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Obsolescence and abortive innovations in variationist approaches to language change
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 4, July/August 2024.Abstract The focus of most variationist studies of linguistic change to date has been the emergence and increase of new forms. The opposing process—obsolescence, or the decline and loss of older variants—is less well understood. Addressing several calls for more attention to be paid to obsolescence and its properties, this article surveys case studies ...
Marisa Brook
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A note on repetition in Spanish: volver a + VInf, re-prefixation, and adverbs of repetition. [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper, we describe the semantics of three types of expressions of repetition that constitute presupposition triggers in Spanish, a verbal periphrasis, adverbs of repetition, and prefixation.
Laca, Brenda
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The Rise and Fall of a Change from Below in early modern Spanish: the Periphrasis Deber De + Infinitive in Texts of Linguistic Immediacy [PDF]
, 2016 This paper deals with the patterns of variation and change undergone by a syntactic variable in early modern Spanish grammar, namely the alternation between deber ‘have to, must/should’ and deber de + infinitive ‘have to, must/should’ as a modal ...
Ahumada Batlle +62 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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Short vs Long Stem Alternations in Romance Verbal Inflection: The S‐Morphome
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 49-78, March 2024.Abstract Some verbs in Romance (e.g. the reflexes of faciō ‘do’, dīcō ‘say’, habeō ‘have’, sapiō ‘know’, possum ‘be able’, and volō ‘want’) display alternations between a short (e.g. It. f‐are, f‐a, d‐ire) and a long (e.g. It. fac‐evo, dic‐e, dic‐evo) stem.
Borja Herce, Chundra A. Cathcart
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La expresión de la amenaza en el lenguaje juvenil [PDF]
, 2009 The aim of our study is to analyze, from a pragmatic point of view, the use of expressions of threat by young Spanish men (for example, constructions with como at the beginning of sentences, como te coja, te voy a reventar la cara; time sentences ...
Brenes Peña, Ester
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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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Diccionario de perífrasis verbales español-rumano [PDF]
, 2008 Presentem un diccionari electrònic de les perífrasis verbals de l'espanyol amb traducció al romanès. Aquesta eina inclou, a més a més, una descripció completa de cadascuna de les perífrasis de l'espanyol, de les quals conté la classificació des d'un punt
Fernández, Ana M. +2 more
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A case study in underspecification of UG: External Pair Merge of v and T
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 123-147, March 2024.Abstract Previous works have explored the options of Pair Merging R and v as well as T and C, respectively, yielding R‐v and T‐C with various consequences. This paper proposes that v and T can yield the complex head v‐T, an amalgam formed by external Pair Merge.
Andreas Blümel
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Testing the predictions of the feature-assembly hypothesis: evidence from the L2 acquisition of Spanish aspect morphology [PDF]
, 2011 According to the Feature-Assembly Hypothesis (FAH) (Lardiere 2005, 2009, Choi and Lardiere 2006a) convergence in second language acquisition is determined by whether L2 speakers can effectively reassemble existing features into new (L2) configurations ...
Arche, MJ, Dominguez, L, Myles, F
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