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Stylistic applicatives: a lens into the nature of anticausative SE

open access: yesGlossa
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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Microvariation across nominal structures in Southern Italian Romance. A parametric approach.

open access: yes, 2014
This contribution discusses instances of syntactic microvariation in nominal structures in a selection of Romance dialects of Southern Italy. I will suggest a comparative analysis based on the methodological premises of the Parametric Comparison Method ...
GUARDIANO, Cristina
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Locating people with their language: An Applied Linguistics Course using linguistic microvariation databases and tools.

open access: yes, 2016
Recent years have seen an increase in the on-line availability of dialect corpora, databases and search, analysis and visualisation tools (cf. www.dialectsyntax.org).
Barbiers, Sjef   +2 more
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Microvariation in object positions: Negative Shift in Scandinavian [PDF]

open access: yesNordic Journal of Linguistics, 2011
In the Scandinavian languages, sentential negation must be licensed in Spec–head relation in the IP-domain, necessitating leftward movement of negative objects, Negative Shift (NegS). While string-vacuous NegS is possible in all Scandinavian varieties, there is a fair amount of cross-linguistic variation in non-string-vacuous NegS.
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A parametric approach to dialect classification: microvariation in Southern Italy

open access: yes, 2016
In this paper we argue that the Parametric Comparison Method (PCM, Longobardi and Guardiano 2009), thanks to its capability of combining insights from formal grammar, historical- comparative linguistics, quantitative sociolinguistics (dialectometry), and
GUARDIANO, Cristina
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Microvariation in Western Serengeti : Comparative Morphosyntax of Ikoma, Ishenyi, Nata and Ngoreme

open access: yes, 2023
This dissertation provides a comparative morphosyntactic description of the previously largely undescribed Western Serengeti language varieties (Ikoma, Ishenyi, Nata and Ngoreme; henceforth WS).
Laine, Antti
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Dimensions of ergativity in Inuit : theory and microvariation

open access: yes, 2018
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: Ph. D.
Yuan, Michelle,Ph. D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Explorations in Aromanian Morpho-Syntax: NPs, Prepositional Contexts and Infinitives

open access: yesLanguages
The main topic of this article is the relationship between morphosyntactic contexts and nominal inflections in Aromanian varieties of southern Albania.
Leonardo Maria Savoia, Benedetta Baldi
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