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Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof
This paper investigates control constructions in the Niger-Congo language Wolof, which offers several insights into the phenomenon of control. First,...
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Overextension in Gottscheerisch (negative) imperatives: proclisis at the edge of the first phase
Gottscheerisch, a Southern Bavarian heritage grammar from Kočevje (Gottschee) in southern Slovenia, has existed in steady contact with Slovene for...
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Clitic Linearization: A Tale of Successful and Failed Changes
The chapter looks at the relationship between the successful advance of pronominal proclisis in the context of finite main clauses and its failed...
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Microsyntax meets macrosyntax: Russian neg-words revisited
This paper offers a new analysis of Russian syntactic idioms consisting of stressed general negation n´e - fused with a wh -word ( k -word). The elements...
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Syntactic annotation for Portuguese corpora: standards, parsers, and search interfaces
In the last two decades, four Portuguese syntactically annotated corpora were built along the lines initially defined for the Penn Parsed Historical...
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Syntax des Spanischen
Viele Eigenschaften der spanischen Syntax sind typisch für die indoeuropäische Sprachfamilie: die reiche Verbalflexion im Unterschied zur weniger...
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Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction
Many Austronesian languages exhibit an extraction restriction whereby only one particular DP—the “pivot” argument, the choice of which is reflected...
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Linguistic Analyses of Negation in Chinese, English, and Korean
The two primary negation markers in Chinese, bu and mei, are subject to multiple constraints of syntactic and semantic categories, thus involving...
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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...
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When Philippine-type voice meets Indo-European-type voice: insights from Puyuma
Puyuma, an understudied indigenous language of Taiwan, features the compatibility of Philippine-type and Indo-European-type voice alternations within...
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Further Implications of French Devoir and Falloir for Theories of Control and Modality
Authier and Reed (2009: 44–45) observe that thematic constraints involving French devoir ‘must’ and falloir ‘to be necessary’ fall out from Chomsky...
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Code Switching Between Moroccan Arabic and French
In the previous chapters, a number of different approaches to CS structural constraints were considered, and a particular approach (the FPC) was...
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Theoretical Frameworks and Related Studies
The Interface Hypothesis advanced by Sorace and Filiaci (2006) assumes that language structures involving an interface between syntax and other...
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Word-order variation and coherence in German infinitival complementation
This study provides a synthesis of corpus-based and experimental investigations of word-order preferences in German infinitival complementation. We...
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Control complements in Mandarin Chinese: implications for restructuring and the Chinese finiteness debate
Many proposals on restructuring suggest that restructuring phenomena are only observed when a control predicate takes as a complement a functional...
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Introduction
This chapter first gives a historical overview of the importance of Romance linguistics to the development of diachronic and synchronic theory over...
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Displaced morphology in German verb clusters: an argument for post-syntactic morphology
In this paper I will provide a new argument for post-syntactic morphology. The empirical evidence comes from so-called displaced morphology in German...
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The syntax of liketa
In this article I provide a syntactic analysis for the non-standard liketa and its uncontracted counterpart liked to in Appalachian English. I argue...
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Parsing Language-Specific Constructions: The Case of French Pronominal Clitics
This paper describes the treatment of French pronominal clitics developed for the multilingual Fips parser. Following a brief description of the Fips...
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Linking constructions in Mayrinax Atayal
This study investigated and examined linking constructions in Mayrinax Atayal. Although in the literature, linkers are categorized as either...
