<i>The English </i>It<i>-Cleft: A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation</i>

Comparatives and inversion in English: A (necessarily) diachronic account

The paper argues that, based on insight gained from the syntax of earlier English, comparative inversion (CI) reveals itself as a far simpler process than what is standardly assumed. Starting from the insight of a suggestion made by Haeberli (2002) and adapting it to comparatives, the major syntactic diachronic developments of CI are explored. This conference paper is available in University of...

Infinitive Marking with for: A Diachronic Account

A diachronic account of phonological unnaturalness

2. Norwegian retroflexion • In Standard Norwegian (= ‘Urban East Norwegian’), morpheme initial laminal alveolars / t ̻d ̻n̻ s ̻ / become apical postalveolars (=‘retroflex’) [ ʈ ɖ ɳ ʂ ] when directly preceded by the apical alveolar / ɾ /, which itself deletes: (1) / bɑːɾ / ‘bare-ADJ’ + / -t ̻/ ‘ADJ-N’ → [ bɑːʈ ] / tɑ̻ːɾ / ‘take-PRES’ + / -də̻ / ‘it’ → [ tɑ̻ːɖə ] / tɑ̻ːɾ / ‘take-PRES’ + / -n̻ / ‘he’ → [ tɑ̻...

a comparison of linguistic and pragmatic knowledge: a case of iranian learners of english

در این تحقیق دانش زبانشناسی و کاربردشناسی زبان آموزان ایرانی در سطح بالای متوسط مقایسه شد. 50 دانش آموز با سابقه آموزشی مشابه از شش آموزشگاه زبان مختلف در دو آزمون دانش زبانشناسی و آزمون دانش گفتار شناسی زبان انگلیسی شرکت کردند که سوالات هر دو تست توسط محقق تهیه شده بود. همچنین در این تحقیق کارایی کتابهای آموزشی زبان در فراهم آوردن درون داد کافی برای زبان آموزان ایرانی به عنوان هدف جانبی تحقیق ...

A constructional approach to English verbal gerunds

English verbal gerunds have long been of interest to syntacticians. Verbal gerund phrases display a mix of nominal and verbal properties which provide a challenge to any syntactic framework that assumes a strict version of X-bar theory. Various approaches have been proposed to get around these problems, but they all involve abandoning a fundamentally desirable theoretic assumption or adopting a...