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Variation at the Syntax–Pragmatics Interface: Discourse Particles in Questions
Languages, 2022 This paper focuses on the microvariation concerning the distribution and functions of certain interrogative discourse particles found in several central and southern Italian dialects.
Silvio Cruschina, Valentina Bianchi
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A Balkan View on the Left Periphery: Modal and Discourse Particles
Languages, 2021 The present paper discusses two sets of so-called particles in the Balkan languages, arguing that the correspondences attested in the E-languages reveal abstract properties at the level of the I-language.
Anna Roussou
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Dative possessor variation in Romance: a formal feature account with special reference to Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2023 In this paper we address possessor dative structures (PDSs) in European Portuguese (EP) and in the Mozambican variety of Portuguese spoken in Maputo, which is mainly in contact with the Bantu language Changana.
Feliciano Chimbutane +2 more
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Adding the microdimension to the study of language change in contact. Three case studies
Glossa, 2022 Syntactic change in contact is generally explained as a result of cognitive, structural/typological, or sociolinguistic factors. However, the relative weight of these factors in shaping the outputs of contact is yet to be assessed.
Alberto Frasson +5 more
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Syntactic Microvariation [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2012 Abstract‘Syntactic microvariation’ and ‘microcomparative syntax’ are the terms for a fairly new research approach that applies the theoretical concepts and techniques of modern generative theory to dialectal and other small‐scale variational data. Traditional studies in dialectology aim at a detailed and fine‐grained description of language variants ...
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Glossa, 2019 In the literature on Dutch morphosyntactic microvariation, it is sometimes assumed that a subpart of Dutch dialects lack certain morphemes, because they have no direct phonetic exponent. More careful analyses, however, suggest that these dialects display
Edoardo Cavirani, Marc van Oostendorp
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A Quantitative Approach to Microvariation: Negative Marking in Central Romance
Languages, 2022 This work presents an exploratory data analysis of the syntactic distribution of pre- and postverbal negation (N1 and N2) in a corpus of data gathered from two linguistic atlases, the Linguistic Atlas of France (ALF) and the Italo-Swiss Atlas (AIS ...
Diego Pescarini
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 12, Issue 7, July 2022., 2022 We present a method to monitor and characterize the movement of ground‐dwelling arthropods in mesocosms with realistic ground covers. The method, based on infra‐red video tracking and trajectory processing, made it possible to track night‐time movements that were partially concealed by plant residues.
Blanche Collard +4 more
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Isogloss, 2019 This article proposes separate analyses for the question particles -a and al in Basque, which occur only in polarity questions, within the framework of Generative Grammar.
Sergio Monforte
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Polarization microvariability of BL Lacertae objects [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2005 Fil: Andruchow, Ileana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Astrofisica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas.
Andruchow, Ileana +2 more
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