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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
doaj   +2 more sources

Questions on transitivity [PDF]

, 2010
This handout (it isn’t a paper) presents phenomena and questions, rather than conclusions, related to the concept of transitivity. The idea is to return to these questions at the end of the Workshop to see if we can have a clearer consensus about the ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
core  

Parsing the Corpus of Historical Low German (CHLG) [PDF]

, 2019
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Booth, Hannah, Breitbarth, Anne, Farasyn, Melissa   +2 more
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Locative inversion in Otjiherero: more on morphosyntactic variation in Bantu

ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2006
This paper discusses locative inversion constructions in Otjiherero against the background of previous work by Bresnan and Kanerva (1989) on the construction in Chichewa, and Demuth and Mmusi (1997) on Setswana and related languages. Locative inversion in Otjiherero is structurally similar to locative inversion in Chichewa and Setswana, but differs ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

On modality in Georgian sign language (GESL) [PDF]

, 2017
Modality is one of the most fascinating and complex areas of language studies. This paper illustrates the types of modal constructions in Georgian Sign language (GESL), including negative forms.
Makharoblidze, Tamar
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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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Typological parameters of genericity [PDF]

, 2000
Different languages employ different morphosyntactic devices for expressing genericity. And, of course, they also make use of different morphosyntactic and semantic or pragmatic cues which may contribute to the interpretation of a sentence as generic ...
Behrens, Leila
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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
doaj  

Contact and complexity in English varieties: The influence of speaker numbers on syntheticity and grammaticity. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ehret K.
europepmc   +1 more source