Unraveling syntactic puzzles of comparative correlatives

NN Zhang - Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2024 - Springer
In a comparative correlative construction, such as The less you read, the stupider you are,
the two clauses must both be finite, like a root clause; but neither can stand alone, like a …

[PDF][PDF] A Say verb or Complementizer: Analyzing shuo following communicatives and non-communicatives

L Ariela - campuspress.yale.edu
A Say verb or Complementizer: Analyzing shuo following communicatives and non-communicatives
1 Introduction Page 1 A Say verb or Complementizer: Analyzing shuo following …

[PDF][PDF] Status: Accepted in July 2024 (currently under minor revision) Journal: Transactions of the Philological Society

CF Lam - researchgate.net
The literature has debated whether Mandarin Chinese exhibits a finiteness distinction
despite the absence of overt tense and agreement marking. C.-TJ Huang (2022), along with …

Controlling overt subjects in Mandarin

D Li - Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2024 - Springer
Overt controlees have been observed in different languages, and previous proposals
diverge on whether to analyze them as lexicalized PROs or not. In this study, we present …

Lífið BIDD leikur: Setningafræðileg athugun á tákninu BIDD í íslenska táknmálinu

ED Challender - skemman.is
Þessi ritgerð fjallar um táknið BIDD í íslensku táknmáli og setningafræðilega hegðun þess.
BIDD hefur verið rannsakað í náttúrulegum gögnum og er það talið vera tengisögn. Táknið …