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Comparing MOSAIC and the variational learning model of the optional infinitive stage in early child language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper compares MOSAIC and the Variational Learning Model (VLM) in terms of their ability to explain the level of finiteness marking in early child Dutch, English, Spanish, German and French.
Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F, Pine, J M
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
wiley   +1 more source

Auxiliaries in double-negation settings (non potest non + inf): Semantic gliding and syntactic description

open access: yesPallas, 2016
The formula non potest non + inf conveys a meaning of necessity which reflects the implication relationship between possibility and necessity.
Adriana M. Manfredini
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Infinite arrays and infinite computations

open access: yesTheoretical Computer Science, 1983
AbstractA complete metric topology is introduced on the set of all finite and infinite arrays and the topological properties of the space are studied. In this complete metric topology, infinite arrays are the limits of increasing sequences of finite arrays.
Siromoney, Rani   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Dietary resilience of coral reef fishes to habitat degradation

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 3, Page 397-417, March 2026.
Metabarcoding of gut contents shows that two common benthic‐feeding reef fishes with different feeding stratgies—a butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus) and a hamlet (Hypoplectrus puella)—shift diets on degraded reefs. These shifts mirror contrasting patterns in body condition: butterflyfish showed strong individual variation, whereas condition was ...
Friederike Clever   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling syntactic development in a cross-linguistic context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Mainstream linguistic theory has traditionally assumed that children come into the world with rich innate knowledge about language and grammar. More recently, computational work using distributional algorithms has shown that the information contained in ...
Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F, Pine, J M
core  

A nuclear families word list for French

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 1, Page 111-138, Spring 2026.
Abstract This between‐languages replication study relates the development and testing of a nuclear, families‐based, pedagogical word list for French as was previously done for English. A word family includes base and inflected words (or lemmas) plus derivations.
Thomas Cobb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Got alt hui. Some Considerations on the German Dialogue Between Massimiliano Sforza and Maximilian I in the Liber Iesus (Milan, Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. Triv. 2163)☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.
Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
wiley   +1 more source

What made Proto-Germanic *jah ‘and’ an infinitive marker in westernmost Uralic? Observations from the Saami-Scandinavian border

open access: yesNorsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift, 2017
The paper provides an account of a previously neglected infinitive marker in South Saami. Originally recognized by Bergsland (1946), later descriptions of South Saami have disregarded the use of the coordinating conjunction jih ‘and’ as what appears to ...
Jussi Ylikoski
doaj  

Grammaticalité et changement d’acceptabilité : le cas de help

open access: yesAnglophonia, 2018
This paper aims at establishing the role of processing factors on the evolution of acceptability in two case studies: the infinitival complementation of the verb help (with or without to) and the distribution of the construction [capacity + help].
Mathilde Pinson
doaj   +1 more source

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