Layering in structural-functional grammars [PDF]
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Butler, Christopher S. +1 more
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Modelling morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes from a register perspective
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2017 This paper addresses Miller’s (2000) and Brown and Miller’s (2017) hypothesis that the adverbs just, (n)ever and yet are becoming markers of perfect meaning in spoken English, and this at the expense of weakening semantically and reducing the use of the
Elena Seoane
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Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation [PDF]
, 2017 Abstract Systematic variation in form between semantic equivalents across languages is a key explanandum of linguistic theory. Two contrasting views of the role of lexical semantics in the analysis of such variation can be found in the literature: (1) uniformity, whereby lexical meaning is universal, and morphosyntactic variation arises ...
Francez, Itamar, Koontz-Garboden, Andrew
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Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]
, 2017 It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
Barddal, Johanna +2 more
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Building complex events: the case of Sicilian Doubly Inflected Construction [PDF]
, 2019 We examine the Doubly Inflected Construction of Sicilian (DIC; Cardinaletti and Giusti 2001, 2003, Cruschina 2013), in which a motion verb V1 from a restricted set is followed by an event verb V2 and both verbs are inflected for the same person and tense
Del Prete, Fabio, Todaro, Giuseppina
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Morphosyntactic variation in Modern Greek dialects [PDF]
Journal of Greek Linguistics, 2017 This introduction lays out the issues in the study of morphosyntactic variation in Modern Greek dialects and summarizes the contents of the papers included herein.
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Investigating Language Variation and Change in Portuguese
LanguagesThis Issue focuses on morphosyntactic variation and change in Portuguese [...]
Patrícia Amaral
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The alternation between exterior locative cases and postpositions in Estonian web texts
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 . A probabilistic grammar approach to language assumes that grammatical knowledge has a probabilistic component and that this probabilistic knowledge of language is derived from language experience. It is assumed that the extent and nature of grammatical
Jane Klavan
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Ditransitive verbs and the ditransitive construction: a diachronic perspective [PDF]
, 2011 This paper argues for the adoption of a construction-based perspective to the investigation of diachronic shifts in valency, which is a hitherto largely neglected topic in the framework of valency grammar. On the basis of a comparison of the set of verbs
Colleman, Timothy
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Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Focus on East Africa
Journal of the Language Association of Eastern Africa, 2022 Recent studies have developed a systematic approach to morphosyntactic variation among Bantu languages, taking well-known and widely attested construction types as a starting point and sketching their distribution across the family. One such approach, Guérois et al. (2017), utilises 142 morphosyntactic parameters or features, across a sample of some 50
Edelsten, Peter +5 more
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