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Asymmetric Coordination in Romanian: A Diagnostic for DOM Position? 罗马尼亚语的不对称协调:DOM位置的诊断?

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Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00522

Monica Alexandrina Irimia

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On Internal Merge 关于内部合并

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Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00521

Mark Steedman

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Serial Reduplication Is Empirically Adequate and Typologically Restrictive 序列重叠在经验上是充分的，在类型上是限制性的

IF 1.6 1区文学

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00452

Andrew Lamont

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Attention and Locality: On Clause-Boundedness and Its Exceptions in Multiple Sluicing 注意与局部性：论多重模糊中的子句有界性及其例外

IF 1.6 1区文学

Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00458

Matthew Barros;Robert Frank

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On Referential Parallelism and Compulsory Binding 论引用并行和强制绑定

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Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00480

Nicholas Fleisher

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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

引用次数: 2