This study examines the acquisition of variation from the vernacular Syrian input of 22 parents in the output of their 21 children in the village of Oyoun Al-Wadi in Syria, using the four rural vowel variables (o), (...
Studying foreign language attrition is important in the context of Chinese language learning because, in light of a growing worldwide interest in learning Chinese languages, language professionals need to understand t...
Some questions regarding the analysis of classifiers and classifier constructions are raised in this paper.The classifier,as a mere adjunct adjoining to the head,cannot serve as the head of the noun phrase containing ...
This paper lays out the morphosyntactic structures of existential,locative and possessive constructions in Amharic.Amharic belongs to South Ethio-Semitic language subfamily.It is natively spoken in the Amhara region a...
The intersection between morphology and pragmatics in EkeGusii,a Bantu language spoken in Kenya among the natives of Kisii and Nyamira Counties,is the concern of this paper.Besides the lean evidence of previous resear...
The paper examines some doctrines of the Davidsonian Programme of truth conditional Semantics that relates truth to meaning using Tarski’s T-Convention,in relation to its efficacy in a semantic valuation of the EkeGu...
This paper aims at investigating the morphophonological make-up of derived causatives in Moroccan Arabic within the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince &Smolensky, 2004). Causative verbs in MA are characterized by ...