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Phrasal Spellout and Partial Overwrite: On an alternative to backtracking
Glossa, 2021 This paper explores branching vocabulary items as a possible alternative to backtracking in Nanosyntax. Such vocabulary items give rise to the possibility of partial overwrite. Initially, they spell out a node with two phrasal daughters.
Hagen Blix
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Interface Legibility and Nominal Classification: A Nanosyntactic Account of Kipsigis Singulatives
Glossa, 2022 Under a superset-based approach to spellout (Caha 2009; Starke 2009), a vocabulary item characterizes a set of PF-legible syntactic objects. The consequence is a dynamic, configurational and vocabulary-driven notion of a feature’s (un)interpretability at
Hagen Blix
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Determiner removal in Balinese nonpivot agents
Syntax, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 276-298, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Patient‐voice clauses within the symmetric voice system of Balinese disallow any extraction from the external‐argument position, while definite external arguments are blocked from occurring altogether. The former fact is traditionally taken as evidence for syntactic ergativity in Austronesian.
Imke Driemel, Sören E. Tebay
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Scope freezing and object shift in Ukrainian: Does Superiority matter?
Syntax, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 122-146, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This remark presents novel evidence on Ukrainian specificity‐inducing object shift in its interaction with quantifier scope, evidence suggesting a generalization that whatever scope interpretations are established in the postverbal field will carry over into the preverbal field.
Svitlana Antonyuk, Roksolana Mykhaylyk
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper introduces Match Theory, an Optimality‐Theoretic approach to the syntax–phonology interface proposed by Selkirk (2011). The theory states that a family of Match constraints favor syntax–prosody isomorphism, but that these can be outranked by constraints on prosodic wellformedness and/or information structure, resulting in certain ...
Shinichiro Ishihara, Nick Kalivoda
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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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Word predictability effects are linear, not logarithmic: Implications for probabilistic models of sentence comprehension. [PDF]
J Mem Lang, 2021 Brothers T, Kuperberg GR.
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Lessons From Neuro-(a)-Typical Brains: Universal Multilingualism, Code-Mixing, Recombination, and Executive Functions. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 Aboh EO.
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Errors of multiple exponence in child English: a study of past tense formation. [PDF]
Morphology (Dordr)Hein J +4 more
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Blazing fire or breezy wind? A story-driven playful experience for annotating dance movement
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022Maria Roussou +2 more
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