Abstract In Bregagliotto and Mesolcinese, two Lombard Alpine dialects, feminine plural agreement/concord is marked by the formative - n , a reflex of third person verbal ending. Bregagliotto, triggers mesoclisis subject clitic in contexts inversion, whereas noun phrase behaves as second-position element marking concord. Mesolcinese exhibits gender agreement occurs on inflected verb whenever or ...

the purpose of this research is to analyze differential adpositional case marking (dacm) in vafsi within ot framework by using the generalization of aissen’s (2003) differential object marking (dom) model. while bossong (1985) has traced dom in more than 300 languages, dacm has not been investigated typologically, yet. dacm, as a branch of differential case marking (dcm), questions the effect o...

1. Introduction The evolutionary scenario as a model for linguistic change has become more prominent in recent years (Croft 2000, Haspelmath 1999, Kirby 1999). The principled idea behind the evolutionary scenario is quite straightforward: change operates on the basis of variation between available linguistic options and the selection of options in the course of speakers' use, such that particul...

BACKGROUND Supervisors are often involved in the assessment of projects they have supervised themselves. Previous research suggests that detailed marking sheets may alleviate leniency and halo effects. We set out to determine if, despite using such a marking schedule, leniency and halo effects were evident in the supervisors' marking of undergraduate short research projects (special study modul...

PURPOSE We developed and evaluated a training procedure for marking the endpoints of the ellipsoid zone (EZ), also known as the inner segment/outer segment (IS/OS) border, on frequency domain optical coherence tomography (fdOCT) scans from patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). METHODS A manual for marking EZ endpoints was developed and used to train 2 inexperienced graders. After training,...

We show that electronic-entropy effects in the size-evolutionary patterns of relatively small (as small as 20 atoms), simple-metal clusters already become prominent at moderate temperatures. Detailed agreement between our finite-temperature–shell-correction-method calculations and experimental results is obtained for certain temperatures. This agreement includes a size-dependent smearing out of...

The perception of prosodic structure (phrasal prominences and boundaries) may depend in part on acoustic cues in the speech signal and in part on utterance meaning as related to syntactic structure and discourse context. In this study we ask if listeners are able to differentially weigh acoustic and meaningbased cues to prosody. We test naïve subjects’ transcription of prominences and boundarie...

I briefly describe a system for automatically creating an implemented grammar of a natural language based on answers to a web-based questionnaire, then present a grammar of Sahaptin, a language of the Pacific Northwest with complex argument-marking and agreement patterns, that was developed to test the system. The development of this grammar has proved useful in three ways: (1) verifying the co...

We investigated the time course of sentence formulation in Tagalog, a verb-initial language in which the verb obligatorily agrees with one of its arguments. Eye-tracked participants described pictures of transitive events. Fixations to the two characters in the events were compared across sentences differing in agreement marking and post-verbal word order. Fixation patterns show evidence for tw...

I propose an analysis of the inflectional system of clauses that captures both crosslinguistic variation and differences between adult speakers and young children learning a given language. The phenomena of interest fall into two classes: 1) case marking and subject-predicate agreement; and 2) tense marking and the licensing of overt and null subjects. The major goals are • to motivate the comp...