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Resumption in Igbo: Two types of resumptives, complex phi-mismatches, and dynamic deletion domains
This paper investigates the morphosyntax of resumption in Igbo (Benue-Congo). The first part addresses the syntax and argues that Igbo has two types...
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An Overview of Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in Early English
This chapter gives an overview of changes in morphology and syntax during the medieval English period that are plausibly induced or catalysed by...
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A Systemic Functional Typology of Declarative Mood
Chapter 5 is a systemic functional typology of declarative mood. Section 5.1 investigates the cross-linguistic similarities and differences in the...
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The New World of Codes
After the discovery of the genetic code, in the 1960s, a second code—the metabolic code—was proposed in 1975 by Gordon Tomkins (1975), and a third...
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The Functions of Independent Personal Pronouns in Berber
The paper investigates independent personal pronouns in Berber, outlining their typological profile and their syntactic and pragmatic functions....
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Studies in Chinese Phonetics
The experimental study of Chinese phonetics started in early twentieth century in the context of a long philological tradition in China. Its...
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Beowulf and Ragnarǫk: A Reassessment
The extent of the Beowulf poet’s knowledge of pre-Christian Germanic mythology is a matter of considerable dispute. The present article reconsiders...
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Idiom Acquisition and Usage-Based Language Learning Theory
The learning of idiomatic expressions has been reported as notoriously difficult in both native and second language contexts. The past several...
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Syntax des Französischen
Das Französische hat sich im Laufe seiner Geschichte in vielerlei Hinsicht weiter von seiner lateinischen Grundlage entfernt als etwa das...
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French polar response particles and neg movement
I present new data from European French involving embedded polar response particles (a.k.a. yes/no particles) in response to negative questions and...
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22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS), also referred to as the velo-cardio-facial syndrome, is a common microdeletion syndrome. Affected children are...
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Syntax in Fachkommunikation
Sich an das Thema „Syntax in Fachkommunikation“ zu begeben bedeutet vor allem eines: sich an ein Puzzle zu setzen, und zwar ein ebenso buntes wie...
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Japanese rare-constructions and the nature of the passive
In this paper, we argue that the rare -constructions in Japanese are all genuinely passives in the sense that they involve either demotion or removal...
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Definite descriptions of events: progressive interpretation in Ga (Kwa)
This paper demonstrates that the progressive interpretation in Ga is an effect of the interaction between the imperfective aspect and a definite...
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Stance-Taking and Gender: Hateful Representations of Portuguese Women Public Figures in the NETLANG Corpus
This study examines hateful language directed at women public figures in the Portuguese newspaper section of the NETLANG Corpus (2018–2022), focusing...
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Towards a Taxonomy of Connectives
Connectives include traditional prepositions, conjunctions, and relative pronouns. Here it is shown that several other important distinctions must be...
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Plural events and the progressive particle in Dalad Chinese, and the final-over-final condition
This paper examines a special progressive marker
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A pseudo-sluicing analysis of reduced embedded questions in Chakhar Mongolian
This paper provides a detailed description of reduced embedded questions in Chakhar Mongolian and proposes to analyze them in terms of so-called...
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Contrastive Linguistics: English and German
The present chapter aims to give an overview of the most important structural differences between English and German. It will reconsider some issues...
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Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement
Predicate doubling in Spanish is usually taken to involve multiple copy spell-out. This approach is mainly motivated by the fact that two instances...
