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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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Looking forwards and backwards: The real-time processing of Strong and Weak Crossover
Glossa, 2017 We investigated the processing of pronouns in Strong and Weak Crossover constructions as a means of probing the extent to which the incremental parser can use syntactic information to guide antecedent retrieval.
Colin Phillips, Dave Kush, Jeffrey Lidz
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Asalibuna, 2020 The creation was a representation of the concepts or knowledge or attitudes of the writer. It is worth mentioning here that the construction depicts the linguistic terms that are in the writer's mind.
Faturahman Fuadi, Laila Inayah
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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From hierarchies to features : person splits and direct-inverse alternations [PDF]
, 2008 In the recent literature there is growing interest in the morpho-syntactic encoding of hierarchical effects. The paper investigates one domain where such effects are attested: ergative splits conditioned by person. This type of splits is then compared to
Alexiadou, Artemis +1 more
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Counting markedness : a corpus investigation on German free relative constructions [PDF]
, 2004 This paper reports the results of a corpus investigation on case conflicts in German argument free relative constructions. We investigate how corpus frequencies reflect the relative markedness of free relative and correlative constructions, the relative ...
Vogel, Ralf, Zugck, Marco
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a rapidly evolving sub‐field of computer‐assisted language learning, informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has become a significant catalyst for linguistic, affective, and pedagogical development among English as a second language (L2) learners.
Yue Zhang
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The Person Case Constraint, Person Ordering Constraint and Pronominal Clusters in Polish
GlossaThis contribution deals with preverbal clusters of deficient pronouns in Polish and combines an empirical study with a theoretical description inspired by Stegovec (2020).
Jacek Witkos, Paulina Łęska-Bayraktar
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Left dislocation in Zulu [PDF]
, 2004 This paper examines left dislocation constructions in Zulu, a Southern Bantu language belonging to the Nguni group (Zone S 40). In Zulu left dislocation configurations, a topic phrase in the beginning of the sentence is linked to a resumptive element ...
Zeller, Jochen
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