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A Search For Inflectional Priming Reveals An Effect Of Discourse Type On The Lexical Access Of Inflected Verbs, Gregory Thomson, Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh
A Search For Inflectional Priming Reveals An Effect Of Discourse Type On The Lexical Access Of Inflected Verbs, Gregory Thomson, Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
A cross-modal priming experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that lexical access of verbs marked with a specific inflectional suffix would be facilitated by immediately prior exposure to semantically and contextually unrelated verbs with the same suffix. Such priming was not detected. Rather it turned out that bare root forms showed an absolute advantage over inflected forms in this experimental paradigm. However, an unanticipated finding appeared: responses to inflected forms were affected by the kind of discourse that was being auditorily attended to at the same time of the visual lexical decision. There was no such effect of the …
A Backwards Binding Construction In Zapotec, Cheryl A. Black
A Backwards Binding Construction In Zapotec, Cheryl A. Black
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
Many of the Zapotecan languages have a unique way of signalling coreference between the subject and the possessor of the object: the subject is null. Such a construction is upsidedown or backwards from commonly described anaphora constructions and its analysis is therefore problematic to current theories. This paper describes the construction and underlines the theoretical problem by arguing against any obvious alternative analyses. An analysis is proposed where it is the tail (rather than the head) of the chain of coreferent elements that is identified, suggesting that this is another place where parameterization is needed.
On Generating The Greek Noun Phrase, Cheryl A. Black, Stephen A. Marlett
On Generating The Greek Noun Phrase, Cheryl A. Black, Stephen A. Marlett
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
This article examines the basic noun phrase of Koine Greek and proposes an analysis which is consistent with current views on phrase structure within X-bar theory. The fact that the syntactic distribution of quantifiers, demonstratives and descriptive adjectives is different leads to the (not surprising) proposal that these are distinct word classes in Greek, as in many other languages. The distribution of articles is given serious attention and is found to support the relatively recent proposal (the DP hypothesis) that the traditional noun phrase is best analyzed as a determiner phrase which may then take an NP as its complement.
Meigu County Yi Tone, Andy Eatough
Meigu County Yi Tone, Andy Eatough
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
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Verb Agreement And Case Marking In Burushaski, Stephen R. Willson
Verb Agreement And Case Marking In Burushaski, Stephen R. Willson
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
Burushaski verb agreement and case marking phenomena are complex and have not been described adequately by any current theory of syntax. In particular, no explanation has yet been given as to why a variety of nominals can trigger agreement in the verbal prefix. In some cases the apparent subject triggers this agreement, in others the direct object appears to do so, in others the indirect object, in others the possessor of the direct object, in others a benefactive or source nominal. Also the constraints on the usage of ergative, absolutive and oblique case, and other indicators of grammatical relations on …
Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 40 (1996)
Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 40 (1996)
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
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