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Split intransitivity in old Japanese
, 2014 According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis (Perlmutter 1978), intransitive verbs fall in two distinct classes: the unaccusatives (whose subjects originate as direct objects) and the unergatives (whose subjects originate as subjects). Although there are studies of split intransitivity in Modern Japanese and European languages, very few exist for earlier ...
Frellesvig, Bjarke, You, Zixi
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Split Intransitivity in Kalanga
, 2004 This paper examines the intransitive verb class in Kalanga, a minority language predominantly spoken in the southwestern parts of Zimbabwe. The paper focuses on split intransitivity, a linguistic concept that describes the division of intransitive verbs into two subclasses — unaccusative verbs and unergative verbs.
Kangira, Jairos
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Split intransitivity in Arawak languages
, 2016 In this thesis I study in depth the split intransitivity in the Arawak family of languages of South America. The grammatical analysis of the split intransitivity phenomenon is based on both their semantico-pragmatical motivations and their morphosyntactical realizations according to grammatical categories, valence changes and TAM.
Durand, Tom
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Hierarchical Agreement and Split Intransitivity in Reyesano [PDF]
International Journal of American Linguistics, 2009 This paper discusses, for the first time, the peculiar system of person marking in Reyesano, an Amazonian language from northern Bolivia. Person marking in Reyesano is quite unusual. First, it is discontinuous, involving a prefix slot for the indexation of first and second persons and a suffix slot for the indexation of third persons.
Antoine Guillaume, Guillaume, Antoine
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Split intransitivity and non-canonical subject order in Yukuna
, 2018 This paper provides a discussion of non-canonical postverbal subjects in the context of an in-depth description of split intransitivity in Yukuna (Arawak, Colombia). In this language, the S argument of an intransitive clause is encoded differently according to the lexical category of the predicate.
Lemus Serrano, Magdalena, Durand, Tom
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L2 Acquisition of Split Intransitivity and Transitivity
L2 Acquisition of Split Intransitivity and Transitivityapplication ...
Isse, Yoko
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Split Intransitivity in Cantonese
, 2021 This paper investigates the phenomenon of split intransitivity in Cantonese utilizing two approaches to map intransitive verbs into verb groupings: the Unaccusativity Hypothesis (UH) based on a syntactic distinction, and the Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy
Sou, Jennifer
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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