∗ James N. Collins, Stanford University, [email protected]. Acknowledgements: Thanks to Emily Sataua and Joey Zodiakal for their time as consultants. Data from these two consultants for this project was collected in 2013. Both consultants self-identify as speakers of American Samoa Samoan. Thanks also to Vince Schwenke-Enoka and Rev. Iakopo Leleimalefaga for additional judgements. Thanks to ...

In this research, it has been attempted to determine the social role of two languages, Persian and Mazandarani languages ​​in Qaemshahr and their influence on young people on the use of these linguistic species. In societies with more than one language, we see the collision of languages ​​in various forms. In other words, some consequences of this collision of language cause the loss of the imp...

case features are assigned configurationally to the Th-roles in a predicate’s Semantic Form. They cannot be idiosyncratic lexical properties of specific Th-roles, and their assignment cannot be specific to particular predicates. This means that the abstract Case feature [+HR] always defines the highest syntactically visible Th-role of a predicate, its “subject”. Given the previously introduced ...