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Talmy’s typology in serializing languages: Variations on a VP Talmy在序列化语言中的类型学:VP的变体

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-08 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.7686

Jens Hopperdietzel

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引用次数: 1

Explaining variance in writers’ use of demonstratives: A corpus study demonstrating the importance of discourse genre 作者指示语使用差异的解释:语料库研究表明语篇体裁的重要性

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5826

A. Maes, E. Krahmer, David Peeters

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Projective and other locative PPs in Greek 投影和其他位置的希腊语PPs

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-05 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.6153

Athanasios Michael Ramadanidis

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Accessing the availability of inverse scope in German in the covered box paradigm 在盒式范例中访问德文逆作用域的可用性

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-21 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5766

G. Fanselow, M. Zimmermann, Mareike Philipp

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Scalar Modifiers of Quantifier Phrases 量词短语的标量修饰符

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-20 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.6162

Chris Collins

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An apparent case of outwardly-sensitive allomorphy in the Armenian definite 一个明显的情况下，表面敏感异形在亚美尼亚明确

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.6406

Hossep Dolatian

引用次数: 4

Prominence marking in an edge-prominent language - the case of Drehu 边缘突出语言中的突出标记——以德胡语为例

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-12 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5845

Catalina Orjuela, J. Fletcher

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Variation in stem-final consonant clusters in Korean nominal inflection 朝鲜语词形变化中词干-词尾辅音簇的变化

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-12 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5784

Ji Yea Kim

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The at-issue status of ideophones: An experimental approach 意指机的争论状态:一种实验方法

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-12 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5827

K. Barnes, Cornelia Ebert, R. Hörnig, Theresa Stender

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引用次数: 5

Children’s comprehension of NP embedding 儿童对NP嵌入的理解

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-04-06 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5816

Erin Hall, A-T. Pérez-Leroux

{"title":"Children’s comprehension of NP embedding","authors":"Erin Hall, A-T. Pérez-Leroux","doi":"10.16995/glossa.5816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5816","url":null,"abstract":"How do children learn to interpret structurally complex noun phrases? NPs embedded inside other NPs are not accessible to predication, so that in a sentence with a subject NP containing a PP modifier such as The cup on the table is green or The dog with the bone is blue, the adjectival predicate has scope over the highest but not the embedded nominal referent (Arsenijevic & Hinzen 2012). We used a coloring task to examine children’s comprehension of sentences containing these complex NPs, comparing PP modifiers (locative and comitatives) to coordinated NPs (The cup and the table are green), where both referents are accessible. Three- to five-year-old children were highly accurate with control and coordinate sentences, and performed well with locative PPs, but were not different from chance level for comitative sentences, which many children treated as coordinates. That children differentiate between coordinate and locative sentences provides evidence that children have early access to the syntax-semantics of complex nominals. The contrast between locatives and comitatives suggests that comprehension is not merely guided by subject agreement (since the agreement patterns are the same for both types of PP-modified subjects), and that children still need to learn the lexical semantics of prepositions. Diachronically, languages with comitative modifiers evolve into language with comitative coordination (Haspelmath 2007). Thus, we propose that these error patterns for comitative prepositions can be explained by the assumption that children’s errors align with the direction of systematic language change.","PeriodicalId":46319,"journal":{"name":"Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86825204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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