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Interface Legibility and Nominal Classification: A Nanosyntactic Account of Kipsigis Singulatives

Glossa, 2022
Under a superset-based approach to spellout (Caha 2009; Starke 2009), a vocabulary item characterizes a set of PF-legible syntactic objects. The consequence is a dynamic, configurational and vocabulary-driven notion of a feature’s (un)interpretability at
Hagen Blix
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Nanosyntax: the basics

, 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 universal functional sequence (fseq). It also provides a brief comparison of theoretical and terminological
Baunaz, Lena, Lander, Eric
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Morphology: Nanosyntax vs. DM

, 2021
This talk is a part of a debate discussing the choice between two current theories of morphology, namely Nanosyntax and DM. I was asked to address the following three questions: Is late insertion necessary, and if so, why?
Caha Pavel
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Paradigm levelling in Spanish as a case of Root Shrinking

Isogloss
Spanish has three verb classes, identified by three different theme vowels: -a, e, and -i. The verbs show three different types of paradigm levelling, whereby verb class distinctions are neutralised, either in whole or in part.
Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
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Accounting for the Three Readings of the Causative Morpheme in Kîîtharaka

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2010
The Kîîtharaka causative morpheme (-ith) conveys three readings, a coercive reading, an adversative reading and an assistive reading. This paper argues that these three readings can be captured if it assumed that the causative morpheme itself, as stored
Peter Kinyua Muriungi
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The distribution and licensing of –ra in Eonavian Spanish: a nanosyntactic analysis

Isogloss, 2016
The imperfect subjunctive form –ra found in the variety of Spanish spoken between the Eo and Navia rivers in Asturias, has not only the modal value observed in Standard Peninsular Spanish (Ojalá lloviera ‘I wish it rained’), but it may also carry ...
Natalia Jardón Pérez
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Structural decomposition of Pashto path Ps [PDF]

, 2022
Background and Purpose: Past studies categorized Pashto prepositions as pre-position, post-position and ambi-position on the basis of their syntactical position in a unit of grammar. This paper aims to analyze the Pashto path prepositions and to find out
Khan, Sardaraz, Kainat
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Partitive and Counting Phrases in Polish: A Nanosyntactic Analysis of Syncretism

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This paper investigates syncretism in Polish pseudo-partitive and counting phrases, where different forms of the same noun appear in context as ‘a piece of apple’, ‘two apples’, and ‘five apples’.
Lukáš Žoha
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Review: Lena Baunaz, Karen de Clerq, Liliane Haegeman, Eric Lander (eds.). 2018. Exploring Nanosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Explorations (Opole), 2019
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IMPLICATIONS OF THE DANISH DEFINITENESS ALTERNATION FOR CONCORD IN NANOSYNTAX

Годишњак Филозофског факултета у Новом Саду, 2023
The Danish definiteness alternation presents two challenges for Nanosyntax. First, it displays structural allomorphy of the definiteness marker between a suffix and prenominal article; second, there is concord between the definiteness marker and noun gender.
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