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The ‘Still Not’ Present in Andi: identifying the grammaticalization source Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Timur Maisak, Samira Verhees
Andi (East Caucasian) features a verb form that marks an event that is (still) not happening, contrary to the speaker’s expectation (i.e. ‘Still Not’ Present). This form is unusual for several reasons. First, forms of this kind are not typical for the language family. Second, while it conveys negative semantics, the form does not contain negation marking, even though segmentally it is rather heavy
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An investigation of Persian response signals from an interactive perspective Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Soleiman Ghaderi
Response signals (RS) have emerged as a powerful interaction tool, but they have yet to be fully understood. The current study analyzes 16 h of daily conversations using discourse-pragmatic frameworks to discuss certain aspects of the most prevalent primary and secondary Persian RSs. An RS is identified as a brief interactive response to a prior speaker’s statement, typically expressing (dis)confirmation
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VOT in English by bilinguals with 2L1s: different approaches to voiceless and voiced stops Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Sha Liu, Kaye Takeda
This paper compares bilinguals of 2L1s with monolinguals and second language speakers. The experiment and statistical analysis reveals that the question whether bilinguals adopt a more extreme, intermediate, or monolingual-like approach may not have a clear-cut yes or no answer. Our finding demonstrates that bilinguals are more monolingual-like when they have greater control over their speech production
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Evidentials and dubitatives in Finnish: perspective shift in questions and embedded contexts Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Elsi Kaiser
This paper investigates the reportative evidential kuulemma and the dubitative muka in Finnish (Finno-Ugric). Kuulemma typically indicates that the speaker reports information provided by someone else (hearsay) and is not committed to the truth of the proposition, while muka (roughly: ‘supposedly, allegedly, as if’) typically signals that the speaker doubts the truth of the proposition, leaving open
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Nominalizations and its grammaticalization in standard Thai Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Aliang Li
The focus of this study is on the function and grammaticalization of nominalizations in Thai and the nominalization categories and nominalizing strategies in Thai are described. The Thai language exhibits a composite of derivational and clausal nominalizations marked with three nominalizers: kaan 1 derives nouns or nominalized clauses from lexical verbs and relative or complement clauses; khwaam 1
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The seamlessness of grammatical innovation: the case of be going to (revisited) Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Nadine Dietrich
In this paper, I revisit the continued debate surrounding manner of grammatical innovation, i.e. whether it is abrupt or gradual. I show that the debate is complicated by different diagnostics for manner and argue that it is best understood in terms of degree of similarity (how similar the innovative use is to existing uses of a construction). However, even when adopting degree of similarity as a diagnostic
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Permittito aperiat oculum: typological considerations on P-lability and its interaction with morphosyntactic alignment in Latin medical texts Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Tim A.F. Ongenae
This paper explores the diachrony of Latin P-labile verbs (verbs that can be used transitively and intransitively with the preservation of the Patient and without a formal change), availing itself from evidence in medical and veterinary texts from the first to seventh century AD. The first part of the analysis discusses the influence of verbal semantics on the domain of lability in these texts and
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The interrogative flip with illocutionary evidentials Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Martina Faller
This paper develops an account of the Cuzco Quechua reportative evidential. It is proposed that it contributes a preparatory condition in all its uses which states that the evidence holder has reportative evidence that supports the speaker raising the issue denoted by the sentence it occurs in. In declarative sentences, this results in the speech act of presenting the proposition expressed without
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Romanian presumptive in interaction: evidentiality and beyond Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Cecilia Mihaela Popescu
The paper emphasizes the pragmatic and discursive extensions of a special verbal structure – at its origin, a Future Tense form – known in Romanian linguistics as presumptive mood (hereinafter: PRESUMPT). In terms of evidentiality, the PRESUMPT has two types of meanings: an inferential meaning, expressing an inference-based supposition, and also a reportative meaning, when the utterer does not take
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Indexical meanings of the realization of /sˤ/ ص as [s] س in spoken and written Jordanian Arabic: a language change in progress? Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Aseel Zibin, Sumaya Daoud, Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh
This study examines how the phonetic realisation of the phoneme /sˤ/ and its orthographic form ص is surfacing as the variant [s] in speaking and as س in writing in Ammani Arabic (AA), which is a variety of Jordanian Arabic (JA), and how this relates to language variation. We look at instances where certain Ammani Arabic speakers, particularly females, pronounce and write words containing /sˤ/ ص as
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Once known, always known. Turn-final sai in North-East regional Italian Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Marco Biasio, Dario Del Fante
