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Nanosyntax and the Lexicalization Algorithm
Abstract This book offers the most recent state of the art to the framework Nanosyntax, a late-insertion theory that has at its core the idea that the elementary building blocks of syntactic trees are single features. These features are assembled by means of syntax and lexicalized by means of phrasal lexicalization and the ...Caha, Pavel +2 more
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The nanosyntax of Nguni noun class prefixes and concords
Lingua, 2010Abstract This article shows that once it is accepted that a single morpheme can lexicalize a “span” of heads rather than a single head, it becomes possible to establish the complex structures underlying noun class prefixes and agreement markers in Nguni (Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele and Swati) in a mechanical way, based on the distributional properties of ...
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ABA patterns and the generative power of Nanosyntax
Abstract This chapter shows that the existing Nanosyntactic machinery is able to generate ABA patterns where all three paradigm cells are filled by portmanteau forms using pointers and complex left branches. Then, novel data of the interaction between Russian suppletive adjectives and analytic degree morphology are presented and ...exaly +2 more sources
Explaining the structure of case paradigms by the mechanisms of Nanosyntax
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2013Pavel Çaha
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2018
This chapter explores how the size of stored exponents can account for word order facts in the nanosyntactic framework. Three Spanish varieties are considered; these varieties differ in the availability of preverbal subjects in interrogative sentences.
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This chapter explores how the size of stored exponents can account for word order facts in the nanosyntactic framework. Three Spanish varieties are considered; these varieties differ in the availability of preverbal subjects in interrogative sentences.
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The nanosyntax of French negation: A diachronic perspective
, 2016 This paper presents a nanosyntactic account for negation in what is referred to as le bon usage French (Grevisse and Goosse [1936] 1993, Rooryck 2010) and in colloquial French.
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Nanosyntax of Russian Verbal Prefixes
2018This chapter addresses the problem of widespread polysemy of Russian verbal prefixes and argues that multiple instantiations of a single prefix share a core conceptual meaning and receive the specific denotations as a function of its syntactic position. A link is demonstrated between the inner structure of a prefix and the PP complement of the prefixed
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Suppletion and affix selection in Nanosyntax
Abstract The Nanosyntactic Lexicalization Algorithm (LA) predicts a complementarity relation between affix rivalry and base suppletion: given identical structures, whichever material cannot be lexicalized by the base exponent will be lexicalized by affix(es).openaire +1 more source