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Languages, 2022 In the first two decades following Ross’s Constraints on Variables in Syntax, a picture emerged in which the Mainland Scandinavian (MS) languages appeared to systematically evade some of the locality constraints proposed by Ross, including the relative ...
Jake W. Vincent +2 more
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On the Nature of Syntactic Satiation
Languages, 2022 In syntactic satiation, a linguist initially judges a sentence type to be unacceptable but begins to accept it after judging multiple examples over time.
William Snyder
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A direct analysis of Lithuanian phrasal comparatives
Glossa, 2021 Phrasal comparatives like John runs faster than Tom can be derived via two routes: i) Direct Analyses assume that the argument of than is a DP; ii) Reduced Clause Analyses assume that the than-phrase is a clause that is subject to some reduction ...
Elena Vaiksnoraite
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Island-sensitivity of two different interpretations of why in Chinese
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 It has been assumed that the wh-element weishenme “why” in Chinese has two distinct interpretations: a reason reading, which typically yields yinwei “because”-answers, and a purpose reading, which typically triggers weile “in order to”-answers.
Nayoun Kim, Ziying Li, Jiayi Lu
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Absence of Clausal Islands in Shupamem
Languages, 2023 Decades-long research on islands has led to the conclusion that island constraints are candidates for language universals. A recent surge in research on islandhood in African languages has revealed some would-be island configurations that are transparent
Hagay Schurr +6 more
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Factive islands revisited – experimental data on adjunct extraction [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2022 Factive verbs (know, regret, remember) are traditionally said to induce weak island effects, allowing the extraction of arguments, but not that of adjuncts, from the post-verbal clause.
Irina Stoica
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Modeling lake trophic state: a random forest approach
Ecosphere, 2016 Productivity of lentic ecosystems is well studied, and it is widely accepted that as nutrient inputs increase, productivity increases and lakes transition from lower trophic state (e.g., oligotrophic) to higher trophic states (e.g., eutrophic).
Jeffrey W. Hollister +2 more
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The Structure of Split Questions in Mandarin Chinese
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2020 This article proposes a pro analysis for split questions (SQs) in Chinese, dissimilar to the biclausal account employing focus movement and deletion in Arregi 2010 and the one employing the silent head in Kayne 2015 and Tang 2015.
Wei Ting-Chi
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Diurnal and seasonal patterns of global urban dry islands
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Urban heat islands (UHIs) are a widely studied phenomenon, while research on urban-rural differences in humidity, the so called urban dry or moisture islands (UDIs, UMIs), is less common and a large-scale quantification of the seasonal and diurnal ...
Naika Meili +3 more
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Island effects in Spanish comprehension
Glossa, 2020 A growing body of experimental syntactic research has revealed substantial variation in the magnitude of island effects, not only across languages but also across different grammatical constructions.
Claudia Felser +4 more
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