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Placing pauses in read spoken Spanish : a model and an algorithm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The purpose of this work is to describe the appearance and location of typographically unmarked pauses in any Spanish text to be read. An experiment is designed to derive pause location from natural speech: results show that Intonation Group length ...
Aguilar, Lourdes   +2 more
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Selectivity in L1 Attrition: Differential Object Marking in Spanish Near-Native Speakers of English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Previous research has shown L1 attrition to be restricted to structures at the interfaces between syntax and pragmatics, but not to occur with syntactic properties that do not involve such interfaces (‘Interface Hypothesis’, Sorace and Filiaci in ...
Chamorro, Gloria   +2 more
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Iconicity in question

open access: yes, 2015
This article analyzes three cases of competition between a preposition and its corresponding case or the use of the case by itself. It shows that the difference between the two types of constructions is always the same: the case alone is used to express an unmarked relationship, whereas the prepositional phrase + the corresponding case is used to focus
openaire   +2 more sources

Expressing possession with HAVE and BE: affected possession structures in Flemish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper concerns a cartographic account of Flemish Event Possessives (FEVPs) which alternate between a variety with HAVE and one with BE. The FEVP matrix subjects have the interpretation of both being the Possessor (in its broadest meaning) of the ...
Buelens, Liisa
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Nominalization and argument structure in early new high german [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Recent work on argument selection couched in a lexical decomposition approach (Ehrich & Rapp 2000) postulates different linking properties for verbs and nouns, challenging current views on argument inheritance.
Demske, Ulrike
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A Modular and Flexible Architecture for an Integrated Corpus Query System [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
The paper describes the architecture of an integrated and extensible corpus query system developed at the University of Stuttgart and gives examples of some of the modules realized within this architecture. The modules form the core of a corpus workbench.
Christ, Oliver
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Optional Participial Agreement with direct Object Clitics in Catalan [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
This paper examines an optional phenomenon in a Catalan dialect, Barcelonian Catalan, that seems to be quite peculiar amongst the Romance languages. This phenomenon involves optional participial agreement with third person direct object clitics. In other
Muxí, Isabel
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Valency patterns in Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The present chapter reviews the valency patterns of Italian, with reference to argument coding and valency changing ...
CENNAMO, MICHELA
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Optionality in the Placement of Asturian Clitics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
En aquest article tracto algunes propostes recents sobre l'emplaçament del clític en les llengües romàniques occidentals. A partir sobretot de les dades de l'asturià, les avaluo i examino la seva extensió a contextos que els seus autors no van tenir en ...
Lorenzo, Guillermo
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Structure sharing—The case of free relatives in Serbian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The puzzling syntax of free relative clauses (FRs) has been the subject of substantive linguistic work. The core issue, which has divided the field, has been to determine whether this type of relative clause is a complex DP whose head is a wh-pronoun or ...
Milićević, Nataša
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