This paper focuses on the structural and functional properties of a positionally flexible verb-based discourse marker, sai (lit. ‘you know’), which in its turn-final position is a conversational hallmark of the regional variety of Standard Italian spoken in and around Padova, in the north-eastern region of Veneto. Drawing from a series of distributional and scopal constraints (including the interaction
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Evidential strategies in English: not just lexical Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Elizabeth M. Riddle
English is generally considered to lack grammaticalized evidential markers (Aikhenvald 2004. Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press). However, Mélac (2022. The grammaticalization of evidentiality in English. English Language and Linguistics 26(2). 331–359) argues that certain uses of seem and other English verbs have grammaticalized as evidentials. He also offers several other examples of what
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The epistemic conditional in polar questions as an argumentative strategy Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Agnès Celle
This paper accounts for the epistemic use of the conditional in polar questions in French. It is argued that polar questions modalised by the epistemic conditional are biased questions that serve an argumentative function, and that the conditional contributes a different commitment update in interrogatives and in questioning declaratives. The bias type depends on whether the question is interrogative
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Lexical systems with systematic gaps: verbs of falling Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Daria Ryzhova, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Tatiana Reznikova, Yulia Badryzlova
The paper contributes to the typology of encoding motion events by highlighting the role of the verbal root meaning in lexicalization of motion. We focus on lexical semantics of the verbs of falling, which we study on a sample of 42 languages using the frame-based approach to lexical typology. We show that, along with downward motion, the verbs of falling regularly denote adjacent situations; and vice
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The reduction of affixes in morphological reanalysis: Polish neuters in -ich- Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Rafał Szeptyński
The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the typology of affix changes due to reanalysis. By discussing the Polish nominal suffix /-ix-/ as resulting from morphological reduction, viz. the false subtraction of /-k-/ from /-isk-/, the supposed unidirectionality of affix changes, i.e., the irreversibility of affix growth, is questioned. Furthermore, the article points to the possible gradual nature of
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Conjectural questions in Sm’algyax Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Colin Brown
This paper discusses evidentials and their behaviour in interrogative sentences, based on novel data from Sm’algyax (Tsimshianic, British Columbia/Alaska). Typically, evidentials in declarative sentences receive a Speaker-anchored orientation (“According to my evidence, p”), and in interrogative sentences they receive an Addressee-anchored orientation (“According to your evidence, Q?”). This shift
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Variation and change in the Swedish periphrastic passive: a constructional approach Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Dominika Skrzypek
This paper examines the development of the periphrastic passive voice construction in Swedish between 1300 and 1750, from the point of view of constructional change. The development involves the rise of a new auxiliary, bliva ‘remain’, originally a lexical loan from Middle Low German, which after a period of variation replaces the older auxiliary varda ‘become’. The findings reveal that the origins
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The evidential meaning of presupposition and implicature between retractability and deniability of information Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Viviana Masia
The relation evidentiality bears on the coding of some information as presupposition or as implicature is still an underexplored research field. In this paper, such an interplay is addressed by looking into how presupposed and implied contents (differently) respond to contexts of challenge and deniability. As taken for granted information (Stalnaker, Robert. 1973. Presuppositions. Journal of Philosophical
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The interaction of standard negation in clauses of substitution: a typological account Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Jesús Olguín Martínez
This paper explores clauses of substitution (e.g. instead of relaxing on the beach, he went to a concert) in a sample of forty-six languages. It is shown that clauses of substitution marked with monofunctional conjunctions or monofunctional converbs may not occur with standard negative markers. Clauses of substitution appearing with polyfunctional conjunctions or polyfunctional converbs may occur with
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Information structure of converb constructions: Estonian -des, -mata and -maks constructions Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Carl Eric Simmul
This paper describes the variation in information structure of Estonian -des, -mata and -maks constructions, and analyzes the factors influencing this variation. The paper describes information structure via the categories of information status and information role. Information status, which refers to the general pragmatic status of a linguistic unit, has two possible values: an information unit or
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Inference versus assumption in light of the Finnish evidential-modal adverbs näköjään and varmaan Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Seppo Kittilä
