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Nominal Determination in Niaboua [PDF]
Uirtus, 2023 Nouns can function as the subject or object of a verbal statement. In languages, nouns can be grouped into two main categories: proper nouns and common nouns. Proper nouns do not take determiners.
Vélérou Adelin Fallé +1 more
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Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree.
Journal of Child Language, 2022 Debate around inflectional morphology in language acquisition has contrasted various rule- versus analogy-based approaches. This paper tests the rule-based Tolerance Principle (TP) against a new type of pattern in the acquisition of the possessive suffix
Ryan E. Henke
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Possessions and memories [PDF]
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2021 People often acquire souvenirs and photographs to facilitate remembering, but possessions and memories can relate to each other in a variety of ways. This review paper presents four different connection types found between meaningful things in our everyday lives and our personal memories.
Van den Hoven, Elise +2 more
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Sámi dieđalaš áigečála, 2021 On the basis of corpus data (9.5M words 1997–2010) we claim that North Saami is developing a grammatical distinction between alienable and inalienable possession.
Lene Antonsen, Laura Janda
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Human infants can override possessive tendencies to share valued items with others
Scientific Reports, 2021 Possessiveness toward objects and sharing are competing tendencies that influence dyadic and group interactions within the primate lineage. A distinctive form of sharing in adult Homo sapiens involves active giving of high-valued possessions to others ...
Rodolfo C Barragan, A. Meltzoff
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Patterns of variation in existential constructions
Isogloss, 2015 The main goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the patterns of variation among the existential constructions found in Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects; on the other, to examine the observed microvariation in a ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Possessive Constructions in the Obdorsk Dialect of the Khanty Language; pp. 129-150 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2018 The paper presents an analysis of the structural types of possessive constructions in the Obdorsk dialect of Khanty. It is shown that in this dialect the concept of possession is encoded by means of adnominal and predicative possessive constructions of ...
Victoria Vorobeva, Irina Novitskaya
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Postmemory and Possession [PDF]
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2020 This paper examines the phenomena of ‘postmemory’ as a mode of possession that responds to experiences of suffering. As such, the hyper-connectivity it is concerned with is not that of the digitalisation of contemporary life but is rather ‘vertical’ hyper-connectivity indicating the disturbance of past injustices that have neither been mourned nor ...
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NPs in German: Locality, theta roles, possessives, and genitive arguments
Glossa, 2021 Since Abney (1987), the DP-analysis has been the standard analysis for nominal complexes, but in the last decade, the NP analysis has experienced a revival. In this spirit, we provide an NP analysis for German nominal complexes in HPSG.
Antonio Machicao y Priemer +1 more
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Possessive Constructions in Egyptian and Coptic. Distribution, definiteness, and the construct state phenomenon [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, the distribution of Coptic possessive constructions is defined in terms of syntactic constraints: the construction involving the linking element N- requires the obligatory (and simple) definiteness of the possessed noun as well as the ...
Egedi, Barbara, Barbara Egedi
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