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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"verb second"”.
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Word order and case in Kashmiri
… languages is the appearance of the finite verb in the clause second position in declarative matrix clauses and ki (subordinate) clauses. This ""verb-second"" phenomenon that we notice in Kashmiri is found elsewhere only in the languages belonging to the Germanic family (minus English). The …
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"Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English ""Beowulf"
… the present work elucidates the development of verb-second in early Germanic and of second-position clitics in general.
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The emergence of group stress in medieval French
… the hypothesis that prosodic change affected verb-second word order in medieval French is reconsidered. It is argued that light clause-initial constituents which do not form their own phonological phrase (i.e. short adverbs, subject pronouns) become unstressed, a development which triggers …
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The fundamental difference between child and adult language acquisition: a longitudinal, naturalistic study of parameter resetting in Swedish interlanguage
… question of Universal Grammar availability in second language acquisition within the framework of Bley-Vroman’s Fundamental Difference Hypothesis, contributing new empirical evidence from learners of Swedish. Johnson and Newport (1989) showed a strong negative correlation between age of arrival …
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Aspects of a Karitiana grammar
… In chapter 3, I show that the language is verb-final and that the verb obligatorily raises to the complementizer position (C) in matrix clauses to check tense and agreement features. In dependent clauses, the verb is final, and no agreement or tense is present. I draw a parallel between …
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Syntaktisk variation och förändring : En studie av subjektslösa satser i fornsvenska
… aspects as crucial. Chapter 4 presents the second part of the thesis and consists of an empirical study of subjectless clauses in the history of Swedish. A corpus of about 193,400 words was collected from 12 Old Swedish texts, and on the basis of a random sample, a variable rule analysis was …
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Grammatical Analysis of Various Biblical Hebrew Texts According to a Traditional Semitic Grammar
… a copula. Chapter 3 demonstrates that the Hebrew verb היה is not a copula but a real verb showing action, and that the energic suffixes on the imperfect do, in fact, have semantic value and do show emphasis. In chapter 4, the analysis shifts to Ruth 1. Robert Holmstedt's commentary on Ruth from …
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a third language
… different properties in each language. English verbs with two internal arguments can alternate between a prepositional object construction (POC), which consists of a V DP PP, as in Mary bought a gift for John; and a double object construction (DOC), which consists of a V DP DP, as in Mary bought …
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Input och output : ordföljd i svenska barns huvudsatser och bisatser
… qualitative analysis focusing on the syntax of verb placement and complementizers is presented. Chapters 1 to 4 offer a background to the thesis. In chapter 1 the aims and the material are presented. Chapter 2 provides a generative analysis of verb placement and complementizers, constituting the …
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On the Development of Differential Object Marking in Romance
… structural (viz. nominal, clausal, verbal), semantico-pragmatic (viz. topicality, saliency, referentiality, animacy), and lexical parameters. In chapter 1, I briefly summarise the state-of-the art of the literature regarding DOM in Romance and establish several paucities within said …