Inference is usually defined as a speaker’s personal but indirect evidence that is based on something that the speaker can directly witness (such as the result of an event), while assumption is based on something such as the speaker’s general knowledge of the world. This paper is concerned with inference and assumption in light of the semantics of the Finnish inferential and assumptive adverbs näköjään
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Syntactic productivity under the microscope: the lexical and semantic openness of Dutch minimizing constructions Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Margot Van den Heede, Peter Lauwers
This paper investigates different aspects of syntactic productivity and its relation to semantics. Based on a case study of 43 Dutch minimizing constructions, the correlations between nine different variables are examined: metrics of lexical openness (TypeTokenRatio, HapaxTokenRatio, HapaxTypeRatio), measures of conventionalization (FrTop1, MeanFrTop3, SDTop3), characteristics of the frequency distribution
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The scope of the problems with the problem of scope Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Patrick Duffley
This study argues that many of the formalizations used in analyses employing the notion of logical scope fail to conform to natural language in important ways and lead to false predictions. This is due to the fact that they pursue the logic-driven goal of making the structure of logical arguments more transparent and mechanically calculable rather than the language-driven goal of accounting for how
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Beyond dynasties and binary alternations: a diachronic corpus study of four-way variability in Chinese theme-recipient constructions Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Yi Li, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Weiwei Zhang
Despite the vast body of literature on the historical development of the theme-recipient alternation (also known as the “dative” alternation) in Chinese, most studies that have been conducted so far are limited to philological recounts of the binary choice between the prepositional dative and the ditransitive dative across dynasties, which usually spanned centuries. Against this backdrop, we conduct
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Negation in Modern Greek revisited: selecting between two speaker-based accounts Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Ioannis Veloudis
This study holds that negation phenomena in a natural language involve much more than mere logical entailments in some individual’s epistemic model. The unique characteristics of negation, i.e., the persistent diachronic renewal of negative particles cross-linguistically, as well as the prevalent synchronic reinforcement of these particles through emphatic mechanisms, demand an analysis that casts
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Coordination and referential dependencies: a dependency grammar account in terms of predicate-valent structures Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Timothy Osborne, Jiaxin Li
The present paper explores the nexus of coordination and referential dependencies, focusing on sentences such as ‘Max and Lucie talked about him’, in which it is hardly possible for Max and him to be co-valued. Previous accounts claim that such referential dependencies are in fact possible on a collective reading. It will be demonstrated here, however, that informants consistently judge the co-valued
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On the object-individuation function of the East Sakhalin Ainu impersonal passive Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Elia Dal Corso
This paper presents an account of a Sakhalin Ainu (also Enciw‘itah, isolate, Russia and Japan) construction that semantically encodes an agent-patient interaction and that is characterized morphosyntactically by the expression of the agent with an oblique. In the analysis to follow, this construction is named ‘impersonal passive’ by analogy with a structurally and functionally similar construction
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Vowel harmony in Rma: a diachronic perspective Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Nathaniel A. Sims
This paper looks at the vowel harmony system of Ronghong Rma (Qiang). This system has previously been described in terms of synchronic vowel alternations. This paper takes a different approach to explore the diachronic element of vowel harmony. The finding is that ‘harmonization’ is epiphenomenal and that the vowel alternations are the results of regular sound changes from an earlier stage in the language
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Introduction: language contact and linguistic dynamics – speakers, speaker groups, and linguistic structures Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Esme Winter-Froemel, Sandra Ellena, Stefanie Goldschmitt
The introductory paper to the special issue summarises key aspects of contact-related linguistic dynamics such as the communicative interfaces of modern complex societies, the multi-layered textual and discoursal repertoire of their speaker groups and the role of the speakers’ cognitive mechanisms, social identity, and interactional strategies in settings of language contact. Giving an overview of
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The VP in language contact: on creation event lexicalization in Canadian French Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Barbara Schirakowski
The effects of language contact on semantic and syntactic properties of verbs can be considered as not yet extensively studied. This contribution is concerned with French as a typical verb-framed language that cannot freely combine manner verbs with result-denoting arguments within the VP. Drawing on creation events, the study explores if restrictions can loosen, and lexicalization preferences change
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Language contact between Italian and English: a case study on nouns ending in the suffix -ing Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Judith Meinschaefer
