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Possessives in indefinite nominal phrases: A comparison between Italo-Romance and Daco-Romance

open access: yesModerna Språk, 2020
Southern Italian dialects exhibit a peculiar morphosyntactic device in licensing possessives in non‑definite noun phrases, i.e. the insertion of the functional element de followed by the definite article. This strategy shows striking similarities with
Giuseppina Silvestri
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Processing of gender information of German possessives in aphasia

open access: yes, 2022
Previous research has shown that people with aphasia often exhibit impairments in pronoun processing (e.g., Choy & Thompson, 2010; Grodzinsky et al., 1993).
Arslan, Seçkin   +4 more
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Possessive Pronouns in European Portuguese and Old French

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2002
The aim of this paper is to bring European Portuguese (EP) data into light, showing that, in spite of the lack of morphological evidence, the syntactic behaviour of possessives, across EP dialects, shows evidences for a tripartite possessive system ...
Matilde Miguel
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Chomsky’s (2020) Links and linker phenomena

open access: yesQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021
In Section 1, I present a recent formalisation of modification and conjunction structures by Chomsky (2020), in terms of sequences of Pair-Merge units, each including a Link element identified with the nominaliser/verbaliser n/v. In Sections 2-3, I argue
M. Rita Manzini
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Loucita: Etymological Notes on a Female Name from the Norico-Pannonian Onomastic Landscape [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2020
The undoubtedly Gaulish personal name Loucita, attested in the Norico-Pannonian onomastic area, is particularly interesting from the point of view of its word formation.
Luka Repanšek
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When Worlds Collide in Legal Discourse. The Accommodation of Indigenous Australians’ Concepts of Land Rights Into Australian Law

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2020
The right of Australian Indigenous groups to own traditional lands has been a contentious issue in the recent history of Australia. Indeed, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders did not consider themselves as full citizens in the country they had ...
Christiansen Thomas
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The semantics of possessives

open access: yes, 2013
We investigate what possessives mean by examining a wide range of English examples, pre- and postnominal, quantified and non-quantified, to arrive at general, systematic truth conditions for them. In the process, we delineate a rich class of paradigmatic
Westerståhl, Dag,, Peters, Stanley
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European portuguese possessives and the structure of DP [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The main aim of this paper is to analyse, in a comparative perspective, the category of possessives in European Portuguese possessives as for their X and XP nature and to relate their internal to their external syntax within the DP structure, mainly ...
Brito, Ana Maria Barros de
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Prenominal possessives with indefinites in Romance

open access: yesIsogloss
This paper describes and compares the properties of prenominal possessives in indefinite DPs in three Romance varieties: Standard Italian (SI), Girona Catalan (GC), and a so-called “conservative dialect” of European Portuguese (CEP).
Luis Eguren, Francesc Roca
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Parameters in possessives: the Franco-Provençal dialect of Celle di San Vito (Apulia) as a case study

open access: yesQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020
The aim of this article is to propose an account of morpho-syntactic and interpretive properties of possessives looked at from the point of view suggested by the interplay between contact systems with prenominal and postnominal possessives. Thus, we will
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo Maria Savoia
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