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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Unaccented pronominal subjects in the Germanic languages

Suvremena lingvistika, 1996
In the Germanic languages, unaccented pronominal subjects have been in use for quite some time, whenever other types of subject are excluded. Utilising Gothic, Northumbrian and above all Old High German data, the author explains certain aspects of that phenomenon in the framework of the syntactic theory operating with strong and weak syntactic variants.
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Subject position in the diachrony of French, nominal and pronominal subjects across genres

Isogloss
This contribution analyses subject inversion in Old and Middle French (13th - 16th c.), to investigate the key steps in the loss of Verb Second grammar (V2) through time.
Francesco Pinzin, Mathieu Goux
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THE SPECIFICS OF WORD-FORMATION PRONOMINAL VOCABULARY IN THE DIALECT OF OLD BELIEVERS NEKRASOV COSSACKS IN STAVROPOL KRAI

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article deals with the specifics of the word formation of pronominal vocabulary of the Russian dialect of old believers Cossacks-Nekrasov in Stavropol Krai, which, after several centuries of exile, returned in 1962 to Russia and settled in the ...
V. Gryaznova
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Prerequisites of Third-Person Pronoun Use in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With Autism and Typical Language Development

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
The current study investigated the production of third-person subject and object pronouns in monolingual and bilingual children with High Functioning Autism (HFA) and typical language development (TLD). Furthermore, it evaluated the underlying linguistic
Natalia Meir, Rama Novogrodsky
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Single prosodic phrase sentences [PDF]

, 2008
A series of production and perception experiments investigating the prosody and well-formedness of special sentences, called Wide Focus Partial Fronting (WFPF), which consist of only one prosodic phrase and a unique initial accented argument, are ...
Drenhaus, Heiner, Féry, Caroline
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Epistemic NP Modifiers [PDF]

, 1997
The paper considers participles such as "unknown", "identified" and "unspecified", which in sentences such as "Solange is staying in an unknown hotel" have readings equivalent to an indirect question "Solange is staying in a hotel, and it is not known ...
Abusch, Dorit, Rooth, Mats
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 53-90, March 2026.
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe, Adriana Molina‐Muñoz, Antonia Ruppel   +2 more
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Neutral Forms of Be as Default Forms: The Utility of Underspecification and Blocking in a Welsh Morphosyntactic Phenomenon

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 91-116, March 2026.
Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
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