Syntactic features in morphology : general problems of so-called pronominal inflection in german [PDF]
Morphological analysis of inflectional categories has been for a long time a favored field of classical structuralism. American scholars, in this respect, concentrated on the representation of inflected forms in terms of concatenated ...
Bierwisch, Manfred
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Word order in the Old Italian DP [PDF]
In this article I examine the impact of a cartographic approach on research about diachronic change and investigate the internal structure of the DP in Old Italian (OI).
Poletto, Cecilia
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Gender errors in French interlanguage: the effect of initial consonant versus initial vowel of the head noun [PDF]
Many studies on gender assignment in French have focused on the effect of the final morpheme of the noun on the identification of the gender of the noun and the subsequent agreement with any determiners. The present study considers the effect of a noun’s
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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On the negative polarity sensitive indefinite determiner nakar ‘any’ in Faroese
<p class="NL-Abstract" style="margin: 0cm 14.2pt 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;">This paper reports on fieldwork undertaken during the NORMS dialect workshop in the Faroe Islands in August 2008.
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Tentative Reference Acts? ‘Recognitional Demonstratives’ as Means of Suggesting Mutual Knowledge – or Overriding a Lack of It [PDF]
In an explorative study on German oral corpus data we investigate recognitional use of proximal demonstratives as a means of explicit speaker-hearer interaction shaping the discourse structure. We show that recognitionals mark tentative reference acts in
Averintseva-Klisch Maria +1 more
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On the syntactic derivation of negative sentence adverbials [PDF]
We consider recent Government-Binding work on sentential negation, e.g. by Pollock, and evaluate a fundamental assumption made about the syntax of negative clauses.
Rowlett, PA
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On describing determination in a Montague grammar [PDF]
In my paper "Thesen zum Universalienprojekt" (1976) I mention two complementary procedures for discovering language universals: 1. The investigation of the dimensions and principles whose existence is necessitated by the communicative function of ...
Samuelsdorff, Paul Otto
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The interpretation of universally quantified DPs and singular definites in adverbially quantified sentences [PDF]
This paper deals with the conditions under which singular definites, on the one hand, and universally quantified DPs, on the other hand, receive interpretations according to which the sets denoted by the NP-complements of the respective determiner vary ...
Hinterwimmer, Stefan
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Information structure and the status of np in russian [PDF]
In his 1995 monograph, Apresyan suggests that it would be extremely interesting to investigate the means of expressing the definiteness/indefiniteness opposition in languages that do not have articles.
Brun, Dina
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Processing references in context: when the polar bear does not meet a polar bear. [PDF]
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