Jean-Pierre Lai

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jean-Pierre Lai plays a role.

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Oliviéri, Michèle, Jean-Pierre Lai and David Heap 2017 Chapter 7. Partial subject paradigms and feature geometry in Northern Occitan dialectsRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario, Perpiñán, Silvia, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas (eds.), pp. 147–167 | Chapter
In between the minority of Romance languages that have full paradigms of subject clitics (e.g. Standard French) and the unmarked null subject grammars (e.g. Spanish, Italian and most Occitan dialects), a continuum of transitional varieties shows between one and five nominative clitics. Unlike the… read more