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Echo Answers in Chinese

open access: yesStudies in Chinese Linguistics, 2022
This paper studies echo answers to yes-no questions in Chinese with respect to their distributions, derivations, and typological patterns. We reconsider Simpson’s (2015) verb-raising analyses of verb echo answers (VEAs), finding that his analysis is ...
Wei Ting-Chi
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Variable First Person Singular Subject Expression in Spoken Valencian Catalan

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022
In this paper, I analyze first person singular subject pronoun expression in spoken Valencian Catalan varieties. I present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 7 interviews from the corpus Parlars, examining 1sg subject rates regarding tense ...
Peter Herbeck
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On EPP effects and the properties of Core Functional Categories

open access: yesGlossa, 2020
In this paper I argue that EPP effects are not special to T but reflect more general formal properties of the Core Functional Categories (CFCs) C, T, and v.
Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro
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Einige Fragen der Pro-drop-Konfigurationen im Jiddischen mit syntaktischen Merkmalen des Deutschen und Polnischen

open access: yesColloquia Germanica Stetinensia, 2017
The paper addresses the issue of pro-drop configurations within the Principles and Parameters framework (P&P) and the Minimalist Program (MP) with respect to comparative syntactic analysis of German, Polish and Yiddish.
Anna Pilarski
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Cross-referencing in Persian Language [PDF]

open access: yes̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2021
Agreement can be known as the phenomenon by which a word takes morphological features that originate somewhere else, i.e., a situation in which a target form has grammatical marking that is controlled by a controller. On the other hand, cross-referencing
Laleh Molaei
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Agent-Patient Similarity Affects Sentence Structure in Language Production: Evidence from Subject Omissions in Mandarin

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Interference effects from semantically similar items are well-known in studies of single word production, where the presence of semantically similar distractor words slows picture naming.
Yaling eHsiao   +2 more
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Challenges Facing Pressure Retarded Osmosis Commercialization: A Short Review

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
Pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) is a promising technology that harvests salinity gradient energy. Even though PRO has great power-generating potential, its commercialization is currently facing many challenges.
Bassel A. Abdelkader   +1 more
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Clause structure, pro-drop and control in Wolof

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2019
This paper provides a formal description of the syntactic analysis of core constructions of Wolof clausal/verbal morphosyntax within the Lexical-Functional Grammar formalism. This includes the basic phrase structure, pro-drop, and control relations. The
Cheikh Bamba Dione
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Early subjects in child Romanian: A case study [PDF]

open access: yesBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018
This paper documents the use of early subjects in one longitudinal corpus of monolingual Romanian. The focus is on the null/overt and preverbal/postverbal subject alternation, as well as on pragmatic adequacy.
Otilia Teodorescu
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