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The Inverse Agreement Constraint in Uralic languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper aims to answer the question why object–verb agreement is blocked in Hungarian, Tundra Nenets, Selkup, and Nganasan if the object is a first or second person pronoun.
É. Kiss, Katalin
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Some "PPIs" are just hyper-existentials [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper shows that the French indefinite pronouns (quelqu'un, quelque chose) are neither PPIs (Baker 1970), nor double NPIs (Szabolcsi 2004).
Corblin, Francis
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Determiner spreading in Rukiga. [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistics, 2023
Asiimwe A, Kouneli M, van der Wal J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Topicality and (Non-)Specificity in Mandarin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Current analyses of specificity are unable to provide an explanatory account for why specific and nonspecific uses of indefinites are available. While Abusch (1994), Reinhart (1997), and Kratzer (1998) provide successful mechanisms for deriving specific ...
Portner, Paul
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Rapid infant learning of syntactic-semantic links. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Barbir M   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Donkeys under Discussion [PDF]

open access: yes
Donkey sentences have existential and universal readings, but they are not often perceived as ambiguous. We extend the pragmatic theory of nonmaximality in plural definites by Križ (2016) to explain how context disambiguates donkey sentences.
Bumford, Dylan   +2 more
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The Translation of English Plural Noun Into Indonesian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
English and Indonesian have different set of rules in terms of grammar and one of the differences, which is the focus of this research paper, is formations of plural noun in English and Indonesian and its relation to how to translate English plural nouns
Noverino, R. (Romel)
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Til en ung en kjekk en kar: Indefinite determiner spreading in Scandinavian and beyond

open access: yes, 2019
This study investigates multiple indefi nite determiners in structures involving adjectival modifi cation in a Norwegian dialect. Determiner spreading has been observed in numerous non-standard Germanic varieties but has been most extensively explored in Modern Greek.
Anderssen, Merete   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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