Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by FAS Department "Linguistics"
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Headedness, Again
(UCLA Department of Linguistics, 2012) -
Heritage language and linguistic theory
(Frontiers Media SA, 2015)This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers, or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from one language (their heritage language) ... -
Heritage Language Narratives
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Heritage Languages
(Oxford University Press, 2013) -
Heritage Languages and Their Speakers: Opportunities and Challenges for Linguistics
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2013)In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on heritage languages. Shifting linguistic attention from the model of a monolingual speaker to the model of a multilingual speaker is ... -
Heritage languages and their speakers: State of the field, challenges, perspectives for future work, and methodologies
(Verlag, 2015)This paper presents an overview of heritage-language studies, emphasizing the situation in the USA. Beginning with the definition of heritage speakers, the paper offers a brief summary of linguistic research on heritage ... -
Heritage Languages: In the 'Wild' and in the Classroom
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007)Heritage speakers are people raised in a home where one language is spoken who subsequently switch to another dominant language. The version of the home language that they have not completely acquired – heritage language ... -
Hitt. naišhut, nešhut
(Harvard University, 2003) -
Hittite arai- and Armenian y-areay
(Cleveland State University, 1981) -
How French Sheds New Light on Scalar Particles
(2015)This paper examines the behavior of the French scalar focus-sensitive particles même, quand même, ne serait-ce que and seulement as compared to English even and only. I first show that French même displays a more restricted ... -
The IE 'a¯-preterite' and Related Forms
(Walter de Gruyter, 1983) -
The Impact of Hittite and Tocharian: Rethinking Indo-European in the 20th Century and Beyond
(De Gruyter, 2017-01-25)The ink was scarcely dry on the last volume of Brugmann’s Grundriß (1916, 2nd ed., Vol. 2, pt. 3), so to speak, when an unexpected discovery in a peripheral area of Assyriology portended the end of the scholarly consensus ... -
Introduction
(Springer-Verlag, 2009)This introduction surveys the prospects for developing a systematic comparative approach to Austronesian syntax and outlines the benefits of such an approach for syntactic theory. We begin with a brief overview of Austronesian ... -
Is it all processing all the way down?
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Islands in Sluicing in Polish
(Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2008)In this paper the author claims on the basis of Polish data that: (1) Sluicing does not alleviate islands, just like VP ellipsis; (2) Ellipsis is not licensed by syntactic identity (no PF, LF Islands, or trace deletion); ... -
Language and Gender in the Tarim Basin: The Tocharian 1 sg. Pronoun
(Institute of Linguistics, Iceland University, 1989) -
Last-Conjunct Agreement in Slovenian
(Michigan Slavic Publications, 2007) -
Left edge topics in Russian and the processing of anaphoric dependencies
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)This paper investigates the cost of processing syntactic vs. extra-syntactic dependencies. The results support the hypothesis that syntactic dependencies require less processing effort than discourse-derived dependencies ... -
Let You Be Bound to Me (and Me to You)
(2015)According to Kaplan’s (1977) Fixity Thesis, the semantic value of indexicals, i.e. first and second person pronouns, is fixed by the context of the actual speech act and cannot be manipulated by any logical operator: I ...