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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
wiley   +1 more source

Theories of argument structure

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
This work discusses the different theories that have attempted to explain the relation between the lexical information provided by a predicate and the syntactic structures that introduce arguments.
Antonio Fábregas
doaj   +1 more source

Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
wiley   +1 more source

Transposition – a Mechanism of Interaction between Semantics and Syntax

Philologia
The article examines the relationship between the meanings of words and their syntactic functions, extending the analysis to the interaction between lexicon and syntax.
Ion BĂRBUȚĂ
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Lexical typology : a programmatic sketch

, 1997
The present paper is an attempt to lay the foundation for Lexical Typology as a new kind of linguistic typology.1 The goal of Lexical Typology is to investigate crosslinguistically significant patterns of interaction between lexicon and ...
Behrens, Leila, Sasse, Hans-Jürgen
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Balancing generalization and lexical conservatism : an artificial language study with child learners [PDF]

, 2011
Successful language acquisition involves generalization, but learners must balance this against the acquisition of lexical constraints. Such learning has been considered problematic for theories of acquisition: if learners generalize abstract patterns to
Elizabeth Wonnacott, Wonnacott, Elizabeth   +1 more
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Countering FIMI by Digital Authoritarianisms: Audience Architecture and Reverse Language Engineering

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns on social media are currently both more accessible and more impactful than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) or European Union's (EU), offering their opponents superiority and efficiency on those platforms.
Michelangelo Conoscenti
wiley   +1 more source

The Aspectual Properties of Italian Venire Passives

Isogloss
Italian essere (be) and venire (come) periphrastic passives differ in their aspectual properties, both lexical and grammatical. Squartini’s (1999) analysis of venire passives accounts for their incompatibility with perfect aspect.
Martine Gallardo
doaj   +1 more source

Syntax of Dutch: Adjectives and Adjective Phrases

, 2013
The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch.
Broekhuis, H., Broekhuis, Hans
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Wrapper syntax for example-based machine translation [PDF]

, 2006
TransBooster is a wrapper technology designed to improve the performance of wide-coverage machine translation systems. Using linguistically motivated syntactic information, it automatically decomposes source language sentences into shorter and ...
Mellebeek, Bart, Way, Andy, Owczarzak, Karolina, Groves, Declan, van Genabith, Josef   +4 more
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