I argue that third person is not underspecified: there must be a distinct feature. add to the existing body of morphological arguments for this conclusion (Nevins 2007; Trommer 2008, a.o.) syntactic argument: show omnivorous agreement in Algonquian languages. focus here on two, Blackfoot (Plains Algonquian) and Plains Cree (Central Algonquian), demonstrating they have an suffix (the peripheral ...

this study examined and compared the effects of consciousness-raisingwritten corrective feedback in 2 newly-developed levels in terms of marked thirdperson -s acquisition. nine elementary level intact classes, including 191 malelanguage learners within the age range of 11-14 at iran language institute, weretaken as the participants. relying on the participants’ placement test results,previous t...

in the classification of morpho-phonological processes of different languages proposed by jensen (1990), the least frequent process is perhaps the one related to morph-movement due to morpho-phonological reasons, which leads to changes in the canonical order of morphs in the word form. this article aimed to introduce a case of this rare process in kalhori kurdish. this process takes place in th...