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Defectivity Matters: Cliticization in French Causatives Revisited 缺陷问题:法语使役语气的批评性再访

IF 1.6 1区文学

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00451

Xiaoshi Hu

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On Realizing External Arguments: A Syntactic and Implicature Theory of the Disjointness Effect for Passives in Adult and Child Grammar 论外部论证的实现:成人和儿童语法中被动语态断裂效应的句法和含义理论

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Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00520

Loes Koring, Eric Reuland, Nina Sangers, Kenneth Wexler

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What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising 什么分开，什么团结，右节点提升

IF 1.6 1区文学

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00454

Zoe Belk;Ad Neeleman;Joy Philip

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Topic Particles, Agreement and Movement in an Arabic Dialect 阿拉伯语方言中的话题助词、一致性和移动

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Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00519

M Alshamari, A Holmberg

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Revisiting Passive Participles: Category Status and Internal Structure 再论被动分词:范畴、地位与内部结构

IF 1.6 1区文学

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00463

Maša Bešlin

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Obligatorily Overt PRO in San Martín Peras Mixtec 强制性公开PRO在圣Martín Peras Mixtec

IF 1.6 1区文学

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00518

Jason Ostrove

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The Featural Life of Nominals 名词的特征生活

IF 1.6 1区文学

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00517

I. Sichel, M. Toosarvandani

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Verbal Templates Can Influence L-Selection in Semitic 语言模板可以影响闪语的l选择

IF 1.6 1区文学

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00516

Matthew R Hewett

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E-Raising Reconsidered: Constituency, Coordination and Case-Matching Reciprocals 重新考虑电子筹款:选区、协调和案例匹配的相互关系

IF 1.6 1区文学

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00515

T. Messick, G. R. Harðarson

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Morpheme Structure Constraints Solve Three Puzzles for Theories of Blocking in Nonderived Environments 语素结构约束解决非派生环境下阻塞理论的三大难题

IF 1.6 1区文学

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00514

E. Rasin

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