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TL;DR: The neural correlates of subject-verb agreement in Spanish are investigated, revealing that the parser is differentially sensitive to the two features and that it deals with the two anomalies by adopting different strategies, due to the different levels of analysis affected by the person and number violations.
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TL;DR: This article examined the effect of atypical language development on third person accusative clitics in French and found that third person clitic production remained weak long after childhood in adolescents whose language developed atypically, no matter what the cause of the language development was and no matter how severe its effects on language.
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TL;DR: This article discusses A-licensing and case from a minimalist perspective, pursuing the idea that argument NPs cyclically enter a number of A-relations, rather than just a single one, resulting in event licensing, case licensing, and φ- Licensing.
Abstract: This article discusses A-licensing and case from a minimalist perspective, pursuing the idea that argument NPs cyclically enter a number of A-relations, rather than just a single one, resulting in event licensing, case licensing, and φ-licensing. While argument case commonly reflects Voice-v relations, canonical A-movement is driven by higher elements, either in the C-T system or in a superordinate v-system (in ECM constructions). In addition, there is a distinction to be drawn between the triggering of A-movement, by for example C, and the licensing of the landing site, by for instance T, C-probing leading to tucking-in into Spec,T. Much of the evidence presented comes from quirky case constructions in Icelandic and from ECM and raising constructions in Icelandic and English. It is argued that T in ECM constructions inherits φ-licensing from the matrix vφ, regardless of the case properties of vφ.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the three main dimensions of relational structuring are those of semantic roles, information flow, and deictic anchoring, and there are three major language types depending on the extent to which these dimensions are grammaticalised: pivotless languages, with no or little grammaticalisation of any of these dimensions; pure languages, strongly grammaticalising only one of them, especially that ofroles; and mixed languages, strong grammaticalizing more than one.
Abstract: Contrary to common assumptions, syntactic relations, especially those of subject and object, are not universal, but are only one of sevcralpossibilities of organising relational clause structure. The three main dimensions of relational structuring are those of semantic roles, Information flow, and deictic anchoring. There are three major language types depending on the extent to which these dimensions are grammaticalised: \"pivotless\" languages, with no or little grammaticalisation of any of these dimensions; \"pure\" languages, strongly grammaticalising only one of them, especially that ofroles; \"mixed\" languages, strongly grammaticalising more than one. Genuinely syntactic relations, further differentiated in terms of their alignments (such äs accusative, ergative, active, tripartite), then resultfrom the cumulative encoding ofrole and flow distinctions in the mixed type.
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TL;DR: Cortes-Torres et al. as mentioned in this paper used variable rule analysis to reveal details of the grammar that constitute conflict sites, even when relative frequencies for variants are similar in Spanish and English.
Abstract: We test the hypothesis that single other-language-origin words are nonce loans (Sankoff, Poplack, & Vanniarajan, 1990) as opposed to code-switches in a corpus-based study of English-origin nouns occurring spontaneously in New Mexican Spanish discourse. The object of study is determinerless nouns, whose status is superficially ambiguous. The study shows that, even with typologically similar languages, variable rule analysis can reveal details of the grammar that constitute conflict sites, even when relative frequencies for variants are similar. Though the rate of bare nouns is identical, their distribution patterns in Spanish and English differ. Linguistic conditioning parallel with the former, and at odds with the latter, shows that the contentious items are loanwords. In information flow terms (Dubois, 1980; Thompson, 1997), it is not lack of grammatical integration but nonreferential uses of nonce-loan nouns to form recipient-language predicates that is manifested in zero determination.We are grateful to Neddy A. Vigil for access to the New Mexico–Colorado Spanish Survey tapes. Mayra Cortes-Torres, Matt Alba, Jens Clegg, and Mark Waltemire helped with data transcription and extraction. This work was supported by a University of New Mexico Research Allocations Committee grant to Torres Cacoullos (#02-01). Work was completed during a postdoctoral fellowship for Torres Cacoullos at the University of Ottawa Sociolinguistics Laboratory, for which we thank Shana Poplack. A preliminary version was presented at NWAV-31, Stanford University, October 2002.
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