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Quotative uses of Polish similative demonstratives

open access: yesLinguistics
This article presents a corpus-based overview of strategies of direct quotation that employ two similative demonstratives, tak ‘so’ and taki ‘such/like this’, in colloquial spoken Polish.
Guz Wojciech
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Overt and Null Subject Variation in Ammani Arabic: Distribution, Constraints, and Implications

open access: yesПсихолінгвістика
Purpose. This article investigates the distribution of overt and null subject pronouns in Ammani Arabic (AA) from a variationist perspective, identifying social and linguistic constraints that shape pronoun expression. The study examines how age, gender,
Рахаф Хатер   +3 more
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The Analysis of Verbless Sentences

open access: yesInternational Journal of English Linguistics, 2019
This paper aims to discuss the analysis of verbless sentences in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) within the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) framework. It discusses the previous analyses in transformational grammar and shows some problems in these analyses, arguing that LFG is more flexible and able to analyze this kind of sentences with fewer problems ...
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Are Arabic Verbless Sentences ‘Truly’ Verbless? The Inadequacy of the Non-null Hypothesis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation
This paper analyzes the controversial issue of Arabic null copular sentences or what is commonly referred to as ‘verbless sentences’ within a minimalist theoretical framework. Two Hypotheses are contrasted: the null copula hypothesis advanced by Fassi Fihri (1993), and the non-null hypothesis defended by Aoun et al.
Imane Errguig, Malika Jmila
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The intonation of Italian verbless exclamatives

open access: yesProceedings of 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 2020
The present study aims to explore the prosodic properties of Italian verbless exclamatives (VEs), particular sentence structures without wh-quantifier and copula. A speech corpus formed by 250 VEs uttered by five subjects of a Southern variety of Italian was analyzed.
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Appositive possession in Ainu and around the Pacific. [PDF]

open access: yesLinguist Typol, 2022
Bugaeva A, Nichols J, Bickel B.
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