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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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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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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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Coexpression patterns of complementizers, nanosyntax, and productivity
Diversity Linguistics Comment, 2018 Since the 1980s, typologists have often summarized coexpression patterns (or “polysemy patterns”, or “syncretism patterns”) by semantic maps, as illustrated here for case expression (Narrog & Ito 2007: 282): (For general introductions to semantic maps ...
Martin Haspelmath
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The Spell-Out of Non-Heads in Spanish Compounds: A Nanosyntactic Approach
Languages, 2022 This paper considers the morphophonological variants found in the non-head position of Spanish productive compound patterns. In the literature it has been noted that compounds resort to both I- and O-ending stems and words (even inflected ones) to spell ...
Bárbara Marqueta Gracia
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Mismatches in free relatives – grafting nanosyntactic trees
Glossa, 2019 German free relative constructions allow for case requirement mismatches under two types of circumstances. The first is when the case required in the embedded clause is more complex (NOM < ACC < GEN < DAT) than the case required in the main ...
Fenna Bergsma
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On low verbal negation in Brazilian Portuguese
IsoglossIn this paper, I discuss a new construction in Brazilian Portuguese, whereby the negative marker não ‘not’, which is syncretic with other types of negation in the language, appears in the slot [Aux_V] in periphrases, a position that is not common in ...
Sonia Cyrino
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