In this paper we examine the appropriateness of the term ‘nonfinite’ for a construction in Inuktitut containing the mood morpheme -llu(which has been variously labeled participial, appositional, etc.). We find that the label non-finite is conventionally used when a minimal (but not fixed) set of properties is found. We conclude that -lludoes not meet this minimal requirement and is therefore no...

We present some general results implying nonfinite axiomatisability of many additively idempotent semirings with finitely based semigroup reducts. The smallest is a $3$-element commutative example, which we show also has \texttt{NP}-hard membership for its variety. As well as being the only axiomatisable ai-semiring on $3$-elements, are able to that basis property infects related semirings, inc...

Agrammatic aphasics do not exhibit a normal pattern of verb production; their spontaneous speech is said to lack verbs, and the verbs that are produced lack inflection. The current article focuses on the lexical, morphological, and syntactic aspects of verbs in spontaneous speech of a group of Dutch agrammatic speakers. Dutch is a so-called verb-second language in which the finite verb in the m...

It is conventional to recognise two dimensions of paradigmatic organisation in a morphological system. The inflected forms of a lexeme L make up the inflectional paradigms of L. The new lexemes that can be defined from the root of L form what is often, by extension, termed the derivational paradigm of L. Implicit in many traditional descriptions is a third subsystem, comprising the ‘principal p...

In this paper we study sigma models in which a noneffective group action has been gauged. Such gauged sigma models turn out to be different from gauged sigma models in which an effectively-acting group is gauged, because of nonperturbative effects on the worldsheet. We concentrate on finite noneffectively-acting groups, though we also outline how analogous phenomena also happen in nonfinite non...

One of the objectives of investigating child second language acquisition (SLA) is to find out to what extent it is similar to first language (L1) acquisition. Assuming that L1 acquisition is guided by principles of Universal Grammar (UG), it is often thought that second language (L2) acquisition by children is of the same nature, as it seems so easy for young learners to acquire a foreign langu...

This article presents the results of quantitative-corpus parameterization reference properties English detached nonfinite constructions with an explicit subject, carried out from perspective cognitive-quantitative approach to language study. Through prism cognitive-constructive grammar, syntactic patterns under scrutiny are recognized as grammatical constructions, i.e. complex semiotic units, n...