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Laboratory Phonology, 2018 A production experiment was run to examine how information structure and verbal semantics affect word ordering and nuclear stress placement in intransitive sentences in Venezuelan Spanish.
Ana Olssen, Erwin La Cruz, Sasha Calhoun
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Noncanonical Obligatory Control
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract Intensive research on Obligatory Control (OC) in the past 2 decades has revealed a rich crosslinguistic terrain of deviations from the classical format. Five types of noncanonical OC are surveyed here: Finite control, controlled overt pronouns, partial control, proxy control and crossed control.
Idan Landau
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Limits on P: filling in holes vs. falling in holes
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 All Germanic languages make extensive use of verb-particle combinations (known as separable-prefix verbs in the OV languages). I show some basic differences here distinguishing the Scandinavian type from the OV West Germanic languages, with English ...
Peter Svenonius
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Why swimming is just as difficult as dying for japanese learners of english [PDF]
, 2013 While both Japanese and English have a grammatic al form denoting the progressive, the two forms (te-iru & be+ing) interact differently with the inherent semantics of the verb to which they attach (Kindaichi, 1950; McClure, 1995; Shirai, 2000).
Gabriele, Alison +2 more
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Structural Ambiguity and the Architecture of Language1
Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 35-63, April 2024.Abstract This article investigates what structural ambiguity reveals about the architecture of language. It analyzes two basic types of structural ambiguity, constituent ambiguity and chain formation ambiguity, and illustrates with a small class of selected case studies how they interweave.
Jordi Fortuny
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Talking about the weather: Two construals of precipitation events in English
Glossa, 2019 Weather expressions such as It is raining have proven challenging for linguistic researchers; not only do weather expressions often have special linguistic properties, but languages show considerable variation in the morphosyntactic expression of such ...
Beth Levin, Bonnie Krejci
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Subject inversion in non-native Spanish [PDF]
, 2014 This study presents new empirical evidence on the L2 acquisition of Spanish SV–VS contrasts, a syntax-pragmatics interface phenomenon. Results from a context-dependant preference task involving unergative and unaccusative verbs in different focus ...
Alexiadou +113 more
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Auxiliary selection in Italian restructuring: An insight into the size of the clause
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 85-122, March 2024.Abstract In Standard Italian, restructuring clauses are characterized by apparently optional transparency effects in the choice of the clausal perfect auxiliary. In the perfect periphrasis, the auxiliary associated with the modal verb can be either HAVE or the one corresponding to the lexical verb (BE or HAVE).
Irene Amato
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Transitivity in flux: the role of Voice and v in the syntax of Dutch (change-of-)location verbs
GlossaDutch location and change-of-location verbs exhibit seemingly contradictory properties, with characteristics of transitives and unaccusatives mixed.
Irina Burukina +2 more
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Case and event structure [PDF]
, 2013 I argue in this paper for a novel analysis of case in Icelandic, with implications for case theory in general. I argue that structural case is the manifestation on the noun phrase of features which are semantically interpretable only on verbal ...
Svenonius, Peter
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