Cortadora relative clauses: A comparative analysis between Spanish, Portuguese and French
Isogloss, 2020 This paper focuses on cortadora relative clauses – or non-pronominal relative clauses –, a special type of relativization registered in Rio de la Plata Spanish varieties, in which the preposition is deleted or ‘chopped’ (‘cortada’). This phenomenon is an
Enrique Pato, Anahí Alba de la Fuente
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Leasing as a strategic financing option: the navy’s maritime prepositioned ships experience
Journal of Public Procurement, 2008 Recently, leasing has been prominent in the press due to the Air Force’s recent ill-fated attempt to obtain the use of Boeing re-fueling tankers. Forgotten is that, in the early 1980’s, a highly controversial Navy long-term leasing program of Maritime Prepositioned Ships had a different result.
San Miguel, Joseph G. +2 more
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When Articles Go Missing: Analyzing Optionality in Spanish Prepositional Relative Clauses
, 2022 This thesis project presents a comprehensive overview of article optionality in Spanish prepositional relative clauses. This definite article, which is part of the operator phrase, is subject to a complex pattern of variation that regulates whether it can be present or absent in a given phrase.
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Optimality Theory as a Framework for Lexical Acquisition
, 2014 This paper re-investigates a lexical acquisition system initially developed for French.We show that, interestingly, the architecture of the system reproduces and implements the main components of Optimality Theory.
A. Arun +8 more
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Lexical pragmatics and types of linguistic encoding: evidence from pre- and postpositions in Behdini-Kurdish [PDF]
, 2005 Lexical pragmatics starts from the assumption that the meaning communicated by a word is underdetermined by its semantics, and lexical pragmatists usually study the processes involved in bridging the gap between the encoded and the communicated meaning ...
Unger, Christoph
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Free relative constructions in OT syntax [PDF]
, 2001 This paper is part of a research project on OT Syntax and the typology of the free relative (FR) construction. It concentrates on the details of an OT analysis and some of its consequences for OT syntax.
Vogel, Ralf
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Large and noisy vs small and reliable: combining 2 types of corpora for adjective valence extraction [PDF]
, 2009 International audienceThis work investigates a possibility of combining two different types of corpora to build a valence lexicon for French adjectives.
Fabre, Cécile, Kupść, Anna
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Weak function word shift [PDF]
, 2004 The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains.
Vogel, Ralf
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A Bi-Polar Theory of Nominal and Clause Structure and Function [PDF]
, 2004 It is taken as axiomatic that grammar encodes meaning. Two key dimensions of meaning that get grammatically encoded are referential meaning and relational meaning.
Ball, Dr. Jerry T.
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Lexical information from a minimalist point of view [PDF]
, 2009 Simplicity as a methodological orientation applies to linguistic theory just as to any other field of research: ‘Occam’s razor’ is the label for the basic heuristic maxim according to which an adequate analysis must ultimately be reduced to indispensible
Bierwisch, Manfred
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