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L2 acquisition of Spanish dative clitics by English and Dutch learners
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017 This article examines the second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish dative clitics in clitic doubling (CLD) structures that are closely related to the double object construction (DOC) in English and Dutch.
M. Ángeles Escobar-Álvarez
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Structural Ambiguity and the Architecture of Language1
Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 35-63, April 2024.Abstract This article investigates what structural ambiguity reveals about the architecture of language. It analyzes two basic types of structural ambiguity, constituent ambiguity and chain formation ambiguity, and illustrates with a small class of selected case studies how they interweave.
Jordi Fortuny
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 119-150, March 2024.Abstract Degrammaticalisation is an oft‐dismissed category of language change. In this paper evidence is provided for its existence, its triggers, and its conditions. This case study details the development of an understudied Old Italo‐Romance indefinite, covelle, a polarity‐sensitive item roughly translating as ‘anything’ which originated from a Latin
Nicola D’Antuono
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Affix Not Clitic‐Based Vowel Shortening in Modern Arabic Varieties
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 1-20, March 2024.Abstract Word formation in most languages is inextricably linked to a distinction between clitics and affixes. Although famous for its templatic morphological structure, Arabic also contains concatenative formatives some of whose status as clitics or affixes is controversial.
Emily Lindsay‐Smith
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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 182-202, March 2024.Abstract In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana. However, the localization of Ghanaian English has been continually reversed by ‘corrective’ realignment with world standard English through institutional regimes.
Kofi Yakpo
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Bolgarski zaimenski nizi s svojilnim pomenom in njihove ustreznice v ruščini
Jezikoslovni zapiski, 2019 Prispevek obravnava bolgarske zaimenske nize, ki imajo svojilni pomen in so sestavljeni iz polnega svojilnega zaimka in naslonke si (npr. moja si, svoja si). Analiza izpostavlja pomensko vlogo naslonke si v omenjenih zgradbah.
Галина Петрова +1 more
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CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE OF THE URDU PRONOMINAL PHRASES [PDF]
, 2023 The paper discusses an analysis of the constituent structure of Urdu pronominal phrases using the X-bar structure of the Minimalist program. It highlights two main elements: DP (Determiner Phrase) and pronominal clitics.
Dr. Umar-ud-Din, , Muhammad Nadeem Chohan Muhammad Umer Azim,
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Élargissement de la valence verbale — Les verbes causatifs et semi-causatifs et le problème de la pronominalisation des compléments argumentaux // The widering of the verbal valence — the causative and semi-causative verbs and the problem of argument pronominalization [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2015 The causative and semi-causative periphrases represent a syntactic context in the framework of which the valence of a predicate is modified. Its redefinition generates new stematics by fusionning two autonomous argumental structures. For each causative
Jiří Jančík
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Is Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe) a dialect of Shua?
Studies in African Linguistics, 2023 The endangered language Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe), spoken on the eastern fringe of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, is generally assumed to be a member of the Shua dialect cluster.
Anne-Maria Fehn
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Persian Learners' Acquisition of Empty Categories in English Null Operator Structures [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2019 The study investigated the acquisition of empty categories in the English complex infinitival structures. A quasi-experimental design was used in which four groups of Persian learners of English (elementary, lower intermediate, upper intermediate and ...
Vahid Mahmoudi-Gahroue +2 more
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