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Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic relations

open access: yesLinguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023
Discourse function has often been noticed to be a strong factor in conditioning Bantu word order. The importance of discourse function for determining the word order of Bantu languages is visible for example in locative inversion and dedicated focus ...
Elisabeth J.  Kerr   +5 more
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The Syntax of Thetic Statements in English

open access: yesAtlantis, 2020
This article offers a formal approach to thetic statements in English that focuses on the structural mechanisms available in this language to express a reading of this sort.
Ana Ojea
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« Up came the leaves » : l’antéposition des groupes prépositionnels (GP) et particules adverbiales comme marqueur de style

open access: yesE-REA, 2013
The aim of this paper is twofold: (a) to re-examine the different types of locative inversion involving prepositional phrases and adverbial particles with a focus on the syntactic rules that make such constructions possible.
Jean ALBRESPIT
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The silent argument of broad focus: Typology and predictions

open access: yesGlossa, 2018
It is a commonly held view that, in the absence of an overt locative or temporal phrase, broad focus subject inversion in Romance requires a null locative in preverbal position, thus being comparable to locative inversion (Benincà 1988 and subsequent ...
Delia Bentley, Silvio Cruschina
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Word order in Latin locative constructions: A corpus study in Caesar’s De bello gallico

open access: yes, 2011
Skopeteas S. Word order in Latin locative constructions: A corpus study in Caesar’s De bello gallico. Language Typology and Universals.
Stavros Skopeteas, Skopeteas, Stavros
core   +1 more source

If you cannot agree, move on! On labels and non-nominative subjects

open access: yesGlossa, 2018
This paper examines the predictions of Chomsky’s (2013; 2015) Labeling Algorithm for structures with non-nominative, non-agreeing elements in what looks like a subject position: since such non-nominative subjects do not agree with the verb, the resulting
Allison Germain   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Construcciones pasivas con estar

open access: yesEstudios de Lingüística, 2004
In this paper, we will intend to demonstrate that some constructions consisting of estar and a past participle are stative passives in between a periphrastic voice construction and an attributive sentence.
Carmen Conti Jiménez
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Septin 9 PB domains coordinate centrosome positioning and microtubule acetylation to control epithelial polarity

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Septin 9 polybasic domains couple phosphoinositide‐rich membrane binding to centrosome positioning, Golgi organization, and microtubule acetylation to control epithelial polarity. Their loss disrupts this axis, causing centrosome mispositioning, Golgi fragmentation, reduced microtubule acetylation, and polarity inversion via upregulation of the ...
Ting ting Cai   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Salmonella lipopolysaccharide‐containing supported lipid bilayers as platforms to study bacteriophage interactions

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implicit stage topics

open access: yesDiscours, 2008
It has often been proposed that sentence-initial spatio-temporal elements specify the frame in which the whole proposition takes place and are topical (i.e. thematic).
Karen Lahousse
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