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Isogloss, 2022 Some Romance languages, like Spanish, encode narrow scope indefinite objects without any over determiner (Bare Nouns; como pan ‘I eat bread’), while others, like French, require the insertion of an overt prenominal marker, labeled Partitive Article (PA;
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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Microvariation in nominal plurality in Northern Masa
Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2022 This paper describes nominal plurality and examines microvariation in the marking of plural on nouns across three closely related Northern Masa languages, namely in Gizey, Masana, and Musey.
Guillaume Guitang +2 more
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Parameters and Language Contact: Morphosyntactic Variation in Dutch Dialects
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023 The central issue addressed in this paper is the formal linguistic notion of parameter as a predictor for the (non-)occurrence of multiple linguistic phenomena. We start from a parametric analysis of a microvariational data set and we introduce a way of
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck +1 more
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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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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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Microvariation Artifacts Introduced by PCR and Cloning of Closely Related 16S rRNA Gene Sequences [PDF]
, 2001 A defined template mixture of seven closely related 16S-rDNA clones was used in a PCR-cloning experiment to assess and track sources of artifactual sequence variation in 16S rDNA clone libraries. At least 14% of the recovered clones contained aberrations.
Speksnijder, A.G.C.L. +5 more
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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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