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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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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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Sub-extracting out of the Icelandic *ABA problem

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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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THE ROLE OF LOW HEADS IN THE CAUSATIVE INTERPRETATION IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: SOME NOTES ON EVENT COMPOSITION, F-SEQ AND NANOSYNTAX

, 2019
: In this paper, we investigate the causativization process in Brazilian Portuguese in order to understand the constraints and generalizations that allow us to explain the apparently chaotic data in this language.
Valdilena Rammé (7452032), Thayse Letícia Ferreira (7452029)   +1 more
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Complex Possessive Pronouns in West Flemish and German

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2023
In this article we discuss a contrastive, morphological agreement pattern exhibited by singular possessive pronouns in West Flemish and German. While West Flemish zen (‘his’) and eur (‘her’) require a suffix -en to mark masculine agreement, they are ...
Anne-Li Demonie, Pamela Goryczka
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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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Towards a theory of denominals a look at incorporation, phrasal spell-out and spanning

, 2019
"In Towards a Theory of Denominals, Adina Camelia Bleotu takes a comparative look at denominal verbs in English and Romanian from various theoretical frameworks such as lexical decomposition, distributed morphology, nanosyntax and spanning.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia
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Word-order information in the Lexicon

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We propose that crosslinguistic word-order variation (Greenberg 1963; Cinque 2005; Abels 2016) reflects information stored in the lexicon in the format of Lexical Items, and that the operations yielding word-order are the same that guide lexicalisation ...
FRANCESCO PINZIN, Tommaso Mattiuzzi
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The role of gender suffixes in number suppletion

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A well-known empirical generalization is that suppletion is sensitive to the presence of intervening morphemes: for suppletion to take place, the trigger and the target must be adjacent.
Antonio Fábregas, Michael T. Putnam
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Nanosyntax: A fresh approach to syntactic analysis

, 2013
Nanosyntax (NS) is a new theoretical approach to grammatical inquiry that is intended to be more ‘fine-grained’ than conventional Minimalist Syntax (MS), attempting to provide a method of analysis that can account for the behaviour of linguistic elements
Oosthuizen, Johan, Pretorius, Erin
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