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How Wide the Divide? – Theorizing ‘Constructions’ in Generative and Usage-Based Frameworks [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 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 ...
Matthew T. Carlson, Antonio Fábregas, Michael T. Putnam   +2 more
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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 Francesco
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Universal semantic features and the typology of cardinal numerals [PDF]

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2020
The paper proposes a unified morpho-semantic account for the typological variation in the form and meaning of cardinal numerals. In particular, we investigate the morphological marking of two different types of cardinals and argue that it is possible to ...
Marcin Wągiel, Pavel Caha
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Fseq and Cartography: The tip of the iceberg [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2015
The present paper is intended as an overview of some of the major issues in, and contributions to, Cartography. First, it discusses the general framework.
Imola-Ágnes Farkas
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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
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Complex Possessive Pronouns in West Flemish and German [PDF]

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2023
In this article we discuss a contrastive, morphological agreement pattern exhibited by singular possessive pronouns in West Flemish and German. While West Flemish zen (‘his’) and eur (‘her’) require a suffix -en to mark masculine agreement, they are ...
Anne-Li Demonie, Pamela Goryczka
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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 ...
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Word-order information in the Lexicon [PDF]

Glossa
We propose that crosslinguistic word-order variation (Greenberg 1963; Cinque 2005; Abels 2016) reflects information stored in the lexicon in the format of Lexical Items, and that the operations yielding word-order are the same that guide lexicalisation ...
FRANCESCO PINZIN, Tommaso Mattiuzzi
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The spell-out algorithm and lexicalization patterns: Slavic verbs and complementizers [PDF]

, 2019
Empirically, the book covers two areas: the morphosyntax of verbs and categories syncretic with the declarative complementizer in Slavic, together with a comparative look at the similar categories in Latvian (Baltic) and Basaá (Bantu).
Wiland, Bartosz
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Morphosyntax of specific and non-specific indefinite markers

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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