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The Germanic weak preterit [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The main difficulty with the Germanic weak preterit is that one cannot endeavor an explanation of its origin without taking into account almost every aspect of the historical phonology and morphology of the Germanic languages.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Remarks on the structure of the verbal complex in early 17th century German [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Speakers of various Southern german dialects may be heard to use two syntactic variants of subordinate clauses which are represented by the following Swabian examples: (1) daß er den net will komme lasse (2) daß er den net komme lasse will Of these two ...
Fritz, Gerd
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Nivkh as a Uralo-Siberian language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In his magnificent book on the language relations across Bering Strait (1998), Michael Fortescue does not consider Nivkh (Gilyak) to be a Uralo-Siberian language.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Expletives as features [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Expletives have always been a central topic of theoretical debate and subject to different analyses within the different stages of the Principles and Parameter theory (see Chomsky 1981, 1986, 1995; Lasnik 1992, 1995; Frampton and Gutman 1997; among ...
Sabel, Joachim
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Controversial Issues of Compliance with the Rules of Agreement in Complex French Tenses: Based on the Internet Forum Reddit.Com

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
The purpose of the article is to attempt to provide a reasoned and generalized coverage of a particular problem of French grammar concerning the simplification of the rule of agreement of the past participle participe passé (hereinafter PP) with the ...
Tamara V. Slastnikova   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do we rely on good-enough processing in reading under auditory and visual noise? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2023
Zdorova N   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

South Arabian and Yemeni dialects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
It has traditionally been assumed that with the Islamic conquests Arabic overwhelmed the original ancient languages of the Peninsula, leaving the language situation in the south-western Arabian Peninsula as one in which dialects of Arabic are tinged, to ...
Watson, JCE
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Galician Perfective Periphrases among Complex Predicates: Degrees of Grammaticalization and the Possibility of a Perfect Tense

open access: yesLanguages
The so-called perífrasis perfectivas in Galician present the action as concluded or realized. This particular aspectual feature constitutes the common ground for an otherwise heterogeneous set of constructions, ranging from rematar de ‘finish ...
Natalia Jardón
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Prenominal and postnominal reduced relative clauses: arguments against unitary analyses

open access: yesBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007
These last years, several analyses have been proposed in which prenominal and postnominal reduced relatives are merged in the same position. Kayne (1994) claims that both types of reduced relative clauses are the complement of the determiner.
Petra Sleeman
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