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Aspectual and thematic constraints on auxiliary selection and split intransitivity in southern Italo-Romance: synchronic and diachronic aspects.

, 2007
Discussion of the system of auxiliary selection and split intransitivity in some southern Italian (Campanian) varieties and comparison of the patterns of invariance and variation emerging from the synchronic analysis of the distribution of HAVE and BE in
CENNAMO, MICHELA
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L1 attrition in Spanish speakers of English: split intransitivity and the syntax−semantics interface [PDF]

, 2018
Research on bilingual linguistic development has demonstrated that, after prolonged use of a second language (L2), syntactic structures from the first language (L1) that interface with extralinguistc factors (i.e.
Gómez Ibarrondo, Tomás
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Transitivity, intransitivity and diathesis in Hittite

, 2010
The aim of this paper is to explore some transitivity related phenomena in Hittite. As well known, Hittite has a variety of features that affect or are affected by transitivity, such as the distribution of nominative and accusative third person ...
LURAGHI, SILVIA
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The distinction between unaccusative and unergative verbs in Turkish An offline and an eye tracking study of split intransitivity

, 2014
The Unaccusativity Hypothesis (UH) holds that intransitive verbs are divided into two broad classes, namely unaccusatives and unergatives. While there is evidence that the UH holds cross-linguistically, it is known that languages do not divide the ...
Melda, Coşkun, Acartürk, Cengiz
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Grammatical relations typology

, 2010
Traditionally, the term "grammatical relation" (GR) refers to the morphosyntactic properties that relate an argument to a clause, as, for example, its subject or its object.
Balthasar Bickel, Bickel, Balthasar; https://orcid.org/, Bickel, Balthasar   +2 more
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Interpretable dimensions support an effect of agentivity and telicity on split intransitivity

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Intransitive verbs fall into two different syntactic classes, unergatives and unaccusatives. It has long been argued that verbs describing an agentive action are more likely to appear in an unergative syntax, and those describing a telic event to appear in an unaccusative syntax. However, recent work by Kim et al.
Eva Neu, Brian Dillon, Katrin Erk
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Optionality in L2 grammars: the acquisition of SV/VS contrast in Spanish [PDF]

, 2008
This study examines the L2 acquisition of word order variation in Spanish by three groups of L1 English learners in an instructed setting. The three groups represent learners at three different L2 proficiencies: beginners, intermediate and advanced.
Domínguez, Laura, Arche, María J.
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Relating propositions : subordination and coordination strategies in a polysynthetic language

, 2009
This paper discusses the relationship between the morphological structure of language and its syntactic structure. Although it is primarily a single language which is analysed in detail, namely, Inuktitut, an Eskimo language of the Canadian Eastern ...
Nowak, Elke
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Split Intransitivity and Bilingualism in Basque

, 2017
バスク語には自動詞分裂が見られる。一類自動詞は、主語の被動者性が高く、絶対格名詞句を主語とし、助動詞に存在動詞を選択する。二類自動詞の主語は能格で標示され、助動詞は所有動詞となる。西部諸方言では分裂が進み、自動詞ははっきりと2 つの類に分かれる。一方、東部諸方言は二類に属する自動詞が非常に限られており、純粋な能格型に近い文法組織を持つ。中部諸方言は両者の中間的な様相を呈する。歴史的には東部諸方言がもっとも古い状態を残しており、西部諸方言を中心に起きた変化が中部へと及びつつあるものと考えられている ...
石塚 政行, ISHIZUKA Masayuki
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Split Intransitivity, Event Structure and Person Licensing in Mazahua

This dissertation investigates split intransitivity in Mazahua (Oto-Manguean), where argument encoding on intransitive predicates is split such that one group of predicates tracks its sole argument via agreement proclitics while another group does so via
Partida Penalva, Virgilio Agustin
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