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‘Pre’ and ‘post’ marking in Nanosyntax: the case of a prepositional dative in a dialectal Polish
Poznan Studies in Contemporary LinguisticsAbstract The Podlasie dialect of Polish exhibits a curious nominal case declension paradigm where the dative is expressed by a preposition and a genitive suffix ( prep N -gen ), which constitutes a typologically rare pattern. Moreover,
Wiland, Bartosz
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Semelfactives are bigger than degree achievements [PDF]
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2018 This paper argues that semelfactive and degree achievement verbs are morphosyntactically distinct, despite the fact that the morphemes they are made of are often syncretic even in languages with synthetic verb morphology like Czech or Polish. We use the mechanisms of Nanosyntax, a theory of the architecture of grammar in which the lexicon stores entire
Taraldsen Medová, Lucie +1 more
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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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Nanosyntax: A short primer to a new approach to language [PDF]
Nordlyd, 2010 Nanosyntax is a new approach to the architecture of language, designed to make (better) sense of the new empirical picture emerging from recent years of syntactic research. It is a large-scale project, addressing a wide array of issues, ranging from big issues such as the modularity of language, to fine details, such as the derivation of allomorphy in ...
Michal Starke, Starke, Michal
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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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, 2009 This dissertation proposes a new approach to case. It unifies its syntax, morphology and semantics in a simple, fine-grained and restrictive picture. One of the assumptions frequently made in works on case is that cases such as nominative and accusative are not primitive entities, but they are each composed of various features.
Caha, Pavel
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The nanosyntax of the Northwest Germanic reinforced demonstrative [PDF]
, 2016 The reinforced demonstrative pronoun (RDem) 'this' is a morphological innovation common to the North and West Germanic languages. Though RDem is a defining characteristic of the Northwest branch of Germanic, there is no detailed treatment of its internal structure in the literature.
Lander, Eric
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, 2020 This paper considers and compares the status of the concept of head within differentgrammatical frameworks (Minimalism, LFG and HPSG) and its relevance toour understanding of the mechanisms of change involved in grammaticalization.Our data is drawn from ...
Börjars, Kersti ; id_orcid +1 more
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Decomposing Path : The Nanosyntax of Directional Expressions [PDF]
, 2011 In my thesis, I investigate directional expressions cross-linguistically. I examine the morpho-syntactic structure of expressions of Goal (to the house), Source (from the house), Route (through the house), non-transitional paths (towards the house) and, finally, delimited paths (up to the house).
Pantcheva, Marina Blagoeva
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Syntactic Features of Proper Names: The Generativist Approach(es) to Properhood [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2018 The paper presents an overview of the generativist approaches to the syntactic analysis of proper names which are only very little known in the field of onomastics.
Eugenia E. Romanova +1 more
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