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Processing of verb tense [PDF]
Psihologija, 2002 Processing of Serbian inflected verbs was investigated in two lexical decision experiments. In the first experiment subjects were presented with five forms of future tense, while in the second experiment the same verbs were presented in three forms of ...
Kostić Aleksandar Đ., Havelka Jelena
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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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Main clause external constituents and the derivation of subject-initial verb Second [PDF]
, 2018 This paper discusses V3-patterns with a sentence-initial adverbial clause in Standard Dutch (StD) and West-Flemish (WF), which appear to violate the V2 restriction which normally regulates word order in these languages.
Greco, Ciro, Haegeman, Liliane
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Second person agreement allomorphy in Masarak
Studies in African Linguistics, 2013 Masarak (also known as Masalit, sometimes spelled Massaleit), an endangered Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Darfur, is characterized by complex agreement patterns, particularly in the second person. This article outlines Masarak agreement patterns in the
Ruth Brillman
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The Interaction of Input and UG in the Acquisition of Verb Movement in a Dialect of Norwegian
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2005 In this paper it is argued that a principle of information structure provided by Universal Grammar (UG) may interact with input in the acquisition of word order.
Marit R. Westergaard
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Operator movement and verb second phenomena in basque
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1987 This article presents an anlysis of wh-formation and focalization in Basque, framed within Chomsky's 'Barriers' system. In language like Basque and Hungarian, both foci and wh-words have to appear in a position immediately preceding the inflected verb ...
Jon Ortiz de Urbina
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Glottodidactica, 2019 The present paper focuses on the syntactic description of verb-second-sentences from a contrastive view (German-Italian). The study is based upon a corpus of texts written by Italian native speakers of the course German Language for Tourism at the ...
PATRIZIO MALLOGGI
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Verb placement and accentuation: Does prosody constrain the Estonian V2?
Open Linguistics, 2019 The paper contributes to the understanding of the variation in finite verb placement in Estonian, a verb-second language, by establishing two descriptive facts.
Sahkai Heete, Tamm Anne
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AN ANALYSIS OF REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS IN STUDENTS’ ESSAY WRITING
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, 2021 The objective of the study is to know the using of regular and irregular verb in the students writing essay, and to know the most dominant verb past written by the students in their students writing essay. The design of this study is qualitative research.
Tira Nur Fitria
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Measuring Thematic Fit with Distributional Feature Overlap
, 2017 In this paper, we introduce a new distributional method for modeling predicate-argument thematic fit judgments. We use a syntax-based DSM to build a prototypical representation of verb-specific roles: for every verb, we extract the most salient second ...
Blache, Philippe +3 more
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