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Zooming in and out of semantics: proximal–distal construal levels and prominence hierarchies [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyWe argue that the “Prominence Hierarchy” within linguistics can be subsumed under the “Construal Level Theory” within psychology and that a wide spectrum of grammatical phenomena, ranging from case assignment to number, definiteness, verbal agreement ...
Marit Lobben, Bruno Laeng
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Morphosyntactic features of progressive in the K’iche’an languages of the Mayan family
Open Linguistics, 2021 The article deals with the morphosyntactic features of the aspectual category of progressive in K’iche’an languages. The analysis is carried out using methods of intragenetic typology.
Sychev Roman V.
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Ergative Markers in Taleshi Dialect and its Dependency on Past Tense and Aspect [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2022 This present research studies ergativity in the Taleshi dialect. This dialect is spoken in some parts of Guilan and appears in three main different types including Central, Northern, and Southern.
Abdullah ezzat doust +2 more
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Heritage grammars as checkpoints in acquisition: A Dependent Case Theoretic account
Glossa, 2023 This paper investigates split ergativity in Turkish-dominant heritage speakers of Kurmanji. We show that the Dependent Case Theory (Marantz 1991; Baker 2015) accounts for the variation in case patterns across the baseline and heritage varieties.
Metin Bağrıaçık +2 more
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Roots of Ergativity in Africa (and Beyond)
Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 In the literature, it is often assumed that ergative constructions originate in passive constructions. The present contribution explores the likelihood of such a passive-to-ergative analysis for one language (Tima, Niger-Congo, Sudan), showing that this ...
Antje Casaretto +4 more
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Lingua, 2006 The so-called passive in Māori has been the topic of a long-standing debate in the linguistics literature. Its frequency, especially in past tense narratives, makes this construction an atypical passive. It has been suggested that the passive in Māori is used with perfective (Clark 1973) and dynamic (Bauer 1997) events, and when the clause contains an ...
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Differential Object Marking and Nominal Licensing
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 This paper presents a novel account of Differential Object Marking as an instance of case assigned by a post-syntactic Agree-Case operation that transduces agreement relations established in the syntax by marking the goal rather than the probe.
Ümit ATLAMAZ
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Differential place marking beyond place names: Evidence from two Amazonian languages
Glossa, 2022 Not all spatial adjuncts behave alike. In some languages, certain spatial adjuncts display different marking or different combinatorial possibilities than others. Recent functional-typological studies make two claims about this differential place marking
Amalia Horan Skilton, Karolin Obert
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A Syntactic Analysis of Ergative Case Marking in some Iranian Languages: A minimalist View [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2019 Tatic-type languages are among west Iranian languages divided into four main groups: northern Tatic, central Tatic, southern Tatic and Taleshi group (Stilo, 1981, p. 139).
Ifa Shafai, Mohammad Dabirmoghaddam
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Typology of case alignments in NENA dialects
RiCognizioni, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze different alignment types attested in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects. NENA dialects can be divided into three alignment types according to their degree of ergativity: Split-S, Dynamic ...
Alessandra Barotto
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