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Directionals in Ngaanyatjarra [PDF]
, 2017 This paper looks at directional morphemes in Ngaanyatjarra, a language spoken in Western Australia. This is part of the suffixing subdivision of Australian languages with both nominals and verbs having rich sets of inflectional and derivational suffixes.
Pyle, Conor
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Investigating Malay language writing proficiency level among upper secondary school students [PDF]
, 2011 This paper aims to present the findings of a research on writing proficiency in Malay language of upper secondary schools students in Malaysia. The research is designed to compare writing patterns of urban and rural students from four different zones ...
Nadzrah Abu Bakar, +2 more
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A Role and Reference Account of Information Structure in Somali [PDF]
, 2001 This thesis is a study of focus structure in Somali within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG). Focus is an important phenomenon in Somali, and this thesis investigates the different types of focus which occur in Somali, the effects of the ...
Girard, Jennifer
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Mood and Modality in Beja [PDF]
, 2013 version avant révisionTwo intriguing, and crosslinguistically unfrequent, formal means for the expression of modality are discussed in this paper: (i) the cliticization of a nominal copula to finite verb forms, and (ii) the cliticization of a special set
Vanhove, Martine
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Syntactic underspecification in Riau Indonesian [PDF]
, 2018 Indonesian is known for having a relatively simple morphological and syntactic structure. This is especially true of local varieties of the language, where contrast between categories found in Standard Indonesian is neutralized. In the Indonesian variety
Yoder, Brendon
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The Possessive and Adjective Phrases in Croatian [PDF]
, 2000 It is argued that the syntactic behaviour of the Croatian possessive NPs can be accounted for by Role and Reference Grammar (RRG). The prohibition against possessive NPs with more than one possessive adjective is a consequence of a basic claim of RRG ...
Ranko Matasović
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Storage of Linguistic Knowledge in the Mental Lexicon: an Approach Within Role and Reference Grammar [PDF]
, 2017 This paper aims to give an account of a theory of a mental lexicon for German verbs of motion within the theory of Role and Reference Grammar [RRG] (cf. Van Valin 2005).
Gottschalk, Judith
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Principles of event framing : genetic stability in grammar and discourse [PDF]
, 2010 Ever since Wilhelm von Humboldt’s (1836) pioneering study of Nahuatl, linguists have recurrently recognized that languages differ fundamentally in the syntactic weight they attribute to noun-phrases as the arguments of a verb.
Bickel, Balthasar
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A nyelv mentális reprezentációja = The mental representation of language [PDF]
, 2009 A magyar nyelv mentális reprezentációjának feltárására irányuló kutatások legfontosabb eredményei a következők: -A kulcskérdését jelentő szabály-elem vitához új adalék, hogy a szabályos és kivételes alakok is előfeszítik egymást; a szabályos alakok ...
Babarczy, Anna +4 more
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N + N Compounds in German: an Analysis within Role and Reference Grammar [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this paper is to analyze German N + N compounds consisting of nominal roots [hence N + N compounds] within the theory of Role and Reference Grammar [RRG] (Van Valin and LaPolla 1997, Van Valin 2005). The basis for this analysis of German N + N
Gottschalk, Judith
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