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Head (linguistics)
About: Head (linguistics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2540 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29023 citations. The topic is also known as: nucleus.
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: In this article, various generalizations are drawn as to when and how the functional head Num is spelled out, based on data concerning agreement and floated quantifiers from standard English and two non-standard variants.
Abstract: Based on data concerning agreement and floated quantifiers from standard English and two non-standard variants, various generalizations are drawn as to when and how the functional head Num is spelled out.
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TL;DR: Speakers were faster to initiate speech when the head and local noun were integrated than when they were unintegrated, suggesting that speakers who do more advance planning are more likely to experience interfer- ence during agreement computation.
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07 Nov 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the first description of variable gender agreement in nominal phrases in Huni-Kuin Portuguese, which is the specific Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese variety used as second language by the Panoan ethnolinguistic family.
Abstract: This work presents the first description of the variable gender agreement in nominal phrases in Huni-Kuin Portuguese, which is the specific Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese variety used as second language by the Huni-Kuin people (which belongs to the Panoan ethnolinguistic family). Our corpus was extracted from eight spontaneous speeches collected during a fieldtrip to the cities of Cruzeiro do Sul and Marechal Thaumaturgo, and five villages of the Breu River Reserve. We analyzed the presence/absence of gender agreement in modifiers/determiners considering different word classes (articles, adjectives, possessive pronouns, quantifiers) and the gender of the noun head (masculine/feminine). We could observe that the overgeneralization of the masculine gender (unmarked) is not the only strategy that makes gender agreement in Huni-Kuin Portuguese distinct from L1 speakers’ patterns. In the class of possessive pronouns, it seems possible to represent the gender of a human possessor. Structures indicating that the gender of a modifier/determiner in Huni-Kuin Portuguese can be conditioned by the noun head of an embedded adjunct were also identified. This process suggests the transfer of a Panoan characteristic: a strong relation between the ending of a linguistic form and the expression of core grammatical functions.
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