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Object agreement and locality in Hungarian
Approaches To Hungarian, 2020 Abstract The paper claims that the two types of object agreement in Hungarian, definiteness agreement and the special lak-agreement form used for the combination of first person singular subject and second person object arguments, are the result of different syntactic operations.
Szécsényi Krisztina, Szécsényi Tibor
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A Typological Sketch of Kamsá, a Language Isolate of Colombia
Forma y Función, 2021 Kamsá is a language isolate spoken in the Sibundoy Valley in the Putumayo department of southern Colombia. Its speech community lives on the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains, between the linguistic areas of the Andes and the Amazon.
Colleen Alena O'Brien
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1987 Contrary to the view that in Bantu languages the two unmarked nominals following the verb in ditransitive constructions need not be distinguished because both possess the same object properties, this paper shows the necessity of making a distinction ...
Videa P. De Guzman
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Properties of applied objects in Kiswahili and Kindendeule
Studies in African Linguistics, 1998 This paper examines objects which are licensed by the applicative affix in the Bantu languages of Kindendeule and Kiswahili. The data show that all verbs can take the applicative suffix deriving transitive verbs from intransitive verbs, and ditransitive ...
Deo Ngonyani
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Object agreement and topicality hierarchies in Kiyaka
Studies in African Linguistics, 1987 This investigation of object agreement in .Kiyaka raises a theoretical question common to Bantu but which has been answered only partially in previous studies: what accounts for the control and sequential order of object agreement markers (OAMs) in ...
Lukowa Kidima
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The mosaic evolution of Left Dislocation in Xhosa
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016 This paper demonstrates that the status of Clitic LD in Xhosa is a result of the mosaic evolution of Xhosa grammar. It emerges as an accumulation and combination of two more individual, distinct and, at least, initially separated developments and ...
Andrason, Alexander, Visser, Marianna W.
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The North Samoyedic interrogative verb meaning ‘say what’
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2020 A cross-linguistically rare interrogative category (i.e., an interrogative verb with the meaning ‘say what’) is observed in the North Samoyedic (Uralic) languages.
Nikolett Mus
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On the Nature of Clitics and Their Sensitivity to Number Attraction Effects
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Pronominal dependencies have been shown to be more resilient to attraction effects than subject-verb agreement. We use this phenomenon to investigate whether antecedent-clitic dependencies in Spanish are computed like agreement or like pronominal ...
Mikel Santesteban +3 more
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Pattimura Legal Journal, 2022 Introduction: Agreement on the transfer of land rights number 04/L/GGPG/IX/2013 dated September 11, 2013 which became the issue raised by the author. The agreement made in the letter of agreement is a default between the parties who are considered to ...
Sri Rumada Sihite
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Differential Object Marking, Case and Agreement
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 In this paper, we present empirical evidence showing that Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Spanish is determined by structural conditions related to Case and agreement. We also argue that semantic concepts such as specificity, definiteness, animacy,
Javier Ormazabal, Juan Romero
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