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Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 252-272, June 2025.The article argues that, linguistically speaking, there is no uniform class of personal taste predicate. There is an F(un)‐type PPT that takes infinitive complements expressing events. In effect, these PPTs are predicates of events involving participants. There is also a T(asty)‐type that cannot take an infinitive complement and does not enter into the
John Collins
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Offline interpretation of subject pronouns by native speakers of Spanish
Glossa, 2018 Research on anaphora resolution reveals that speakers’ interpretation of pronominal subjects is often inconsistent, with results differing in terms of the antecedent preferences of these speakers and the factors that affect these preferences. The present
Gloria Chamorro
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Expanding the Typology of Absolutive Syntax in Mayan: Evidence From Northern Mam
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3, May/June 2025.ABSTRACT Past work on Mayan languages has divided the family into two groups based on syntactic ergativity: ‘high‐absolutive’ languages in which objects raise to a position above the ergative subject and enter into Agree with a high probe and ‘low‐absolutive’ languages in which objects remain low and enter into Agree with a low probe.
Willie Myers
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Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 54-88, December 2024.ABSTRACT In a pure event semantics for natural language, the domain of quantification and predication is limited to events and states. I offer pure event semantic analyses of several phenomena, some of which have not been treated before in formal semantics. In the pure event semantics sketched in the second section, nouns are state predicates, and this
Roger Schwarzschild
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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Anaphora resolution in 2L1 Romanian. Evidence from Romanian-Hungarian bilinguals [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018 The paper reports the results of an experimental study on intra-sentential anaphora resolution in 2L1 Romanian, by Romanian-Hungarian bilingual children.
Veronica Tomescu
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DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2007 This paper analyzes preverbal overt subjects, comparing Brazilian Portuguese to (other) null-subject languages, especially within Romance. It explores syntactic and semantic properties, including resumption, ellipsis, quantifiers and scope, variable ...
Acrisio Pires
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The Copy Theory of Control and the Analysis of Finite Control
LanguagesUnder the Markovian property of derivations the history of the derivation is not preserved in the current state, hence chains cannot be read off it.
Maria Rita Manzini, Anna Roussou
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Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2014 Tarallo (1993) proposes that the turn of the 20th century is a landmark in the history of Brazilian Portuguese (BP), with the emergence of a Brazilian grammar different from the European Portuguese one specially in relation to the preference for lexical ...
Silvia Regina de Oliveira Cavalcante
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La référence impersonnelle humaine en langue des signes française
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2018 The study presented in this paper is a first systematic approach to the expression of the impersonal human reference in French sign language (LSF). It extends and deepens a prior study carried out by the authors on the basis of a large scale discourse ...
Brigitte Garcia +3 more
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