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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"headedness"”.
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Evidence from innovation: Reconstructing disharmonic headedness for Proto-Indo-European
In this dissertation, I show that due to the unique hierarchical properties of syntactic features, innovation can reveal inherited structural relationships that would otherwise remain opaque. Based on this idea, I propose a disharmonically headed reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) clausal …
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Headedness in word formation and lexical semantics : evidence from Italiot and Cypriot
… the confusions associated with head, focusing on headedness in Word Formation and Lexical Semantics. In particular, the purpose of my thesis is to enquire into the notion head with focus on the following three issues: (a) delimitation, (b) position, and (c) presence and absence of head in …
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A GENERAL THEORY OF CORRELATIVITY
… (e.g., in Hindi), particularly in terms of headedness, clause position, and syntactic integration. Using formal syntactic frameworks, the dissertation argues that Vedic correlatives are base-generated in the left periphery of the host clause and display a range of headedness types, including …
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Focus on Basque movements
… to two basic syntactic properties of phrases: headedness and branchingness. The proposal is based on certain crucial insights found in previous work on the topic (Chomsky, Halle, and Lukoff 1956, Chomsky and Halle 1968, Liberman and Prince 1977, Halle and Vergnaud 1987, Cinque 1993, Zubizarreta …
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The formation of Chinese multi-word constructions: evidence from the processing and production of Chinese native speakers
… templates’. In the investigation of the headedness structures of the DSCs, native speakers’ coinages were elicited and compared to the generalizations drawn on the basis of the textual materials. The results reveal that headed forms (as opposed to non-headed forms) are the prevalent …
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Compounding in Malay: A descriptive analysis
… given on the topics of definition, components, headedness, criteria and classification of compounds as the foundations of Malay compoundhood. It is agreed that Malay can have left, right and headless compounds, with the prototypical structures of [X Y] (X)(Y) for endocentric and [X Y] (Z) for …
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The acquisition of Mandarin by heritage speakers and second language learners
… is relatively easy for L2ers, despite different headedness in English. However, L2ers may have difficulty with tone 3 sandhi because phonology is known to be difficult for them (e.g., Granena & Long, 2013), despite ample exposure to tones and tone 3 sandhi. Aspect marking may also be difficult …