The article deals with how English deverbal nouns with the suffix -ing have been imported into Italian. The focus is on the semantic characteristics of these borrowed nouns in Italian and, in particular, on the question of whether they have been borrowed not as simple sign-concept pairings but with argument and event structure. In previous research, it has been claimed that argument and event structure
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First language as a determinant of implicit and explicit language attitudes: Catalan/Spanish bilinguals’ general language attitudes and response to language choice in a COVID-19 vaccination advertisement Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Andreu van Hooft, Frank van Meurs, Mylène van de Wouw, Pablo van Maren Díaz
This study aims to contribute new insight into the study of languages in contact by comparing the implicit and explicit general language attitudes of bilingual individuals towards their first and second language in health communication in a multilingual society, through a combination of survey and experimental methods. We investigated to what extent 358 L1 Catalan and 338 L1 Spanish speakers in Catalonia
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On sisters and zussen: integrating semasiological and onomasiological perspectives on the use of English person-reference nouns in Belgian-Dutch teenage chat messages Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Eline Zenner, Lisa Hilte, Ad Backus, Reinhild Vandekerckhove
This paper targets the division of labor between borrowed English forms and heritage alternatives in Belgian-Dutch youth language. Through lexical semantic analysis of a youth-language corpus containing over 450,000 private instant messages, the choice for English or Dutch person-reference nouns (e.g. Eng. girlfriend, loser, sister; Du. vriendin, sukkel, zus) is studied at three levels of semasiological
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Attention to multilingual job ads: an eye-tracking study on the use of English in German job ads Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Ulrike Nederstigt, Béryl Hilberink-Schulpen
In many non-English-speaking countries, English loanwords in job ads seem to be very common. The question is whether this linguistic choice is advantageous, especially when the job advertised does not involve working in an international environment. Previous research of English loanwords in job ads has revealed that their effect in terms of the evaluation of the company, the job and the ad is limited
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Says who? Language regard towards speaker groups using English loanwords in Dutch Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Melissa Schuring, Laura Rosseel, Eline Zenner
This paper contributes to the ongoing Cognitive Linguistic turn in research on lexical borrowing: rather than searching for objective and universal linguistic criteria to demarcate different contact phenomena, we prioritize language users’ subjective perception of contact-induced change. In particular, combining insights from folk linguistics and social role theory, this paper presents the results
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Alterity marking and enhancing accessibility in lexical borrowing: meta-information techniques in the use of incipient anglicisms in French and Italian Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Esme Winter-Froemel
Previous research has highlighted that the use of lexical borrowings is often accompanied by metalinguistic elements that have been analysed as flags or alterity markers. This paper aims to investigate the use of these markers from a usage-based perspective, focusing on their functions in communication. It will first be argued that lexical borrowings may pose certain challenges to recipient-language
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Alterity marking and enhancing accessibility in lexical borrowing: meta-information techniques in the use of incipient anglicisms in French and Italian Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Esme Winter-Froemel
Previous research has highlighted that the use of lexical borrowings is often accompanied by metalinguistic elements that have been analysed as flags or alterity markers. This paper aims to investigate the use of these markers from a usage-based perspective, focusing on their functions in communication. It will first be argued that lexical borrowings may pose certain challenges to recipient-language
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Caffè macchiato grande, Bambini and Casoni: languaging in the text genre of travel guides Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Anne-Kathrin Gärtig-Bressan
This article deals with languaging, a manifestation of language contact often found in tourism communication. It is understood as the use of local language in tourism texts written in the language of the tourists. After a review of previous research on languaging and its functions within tourism communication and on the contact linguistic status of languaging units and their mediation in the text,
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Causatives in Classical Armenian Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Petr Kocharov
This paper presents the results of a study of the five causative formations of Classical Armenian. It focuses on the correspondence between the morphosyntactic complexity of causatives and the autonomy of the causee, which is specified based on the semantic type of the noncausal base verb. The correspondence proves to be incomplete as witnessed by areas of overlap in the lexical distribution of base
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On the survival of the Spanish absolute construction: a qualitative diachronic study based on a corpus of translations from Latin Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Marie Molenaers
This article studies the diachronic behaviour of the non-finite verbal (participial, gerundial) absolute construction (AC) in (pre)classical and modern Spanish translations from Latin, written between the 15th and the 18th centuries. It focuses on the convergence of and divergence between the ACs of the Spanish target texts and those of the Latin source texts, drawing on three types of translations:
