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Rivero, Maria-Luisa – Journal of Linguistics, 1986
Discusses and compares the syntactic features of free relative clauses found in Castilian and Aragonese dialects of Old Spanish. The role of clitics (nontonic pronominals) and the lexical innovations of the wh-question compound-type clauses are highlighted. (TR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Grammar
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Fortescue, Michael – Journal of Linguistics, 1993
Although Eskimo languages are commonly characterized as displaying rather "free" word order compared to major western European languages, West Greenlandic (WG) has a clearly dominant, pragmatically neutral ordering pattern. It is argued that WG behaves more like Slavic languages. (Contains 36 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Foreign Countries