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the present study was an attempt to investigate the acquisition of negationproperties by persian monolingual and kurdish-persian bilingual learners of englishacross different levels of language proficiency and within a generative framework.generative models are generally concerned with issues such as universal grammar(ug), language transfer, and morphological variability in nonprimary languaged...

Diachronic change of prosodic structures, as it is encountered for instance in the history stress systems, has been described a slow process involving series minimal changes language’s grammar (Lahiri, 2015). We show that grammatical structures observed well domain name truncation (e.g. Italian hypocoristic formation: Francesca > France), where diachronic fast and therefore analyzable real t...

Word-order typology often uses the linear order of binary grammatical pairs in sentences to classify a language. The present paper proposes a method based on dependency treebanks as a typological means. This paper investigates 20 languages using treebanks with different sizes from 16 K to 1 million dependencies. The results show that some languages are more head-initial or head-final than other...

the academic community has long noticed the resemblance between mongolian and turkic epics. some believe that the mongols and the turkic people share a narrative tradition that accounts for their commonalities. such a tradition arises from the period of time when ancestors of these two groups lived together in central asia and south siberia (cf. nekljudov 1981). one could also assert that mongo...

1. Evidence for feet and their internal structure • typological evidence: rhythmical grouping properties found across languages e. • templatic morphology as in reduplication, truncation etc.: assumed to correspond to metrical feet