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Moving in small steps towards verb second: A case study
Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2011 This paper examines rule-based learning and item-based learning in relation to a Swedish child's acquisition of verb second in main clauses. While rule-based accounts assert that young children have access to syntactic structure and acquire a rule of ...
Christian Waldmann
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, 2020 In this paper we discuss novel data from two Dolomitic Ladin languages spoken in Northern Italy, Badiotto and Gardenese, and show that in these V2 languages subject-finite verb inversion is constrained by the syntactic (adverb or object) and discourse ...
Federica Cognola +5 more
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MAKNA VERBA MAJEMUK ~KIRU DALAM BAHASA JEPANG Kajian Struktur dan Semantis
Izumi, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to know the structure of compound verb (V + V) in Japanese. The structure is a forming of zenkoudoushi (first verb) and koukoudoushi (second verb). The second verb is kiru.
Taqdir .
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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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The Influence of Frequency and Semantic Similarity on How Children Learn Grammar [PDF]
, 2010 Lexically based learning and semantic analogy may both play a role in the learning of grammar. To investigate this, 5-year-old German children were trained on a miniature language (nominally English) involving two grammatical constructions, each of ...
Tomasello, Michael +5 more
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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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Vowel Raising in Nkpor Dialect: A Pattern of Sound Change
Linguistik Online, 2014 This paper explores a pattern of phonological change known as vowel raising in the Nkpor dialect of the Igbo language. Using a corpus of conversational Nkpor speech collected from the respondents through tape-recording, we presented data from an ...
Evelyn Ezinwanne Mbah +1 more
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How much verb moves to second position?
Verb Second, 2020 : In this chapter, it is shown that finite verbs which are attracted by Verb-Second (V2) movement are reconstructed into their base position for interpretation. In fact, the lexical part of the finite verb is never interpreted in its fronted position. We
Josef Bayer, Constantin Freitag
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Verb second and its deviations: An argument for feature scattering in the left periphery
, 2017 This article focuses on the analysis of verb-second (V2) requirements in light of evidence that the clausal left periphery contains a series of functional projections in a fixed hierarchy (Rizzi 1997; Beninca & Poletto 2004; among many others). I discuss
Brian Hsu
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