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The nanosyntax of Hungarian postpositions
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2009 This article considers evidence for a Nanosyntactic approach to language from Hungarian PPs. Hungarian postpositions can be divided into classes: those which take a complement without morphologically visible case (dressed postpositions), and those which ...
Éva Dékány
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Semelfactives are bigger than degree achievements: The nanosyntax of Czech and Polish semelfactive and degree achievement verb stems [PDF]
, 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.
Taraldsen Medová, Lucie +3 more
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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 +3 more
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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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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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, 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
IsoglossSpanish 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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