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head-marking language

Spanish translation: lengua de núcleo marcado

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English term or phrase:head-marking language
Spanish translation:lengua de núcleo marcado
Entered by: Lydia De Jorge

14:48 Jul 19, 2012
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English term or phrase: head-marking language
A second possible factor, related to the first, for the preference of SVO in sentence production is concerned with “disambiguation” and/or “avoidance of similarity-based competitions.” Since Kaqchikel is a head-marking language, nouns are not marked as
subjects versus objects. Therefore, in sentences where both subjects and objects are animate nouns, such as the one in (4), it is ambiguous which of the nouns is the subject and which is the object (although the VOS interpretation is favored).
Lydia De Jorge
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lengua de núcleo marcado
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Cristina Fernández
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lengua de núcleo marcado


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Cristina Fernández
Spain
Local time: 08:02
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Thank you!!!
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Asker: Thank you, Cristina. Saludos!


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