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Introduction : current trends in analyzing syntactic variation 引言：句法变异分析的当前趋势

Belgian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-12-31 DOI: 10.1075/BJL.00013.DEC

L. D. Cuypere, G. Sutter

引用次数: 1

A crowdsourcing approach to the description of regional variation in French object clitic clusters 法国对象clitic集群区域差异描述的众包方法

Belgian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/BJL.00004.AVA

M. Avanzi, E. Stark

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引用次数: 2

Accounting for syntactic variation in diachrony: The presence vs. absence of de in finite nominalcomplement clauses in 16th and 17th century Spanish 历时性句法变化的解释:16和17世纪西班牙语有限名补语从句中de的存在与缺失

Belgian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/BJL.00010.GRA

Anton Granvik

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Expanding the causative alternation: What about a third variant? 扩展使役交替:第三种变体呢?

Belgian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/BJL.00005.MAN

Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia

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Scales or features in verb meaning?: Verb classes as predictors of syntactic behavior 动词意义上的尺度或特征?动词类作为句法行为的预测者

Belgian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/BJL.00007.VER

Elisabeth Verhoeven

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引用次数: 1

Exploring the Left Dislocation construction by means of multiple linear regression: Complexity and orality of Modern English left-dislocated NPs 用多元线性回归探讨现代英语左错位NPs的复杂性和口语性

Belgian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/BJL.00012.TIZ

David Tizón-Couto

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Language variation and change 语言的变异和变化

Belgian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/BJL.00003.ALE

A. Alexiadou

引用次数: 3

A corpus-based analysis of pronoun choice in German relative clauses 基于语料库的德语关系从句代词选择分析

Belgian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/BJL.00008.BRA

Patrick T. Brandt, Eric Fuss

引用次数: 3

Measuring the alternation strength of causative verbs: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the interaction between verb,theme and construction 使役动词交替强度的测量:动词、主位和构式相互作用的定量和定性分析

Belgian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/BJL.00009.ROM

Laurence Romain

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Spanish time constructions with hacer: Gradient judgments and corpus data to solve a syntactic conundrum 西班牙语时构:梯度判断与语料库数据解决句法难题

Belgian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/BJL.00011.HER

Borja Herce

引用次数: 1