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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023 This paper tries to articulate from the point of view of linguistic theory how Spanish native grammatical competence of embedded indirect questions, as characterized by the Minimalist Program (Chomsky, 1995), can influence knowledge and production of ...
Marciano Escutia
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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2009 Grammars usually distinguish three kinds of interrogative sentences: a) WH questions; b) alternative questions and 3) polar or 'yes/no' questions. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the analysis of the last two types in Basque.
Patxi Goenaga
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Expletive Constructions and Agreement in Labeling Theory
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I explain how agreement occurs in English expletive constructions, in accord with recent work in the Minimalist Program. I develop a proposal that relies on feature unification and probe‐goal agreement, as well as the notion that internal merge of arguments generally applies freely.
Jason Ginsburg
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A FIRST LOOK AT CHEN (KONYAK) ARGUMENT AND CLAUSE STRUCTURES
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021 Chen (Bodo-Konyak-Jingphaw, Tibeto-Burman) is an undocumented language of the Konyak ethnic group. It is spoken in northeast India and northwest Myanmar. This article provides a first description of the Chen simple argument and clause structures.
Hoipo Konyak
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Stratégies d’accommodation en anglais américain : le cas de l’interro-négative
Anglophonia, 2017 This study attempts to observe and analyse the accommodation strategies developed by speakers of American English in interaction. It aims at accounting for the use of this complex structure syntactically-speaking, combining both interrogation with ...
Pauline Levillain
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What kind of element is 'že' in Czech? [PDF]
, 2012 International audienceThis paper examines the syntactic and semantic behaviour of the morpheme že 'that' in subordinate and independent clauses in Czech. I show that že does not have the same properties in these two contexts.
Gruet-Skrabalova, Hana
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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On Double Clitics in Interrogatives in a Northern Italian Dialect
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 Following recent studies (see for instance Poletto 2000) on the higher functional field, in this paper I aim to give a contribution to the cartography of the CP projection, by examining the behaviour of subject and object clitics in the Northern Italian ...
Nicoletta Penello
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.Abstract The paper examines the existing relationships between universities and Frontex, investigating and problematising the intersection between the higher education sector and the violence of the European border regime. We introduce the concept of positivist dissonance to conceptualise these relationships within the wider “industrial‐military ...
Giulia Corgnier +3 more
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Processing covert dependency: An eye-tracking study of scope interpretations of embedded Wh-questions in Mandarin. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Kong D, Hsu YY.
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