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English possessive determiner phrases and coordination
Linguistica Brunensia, 2021 This paper suggests an analysis of English possessives and coordination that is compatible with the treatment of Germanic pronominal case developed by Parrott within the Distributed Morphology framework.
Jeffrey Keith Parrott
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Predicting Native Language from Gaze [PDF]
, 2017 A fundamental question in language learning concerns the role of a speaker's first language in second language acquisition. We present a novel methodology for studying this question: analysis of eye-movement patterns in second language reading of free ...
Berzak, Yevgeni +3 more
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Possessives in indefinite nominal phrases: A comparison between Italo-Romance and Daco-Romance
Moderna 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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Design and enhanced evaluation of a robust anaphor resolution algorithm [PDF]
, 2001 Syntactic coindexing restrictions are by now known to be of central importance to practical anaphor resolution approaches. Since, in particular due to structural ambiguity, the assumption of the availability of a unique syntactic reading proves to be ...
Stuckardt, Roland
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Chomsky’s (2020) Links and linker phenomena
Quaderni 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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Possessive Pronouns in European Portuguese and Old French
Journal 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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Loucita: Etymological Notes on a Female Name from the Norico-Pannonian Onomastic Landscape [PDF]
Вопросы 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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Studies 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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Quaderni 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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Lekuwa DP : a minimalist analysis [PDF]
Akofena, 2022 : The purpose of this paper is to study the DP in Lekuwa within the framework of the Minimalist Program. It is demonstrated that the DP and the TP in Lekuwa are headed by a functional category, namely AGR and its lexical instantiations (i.e ...
Thierry Tsono MOWELLE
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