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The syntax of polarity emphasis [PDF]

, 2013
A crosslinguistic survey of the expression of polarity emphasis reveals that some such expressions are subject to the distributional constraints typical of main clause phenomena, while others are not.
Breitbarth, Anne, De Clercq, Karen, Haegeman, Liliane   +2 more
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Pseudospectral Calculation of the Wavefunction of Helium and the Negative Hydrogen Ion

, 2010
We study the numerical solution of the non-relativistic Schr\"{o}dinger equation for two-electron atoms in ground and excited S-states using pseudospectral (PS) methods of calculation.
A. J. Thakkar, B. Fornberg, C. Canuto, David F. Chernoff, G. Arfken, J. P. Boyd, M. Barrett, P. G. Burke, Paul E. Grabowski, T. L. John, T. N. Rescigno, V. A. Fock, V. A. Fock, W. H. Press, W. M. Huo   +14 more
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Sentence-final particles in Mandarin

, 2021
This thesis, based on corpus data, investigates eight sentence-final particles in Mandarin Chinese (de, le, ne1, ne2, ba, ma, a and ou) within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar. The focus is on the individual particles le, ba, ne1 on the one hand, and on the sequential ordering of the aforementioned eight particles on the other.
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The Syntax of Cantonese Ho2 Revisited: Sentence-final Particle and Pro-sentence

Studies in Chinese Linguistics
This paper re-examines the syntactic properties of the sentence-final particle (henceforth, SFP) ho2 in Hong Kong Cantonese (henceforth, Cantonese). Despite studies such as Lam 2014, Tang 2020, and Law et al.
Ng Ka Hin
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Acquiring and processing verb argument structure : distributional learning in a miniature language [PDF]

, 2008
Adult knowledge of a language involves correctly balancing lexically-based and more language-general patterns. For example, verb argument structures may sometimes readily generalize to new verbs, yet with particular verbs may resist generalization.
Altmann, Ambridge, Aslin, Baker, Bowerman, Bowerman, Braine, Braine, Braine, Bresnan, Brooks, Brooks, Brooks, Brown, Bybee, Casenhiser, Chomsky, Clifton, Cooper, Elissa L. Newport, Elizabeth Wonnacott, Ervin, Feldman, Ferreira, Fisher, Fisher, Fisher, Fisher, Frazier, Frazier, Frazier, Garnsey, Gerken, Gertner, Gillette, Givon, Gleitman, Gleitman, Goldberg, Goldberg, Goldberg, Goldberg, Goldin-Meadow, Gomez, Green, Grimshaw, Gropen, Gropen, Gropen, Hallett, Hare, Hare, Hudson Kam, Jackendoff, Johnson, Juliano, Juliano, Kemp, Kennison, Kim, Leiven, Levin, Lidz, Magnuson, Markman, Matthews, Michael K. Tanenhaus, Mintz, Mintz, Mitchell, Moeser, Morgan, Morgan, Naigles, Newport, Newport, Pinker, Pinker, Saffran, Saffran, Singleton, Snedeker, Tabor, Tanenhaus, Tanenhaus, Theakston, Thompson, Tomasello, Tomasello, Tomasello, Tomasello, Trueswell, Trueswell, Trueswell, Wonnacott   +94 more
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The sentence final particle o in Ikwere

Linx, 2021
Cet article tente de dégager le mode de fonctionnement spécifique et invariant de la particule énonciative o dans la langue ikwere. On s’intéresse de près au rôle spécifique qu’elle joue dans la construction du sens des énoncés dans lesquels elle apparaît et on prend au sérieux les contraintes syntaxiques, sémantiques et contextuelles.
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Syntax and semantics of the nominals mono and koto in Japanese : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Japanese at Massey University [PDF]

, 1999
There is a group of words which are usually referred to as keisiki-meisi (i.e. formal nouns) in Japanese. The formal noun is defined as a noun which does not have a substantive meaning, and is not used in isolation, but requires a preceding modifier.
Murata, Masami
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Preverbal negative markers in Buli [PDF]

, 2009
This article deals with some aspects of negation in Buli, a Gur language spoken by the Bulsa people in Northern ...
Schwarz, Anne
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The cartographic syntax of Lai in Mandarin Chinese

Open Linguistics
This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Mandarin particle lai across its diverse syntactic structures and functions, with a particular emphasis on its interaction with the verb phrase (VP).
Rong Xu, Sultan Fazal Mohamed Bin Mohamed, Taha Mohammed   +2 more
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More than a Topic Marker: The Functions of a in Mandarin Chinese

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
This study investigates the role of the Chinese particle a as a Topic Marker (TM). Our findings show that TM-a is closely tied to Speaker/Writer Attitude and is context-dependent, typically marking a Topic selected from a broader set of entities.
Marco Casentini
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