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Periodic tense markers in the world’s languages and their sources Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Guillaume Jacques
This paper is the first survey of verbal affixes encoding the day period (‘at night’,‘in the morning’ etc.) or the yearly seasons (‘in winter’ etc.) when the action takes place. It introduces the term ‘periodic tense’ to refer to this comparative concept, explores the attested paradigms, their interactions with other verbal categories (including the more usual deictic tense), and investigates their
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From narrative past to mirativity and direct evidentiality: the case of Moldavian (Csángó) Hungarian Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Katalin É. Kiss
This paper describes the evolution of grammaticalized evidentiality in the Moldavian dialect of Hungarian. It documents how the suffix -a/e, originally the marker of narrative past, became a rare, elevated marker of past tense highlighting significant past events; how it assumed a mirative overtone; and how the features ʻwitnessedʼ and ʻimmediate pastʼ, often present in mirative utterances, became
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Tomorrow I’ll go (a) shopping: on the history of the Expeditionary Go construction and its relation to the absentive Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Teresa Fanego
Work on Construction Grammar and Diachronic Construction Grammar has foregrounded the idea that constructions are organized as a network of interconnected form-meaning pairs. This article explores the history of the construction exemplified in the title, henceforth referred to as the Expeditionary Go construction, and its relation both to other members of the small family of English go-constructions
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A synchronic and diachronic analysis of potential dāk 得 in Cantonese Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Luisa Maria Paternicò, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia
The morpheme dāk 得 has a broad range of functions in modern Cantonese, including being used as a particle introducing an adverbial construction, as a particle introducing the so-called ‘potential complement’ (we refer to this as the ‘long potential’) and as a verbal (quasi-)suffix (the ‘short potential’), which indicates that the state of affairs denoted by the verb may happen. In this paper, we first
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Transient subordinate clauses in Balkan Turkic in its shift to Standard Average European subordination. Dialectal and historical evidence Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Cem Keskin
The Turkic varieties of the Balkans use two main diametrically opposed subordination strategies: (i) the Turkic model, where typical subordinate clauses are prepositive, nonfinite, contain clause-final subordinators, etc. and (ii) the Indo-European model, where typical subordinate clauses are postpositive, finite, contain clause-initial subordinators, etc. The paper observes that Balkan Turkic additionally
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Ideophonic patterns in Kiranti languages and beyond Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Aimée Lahaussois
This article looks at descriptions of ideophones in Kiranti (Sino-Tibetan, Eastern Nepal) languages. It will do so by first providing a description of the ideophones of Thulung, for which four distinct ideophone types are identified, on the basis of a 10 h narrative corpus. Next, the results of this analysis will be compared to descriptions of ideophonic lexemes in sources on other Kiranti languages
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Unbounded repetition, habituality, and aspect from a comparative perspective Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Egbert Fortuin
This paper addresses the relationship between habituals, including expressions of unbounded repetition, and verbal aspect. It is often assumed that past events that are conceptualized as habitually occurring or repeated in an unbounded way are inherently expressed by imperfective verb forms in languages with verbal aspect. A crosslinguistic analysis is provided of the relationship between habituals
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Tune-text accommodation in Optimality Theory: an account of Southern Valencian Catalan yes-no questions Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Paolo Roseano, Francesco Rodriquez
This paper aims at contributing to ascertain the principles of intonational grammar that lie behind the realization of nuclear contours and at presenting them in terms of Optimality Theory constraints. In order to do so, we analyse the prosody of the nuclear configuration of Southern Valencian Catalan yes-no questions, with special emphasis on situations where text-tune accommodation phenomena take
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Returning a maverick creole to the fold: the Berbice Dutch enigma revisited Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Mikael Parkvall, Bart Jacobs
Berbice Dutch was a creole language spoken in the Republic of Guyana in South America, a country first under Dutch, and later under British colonial rule. Owing mainly to Silvia Kouwenberg (A grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole, De Gruyter Mouton, 1994), we were blessed with a detailed synchronic documentation of Berbice Dutch before its demise. However, the formation of the language remains clouded in
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Non-finite verb forms in Turkic exhibit syncretism, not multifunctionality Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Jonathan N. Washington, Francis M. Tyers, Ilnar Salimzianov
Non-finite verbs in Turkic are typically categorised as participles, converbs, and sometimes infinitives, with multiple uses of a form within one category considered to constitute multiple functions. This multifunctionality approach predicts that all non-finite verb forms within each of the categories should have the same range of syntactic functions. We show that this is not the case. Based on analysis
