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On the island sensitivity of topicalization in Norwegian: An experimental investigation

Language, 2019
:Mainland Scandinavian languages have been reported to allow movement from embedded questions, relative clauses, and complex NPs—domains commonly considered to be islands crosslinguistically.
Dave Kush, Terje Lohndal, Jon Sprouse
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Topicalization in the Romance Languages

, 2021
Topic and topicalization are key notions to understand processes of syntactic and prosodic readjustments in Romance. More specifically, topicalization refers to the syntactic mechanisms and constructions available in a language to mark an expression as ...
Silvio Cruschina
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Topic in Zulgo

Studies in African Linguistics, 1984
The particle ka in Zulgo is anomalous in terms of the traditional notions which would distinguish topicalization from subordination. Topicalization typically concerns phrasal categories while subordination typically concerns clausal categories.
Beat Haller, John Watters
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Topic Models with Topic Ordering Regularities for Topic Segmentation [PDF]

2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2014
Documents from the same domain usually discuss similar topics in a similar order. In this paper we present new ordering-based topic models that use generalised Mallows models to capture this regularity to constrain topic assignments. Specifically, these new models assume that there is a canonical topic ordering shared amongst documents from the same ...
Lan Du 0002, John K. Pate, Mark Johnson 0001   +2 more
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Mapping topics and topic bursts in PNAS [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004
Scientific research is highly dynamic. New areas of science continually evolve; others gain or lose importance, merge, or split. Due to the steady increase in the number of scientific publications, it is hard to keep an overview of the structure and dynamic development of one's own field of science, much less all scientific domains.
Ketan K. Mane, Katy Börner
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Confronting and Deferent as Co-Referential Markers in English and Arabic with Special Reference to the Glorious Quran Texts

مجلة الآداب, 2022
Confronting and deferent, as linguistic devices, have important functions in deciding the meaning of a text. Sentences in any language are structured according to particular criteria defined by grammarians.
Omar Abd AlAziz Khalil, Ammar Abd AlWahab Abed   +1 more
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Left Dislocation in Indonesian

Humanus: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu-ilmu Humaniora, 2021
This paper aims to identify the constructions of Left Dislocation (=LD) in spoken and written Indonesian. The constituents of LD fill their alternative positions within the core clause with the form of ‘-nya’ in Indonesian syntax. The Left Dislocation of
Heejin Jung
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Subject Raising in Chinese Modal Auxiliary Verb Constructions: A-movement or A′-movement?

Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2022
Subject raising in Chinese modal auxiliary verb constructions can be either A-movement or A′-movement. Modal auxiliary verbs such as hui and yao can take a nonfinite TP complement which cannot value the abstract case of the embedded subject.
Hu Bo, Chen Hong
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On agreement-drop in Singlish: topics never agree

Glossa, 2022
This paper examines the distribution and properties of agreement-drop constructions in Singlish, which are distinguished by the absence of overt subject agreement morphology.
Si Kai Lee
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Aditzaren bikoizketa foku-topikoa denean

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2010
In this article I discuss two instances of V-doubling in Basque which display a dialectal distribution: (1) synthetic V-doubling in V-focalization contexts and (2) generalised V-doubling in V-topicalization contexts.
Arantzazu Elordieta
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