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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
wiley   +1 more source

Consonant-Vowel Ratio and Speaker Intelligibility [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1966
Carl E. Williams   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

Auxiliary selection in Italian restructuring: An insight into the size of the clause

open access: yesSyntax, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker

open access: yesSyntax, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross‐clausal scrambling and subject case in Balkar: On multiple specifiers and the locality of overt and covert movement

open access: yesSyntax, EarlyView.
Abstract We use fieldwork data about cross‐clausal scrambling in Balkar (Turkic) to clarify the nature of movement and its constraints. Balkar has a variety of embedded nominalized clauses, with different subject cases and possibilities for movement.
Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis
wiley   +1 more source

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