The paper analyses systematic variations in the way words are separated by spaces (WS variations) in German...
Keywords: spelling variants, spaces between words, word boundaries, German orthography, spelling reform, Optimality Theory
01/2007 | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Walter de GruyterWhile New Indo-Aryan languages are a common example of morphological ergativity, the range of variation in ergative marking and agreement among these languages has not been examined in detail...
Keywords: case, dialect variation, ergativity, Indo-Aryan, Marathi, markedness, Optimality Theory, perfective aspect, relational alignment, verb agreement
12/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter