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Animacy in morphosyntactic variation

, 2014
In this dissertation, I demonstrate that animacy of subject referents strongly conditions verbal morphosyntactic variation in English varieties. Using three quantitative case studies, I investigate copula and subject verb agreement in two English ...
McLaughlin, Brittany Dael
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Between syntax and morphology: German noun+verb units

Glossa
We show that graphemic variation—at least in some writing systems—can be analysed in terms of grammatical variation given a usage- based probabilistic view of the grammar-graphemics interface.
Roland Schäfer, Ulrike Sayatz
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The Spatiotemporal Dimensions of Person: A Morphosyntactic Account of Indexical Pronouns

, 2013
This dissertation is concerned with the deictic and grammatical category person and its associated linguistic expressions: indexical, i.e. first and second person, pronouns.
Overkoepelend onderzoeksprogramma UiL-OTS, Gruber, B., Sub UiLOTS AIO, ILS Variation   +3 more
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Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect

, 2010
PhDThis study investigates the phenomenon of subject clitic (henceforth, SCl) variation in Ligurian, a variety spoken in the north-west of Italy. Through the examination of empirical data, this work shows that variation can be incorporated in the theory ...
Ciarlo, Chiara, Chiara Ciarlo
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Breaking Down Greek Nominal Stems: Theme and Nominalizer Exponents

Languages
This article focuses on the right edge of nominal stems in Greek and aims to show that stem-final segments should be analyzed as distinct morphological constituents. Two types of such constituents are identified.
Giorgos Markopoulos
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Morphosyntactic co-variation in Bantu: Two case studies

, 2007
The morphosyntactic properties of Bantu languages, in particular of South-East Bantu languages, are often described as being fairly uniform across different languages.
Kula, NC, Marten, L
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Alignment everywhere all at once

Journal of Language Modelling
This article presents the structure of the ATLAs Alignment Module, a typological database designed to exhaustively capture languageinternal variation in argument marking (indexing and flagging).
David Inman, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Melvin Steiger   +3 more
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There is more: Variation in expletive constructions in Dutch

, 2018
This thesis is concerned with expletive clauses in Dutch. An example of such a construction follows in (1). (1) Er loopt iemand op straat. There walks someone on street ‘Someone is walking in the street.’ In this sentence the expletive pronoun er ‘there’
Wesseling, F., LS Nederlandse taalkunde, ILS Variation   +2 more
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A variety in formation? Morphosyntactic variation in Ukrainian-Russian speech and press.

, 2015
This paper presents some results of our research on morphosyntactic variation in Ukrainian Russian. We argue that the current sociolinguistic situation in Ukraine, primarily marked by Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism, is influencing the grammatical ...
Del Gaudio S, Ivanova O
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Uso variável do artigo definido no português da comunidade de Almoxarife, São Tomé

Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2019
The variable use of the definite article in the noun phrase of the Portuguese spoken by the community of Almoxarife , São Tomé has parallels in its substrate, Santome Creole (Figueiredo 2010, 2014).
Carlos Filipe Guimarães Figueiredo
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