Split hybrid nouns in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian display two sets of interesting properties: they can bear both natural and grammatical gender, and which gender participates in …
This dissertation develops a formal and psycholinguistic theory of person-based prominence effects, the finding that certain categories of person such as" first" and" second"(the" local" …
C Hammerly - Linguistic Inquiry with minor revisions, 2024 - christopherhammerly.com
Two recent papers on variation in agreement, one by Deal (2024) for the person-case constraint (PCC) and one by Oxford (2022) for Algonquian direct/inverse Voice, have argued …
The main objective of this book is to develop a deeper understanding of the form and interpretation of number, a core feature of human cognition (Dehaene, 1999). Using insights …
In this thesis, I investigate the distribution and function (s) of gender in Tunisian Arabic. Based on the observation that gender can ll multiple functions and hence receive different …
P Acquaviva - Catalan journal of linguistics, 2020 - revistes.uab.cat
A reflection on the essence of gender as a grammatical concept leads to examining some phenomena which suggest that gender is fundamentally a property of nominal syntactic …
M Dali, E Mathieu - Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2020 - brill.com
The aim of this paper is to explain an unusual agreement pattern that arises between Tunisian Arabic broken plurals and their targets. For example, a verb may agree with a …
This article provides a general analysis of the semantics of person, broadly construed, through a case study of Ojibwe (Central Algonquian). Ojibwe shows person-like distinctions …