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‘Without V-ing’ clauses: clausal negative concomitance in typological perspective Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Jesús Olguín Martínez, Manuel Peregrina Llanes
This investigation offers an analysis of crosslinguistic variation in the expression of clausal negative concomitance (e.g. ‘he slept without using a pillow’) in a sample of 65 languages, showing that most languages in the sample tend to use conjunctions and converbs for indicating clausal negative concomitance. The discussion of clause-linkage patterns reveals that most languages have monofunctional
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An integrated tone box scheme for determining tones in Tai varieties beyond Southwestern Tai: diachronic and synchronic concerns Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Hanbo Liao
When applied to Tai varieties beyond Southwestern Tai, Gedney’s tone box framework and its revised versions have several shortcomings, the most notable of which is the lack of consideration of diachronic issues that give rise to more complicated tonal correspondences. This paper proposes a more widely applicable Tai tone box chart with one additional tier based on the more probable tone-conditioning
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The loss of Jê nominal verbs in Panará Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Bernat Bardagil
In Jê languages, verbs appear in a non-finite form that fulfills a double function: licensing marked TAME semantics in main clauses, and licensing embedded clauses. However, the Panará language lost its non-finite verbal form. This paper examines Panará verbs from both a synchronic and diachronic angle, and in a broader comparative approach with regards to the morphosyntactic behaviour of verbs in
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Some remarks on h-anticipation in Ancient Greek Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Roberto Batisti
This paper investigates the phonological tendency of Ancient Greek to anticipate word-internal aspiration to a word-initial segment (vowel, voiceless stop, or /w/). Special attention is paid to the relationship of this tendency with hiatus resolution. A close look at the philological data shows that several processes of h-anticipation should be distinguished: in particular, various kinds of perceptually-driven
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Multifunctionality and syncretism in non-finite forms: an introduction Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Ksenia Shagal, Pavel Rudnev, Anna Volkova
This article is an introduction to a collection of papers discussing the identity of form and diversity of function in non-finite verb forms from a variety of perspectives. We start by illustrating the phenomenon and introducing the main functions that non-finite forms can have in the languages of the world. We provide a concise typological overview of the attested combinations of these functions and
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Non-finite constructions in Khanty: their unity and diversity Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Daria Bikina, Denis Rakhman, Vsevolod Potseluev, Aleksey Starchenko, Svetlana Toldova
This paper investigates non-finite forms in Kazym Khanty (Ob-Ugric, Uralic). In Khanty, almost all subordination makes use of one of the two non-finite forms: -ti (nfin.npst) or -əm (nfin.pst). We propose that their uses are best treated under the headings ‘bare non-finites, ‘head-agreement non-finites’, and ‘verb-agreement non-finites’. The three classes are defined based on the subject agreement
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Down the paths to the past habitual: its historical connections with counterfactual pasts, future in the pasts, iteratives and lexical sources in Ancient Greek Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Ezra la Roi
To complement existing synchronic typological studies of the marking strategies of (past) habituality, this paper details the diachronic paths leading to and from past habitual constructions. The rich corpus evidence from the diachrony of Ancient Greek demonstrates at least four source constructions: (1) past counterfactual mood (in optative and indicative), (2) futures in the past, (3) iteratives
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Patterns of individual variation and change in Golden Age Spanish. An analysis of three linguistic variables in a corpus of private correspondence Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 José Luis Blas-Arroyo
Based on a corpus of private correspondence written by 16 authors from the Golden Age period, this study analyses the idiolectal distributions of three distinctive variants of early classical Spanish. After comparing these distributions at different times in the lives of these individuals against those found in the same period in previous variationist studies, the existence of three idiolectal profiles
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The structural underpinnings of multifunctionality and syncretism in non-finite forms in Irish Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Maria Bloch-Trojnar
The paper proposes a constructionist analysis of two highly syncretic non-finite forms in Irish, traditionally referred to as the verbal noun (VN) and the verbal adjective (VA). The VN can fulfil the function of the infinitive, the ‘present participle’ in the periphrastic progressive, the argument supporting (AS) nominal and the R(eferential)-nominal. The VA can function as the passive participle in
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Aspectual marking from a typologically uncommon origin: a quantitative account of the development of hamē(w) in Middle Persian Folia Linguistica (IF 0.613) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Roohollah Mofidi, Peter Petré
This article follows the early grammaticalization path of a durative adverb to an aspect marker for a range of aspectual uses including durative, focalized, and habitual. In a usage-based approach, we investigate the behavior of hamē(w) in a Middle Persian database with respect to several grammatical variables, and we check its developmental path against the model proposed for the Romance languages