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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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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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Epidemiologic Consequences of Microvariation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis [PDF]
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2012 Evidence from genotype-phenotype studies suggests that genetic diversity in pathogens have clinically relevant manifestations that can impact outcome of infection and epidemiologic success. We studied 5 closely related Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains that collectively caused extensive disease (n = 862), particularly among US-born tuberculosis ...
Mathema, Barun +13 more
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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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The Microvariable Activity of BL Lacertae [PDF]
Galaxies, 2020 We report on seven nights of optical observation taken over a two-week period, and the resultant analysis of the intermediate-frequency peaked BL Lac object (IBL), BL Lac itself, at redshift z = 0.069. The microvariable behavior can be confirmed over the course of minutes for each night.
Alberto C. Sadun +3 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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