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2015
In this paper I will demonstrate how a series of micro changes are related within the synchronic gradience of the item take in Western metropolitan varieties of Nigerian Pidgin (NigP). I will show that take functions as a main verb, as an instrumental serial verb and as an incipient modal verb. While the presence of serial verb constructions (SVCs) can
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In this paper I will demonstrate how a series of micro changes are related within the synchronic gradience of the item take in Western metropolitan varieties of Nigerian Pidgin (NigP). I will show that take functions as a main verb, as an instrumental serial verb and as an incipient modal verb. While the presence of serial verb constructions (SVCs) can
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Gradience, allophony, and chain shifts
Language Variation and Change, 2017ABSTRACTThe monophthongization of /ay/ in the Southern United States is disfavored by following voiceless consonants (price) relative to voiced or word-final environments (prize). If monophthongization is the trigger for the Southern Shift (Labov, 2010) and chain shifts operate as predicted by a modular feedforward phonological theory (cf.
Aaron J. Dinkin, Robin Dodsworth
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2006
Abstract In previous chapters we have looked at two ways in which grammar can be said to display gradience. Form classes can be subsectively gradient in displaying intra-categorial prototype effects, such that we can speak of typical nouns, adjectives, and verbs, or they can be intersectively gradient in exhibiting convergence between ...
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Abstract In previous chapters we have looked at two ways in which grammar can be said to display gradience. Form classes can be subsectively gradient in displaying intra-categorial prototype effects, such that we can speak of typical nouns, adjectives, and verbs, or they can be intersectively gradient in exhibiting convergence between ...
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Beyond Aristotle and gradience
Studies in Language, 2007Aarts (2004) argues that the best way to model grammatical categories is a compromise preserving Aristotelian form classes with sharp boundaries on the one hand, and allowing gradience in terms of the number of syntactic properties that a category member possesses on the other. But the assumption of form classes causes serious theoretical and empirical
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2006
Abstract The notion of gradience as deWned in previous chapters bears a resemblance to a number of other phenomena in language. In this chapter I will discuss how gradience compares with related notions/ideas, some of which we have already come across Xeetingly in earlier chapters.
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Abstract The notion of gradience as deWned in previous chapters bears a resemblance to a number of other phenomena in language. In this chapter I will discuss how gradience compares with related notions/ideas, some of which we have already come across Xeetingly in earlier chapters.
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2014
Two seemingly abrupt shifts affecting disyllabic noun/verb pairs are currently in progress in English. One is the diatonic stress shift, whereby noun/verb pairs originally stressed on the final syllable develop into pairs in which the noun is stressed on the first syllable while the verb remains stressed on the final syllable (as in PDE COMpress n. vs.
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Two seemingly abrupt shifts affecting disyllabic noun/verb pairs are currently in progress in English. One is the diatonic stress shift, whereby noun/verb pairs originally stressed on the final syllable develop into pairs in which the noun is stressed on the first syllable while the verb remains stressed on the final syllable (as in PDE COMpress n. vs.
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Gradience in English Clause Combination
2016The previous chapter described clause combination in some of the most important reference grammars of the English language. It then synthesized this work into a model of English clause grammar that distributed the core clause categories along a hierarchy of integration, rather than viewing the clause system as the binary system of integration with the ...
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A self-organized sentence processing theory of gradience: The case of islands
Cognition, 2022Sandra Villata, Whitney Tabor
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