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GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS AND THE URDU PRONOMINAL CLITICS
, 2023 The study discusses the grammatical relationships established by Urdu pronominal clitics and their role in materializing these relationships. In Urdu, pronouns alone are not always sufficient to fulfill the functions of subjects, objects, and indirect ...
Prof. Umar-ud-Din,Asistant Prof. Umer Azim, Asistant Prof. Nadeem Chouhan
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 This paper argues that agreement is a theta-role bearer, either directly, when agreement is externally merged in a theta position, or indirectly, when it is internally merged, heading an argument chain.
Christer Platzack
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Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 376-392, June 2024.Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour +2 more
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The lexical interface: closed class items in south Slavic and English [PDF]
, 1998 This thesis argues for a minimalist theory of dual lexicalization. It presents a unified analysis of South Slavic and English auxiliaries and accounts for the distribution of South Slavic clitic clusters.
Caink, Andrew David
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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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Geminates and Picard Pronominal Clitic Allomorphy
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2005 In this paper, we examine five pronominal clitics in Vimeu Picard with a geminate-consonant allomorph. Assuming a doubly-linked (non-moraic) representation of geminates, we attribute the four different patterns observed to four different underlying structures serving as inputs to an OT constraint ranking.
José, Brian, Auger, Julie
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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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