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The Syntax of Negation of Serial Verbs in Urdu
NUST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2022 The focus of this study is to highlight the syntax of the negation marker in Urdu serial verbs. There are two types of serial verb constructions (SVCs) in Urdu.
Bisma Butt +2 more
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Cues and economy in the acquisition of verb movement
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2005 In this paper we will discuss how economy principles interact with cues in the input in bilingual first language acquisition. We will look at the acquisition of verb placement in a child acquiring English and Norwegian simultaneously.
Kristine Bentzen
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Grammar Competition and Word Order in a Northern Early Middle English Text
Languages, 2021 The Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians manuscript of Cursor Mundi and the Northern Homilies, a northern Middle English text from the early 14th century, contains unprecedentedly high frequencies of matrix verb-third and embedded verb-second word ...
Robert Truswell
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Literator, 1993 The movement operation Verb Second moves the finite verb from its base-generated position in VP to C via the I node within the Chomsky (1986) framework. As the finite verb and the complementiser are in complementary distribution, the above predicts that,
H. W. Broekman
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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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Reconstructing the rise of Verb Second in Welsh
, 2020 Verb Second orders are only found in the Middle Welsh period: Old and Modern Welsh mainly exhibit verb-initial patterns. This chapter shows how the V2 orders developed by carefully reconstructing their syntactic history from earlier patterns with hanging
M. Meelen
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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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What underlies the neuropsychological pattern of irregular>regular past-tense verb production? [PDF]
, 2005 The disadvantage in producing the past tense of regular relative to irregular verbs shown by some patients with non-fluent aphasia has been alternatively attributed (a) to the failure of a specific rule-based morphological mechanism, or (b) to a more ...
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