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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Universal Spine Hypothesis"”.
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Speaking of pragmatics: Addressing discourse in Finnish and Japanese syntax
… in accordance with Wiltschko and Heim’s (2016) Universal Spine Hypothesis. Chapter 3 discusses the Finnish second-position clitics -hAn and -pA as well as an array of Japanese sentence-final particles, showing that their pragmatic contribution is best understood through notions relating to …
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Putting PPs into order - Understanding prepositionality in the predominantly postpositional language Lule Sami
This thesis investigates PP-internal word-order variation in an endangered Uralic language, Lule Sami, which is indigenous to parts of Northern Norway and Sweden. The study focuses on the factors underlying prepositional occurrences in this predominantly postpositional language. It is mainly based …