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Morphosyntax of specific and non-specific indefinite markers [PDF]

Glossa, 2021
This paper proposes a nanosyntactic analysis of non-specific, specific unknown and specific known indefinite markers, as identified in Haspelmath (1997).
Jakub Dekier
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An introduction to Nanosyntax [PDF]

Linguistics Vanguard: Multimodal Online Journal, 2019
Abstract This article provides an introduction to Nanosyntax – an approach to the syntax/lexicon interaction originating from work by Michal Starke. I present some of the motivation for allowing lexical items to replace whole phrases rather than only terminal elements, present the basic principles taken to govern the lexicalization ...
Taraldsen, Knut Tarald
exaly   +5 more sources

The nanosyntax of Hungarian postpositions [PDF]

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2009
This article considers evidence for a Nanosyntactic approach to language from Hungarian PPs. Hungarian postpositions can be divided into classes: those which take a complement without morphologically visible case (dressed postpositions), and those which ...
Éva Dékány
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Nanosyntax and syncretism in multidimensional paradigms [PDF]

Linguistics Vanguard: Multimodal Online Journal, 2019
AbstractThis article discusses certain problems that arise when the basic tenets of Nansyntax are employed in an analysis of syncretism patterns in multidimensional paradigms and presents and evaluate different solutions to these problems. The article is intended as a follow-up to my article an introduction to Nanosyntax.
Taraldsen, Knut Tarald
exaly   +5 more sources

The Teacher and the Frog: Unveiling the Morphosyntax of Gender Shifts in Czech with Nanosyntax

Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW)
This study examines the formation of nouns in Czech that show grammatical gender through stem morphemes and three productive suffixes: -a, -k-(a), and -ák.
Daniel Boucník
exaly   +5 more sources

Directional expressions cross-linguistically: Nanosyntax and lexicalization [PDF]

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2010
In this paper, I investigate the syntactic structure underlying expressions of the three main types of Paths: Goal Path, Source Path and Route Path. I suggest that they are structurally different and propose a fine-grained syntactic structure for each of
Marina Pantcheva
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Not all coexpressions are syncretisms: Limiting Nanosyntax

Glossa
This paper revises the findings of Dekier (2021) concerning the syncretism and containment of indefinites in light of their semantic implausibility and empirical inadequacy, compared to the alternative semantic approach of Degano & Aloni (2025), and ...
exaly   +5 more sources

Variation in Portuguese: Exploring the case of ditransitive verbs with Nanosyntax

Filologia E Linguística Portuguesa
This paper presents a very introductory analysis of variation in the expression of the Dative case and in constructions with ditransitive verbs across different varieties of Portuguese. To do so, it employs a novel theoretical framework for handling this type of data: Nanosyntax.
Rammé, Valdilena
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How Wide the Divide? - Theorizing 'Constructions' in Generative and Usage-Based Frameworks. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
What is the nature and function of mental representations in cognitive science, and in human language in particular? How do they come into existence and interact, and how is the information attributed to them stored in and retrieved from the human mind ...
Carlson MT, Fábregas A, Putnam MT.
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What's hidden below definiteness and genitive: on indefinite partitive articles in Romance. [PDF]

Linguistics
In French, Italian, and other Romance languages indefinite nominal phrases can be introduced by what appears to be the conflation of a genitive preposition and a definite article, the so-called “indefinite partitive articles” (e.g., Fr.
Pinzin F.
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