Pied-piping with inversion is a special word order phenomenon found in some languages, such as those in the Mesoamerican linguistic area. The phenomenon...
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In linguistics, pied-piping is a phenomenon of syntax whereby a given focused expression brings along an encompassing phrase with it when it is moved...
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Mesoamerican language area (category All articles with bare URLs for citations)
me" (n- means "my") t-wits "on her" (t- means "his/her/its"). Pied-piping with inversion is a special word order found in wh-questions. It appears to be...
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Rat (category Articles with short description)
with it an entire encompassing phrase to the front of the clause has been named pied-piping after "Pied Piper of Hamlin" (see also pied-piping with inversion)...
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Wh-movement (redirect from Pied piping)
wh-fronting involve pied-piping, where the word that is moved pulls an entire encompassing phrase to the front of the clause with it. Pied-piping was first identified...
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List of syntactic phenomena (category Articles with short description)
copula sentences Movement paradoxes Negative inversion Non-configurational language Parasitic gaps Pied-piping Pro-drop Pseudogapping Raising (linguistics)...
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Zapotec languages (category All articles with dead external links)
Zapotec) Zapotec languages also show the phenomenon known as pied-piping with inversion, which may change the head-initial order of phrases such as NP...
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Trique languages (category Articles with short description)
hablando?) As this example shows, Copala Trique has wh-movement and pied-piping with inversion. Copala Triqui syntax is described in Hollenbach (1992). Triqui...
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Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec (category Articles with short description)
standing there. Zapotec languages also show the phenomenon known as pied-piping with inversion, which may change the head-initial order of syntactic phrases...
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Carrion crow (category Articles with short description)
Clayton, Nicola S.; Nieder, Andreas (1 December 2017). "Comparing the face inversion effect in crows and humans". Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 203...
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Verb–object–subject word order (category Articles with short description)
Netherlands: Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-94-009-3741-3. Aissen, J. (1996). "Pied-piping, abstract agreement, and functional projections in Tzotzil". Natural...
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