Enclisis, mesoclisis and inflection in Italo-Romance varieties: A minimalist analysis
This contribution addresses a central theme in morphological analysis, namely the relationship between clitics and inflectional elements. Important contributions on the point are due to Anderson (1992 - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyResolution by Case Syncretism in Icelandic Passives
Passivized ditransitives with reflexive indirect objects in Icelandic are subject to speaker variation: speakers either reject the construction entirely (Grammar D), accept it with nominative (Grammar - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyErrors of multiple exponence in child English: A study of past tense formation
It is well known that children produce non-adult-like forms during language acquisition. Among these are errors where in the fashion of multiple exponence the child overtly marks an underlying feature - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyNoncore datives in Basque and Spanish impersonal, passive and anticausative sentences
This paper focuses on the Basque impersonal construction, i.e. a detransitivized configuration that can convey impersonal, passive and middle readings. Although these are agentive constructions (Ferná - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyAndrej Zaliznjak. Cutting off the unnecessary Андрей Анатольевич Зализняк. Абстрагироваться от лишнего []
This paper offers a polemic view on the heritage of Andrej A. Zaliznjak (1935—2017), who authored fundamental works on Russian and Old Russian. In different years, Zaliznjak addressed issues in morpho - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyLinguistics and Cryptophilology
I compare language and text as research objects and discuss the status of text linguistics aka cryptophilology. The latter exploits the philological concept of text, which is masked by the use of ling - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyKartvelian and Lexical Contact in the Ancient Caucasus
This paper will survey what kinds of lexical contact affected Kartvelian languages in the ancient Caucasus: what kinds of lexical items were borrowed, and when, and what light such patterns shed on ph - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyModal indefinites and semantic variation: Lessons from Chuj
Recent work proposes that modal auxiliaries project their domains from an event variable, their ‘anchor’ (Hacquard 2006, 2010, Kratzer 2013). Based on the Spanish modal indefinite uno cualquiera, Alon - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyPolish prefix stacking redux
The chapter focuses on describing the formal properties of multiple aspectual prefixation in Polish, as in po-na-ścinać ‘cut something down in large quantity, one by one’. This corner of Pol - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyEmergence and evolution of free variation in Central Pame prefixes: Sound change vs. paradigmatic structure
Many word forms from different classes in Central Pame (cent2145, Otomanguean) allow two synonymous forms, one containing a prefix with the vowel /a/ and another one with /u/ (e.g. wa-ttsáuʔ〜wu-ttsá - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyThe relativized EPP: Evidence from agreement and word order in Border Lakes Ojibwe
This paper explores patterns of agreement and word order in the Central Algonquian language Border Lakes Ojibwe. This variety of Ojibwe shows alternations between VOS and VSO word orders and complex i - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyLinking agreement and movement: A case study of long distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe
This paper argues for an extension of current models of Agree to capture relativized EPP effects, where a probe for movement targets an element with a specific set of features. We support the proposal - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyThe locality of allomorphy: Insights from Bidhaawyeet
This paper discusses a pattern of allomorphy with object-marking suffixes in the Cushitic language Bidhaawyeet (Beja). The various forms of the object suffix show a puzzling distribution. Inside relat - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyShared by all speakers? Dative Predicatives in Bulgarian and Russian
We analyze the language-internal variation in the class of dative predicatives in Bulgarian and Russian. For each language, a test questionnaire was prepared. The stimuli were grouped into 15 thematic - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyРусские предикативы в зеркале эксперимента и корпусной грамматики [Russian Predicatives in the Perspective of Sociolinguistic Experiment and Corpus Grammar]
This paper aims at measuring the active vocabulary of Russian predicatives licensing dative- predicative-structures (DPS) and introduces the results of the sociolinguistic experiment paired with the c - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyДaтивно-предикативные структуры и семантико-синтаксический интерфейс в русском и болгарском языках [Dative-predicative structures and the syntax-semantics interface in Russian and Bulgarian]
In this chapter we study the place of dative-predicative structures (DPS) in Russian and Bulgarian and their interaction with the syntax-semantics interface. We pay attention to the main distinctive f - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyОбязательный местоименный экспериенцер и смена семантического типа [Obligatory Pronominal Experiencer and Semantic Type Switching]
The obligatory encoding of the experiencer by pronominal clitics in Bulgarian brings about a more rigid contrast of internal vs external states compared to Russian, despite the overt similarity of con - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyMore on 'Lexical DP Blocking' effects in the PCC: Evidence from Mixtec
Sichel and Toosarvandani (to appear) (S&T) show that the Southeastern Sierra varieties of Zapotec (SSZ) display a previously unattested PCC-like pattern: object clitics of all persons are banned when - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyAn Overview of Peircean Semiotics, With Applications to Modern Linguistics
This paper is a preliminary introduction to Peircean semiotics. It is still very much in progress. However, because of the potential interest of Peirce's theory of semiotics for linguistics, it is bei - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyLinguistic Analysis, Description, and Typological Exploration with Categorial Grammar (TheBench Guide)
TheBench is a tool to study monadic structures in natural language. It is for writing monadic grammars to explore analyses, compare diverse languages through their categories, and to train models of - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyVoiced and Voiceless Intransitives in Halkomelem Salish: Rethinking Antipassives
There are two morphemes in Halkomelem Salish that appear in morphosyntactic intransitive clauses and have been likened to antipassive morphemes: the ‘activity’ -els and the ‘middle’ -m (Gerdts and Huk - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyWh-word acquisition in Czech: Exploring the growing trees hypothesis
We investigate the acquisition of different functions of wh-words in Czech (Slavic) - a language where wh-words are highly multifunctional. Our working hypothesis is that the acquisition proceeds in a - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyThe Taming of the Clitics. Review of: Zrinka Kolaković, Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Björn Hansen, Dušica Filipović Đurđević & Nataša Fritz. 2022. Clitics in the wild: Empirical studies on the microvariation of the pronominal, reflexive and verbal clitics in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (Open Slavic Linguistics 7). Berlin: Language Science Press. 461 p.
This paper is a review of: Zrinka Kolaković, Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Björn Hansen, Dušica Filipović Đurđević & Nataša Fritz. 2022. Clitics in the wild: Empirical studies on the microvariation of - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyClitics
This entry entitled "Clitics" (ch. 6.5.) has been submitted for the volume: Jan Fellerer, & N. Bermel (Eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Slavonic Languages. Oxford University Press. - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyPlusperfect Auxiliaries in the Russian Language of the 14th - 16th Centuries [Связки плюсквамперфекта в русском языке XIV - XVI вв.]]
This paper discusses the syntax of the past tense auxiliaries in the vernacular Old Russian plusperfect construction of the type дал был, дал есми был. I prove that the past tense auxiliaries behaved - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > Morphology[Do They Deserve it: Are Endoclitics Necessary for the Description of Russian Grammar?] Так им и надо: нужны ли эндоклитики для описания русской грамматики?
The paper is addressed a number of morphosyntactic phenomena in Russian grammar, which can be explained as regular or occasional endoclitic insertion. The insertion of Russian prepositions in negative - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyComplex anaphors
Complex anaphors such as English x-self exhibit at least three levels of cross-linguistic regularities. On the morphological level, they show a typical construction that combines a distinct pronominal - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyThe Distribution of Verbs and Argument Selection in Arabic
This paper attempts to argue in favor of a constructionist/syntactic approach to the derivation of verbs in both Modern Standard Arabic and Moroccan Arabic. Using the precepts of Distributed Morpholog - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > MorphologyA pronoun without competition: the source of Principles A and B (WCCFL 41 proceedings)
Principles A and B were proposed within Government and Binding framework (Chomsky 1981), as governing rules on the distribution of anaphors and pronouns, respectively. Previous analyses explained the - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
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