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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"minimalist syntax"”.
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Japanese gapping in minimalist syntax
… is made possible by the assumptions of the Minimalist Program, such as the operations Select, Copy and Merge, and principles of economy. I propose that sosite has a special function of copying lexical items in a numeration due to its intrinsic property of reduplicating items. This operation …
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Phrase structure in minimalist syntax
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.
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Clause structure in the development of child L2 English of L1 Arabic
… L2 resembles child L1/adult L2 in the domain of syntax and/or morphology. A third objective is to determine the extent to which L1 intervenes with the L2 acquisition, and to ascertain the nature of the intervention. In this work I mainly study the TP and CP systems with their related features. …
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Putting PPs into order - Understanding prepositionality in the predominantly postpositional language Lule Sami
… at how they may be formally accounted for within Minimalist syntax. I propose that prepositional order in Lule Sami arises through fronting to a Grounding projection in the style of Wiltschko (2021), and that this movement is triggered by definiteness and/or salience features. I argue that the …
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Investigating the role of an indigenised variety of English in the acquisitional and sociolinguistic contexts of the Malaysian ecology
The realm of New Englishes offers enriching avenues to explore the interplay between language acquisition and sociolinguistic influences in linguistically diverse ecologies. Yet research into this interdisciplinary arena remains lacking. Accordingly, this thesis addresses this paradigm gap by …