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Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: The case of Setswana

Studies in African Linguistics, 2023
Within the context of microvariation in Bantu, three processes are examined in Setswana – object marking, inversion constructions and diminutive marking.
Nancy Kula, Lutz Marten
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Parameters of Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu [PDF]

, 2007
Bantu languages are fairly uniform in terms of broad typological parameters. However, they have been noted to display a high degree of more fine-grained morphosyntactic micro-variation.
Marten, Lutz, Kula, Nancy C., Thwala, Nhlanhla   +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, Marjo van Koppen   +1 more
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Monotonicity as an effective theory of morphosyntactic variation

Journal of Language Modelling, 2019
One of the major goals of linguistics is to delineate the possible range of variation across languages. Recent work has identified a surprising number of typological gaps in a variety domains.
Thomas Graf
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Children’s Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Variation [PDF]

Language Learning and Development, 2021
This article presents a developmental pathway for the acquisition of morphosyntactic variation. Although there is abundant evidence that morphosyntactic variation is pervasive among adults, much le...
Naomi Shin, Karen Miller
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A Look at the Nativization of Bangladeshi English through Corpus Data

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2023
This paper explores Bangladeshi English, a relative newcomer to the family of world Englishes. First, we chart the evolution of English in Bangladesh across several phases of development.
Cristina Suárez-Gómez, Elena Seoane
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A micro-parametric survey on typological covariation related to focus marking strategies, based on the Bantu Morphosyntactic Variation database

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023
This paper discusses typological tendencies of focus marking strategies from a cross-Bantu perspective based on the Bantu Morphosyntactic Variation (BMV) database, a large-scale database of morphosyntactic variation of Bantu languages built around 142 ...
Daisuke Shinagawa, Lutz Marten
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Review of Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts by Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden

Isogloss, 2019
Review of Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts by Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz ...
Josep Ausensi
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Variable Future-Time Expression in Spanish: A Comparison between Heritage and Second Language Learners

Languages, 2021
This paper examines the expression of futurity in Spanish, specifically the periphrastic future (PF), the morphological future (MF), and the present indicative (PI) in heritage language learners (HLLs) and second language learners (L2 learners), a ...
Ana de Prada Pérez, Inmaculada Gómez Soler, Nick Feroce   +2 more
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First-person singular and third-person subject pronoun variation: The case of Mexican Spanish in the U.S. state of Georgia

Lenguaje, 2021
The current study analyzes variable subject pronoun expression (SPE) for first-person singular (1sg) and third-person subjects in a variety of Mexican Spanish spoken by first-generation Mexican immigrants in the state of Georgia, Southeastern U.S ...
Philip P. Limerick
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