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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

open access: yes, 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)   +1 more
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Tackling the Augmentative Puzzle in Turkish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper deals with the suffix -cIk in Turkish, and argues that the suffix -cIk has an augmentative meaning, as well as a diminutive meaning which has been mentioned in the literature extensively.
Türk, Utku, Utku Türk
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Towards a theory of denominals a look at incorporation, phrasal spell-out and spanning

open access: yes, 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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The Morphosyntax of Negative Markers: A Nanosyntactic Account Studies in generative grammar ;, 144./ Karen De Clercq.

open access: yes, 2020
In English.This book applies the tools of nanosyntax to the natural language phenomenon of negation. Most work on negation is concerned with the study of sentence negation, while low scope negation or constituent negation is hardly ever systematically ...
De Clercq Karen
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The role of gender suffixes in number suppletion

open access: yesIsogloss
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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“Voy de Paula” and “voy a lo de Paula”: Differential marking of [+HUMAN] landmarks in the varieties of Spanish from Santa Fe and Paraná

open access: yesQuintú Quimün, 2020
This work addresses the differential coding of human landmarks in the Spanish varieties of Santa Fe and Paraná. Authors such as Kittilä & Luraghi (2009), Luraghi (2011) and Haspelmath (2019) analyze spatial constructions and show that the coding of human
Marina Anabella Gallardo Berg
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Nanosyntax: A fresh approach to syntactic analysis

open access: yes, 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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The spell-out algorithm and lexicalization patterns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Empirically, the book covers two areas: the morphosyntax of verbs and categories syncretic with the declarative complementizer in Slavic, together with a comparative look at the similar categories in Latvian (Baltic) and Basaá (Bantu).
Wiland, Bartosz
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Nasal Presents in Latin between Root, Aspect and Actionality: A Nanosyntactic Account

open access: yes
Nasal presents look puzzling due to a number of morphological characteristics. Notably, -n patterns in an unexpected fashion with respect to both (i) the thematic element -ā (sequences like ✶-ā-n-ĕre and ✶-n-ā-re are disallowed, but the latter can
Bertocci, Davide
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The Role of Prepositions in Case Mismatches in Free Relatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper, I discuss six patterns of case mismatches in free relatives that arise in German. Four of the six have been accounted for in Bergsma (submitted), using grafting (Van Riemsdijk 2006) and the case hierarchy in nanosyntax (Caha 2009).
Bergsma, Fenna
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