Harmonic word order constraints are not created equal: the final-over-final constraint as an epiphenomenon [PDF]
The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC, Holmberg 2000, Biberauer et al 2007, 2008) is a descriptive generalisation stating that a head-initial phrase cannot be dominated by a head-final phrase.
Philip, J
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Lexical data for the historical comparison of Rgyalrongic languages. [PDF]
Lai Y, List JM.
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Los corpus y otros métodos de elicitación sintáctica en un estudio del sistema aspectual del dialecto gong'an [PDF]
This paper is part of a larger project on Gong’an dialect, which is based on the data collected from field and aims to identify the aspect markers in Gong’an dialect and provide a systematic and comparative account of the distributional
Cai, Hong
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Harmony, Head Proximity, and the Near Parallels between Nominal and Clausal Linkers [PDF]
This paper puts forward a notion of harmonic word order that leads to a new generalisation over the presence or absence of disharmony: specific functional heads must cross-linguistically obey this notion of harmony absolutely, while for other categories ...
Philip, J
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TACKLING DIVERSITY IN SINITIC LANGUAGES
Pre-publication & pre-review version of 'Introduction: Ways of tackling diversity in Sinitic languages.' In: H.M. Chappell(ed.) Diversity in Sinitic languages, OUP, 2015, pp. 3-12) This volume represents one of the first major outcomes of the ERC SINOTYPE project (2009-2013) which brought together seven researchers from China, France and Australia to ...
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Longjia: An archaic Sinitic language
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SAY-COMPLEMENTIZERS IN SINITIC LANGUAGES
I treat the pathway of grammaticalization which leads to reanalysis of SAY verbs as the category of the complementizer in the case of Sinitic languages, casting an eye over the wider areal and crosslinguistic perspective. Each stage in this grammaticalization process is established in turn and a comparison made between Chinese dialects in terms of ...
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Breaking the mould, a first parse at natural language processing in aspergillosis diagnosis. [PDF]
Pates KM +3 more
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A comitative source for object markers in Sinitic languages: <i>kai<sup>55</sup></i> in Waxiang and <i>kang<sup>7</sup></i> in Southern Min. [PDF]
Chappell H, Peyraube A, Wu Y.
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