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Closest c-command, agree and impoverishment: The morphosyntax of non-active voice in Albanian [PDF]

, 2011
We provide a minimalist syntactic analysis for the morphological realization of non-active voice in Albanian, a paradigm that exhibits a three-way alternation: inflectional affix, clitic and auxiliary choice. We show that the morphological realization of
Kallulli, Dalina, Trommer, Jochen
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Christoph Blume XVII sajandi teise poole kirjakeele uuendajana

Keel ja Kirjandus
Christoph Blume as a language innovator in the second half of the 17th century This article provides an insight into the language usage in the mid-17th century ecclesiastical texts by the Northern Estonian author Christoph Blume: Das Kleine Corpus ...
Liina Pärismaa
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Quand et comment survient l’interpellation en classe : étude comparative d’oraux en maternelle et au collège

Corela, 2010
Interlocutory spaces corresponding to ‘direct interpellation’ were studied comparatively in infant and middle schools. Preliminary processing of corpora identified the role of the prime indicators – pronouns I and you and first names. A second, pragmatic
Emmanuèle Auriac, Mylène Blasco-Dulbecco   +1 more
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Adolescent Heritage Speakers: Morphosyntactic Divergence in Estonian Youth Language Usage in Sweden

Languages
Heritage language (HL) research has investigated adults and children, while adolescents have garnered far less attention, despite adolescence being a crucial time in the development of idiolects and identities, and, hence, also for language maintenance ...
Mari-Liis Korkus, Virve-Anneli Vihman
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Greek as a Heritage Language in Germany

Languages
Research on heritage languages (HLs) has expanded considerably within the last 10 years worldwide. Despite the large waves of migration from Greece to other countries in Europe, the Americas, and Australia within the 20th century, research on Greek as an
Angelika Golegos, Theodoros Marinis
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Narrow Focus Without Prosody: Some Observations from the Written Italian of University Students

Languages
In this work, we analyze the narrow focus strategies in the written Italian of university students. Although prosodic prominence is a characterizing feature of focus—functionally more important than morphosyntactic marking, according to some authors—we ...
Elisa Di Domenico
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Some introductory notes on the development and characteristics of Sabah Malay

Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2011
This is a preliminary description of the Malay variety used as a lingua franca in the Malaysian state of Sabah at the northernmost top of Borneo. The paper discusses a number of common linguistic features that distinguish Sabah Malay from other Malay ...
Tom G. Hoogervorst
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Aspects of number in the Papuan outliers of East Nusantara [PDF]

, 2012
Handout from a paper presented at the International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Bali, July 2-6, 2012.The East Nusantara region is home to two distinct groups of Papuan languages spoken far from the New Guinea mainland and surrounded by ...
Holton, Gary
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What makes a multimodal construction? Evidence for a prosodic mode in spoken English

Frontiers in Communication
Traditionally, grammar deals with morphosyntax, and so does Construction Grammar. Prosody, in contrast, is deemed paralinguistic. Testifying to the “multimodal turn,” the past decade has witnessed a rise in interest in multimodal Construction Grammar, i ...
Claudia Lehmann
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MODALITÉS INJONCTIVE ET INTERROGATIVE DANS LE DISCOURS RAPPORTÉ: LE FRANÇAIS BASILECTAL À MAROUA, LANGUE DE TRANSACTION COMMERCIALE DU SECTEUR INFORMEL [PDF]

Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2011
The present article describes and analyses the morphosyntactic structures of the popular French language from the extreme North of Cameroon (Maroua region).
Jean Paul BALGA
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