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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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The interaction between topicalization and structural constraints: evidence from Yucatec Maya [PDF]
, 2009 Skopeteas S, Verhoeven E. The interaction between topicalization and structural constraints: evidence from Yucatec Maya. The Linguistic Review.
Verhoeven, Elisabeth, Skopeteas, Stavros
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Magnitude Estimation: can it do something for your pragmatics?
Corela, 2014 We report the results of a pilot study investigating whether the technique of Magnitude Estimation, widely used in psychophysics but also in syntax and phonology, can be exploited in discourse pragmatics. In this domain, unacceptable data (i.e.
Rudy Loock, Cyril Auran
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Structures des complétives et des infinitives du polonais et du français
Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015 Complement and infinitive clause structures in Polish and French The comparative analysis of complement clauses and infinitive clauses in Polish and French throws light on the sequence to, że(by) P / ce que P introducing complement clauses in the two ...
Lidia Miladi
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Isogloss, 2022 This paper presents a new phase-based theory of verb-second and indeed a new model of the left periphery. I argue that V-to-C movement of the verb to the phase head Fin0 has profound repercussions on clausal syntax which explains well-known differences ...
Espen Klaevik-Pettersen
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Extraction and Pronoun Preposing in Scandinavian
Languages, 2022 It has been noted that examples with extractions out of relative clauses that have been attested in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are judged to be unacceptable in Icelandic and Faroese. We hypothesize that this may reflect whether or not speakers tend to
Elisabet Engdahl, Filippa Lindahl
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Topicalizations, left dislocations and the left-periphery
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2017 My intention in this paper is to provide as complete an overview as possible of the different types of topic phrases in Latin. After setting out the characteristics and properties of what I call Dislocations (Hanging Topics and ClLD) and Topicalizations,
Bernard Bortolussi
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Learning Persian as a Second LanguageBased on Topic Hypothesis [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2019 The Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998) is a theory that explains the way in which language is produced by the learner. It has extensions one of which is the Topic Hypothesis.
Monire Shahbaz
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Topicalization and passivisation in the English language [PDF]
, 2015 The English language like any other language has rules of syntax. Many languages including English have a transformation that move constituents which according to Arts are “strings of one or more words that syntactically and semantically behave as a unit”
Akaruese, CU
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