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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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Why Russian demonstratives look the way they do

, 2021
The talk discusses the morphology of demonstrative concord in Russian.
Taraldsen Medová Lucie, Caha Pavel
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Partitive and Counting Phrases in Polish: A Nanosyntactic Analysis of Syncretism

LingBaW
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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The nanosyntax of case [PDF]

, 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 ...
Caha, Pavel
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Deriving ablative, privative, and reversative meanings in Catalan and Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2018
The most productive way to encode ablative, privative, and reversative meanings in current Catalan and Spanish is by means of des- prefixation. This paper investigates how these related values are obtained both from a structural and from a conceptual ...
Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo
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Chapter 4. A more perfect unification

, 2019
In this paper, we provide a new analysis of the Negative Constraint in Vietnamese, whereby the anterior morpheme dã loses its perfect reading in negative contexts.
Nigel Duffield, Phan T., Trang Phan, Duffield N.   +3 more
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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 ...
Lander, Eric
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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 ...
Pantcheva, Marina Blagoeva
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Sub-extracting out of the Icelandic *ABA problem

Glossa
Icelandic nominal declension show (acc = dat) ≠ gen syncretisms which go against Caha's (2009) cross-linguistic pattern of of acc > gen > dat and hence seemingly violate the *ABA generalisation (Harðarsson, 2016, Starke, 2017).
Lars Ingolf Dalen, Michal Starke
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Resolving (DAT = ACC) ≠ GEN

Glossa, 2017
The traditional notion of case is too coarse to distinguish between the English prepositional dative and the English shifted dative, the Spanish bare accusative and the Spanish “a” accusative, etc.
Michal Starke
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