly reconstructed as *-im (unbound state)/*-i (bound state). In Akkadian, however, this case ending is long -ī- before pronominal suffixes.
Benjamin Suchard
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