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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"morphosyntax"”.
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The Morphosyntax of Deretu Manchu
… presents a detailed description of the morphosyntax of Deretu Manchu, an endangered variety of Manchu spoken traditionally within my mukvn, or clan. First, this work introduces the Manchu language, community-related information, revitalization, and recent speaker demographics. This …
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Eolian morphosyntax: A comparative Romance perspective
The primary aim of this thesis is to document several key morphosyntactic characteristics of the southern Italo-Romance variety of Eolian, spoken in the archipelago of the Eolian Islands. Its recent origin and hybrid-style grammar, described in previous studies, leads to an exploration of its …
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Morphosyntax : the syntax of verbal inflection
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.
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Morphosyntax and semantics of degree constructions
This thesis investigates the morphosyntax and the semantics of comparatives and related degree constructions through the prism of a phenomenon called evaluativity, a type of inference whereby gradable adjectives receive a context-dependent interpretation. Pursuing the view that evaluativity is …
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BE-ing default : the morphosyntax of auxiliaries
This dissertation is concerned with the broad question of why auxiliary verbs occur in natural language. Much previous work has assumed that the occurrence of auxiliary verbs is morphologically or syntactically arbitrary. I argue instead that auxiliary verbs, particularly BE, arise as a result of …
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The morphosemantics and morphosyntax of the Malayalam verb
The questions posed and addressed in this dissertation are broadly questions regarding the nature cross-linguistic variation and why languages differ from one another in these particular ways. This thesis focuses on four known points of cross-linguistic variation in the verbal domain: tense, …
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Acquisition of English morphosyntax : evidence from a Chinese-speaking child
This thesis aims to examine the development of morphosyntax with longitudinal English production from Diany, a Mandarin-speaking child, starting from the second week Diany arrived in the U.S.A. (age 4;9). The study is particularly interested in whether Diany’s acquisition of verbal morphemes and …
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Disentangling morphosyntax from morphophonology: a re-evaluation of morphological priming
… to address the question of distinguishing morphosyntax and morphonology experimentally. In a series of auditory, continuous lexical decision priming experiments in Hebrew and Italian, I provide evidence that morphosyntactic features can be primed independently of (morpho)phonological …
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The Type and Frequency of Morphosyntax Errors in Children's Narratives.
<p>A subsample of 478 children who originally participated in a larger study (Tomblin et al., 1997) was examined for type and frequency of morphological noun and verb errors in oral and written narratives in 2<sup>nd</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> grade. Each child represented one of four groups: Typical …
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Feld - fällt - fehlt : Untersuchungen zur Phonologie-Morphosyntax-Schnittstelle bei Kindern und Erwachsenen
Neben der Frequenz eines cues ist es dessen Zuverlässigkeit, die Kindern hilft, die an sie gerichtete Sprache zu segmentieren, Worteinheiten zu erkennen sowie diese syntaktisch zu kategorisieren. Im Deutschen weist die Subsilbe „Langvokal+Konsonant+/t/“ (z.B. in fehlt, wohnt) zuverlässig auf eine …
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Development of Cantonese as a heritage language in children: Experiments in phonology and morphosyntax
This dissertation examines the development of Cantonese in young heritage speakers (age of testing 3;10–12;3) in New York City. These heritage speakers were raised speaking predominantly Cantonese at home, but were exposed to English (the majority language) from a young age. The research …
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Topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Balinese based on the dialect of Singaraja, North Bali
… of the phonology, verbal morphology, and morphosyntax of the Balinese of Singaraja, in Buleleng district, north Bali. In chapter two I describe the phoneme repertoire, and their realisations. I give evidence for meaningful postlexical rules, of the kind described by Woodbury (1987). In …
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Topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Balinese based on the dialect of Singaraja, North Bali
… of the phonology, verbal morphology, and morphosyntax of the Balinese of Singaraja, in Buleleng district, north Bali. In chapter two I describe the phoneme repertoire, and their realisations. I give evidence for meaningful postlexical rules, of the kind described by Woodbury (1987). In …
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The Influence of Pretask Instructions and Pretask Planning on Learners' Focus on Form During Task -Based Interaction
… That is, the learners focused more on lexis than morphosyntax irrespective of planning and instruction types, but the difference between lexis and morphosyntax focus was reduced for the specific compared to the general instructions. However, there were no main effects of instructions and planning, …
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Language and IQ in Children With Language Impairment
… of variance in verbal IQ scores, with skills in morphosyntax and phonological memory failing to contribute any additional variance. Third, nonverbal IQ was a relatively weak predictor of all three language domains---semantics, morphosyntax, and phonological memory---particularly when standardized …
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Romanismen im Bairischen : ein kommentiertes Wörterbuch mit Karten des Sprachatlasses Oberbayern (SOB) und des Kleinen Bayerischen Sprachatlasses (KBSA) sowie eine Diskussion zu Morphosyntax und Syntax
In dieser Arbeit werden die romanischen Einflüsse auf das Nord-, Mittel- und Südbairische untersucht. Der Kern besteht aus einem ausführlichen Wörterbuch von 230 Einträgen, die im gesamten bairischen Sprachraum gelten, einer Lemmaliste von insgesamt 400 Romanismen für den gesamten bairischen …
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The count/mass distinction in native and non-native grammar
… types of nouns is affected by count/mass morphosyntax and whether second language (L2) learners are affected by first language (L1) transfer from their native language or are instead affected by semantic universals in L2 acquisition of the count/mass distinction. Furthermore, this …
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Written Kaaps: The morphological (in-)dependence of het
… generally, to advance understanding of Kaaps morphosyntax. Beyond advancing our understanding of Kaaps morphosyntax, the findings challenge traditional views of Afrikaans and highlight the importance of data generated by Kaaps speakers in shaping emerging orthographic norms and theoretical …
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A Descriptive Grammar of Morphosyntactic Constructions in Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL)
… order to produce a description of the language’s morphosyntax. There is a close relationship between word (or sign) properties and syntactic expressions, so UgSL is described here in terms of its morphosyntactic constructions, rather than a differentiation between morphological and syntactic …
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