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  • A noun or pronoun expression is assigned case by the closest case-assigner which c-commands it (in consequence of the Earliness Principle) an (i) accusative case if c-commanded by a transitive head (e.g a transitive verb like meet, or a
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  • ...uses. (For the more common definition of ''nominative'', see [[nominative case]].) ...ion]]s, and whose citation form would therefore qualify as an [[absolutive case]].
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  • ...xt information, but also knowledge about language or about the lexicon. In case the acoustic signal is ambiguous between "paper" and "baper", lexical knowl
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  • ...e. The nodes at the bottom of each complete tree structure (here in lower case) are called terminal nodes; other nodes are called non-terminal. Each node
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  • ...text), Shortlist also incorporates a mechanism of bottom-up inhibition: in case a contextually appropriate candidate no longer fits the acoustic informatio
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  • ...n mulitifunctionality and take an informed stance in the language-specific case whether these markers are homophoneous or polysemic.
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  • (i) [Si vuole [PRO vendere queste case a caro prezzo]] (ii) Queste case<sub>i </sub>si vogliono vendere e<sub>i </sub>a caro prezzo
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  • ...tless" experiential constructions with the experiencer in a non-nominative case (e.g. Latin ''me pudet'' 'I am ashamed', German ''mich friert'' 'I am cold'
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  • ...on the selection properties of the elements that are being merged. In the case of substitution, the selector always projects. In adjunction structures, th
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  • ...ften misleading with respect to its logical properties, for example in the case of [[definite description]]s.
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  • ...ically as verbs that assign no [[external theta-role]] and no structural [[Case]]. ...ture, but has to move to subject position in order to receive (nominative) Case (from INFL). The syntactic behaviour of unaccusatives differs in various wa
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  • ...situations, where the occurrence of the sub-situation is unbounded. In the case of iterative multiple situations, the subsituations are [[achievement]]s, b
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  • ...as not been moved. But being an operator, it must bind a variable, in this case the resumptive pronoun ''him''.
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  • This is also the case for subordinate clauses, both finite and infinite. ...olt Saami is not conclusive as grammatical relations are expressed through case. Therefore word order is rather unimportant.
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  • ...alysis of [[preposition stranding]] and [[clause union]] phenomena. In the case of a [[pseudo-passive]] like (i)a the [[stranded preposition]] at and the [
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  • ...rom mild ridicule to savage scorn (cf. Wilson & Sperber 1992: 59f). In the case of explicit echo, the only victim of the ironical utterance is the speaker 'Pretence' can also cover larger stretches of discourse. In this case, the speaker creates a simulation or 'as-if reality', which is then adopted
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  • ...'be going to'' and present progressive constructions is that in the latter case something has been predetermined. Consequently, progressive constructions o ...''if'', ''even'', ''unless'', ''once'', ''until'' etc. If this is not the case and the simple present construction is used in a main clause, it implies ab
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  • ...-- [[Argument]] -- [[Arity]] -- [[Beneficiary]] -- [[Case relation]] -- [[Case role]] -- [[Conditional sentence]] -- [[Contradiction]] -- [[Declarative se
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  • ...e amounts of a given property object a and b possess plays a role. In this case, the values of the property are mapped to the elements of an appropriate se
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  • ...n complements and adjuncts”. In: Abraham, Werner (ed.) ''Valence, semantic case, and grammatical relations.'' Amsterdam: Benjamins, 21-46.
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  • ...er, Eleanor (1972). “Probabilities, Sampling, and Ethnographic Method: The Case of Dani Color Names.” ''MAN'' 7, 1972. 448-466.
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  • ...otal semantic distinctness” (p. 327) (ambiguity). Therefore, polysemy is a case somewhere in between these two extremes. The borders between the categories ...e mentioned by Lyons is: ''the shooting of the hunters''. This is the same case as the ''God''-example: it is unclear whether ''the hunters'' are subject o
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  • *Lee, D. 1973. ''Stative and case grammar''. Foundations of Language, 8.
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  • ...person is supposed to be in the ''wrong-face''. This is, for instance, the case with people who are known to be punctual by their peer group and called unp
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  • ...(namely the theft) was committed even before the confession. In the latter case, the time of the confession is thus the orientation time for the past perfe ...self represented as posterior to another time” (Declerck 2006: 25). In the case of the future perfect, this 'other time' is t<sub>0</sub>, which makes the
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  • ...rabic language|Arabic]] and Russian, mainly through loanwords and — in the case of Russian — even syntactically and stylistically. ...), depending on the structure of the stem. An example is the [[superessive case|superessive]] suffix ''-ƛʼ(o)'', which attached to the word ''besuro'' (f
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  • *'''Rainer, F.''' 1988. “Towards a theory of blocking: the case of Italian and German quality nouns”, ''Yearbook of Morphology 1988'', G.
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  • ...rectly in English, since they are realized as {{IPA|[ŋ]}}in Dutch. In that case, the {{IPA|[ŋ]}}pronounced by a native speaker of Dutch would be transferr
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  • 1978. Case-marking, cannonical sentence patterns and counter equi in Japanese. In J. H 1986e. A Case Against Lexicalism in Japanese Syntax and a Modest Proposal for the Reorgan
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  • ...few Cushitic loans, some due to metathesis and some unexplained), in which case it may have a different pitch than the following vowel, or may be preceded ...ences have not yet been investigated in the field. Moreover, the one known case of aspirated lateral /ƞǁʰ/, though its identity was clear when elicited,
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  • ...ection. There is no overt marking (and no category) of gender, number, and case. (Natural) gender and number (plurality) can be expressed by lexical means
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