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Reconstruction in German relative clauses : in favor of the matching analysis [PDF]

, 2008
In this paper I argue in favor of a Matching Analysis for German relative clauses. The Head Raising Analysis is shown to fail to account for parts of the reconstruction pattern in German, especially cases where only the external head is interpreted and ...
Salzmann, Martin
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The Development of Basque Subject Pronoun Expression in Bilingual School-Age Children

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
Acquiring full mastery of the pragmatic constraints regulating null/overt pronominal subjects in null subject languages like Basque is a prolonged and cognitively taxing process because pronominal distribution is pragmatically conditioned in discourse ...
Eider Etxebarria, Silvina Montrul
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The analysis of languages in contact: A case study through a variationist lens

Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2016
This article discusses the contributions made by variationist sociolinguistics to the study of languages in contact. After summarizing the development of this subfield and its theoretical and methodological implications, 3rd p.sg.
Ana Maria Carvalho
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Parenthetical 'I say (you)' in Late Medieval Greek vernacular: a message structuring discourse marker rather than a message conveying verb [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper, I argue that the first-person singular of the "ordinary" verb lambda epsilon gamma omega/lambda alpha lambda(omega) over tilde ('I say') in the thirteenth-to fourteenth-century political verse narratives Chronicle of Morea and War of Troy ...
Soltic, Jorie
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Expressing the Author's Position in the English-Language Network Film Review

Дискурс, 2021
Introduction. The article presents the results of the analysis of the author’s position verbalization methods in the English online professional film review addressed to the mainstream audience.
I. V. Kononova, T. A. Klepikova, E. A. Klenova   +2 more
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External versus internal possessor structures and inalienability in Russian [PDF]

, 2003
This study deals with the choice between two external possessor structures in Russian: the possessive dative and the U + genitive PP. Is shows that this choice is primarily related to the thematic role of the possessor adjunct, which can vary with the ...
Paykin, Katia, Van Peteghem, Marleen
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Sociolinguistic Competence in Chinese Heritage Language Speakers: Variation in Subject Personal Pronoun Expression

Languages
Learning a language means both mastering the grammatical structures and using contextually appropriate language, or developing sociolinguistic competence, which has been examined by measuring the native-like patterns of sociolinguistic variables.
Xinye Zhang
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ABSOLUTE COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE IN THE POETRY OF HORACE, VІRGIL AND OVID: SEMANTICS, STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONALITY

Іноземна філологія, 2022
The semantic, structural and functional features of the absolute comparative and superlative in the poetry of Horace, Virgil and Ovid are investigated and described in the article.
Savula, Andriy
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Null and overt subject biases in Spanish and Italian: a cross-linguistic comparison [PDF]

, 2010
Over the last twenty years a great deal of linguistic research has investigated how anaphoric expressions retrieve their antecedents in the discourse showing that a variety of pragmatic factors together with grammatical and cognitive constraints ...
Filiaci, Francesca
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Probabilistic Grammar: The view from Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Glossa, 2017
In this paper, I propose that Probabilistic Grammar may benefit from incorporating theoretical insights from Cognitive (Socio)Linguistics. I begin by introducing Cognitive Linguistics.
Jeroen Claes
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