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This paper investigates juxtaposed possessives (JPs) in Mandarin Chinese (MC) such as ta baba ‘her/his father’, where a personal pronoun ta ‘(s)he’ is juxtaposed with a kinship noun baba ‘father’ and the two bear a kinship relationship. I assume that a DP is projected in Mandarin nominal expressions and pronouns are Ds while bare proper names are DPs. On this basis, I argue that in JPs, the kinship...
The present study demonstrates the existence in Wandala (Central Chadic) of two inflectional markers which, although they change the form of the word, are not word-formation means but rather sentence-formation means. While neither of the forms indicates any specific semantic relation, they both enable the listener to parse the sentence into units that can undergo further analysis and allow for inferences...
Verbal accent in Middle Korean (15–16th c., MK) is not 100% predictable but very strongly correlates with the segmental shape of the stem to varying degrees, leading Ramsey (1978, 1986, 1991, 2001) and Whitman (1994) to reconstruct predictable accent for both stems and suffixes in the protolanguage. In a traditional rule-based approach or in optimality theory, the only possible analysis of the data...
In Japanese Sign Language (JSL), as well as in many other sign languages, wh-final sentences are common, which is not the case of spoken languages. This paper is an attempt to explain how wh-final constructions in JSL are derived under the generative approach. We considered the basic distributions of the wh-element in wh-final constructions including the wh-double (i.e. wh-in situ and wh-final) construction,...
The purpose of the present study is to explore the distribution patterns of null and overt objects in child Polish in comparison with adult Polish in order to test a number of predictions ensuing from the main hypotheses concerning object omissions in child language and to consider an approach to child null objects that also attributes object omission patterns to incomplete acquisition of C/edge linking...
From a cross-linguistic perspective, Citko and Gracanin-Yuksek (2013) argue that three approaches should be available for the coordinated wh-question (CWH): the mono-clausal approach, the bulk sharing approach, and the non-bulk sharing approach. This paper aims to reveal the nature of the CWH in Japanese, which has not received much attention in the literature, and argues that none of those approaches...
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