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Arguing against obligatory feature inheritance: Evidence from French transitive participle agreement [PDF]
, 2008 In this article, we accept the view that the relevant type of case/agreement features originate on phase heads, but argue against a strong view of the Percolation Hypothesis on which uninterpretable features obligatorily percolate down from a phase head ...
Vincent, M, Radford, A
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On Past Participle Agreement in Transitive Clauses in French [PDF]
, 2008 This paper provides a Minimalist analysis of past participle agreement in French in transitive clauses. Our account posits that the head v of vP in such structures carries an (accusativeassigning) structural case feature which may apply (with or without
Radford, Andrew, Vincent, Michèle
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South Estonian Written Standard and Actual Spoken Language: Variation of the Past Participle Markers; 161-172 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 The present article gives an overview of the past participle markers in spoken Võru; the variation of these markers exemplifies the (dis)similarities of the written standard and local spoken varieties.
Mari Mets
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Glossa, 2020 In this paper, I will argue that some languages dispose over two kinds of expletives: a purely syntactic expletive and a ‘thetic expletive’ enumerated from the lexicon and triggering a thetic interpretation of the sentence.
Silvia Schaefer
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Italiano LinguaDue, 2023 All’interno di questo contributo saranno esposti i risultati e le considerazioni relativamente al percorso di acquisizione dell’accordo del participio passato e del passato prossimo di apprendenti dell’italiano come L2. Il corpus a cui si fa riferimento
Giulia Gazzelloni
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Eternal (English, Teaching, Learning & Research Journal), 2021 The study aims at revealing the morphological and syntactical deviations patterned by EFL students, and their strategies to respond structure and written expression of TOEFL-Like Test. 70 students participated in this study.
Abdur Rofik
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Investigating the Syntactic Structure of Small Clauses in Kurdish (Mokryani Variant): A Minimalist Approach [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2020 The present study aims at providing a proposal within the framework of the Minimalist Program regarding both the category status of the small clause (SC) and the case marking of its internal noun phrases in the Mokryani Variety of Kurdish.
Roya Tabei, Shoja Tafakkori Rezayi
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Histoire Épistémologie Langage, 2023 The early Alexandrian grammarians fixed the number of parts of speech (or word classes) at eight and arranged them in an order that became canonical for the whole Greek grammatical tradition: noun, verb, participle, article, pronoun, preposition, adverb,
Lionel Dumarty
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Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect [PDF]
, 2010 PhDThis study investigates the phenomenon of subject clitic (henceforth, SCl) variation in Ligurian, a variety spoken in the north-west of Italy. Through the examination of empirical data, this work shows that variation can be incorporated in the theory ...
Ciarlo, Chiara
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Pratique du français au Bénin et accords du participe passé [PDF]
Revue Roumaine d’Etudes Francophones, 2020 This article describes the practice of the participation agreement concluded by French speakers and writers in Benin and highlights the linguistic strategies they deploy to overcome the related difficulties.
Moufoutaou ADJERAN
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