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 ...

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...

This paper examines the structure of secondary predicates in Standard Arabic using Minimalist Program. The main aim is to make generalizations about as well find a uniform analysis this structure. Among most important results reached are follows: have unified that derived from small clauses form phase. In addition, despite having one structure, these distinct positions. Moreover, also possess s...

Two competing ideas about how morphological case is assigned exist in the recent generative literature: the standard Chomskian view that case is assigned by designated functional heads to the closest NP via an agreement relationship, and an alternative view in which case is assigned to one NP if there is a second NP in the same local domain (Marantz 1991). We argue that these two ways of assign...

is paper discusses the analysis of some important features of the English possessive construction, a topic that has long interested linguists from many traditions. At least since the work of Jespersen , the properties of English possessives have served as examples and justification for a variety of theories of grammatical organization, and their analysis is certainly a matter of interest in...

The rule versus rote distinction is one of the most debated issues in recent psycholinguistics. Dual route accounts hold that words can either be stored whole in the mental lexicon or computationally derived by simple combinatorial rules such as stem+affix. Within this framework, response latencies in lexical decision tasks have been applied to point out the difference between rote memorization...