A Day in Linguistic History [PDF]
, 1976 The day begins like any other day. A few students straggle toward the Union in search of coffee and eggs. Delivery trucks come on the campus. At the entrance, the sign still reads SUSAN DOE UNIVERSITY FOUNDED 1894 NO SOLICITORS.
Elliott, Charles
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The Passive and the Notion of Transitivity
, 2009 International audienceThe purpose of this article is to show that passivization can be better accounted for when the phenomenon of transitivity, on which it is based, is defined on semantic grounds.
de Mattia-Viviès, Monique
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The Inverse Agreement Constraint in Uralic languages [PDF]
, 2013 The paper aims to answer the question why object–verb agreement is blocked in Hungarian, Tundra Nenets, Selkup, and Nganasan if the object is a first or second person pronoun.
É. Kiss, Katalin
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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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Movement from the double object construction is not fully symmetrical [PDF]
, 2019 A movement asymmetry arises in some languages that are otherwise symmetrical for both A- and A-bar movement in the double object construction (DOC), including Norwegian, North-West British English, and a range of Bantu languages including Zulu and ...
Alsina, Alex +42 more
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The Long March Through the Institutions and the Fifth Wave of Juridification
Constellations, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 484-492, September 2025.
Olof Hallonsten
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Erratum to "A prosodic morphophonological analysis of the trilateral perfect passive verbs in Qassimi Arabic" [Heliyon 8(8), (August 2022) Article e10008]. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Alkhudair R, Aljutaily M.
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Changes in argument structure in the course of derivation in Hungarian [PDF]
, 2006 For all types of derivation characterised as productive by Kiefer (2000), the original version of Model Tau (Alberti 1997), dealing only with verbal derivation coming with no category change, can be extended to the entire spectrum of derivations ...
Alberti, Gábor
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Variation in English subject extraction : the case of hyperactive subjects [PDF]
, 2017 International audienceStarting from the well known observation that for some speakers of English, wh-subjects extracted across a transitive predicate can bear accusative case, we investigate the syntax of the pattern in which a subject is wh-moved across
Danckaert, Lieven, Haegeman, Liliane
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The wrong horse was bet on: the effects of argument structure versus argument adjacency on the processing of idiomatic sentences. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Reimer L, Smolka E.
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