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ICULD-0042 Bende (F12): morphosyntactic variation

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Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu

Abstract The chapter provides an introduction to the volume, sets out the contexts in which it is placed, and provides a short summary of the chapters included in it. The discussion includes summaries of relevant research in Bantu classification, in typological and formal approaches to the study of linguistic variation and micro ...
Marten, Lutz   +3 more
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Object marking and morphosyntactic variation in Bantu

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2012
The paper presents a detailed discussion of morphosyntactic variation in object marking in Bantu. Building on previous work (Marten et al., 2007), the paper investigates variation in object marking in 16 Bantu languages with respect to six parameters: the co-occurrence of object markers and lexical objects, the obligatoriness of object markers with ...
Marten, Lutz, Kula, Nancy C
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Morphosyntactic and semantic variation in applicative constructions

2006
Abstract In this chapter, I consider ways in which the morphosyntactic characteristics of applicative constructions vary. Along the way I will point out tendencies in applicative system variation where possible on the basis of available descriptions (the tendency for beneficiary/recipient applicative constructions to be obligatory for ...
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Lexical frequency and morphosyntactic variation

Spanish in Context, 2017
AbstractThe role of frequency in language variation has received a great deal of attention in recent years, especially in phonology. Recently,Erker and Guy (2012)extended the analysis of frequency to morphosyntactic variation and examined frequency effects in variation between null and overt subject personal pronouns (SPPs) in New York City Spanish ...
Robert Bayley   +2 more
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Morphosyntactic Variation

2013
AbstractThis chapter first reviews early methodological and theoretical debates regarding the nature of variation above the level of phonology. These debates include whether or not the notion of the linguistic variable can be legitimately extended to morphosyntactic variation; the nature of the relationship between quantitative data and the statistical
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