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Spanish null complement anaphora at the grammar-discourse interface

open access: yesQuaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, 2018
The study of null complement anaphora (NCA) is important for the grammar-discourse interface as it seems to incarnate some of the core processes commonly found in other discourse phenomena, namely: reference, anaphora, ellipsis, inference, salience, or ...
Iker Zulaica-Hernández
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Language Interfaces in Adult Heritage Language Acquisition: A Study on Encoding of Nominal Reference in Mandarin Chinese as a Heritage Language

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
According to the Interface Hypothesis in the field of bilingualism, the interface connecting a linguistic module with a language-external domain (e.g., syntax-discourse) will present prolonged difficulties for adult bilingual learners, as compared with ...
Jing Jin   +3 more
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Less Form, More Meaning: A Case Study of in the Qur’an Through the Prism of Dependency Grammar

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2023
Ellipsis pervades the Qur’anic discourse. One pervasive form of it is al-iẖtibāk (“interchangeable ellipsis”). In terms of the interface between Qur’anic exegesis and Arabic rhetoric, the phenomenon of al-iẖtibāk is far more than a rhetorically heuristic
Hamada Hassanein
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Address inversion in southern Italian dialects

open access: yesIsogloss, 2022
This article proposes a ‘topological’ reinterpretation of the extended nominal architecture in relation to southern Italo-Romance vocatives with and without allocuzione inversa (‘address inversion’, Renzi 1968), a phenomenon involving the ‘inverse ...
Alice Corr
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Discourse Phenomena as a Window to the Interfaces

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2019
This paper examines the two lines of analysis that are generally pursued when dealing with discourse phenomena in the generative tradition: syntactico-centric and interface-based approaches.
Alba Cerrudo
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C-command constraints in German: A corpus-based investigation

open access: yesZeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2022
Reinhart (1983) proposed that quantificational binding is subject to a surface c-command condition. Her claim has been widely accepted in the literature on the syntax-semantics interface.
Webelhuth Gert
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Constructions in Minimalism: A Functional Perspective on Cyclicity

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
This article presents a perspective on syntactic cyclicity in minimalism that is compatible with fundamental ideas in construction–grammar approaches.
Andreas Trotzke, Andreas Trotzke
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Prominence, Accent and Information Structure

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2018
The paper discusses the tenets of the complex interaction between syntax, prosody and information structure in German. A prominence-based approach to the interface is proposed in an account that crucially extends the object of syntax from the sentence ...
Roland Hinterhölzl
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Attention and empirical studies of grammar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
How is the generation of a grammatical sentence implemented by the human brain? A starting place for such an inquiry lies in linguistic theory. Unfortunately, linguistic theories illuminate only abstract knowledge representations and do not indicate how ...
Myachykov, Andriy   +2 more
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Layering in structural-functional grammars [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
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Butler, Christopher S.   +1 more
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