Word order in French: the role of animacy

A major goal of the quantitative study of syntax has been to identify factors that have predictive power on speaker choices in the face of word-order or valence alternations (e.g. Arnold et al. 2000; Bresnan et al. 2007; Bresnan & Ford 2010; Bader & Häussler 2010). In this paper, we...

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Main Authors: Anne Abeillé, Benoît Crabbé, Juliette Thuilier, Margaret Grant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2021-04-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5435/