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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
wiley   +1 more source

Neural correlates of reading aloud on the autism spectrum. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
McCabe C   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Auxiliary selection in Italian restructuring: An insight into the size of the clause

open access: yesSyntax, EarlyView.
Abstract In Standard Italian, restructuring clauses are characterized by apparently optional transparency effects in the choice of the clausal perfect auxiliary. In the perfect periphrasis, the auxiliary associated with the modal verb can be either HAVE or the one corresponding to the lexical verb (BE or HAVE).
Irene Amato
wiley   +1 more source

A case study in underspecification of UG: External Pair Merge of v and T

open access: yesSyntax, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous works have explored the options of Pair Merging R and v as well as T and C, respectively, yielding R‐v and T‐C with various consequences. This paper proposes that v and T can yield the complex head v‐T, an amalgam formed by external Pair Merge.
Andreas Blümel
wiley   +1 more source

Reassessing pseudosluicing in Austronesian

open access: yesSyntax, EarlyView.
Abstract Pseudosluicing diagnostics have played an important role in wider debates about sluicing. Sluicing is the term used to describe the deletion of an embedded clausal constituent, which leaves only a wh‐phrase overt. Genuine sluicing requires syntactic or semantic identity between the sluiced clause and its antecedent, contrasting with ...
John Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

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