Malcolm Ross's new theory of early Austronesian phylogeny is examined. The author describes evidence that *–en served to mark verbs in undergoer voice, patient subject in a language ancestral to Puyuma, as well as evidence that * marks undergoer voice, patient subject perfective in one sociolect of Nanwang Puyuma. This evidence falsifies the claim that Puyuma reflects an early Austronesian ...

Background. Software maintenance is an important activity in the development process where maintenance team members leave and new members join over time. The identification of files which are changed together frequently has been proposed several times. Yet, existing studies about coupled file changes ignore the feedback from developers as well as the impact of these changes on the performance o...

The morpho-syntactic configuration auxiliary (have or be) + past participle known as the have-perfect functions a tense-aspect category in many Western European languages. Synchronic variation within Romance nicely illustrates developmental pattern described aoristic drift, whereby perfect develops over time into perfective with full-fledged meanings. A parallel corpus study of L’Étranger by Al...

We examine the periphrastic passive construction in Latin, in which a part of the verb paradigm is expressed by an auxiliary/copular verb ‘to be’ with the perfective passive participle, with the syntax of a predicative adjective construction. Building in part on the treatment sketched by Börjars, Vincent and Chapman (1997) and other recent work in Lexical Functional Grammar (Frank and Zaenen, 1...

Such verbs contain two or more prefixes and the imperfective suffix. In a given context they behave as either unambiguous perfective or unambiguous imperfective verbs, so their grammatical status is fully resolved. Now, this behavior fails to be revealed by the standard diagnostic tests used to determine the perfective or imperfective status of Russian verbs (see Section 3): under those tests, ...

Research studies on second language (L2) morphosyntactic variation that include multiple learner course or experience levels often conduct separate statistical analyses of the factors affecting variation, one per level, and compare significant constraints their coefficients across these groups as an indication L2 development. This method comparing regression can lead to perception differences p...

By common consent, one of the most characteristic categories Polish verb is aspect. There can be little doubt that origin aspect category may lie in Proto-Slavic or much further back Proto-Indo- European language. It a moot point whether was already strong Proto-Slavic. Nonetheless, it beyond dispute consequences its emergence were far-reaching and took relatively long time to clarify daughter ...

Arabic Subject Markers are interface phenomena (specifically between morphology and syntax). In this paper, I describe them briefly, I give my linguistic analysis within the framework of the Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and I show how I implement them in the LKB system. I show that this system, despite its strength, does not allow for a proper implementation of these units. Standard Ara...