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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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The Romance Inter-Views: Syntax
Isogloss, 2021 The Romance Inter-Views are short, multiple Q&A pairs that address key issues, definitions and ideas regarding Romance linguistics. Prominent exponents of different approaches to the study of Romance linguistics are asked to answer some general questions
Grant Armstrong +7 more
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Polish Comparative Adjectives and Adverbs
Studies in Polish Linguistics, 2023 The paper investigates the morphosyntax of Polish synthetic comparative adjectives and adverbs. It is argued that we can predict the distribution of different classes of adjectival roots and suffixes if we adopt the idea that both types of morphemes ...
Bartosz Wiland
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Phrasal Spellout and Partial Overwrite: On an alternative to backtracking
Glossa, 2021 This paper explores branching vocabulary items as a possible alternative to backtracking in Nanosyntax. Such vocabulary items give rise to the possibility of partial overwrite. Initially, they spell out a node with two phrasal daughters.
Hagen Blix
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, 2018 This chapter offers a thorough introduction to nanosyntactic theory, a development of the cartographic program in generative grammar. It discusses the foundations on which nanosyntax was conceived, such as the “one feature–one head” maxim and the ...
Baunaz, Lena +2 more
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Linguistica Brunensia, 2019 In the article, I look at two constructions that roughly correspond to the English morpheme -ABLE: the first is a synthetic form based on a verb, in which the root is followed by the suffix TEL and the suffix N, while the other is an analytic form with ...
Lucie Taraldsen Medová
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Modularity, Phase-Phase Faithfulness and prosodification of function words in English
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2013 This paper investigates the interface of syntax and phonology in a fully modular view of language, deriving the effects of (morpho)syntactic structure on prosodification without referring to that structure in the phonological computation, contra the use ...
Dragana Šurkalović
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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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Having fun with van–a Nanosyntactic take on syncretism
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2013 Syncretism is the phenomenon where one (phonological) form is able to spell out more than one (grammatical) function. The P(repositional) element van (“from/of”) in Afrikaans represents an instance of syncretism: it is able to spell out many different ...
Pretorius, Erin
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Nanosyntax. A short primer to a new approach to language [PDF]
, 2009 Nanosyntax is a novel approach to the architecture of language, designed to make (better) sense of the new empirical picture emerg-ing from recent years of syntactic research.
Michal Starke, Starke, Michal
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