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Why Collins decided to ignore the declination effect when marking intonation?
In Beverley Collins' Practical English Phonetics and Phonology, and in the Marking systems for intonation section, the author wrote:
We employ the following interlinear marking system for intonation.
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Does Subject vs Object matter in languages with ergative absolutive marking
If a language has an ergative absolutive alignment in which subjects and objects of clauses are marked for absolutive marking does the distinction between subject and object ever get difficult to ...
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Head-marked possessive with gender agreement
Are there any languages that have head marking in possessive noun phrases, but that also agree that marking with gender? Essentially so that a morpheme would be on the possessee and would look at ...
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How can a syllable be marked?
I understand how a word can be marked, for example the word
walks
is marked with the suffix -s.
But what is meant by marked and unmarked syllables ? (Not marked or unmarked words)
Can you give an ...
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What approaches exist to categorizing kinds of passive agent markers and what are their advantages?
For my thesis I would like to conduct a study on the cross-linguistic distribution of agent markers in passives.
In English, this marker is usually realized by the preposition 'by', as in (including a ...
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What is the origin of the dominance of unmarked terms?
The definition of markedness, says that unmarked terms are dominant over marked terms.
In this context, is dominance assumed to stem from biological or cultural constraints (like some sounds are ...
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