Abeillé and Godard (2007) describe a variety of Spanish whose complex predicates differ structurally from the more familiar flat VP type of complex predicate common to other varieties of Spanish and Romance. I present a verb cluster analysis of this variety which both captures these structural differences, and at the same time preserves those features that are common across both construction ty...

Verb inflection errors, often seen in agrammatic aphasic speech, have been attributed to either impaired encoding of diacritical features that specify tense and aspect, or to impaired affixation during phonological encoding. In this study we examined the effect of semantic markedness, word form frequency and affix frequency, as well as accuracy and error patterns, in an attempt to evaluate whet...

Nonconcatenative languages have been claimed to employ a special type of phonological spreading of a consonant over a vowel, which assumes a representation that segregates consonants and vowels on different planes. I argue that this type of spreading can and must be eliminated from the theory, by reducing it to segmental copying as in reduplication. Crucial to this reduction is the notion of gr...

This study aims to describe the affixation of Madurese verbs in Pamekasan dialect low speech level based on perspective derivation and inflexion. The data this research is form verbs. sources were 10 informants who native speakers Madura dialect, which determined using snowball sampling technique. Data collection done by interview method with elicitation techniques. obtained then analyzed throu...

sarhaddi balochi dialect, a language variety of western (rakhshani) balochi, employs derivation through affixation as one of its word formation processes. the purpose of this article is to present a synchronic description of the way(s) different derivational affixes function in making complex words in sarhaddi balochi as spoken in granchin[1] district located about 35kms to the southeast of kha...

there are different processes to form new words in every language, including compounding, derivation, inflection, etc. in compounding, two lexical stems form a compound. in derivation and inflection, new words are coined by affixation or some phonetic changes. this kind of affixation is applied on the simple or compound stem. here our compound stem is a bound compound stem, consisting of a noun...

Human language, and grammatical competence in particular, relies on a set of computational operations that, in its entirety, is not observed in other animals. Such uniqueness leaves open the possibility that components of our linguistic competence are shared with other animals, having evolved for non-linguistic functions. Here, we explore this problem from a comparative perspective, asking whet...