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The syntax of wh-questions in unaccusative and (Un)ergative structures in Mehri language: A Phase-based approach. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Fakih AH, Al-Qumairi SS, Alzubi AAF.
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First Event-Related Potentials Evidence of Auditory Morphosyntactic Processing in a Subject-Object-Verb Nominative-Accusative Language (Farsi). [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Meykadeh S, Golfam A, Nasrabadi AM, Ameri H, Sommer W.   +4 more
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Neural signatures of syntactic variation in speech planning. [PDF]

PLoS Biol, 2021
Sauppe S, Choudhary KK, Giroud N, Blasi DE, Norcliffe E, Bhattamishra S, Gulati M, Egurtzegi A, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I, Meyer M, Bickel B.   +10 more
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New Insights into Split Ergativity in Georgian

Millennium
This paper offers a thorough analysis of the Georgian type of split ergativity, a typological phenomenon of languages switching between nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive alignment systems based on grammatical or semantic circumstances.
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Split ergativity in Nêlêmwa

, 1997
Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) is a split ergative language. Pronouns are accusative, while nominal arguments are marked as ergative-absolutive. The two ergative markers signal the distinction between animate and inanimate agents. With active intransitive verbs (motion, position, affect, perception, cognition, discourse, Aktionsart), there is a choice of ...
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Aspect splits without ergativity [PDF]

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2014
Laura Kalin, Coppe van Urk
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Ergativity in Thulung Rai: a shift in the position of pronominal split

, 2003
This papers looks into a shift in the position of the pronominal split noted when comparison field data from 1999 with data from 30 years earlier. The shift in the split is the result of language contact with Nepali, the Indo-Aryan national language of Nepal.
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Case Marking in Hindi as the Weaker Language. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2019
Montrul S, Bhatia A, Bhatt R, Puri V.
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Strong expectations cancel locality effects: evidence from Hindi. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2014
Husain S, Vasishth S, Srinivasan N.
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The neurophysiology of language processing shapes the evolution of grammar: evidence from case marking. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2015
Bickel B, Witzlack-Makarevich A, Choudhary KK, Schlesewsky M, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I.   +4 more
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