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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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LinguisticsInterpretive differences between overt subject pronouns relative to null subject pronouns are commonly considered a defining property of Consistent Null Subject Languages (CNSLs), in contradistinction to Partial Null Subject Languages (PNSLs).
Ruda Marta, Huang Nick
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Arabic verbless sentences: is there a null VP? [PDF]
, 2005 Este trabajo pretende describir y analizar el fenómeno de la ausencia de verbo copulativo en tiempo presente en las oraciones sin verbo en árabe. Por regla general, se asume que, en árabe, las oraciones sin verbo contienen un verbo copulativo nulo o ...
Al-Horais, Nasser
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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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Demonstrative Paradigms in English and Ibibio: Some Contrastive Observations [PDF]
, 2018 This paper describes demonstrative paradigms in English and Ibibio based on their syntactic and semantic behaviours, especially with English as the language of education in Nigeria.
Ekah, Maria-Helen
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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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Restrictive Relative Clauses in Maltese [PDF]
, 2011 This paper provides a descriptive overview of restrictive relative clauses (henceforth RRCs) in Maltese, a construction which has received little atten- tion to date and which is poorly described in existing grammars.
Camilleri, M, Sadler, L
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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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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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Developmental Science, Volume 27, Issue 6, November 2024.Abstract There is substantial evidence that children's apparent omission of grammatical morphemes in utterances such as “She play tennis” and “Mummy eating” is in fact errors of commission in which contextually licensed unmarked forms encountered in the input are reproduced in a context‐blind fashion. So how do children stop making such errors? In this
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