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Non-agreeing degree constructions 不一致程度结构

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Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI: 10.1017/s0022226724000148

Jon Ander Mendia, M.Teresa Espinal

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Separability of dependents from VP in English: Beyond the argument/adjunct distinction 英语中从句与副词的可分性：超越论据/从句的区别

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Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-19 DOI: 10.1017/s0022226724000069

Andrew McInnerney

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Mutation, allomorphy and Galician clitics 变异、异形和加利西亚咬字词

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Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0022226724000070

Itamar Kastner

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Chinese copy raising and its implications for predication 中文抄写及其对谓语的影响

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Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1017/s0022226724000057

Hsiao-Hung Iris Wu

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Theme-vowel minimal pairs show argument structure alternations 主题-元音最小对显示参数结构交替

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Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1017/s0022226723000415

Predrag Kovačević, Stefan Milosavljević, Marko Simonović

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Intransparent-Gap Relatives in Japanese 日语中的不透明间隙关系词

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Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1017/s0022226723000373

Tohru Seraku

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Processing dissociations between raising and control in Brazilian Portuguese 巴西葡萄牙语中提高和控制之间的处理差异

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Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-11 DOI: 10.1017/s002222672400001x

Doug Merchant, Timothy Gupton

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Shift is derived 移位得出

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Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0022226723000294

ANDREW LAMONT

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Fuzhen Si & Luigi Rizzi (eds.), Current issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. Pp. vi + 327. Fuzhen Si & Luigi Rizzi (eds.), Current issues in syntactic cartography：A crosslinguistic perspective.阿姆斯特丹/费城：约翰-本杰明出版公司，2021 年。第 vi + 327 页。

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Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI: 10.1017/s0022226723000348

Haoyue Hu

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Parsability revisited and reassessed 重新审视和评估可解析性

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Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-02 DOI: 10.1017/s0022226723000385

Sergei Monakhov

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