While most Mayan languages show an ergative-absolutive pattern of agreement in all main clauses, Chol shows what has been described as an aspect-based split (Quizar and Knowles-Berry 1988; Vázquez Álvarez 2002; Law et al. 2006): perfective clauses show an ergative-absolutive pattern, as in (1), while non-perfective clauses show what appears to be a nominative-accusative pattern, illustrated in ...

Depois de apresentar as condições histórico-sociais que estão na base da reivindicação uma linguagem neutra, isto é, não dê a entender o mundo se organiza apenas em masculino e feminino e, por isso, expressa um gênero neutro ao lado dos gêneros já existentes língua, este trabalho expõe é gramatical como ele manifesta indo-europeu, latim, português inglês. Em seguida, mostra simplicidade criação...

This paper deals with the distribution of use accusative as an indirect object in two major dialect groups Modern Greek, namely Northern Greek and Pontic Greek. The loss dative Medieval (c. 10th c. AD) resulted genitive southern varieties Asia Minor As Standard employs genitive, little attention has been paid to accusative, our study was aimed fill that gap by presenting data collected Greece f...

A configurational account of Finnish case Summary: This paper presents a configurational account of Finnishmorphological case wherein CP and vP phases serve as the local domains for case competition. I argue that, in the phasebased configurational case model, a DP with unmarked case located at the edge of phase α partakes in case competition at the next highest phase β such that it can receivem...

The paper deals with the typology of the case marking of semantic core roles. The competing economy considerations of hearer (disambiguation) and speaker (minimal effort) are formalized in terms of evolutionary game theory. It will be shown that the case marking patterns that are attested in the languages of the world are those that are evolutionary stable for different relative weightings of s...

This study reports the results of a study in which participants were asked to repeat a sentence and produce a tag question (e.g. The girl behind the headmaster got punished, didn't she?). Holding the head noun phrase constant, three properties of the noun phrase within the modifier were manipulated: number (e.g., headmaster, headmasters), gender (e.g., headmaster, headmistress), and animacy (e....

Pronominal dependencies have been shown to be more resilient to attraction effects than subject-verb agreement. We use this phenomenon to investigate whether antecedent-clitic dependencies in Spanish are computed like agreement or like pronominal dependencies. In Experiment 1, an acceptability judgment self-paced reading task was used. Accuracy data yielded reliable attraction effects in both g...