Exploiting microvariation: How to make the best of your incomplete data
In this article we discuss the use of big corpuses or databases as a first step for qualitative analysis of linguistic data. We concentrate on ASIt, the Syntactic Atlas of Italy, and take into consideration the different types of dialectal data that can ...
Cecilia Poletto, Jacopo Garzonio
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The microvariation of the Spanish perfect in three varieties
This study investigates the variability in the use of the Preterit canté (‘I sang’) and the Present Perfect he cantado (‘I have sung’) across three Spanish dialects: Peninsular (PEN), Peruvian (PER) and Argentinian (AR).
Paz González +2 more
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Chemical Mechanism of Flower Color Microvariation in Paeonia with Yellow Flowers
: Paeonia species are important ornamental plants, including three types: tree peony, herbaceous peony, and Itoh hybrid peony. Paeonia with yellow color is desired and becoming popular.
Yong Yang +7 more
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Slavic Relative ČTO/CO: between Pronouns and Conjunctions [PDF]
This paper presents the key points concerning Slavic relative constructions with a group of kindred invariable lexemes: Russian что, BCS što, Czech, Polish co, Slovak čo, and their cognates.
Philip R. Minlos
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La microvariation socio-pragmatique : une étude du sens social de la liaison variable en France et au Québec [PDF]
L’approche de la microvariation a permis d’étudier des phénomènes linguistiques divers, allant de la phonologie jusqu’à la syntaxe, mais son potentiel n’a pas souvent été exploité dans l’étude du sens social.
Martin Alexander +3 more
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The application of next-generation sequencing to validate D12S391 microvariation
Objective: In a paternity case, the D12S391 locus was reported as a mismatch. To confirm the existence of mutations and mutations come from father or mother.
Qingxia Zhang +8 more
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Microvariation in Catalan and Occitan complementizers: the so-called expletive se
The present paper offers further independent evidence for the functional projection INT(errogative) in the left periphery of the sentence (Rizzi 2001) that is needed for an adequate analysis of interrogative clauses in Catalan and Occitan Pyrenees ...
Gemma Rigau, Jordi Suïls
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Editorial: Theoretical Syntax at the Crossroads: Big Data, Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing. [PDF]
Gallego ÁJ, Ortega-Santos I.
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Stylistic applicatives: a lens into the nature of anticausative SE
This paper examines an understudied syntactic phenomenon in Chilean Spanish: stylistic applicatives. This construction involves the appearance of the form LE alongside dative clitics in marked anticausative contexts. The pattern displays several puzzling
Carlos Muñoz Pérez
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Entre la cuantificación y la negación: Los minimizadores y su papel en la negación enfática en asturiano [PDF]
The expression of emphatic negation in Romance languages is a phenomenon of syntactic microvariation in which the origin of postverbal negative markers (minimizers or quantifiers) constrains their syntactic behavior and the pragmatic interpretation of a ...
Rosabel San-Segundo-Cachero
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