On nominal and verbal person marking

Verbal Morphology , Case Marking

A comparison of verbal person marking across Tupian languages Uma comparação da marcação verbal de pessoa nas línguas Tupí

this paper explores the diachrony of the verbal person marking system across the large and structurally diverse tupian language family. i argue that the historical development of these different patterns are best informed by analyzing their synchronic distributions with regard to the current evolutionary hypotheses on the family. i apply a parsimony reconstruction model across the topology of t...

Verbal and nominal agreement: An fMRI study

Agreement computation is one of the pillars of language comprehension. In this fMRI study, we investigated the neuro-cognitive processes of agreement associated with number feature covariance in subject-verb agreement and determiner-noun concord in Spanish by creating mismatches (ella/*ellas corre, she/*they dances vs. el/*los anillo, thesg/*thepl ring). The results evidenced the engagement of ...

Nominal and Verbal Semantic Structure: Analogies and Interactions

This paper examines parallels in semantic structure between noun phrases and verbal predicates in constructions in which they are mutually constraining and contribute to the expression of LEXICAL ASPECT and GRAMMATICAL ASPECT. One of the main claims pursued here is that such interactions are semantically motivated: it is the nominal argument linked to the Incremental Theme role that interacts w...

Nominal head-marking constructions: two case studies from Luiseño