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Are the morphologies of languages based on regular grammars?
Is the sets of possible morphemes of any given language a regular set, and can thus be recognized by a finite state automaton, or, equivalently, matched by regular expressions?
Or are there any ...
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Can anyone point me toward articles/theory that syntax and morphology operate on the same principles?
Looking for articles and or theories that explore the idea that morphology and syntax are not separate but operate on the same principles; for example, that the sentence is just an extended ...
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Is it okay that Ergative case be unmarked?
I found a language of Celebes island in Indonesia, its name is Mongondow (mog). It has a Phillipine's Alignment morphosyntactic which it has combination of Accusative and Ergative languages. The word ...
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“Enumerators” and Approximate Inversion
There's a term that, as far as I know, goes back to traditional Celtic grammar called "enumerators". These are essentially words that inflect for number in weird ways when preceded by a numeral, that ...
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What are some theoretical motivations for do-support?
I've been attempting to put together an overview of the various theoretical motivations that have been proposed for do-support in the literature, but the topic has been frustratingly difficult to ...
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Exists there a language in which the patient of transitive verbs and the single argument of intransitive verbs are treated alike?
I am somewhat familiar with (not at all learned of)the morphosyntactic criteria by which many languages are classified--such as the system by which the grammatical abstractions of agent, argument, and ...
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Are there languages where adjectives are clearly neither noun-like nor verb-like?
Most language I have some knowlege of have adjectives with are either a) are nominal in nature or b) are verbal is nature. (apologies if this is not the best wording.)
In German, Romanian, and ...
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Is there are strong case for the existence of languages that lack a clear morpho-syntactic distinction between nouns and verbs?
Is there a strong case for the existence of languages that lack a clear morpho-syntactic distinction between nouns and verbs? If so, what would be an example of a phrase structure for a uniclausal ...
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Is Conversion syntactic or morphological?
Conversion, such as:
permit (verb): I permit you to do so
permit (noun): Take this permit
Can be considered to be a morphological (i.e. lexical) process. But there are arguments for it being a ...
