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Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng, a youth language or stylect of Kenya Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Hannah Gibson, Chege Githiora, Fridah Kanana Erastus, Lutz Marten
This paper examines the morphosyntax of the East African Swahili-based urban youth language or stylect Sheng. Research on urban youth languages has often focused on these varieties as sites of rapid change and linguistic creativity. However, we show that many of the structural features which appear to make Sheng stand out when compared to (Standard) Swahili are widespread across East African Bantu
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Associated motion, associated posture and imperfective aspect in Tacana (Amazonian Bolivia) Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Antoine Guillaume
This paper is the first detailed description of the exceptionally rich subsystem of verbal inflections that express imperfective aspect in Tacana, an endangered and underdescribed language from the Takanan family. The unusually high degree of elaboration of this system, which includes nine members in paradigmatic opposition, is achieved by co-expressing imperfective aspect with spatial meanings taken
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The action reference construction in Mandarin Chinese and typology of lexical flexibility Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Liwei Gong, Satoshi Uehara
The parts of speech system and lexical flexibility in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth Chinese) has long been subjects of debate due to the pervasive zero coding of action reference constructions. In this article, we analyze properties of the Chinese Action Reference Construction from the perspective of Radical Construction Grammar (Croft 2001, 2022), focusing on its structural coding, behavioral potential
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Sequentiality Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Akua Campbell
This paper examines a hitherto unreported use of the Gã Perfect gram termed the ‘sequential perfect’. The sequential perfect represents a late stage of grammaticalization as it no longer conveys any aspectual information on its own, instead deriving its semantics from verbal categories in the prior discourse. It is primarily modal, being used for irrealis, habitual and iterative situations. It occurs
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‘Until’ constructions and expletive negation in Huasteca Nahuatl Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Jesus Olguin Martinez
A number of works have explored expletive negation in clause-linkage constructions. Most of them have shown that this type of negative marker can be omitted from the adverbial clause without affecting the interpretation holding between clauses. The study shows, based on the analysis of natural discourse data, that expletive negation has developed an intriguing discourse function in three types of ‘until’
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The paradigmaticity of evidentials in the Tibetic languages of Khams Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Dawa Drolma, Hiroyuki Suzuki
This article argues that the evidential system of Khams Tibetan, a cluster of Tibetic languages spoken in the south-eastern Tibetosphere, should be considered a verb paradigm. We propose a paradigm with six evidential categories (egophoric, statemental, visual sensory, nonvisual sensory, sensory inferential, and logical inferential) for all the verb classes. We focus on two varieties – rGyalthang and
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Frequency differences in reportative exceptionality and how to account for them Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Tanja Mortelmans
Reportative evidential markers are – in contrast to other evidential markers – compatible with distancing interpretations, in which the speaker denies the truth of what is being reported. This exceptional behaviour of reportatives is termed ‘reportative exceptionality’ (AnderBois 2014). In this paper, which addresses French, Dutch and German reportative markers, we argue that they differ with respect
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Evidentiality as a grammaticalization passenger Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Eric Mélac, Joanna Bialek
This article investigates the grammaticalization patterns of evidentiality from a cross-linguistic perspective with a focus on Lhasa Tibetan. It documents the history of the evidential morphemes ’dug, -song, -bzhag, and =ze from Old Literary Tibetan to modern spoken Lhasa Tibetan. Our analyses show that these morphemes started grammaticalizing before encoding evidentiality. We argue that, through pragmatic
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On the link between grammaticalization and subjectification Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Jan Nuyts
This article argues that the widespread view that the diachronic processes of grammaticalization and of subjectification go hand in hand, and that highly subjectivized meanings typically correlate with highly grammaticalized forms, should be revised. The point is made on the basis of the case of the diachrony of the Dutch modal verbs. Corpus data show that four of these verbs recently got involved
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Evidentiality, discourse prominence and grammaticalization Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Kasper Boye
This paper seeks to answer three questions: (1) What is the difference between grammatical and lexical indications of information source? (2) What qualifies an element for grammaticalization as an evidential? (3) How can we identify grammatical evidentials and instances of evidential grammaticalization? The answers proposed are as follows: (1) The difference between grammatical and lexical indications
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Speaking about knowledge Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
We focus on the grammatical expression of four major groups of meanings related to knowledge: I. Evidentiality: grammatical expression of information source; II. Egophoricity: grammatical expression of access to knowledge; III. Mirativity: grammatical expression of expectation of knowledge; and IV. Epistemic modality: grammatical expression of attitude to knowledge. The four groups of categories interact
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The links between evidentiality, modality, and grammaticalization Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Eric Mélac
This paper introduces the main notions that are addressed in this special issue, namely evidentiality, modality, and grammaticalization. It defines each notion and briefly synthesizes the literature. It also presents some of the controversies which surround the ideas that prevail in these research fields. Crosslinguistic examples illustrate the main evidential and modal categories, and clarify why
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Person marking in Longxi Qiang Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Wuxi Zheng
In Longxi Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language, the verb agreement system is not marking a syntactic function or semantic role. Previous studies of the Qiang language have argued that person markings reflect the person and number of the agent. My analysis based on a large amount of natural data, however, reveals several different uses of person marking. First, person marking does not always agree with the
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Minimal participant structure of the event and the emergence of the argument/adjunct distinction Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Natalia Gurian, Sergei Karpenko
The present study answers the following questions: why the semantic roles of agent or patient are often unmarked; why other semantic roles, such as benefactive, stative locative, goal, or source, are unmarked when used with some verbs and marked when used with other verbs; and why semantic relations such as ‘associative’, ‘instrumental’, ‘reason’, ‘purpose’, and others often referred to as ‘adjuncts’
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Phasal polarity in Tunisian Arabic Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jens G. Fischer, Bastian Persohn, Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun
This paper gives a corpus-based descriptive account of the phasal polarity system (still, already, not yet, and no longer) in the Arabic vernacular of Tunisia. The aim is to broaden the empirical foundations for cross-linguistic research in this domain, and to narrow the gap between typologically oriented and philological research on Arabic varieties. Like many languages (van Baar 1997: 118), Tunisian
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The constructional categorization of Saisiyat multi-predicate sentences Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Chien-pang Wang
This study investigates the constructional categorization of multi-predicate sentences in Saisiyat. This type of complex sentences simultaneously involves features of serial verb construction and complementation in Saisiyat, which give rise to indeterminacy in constructional categorization. In order to solve this problem, the current study probes into the categorization between serial verb construction
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Early Vedic compounds Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Erica Biagetti
Despite a longstanding tradition of studies in Sanskrit compounds, a description that enables comparisons in cross-linguistic perspective has not yet been worked out. The present article follows classificatory criteria introduced by Bisetto & Scalise (2005, 2009) and sketches a typology of compounds in the most archaic variety of Sanskrit, Early Vedic, as transmitted by the RigVeda. Analyzing compounds
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A new converb originating from the locative noun in Beserman Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Maria Usacheva, Natalia Serdobolskaya
In Beserman, a new converb grammaticalizes from the possessive locative form of the locative noun in (o)ń-ńig. We show that the constructions with the converb have a clausal structure, while the constructions with the locative noun are mostly noun phrases, even if they include an indication of the agent and patient of the situation encoded by the locative noun. Semantically, the two types of constructions
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Adjectival intensification in West Germanic Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Daniel Van Olmen
This article investigates the forms and functions of adjectival intensification in West Germanic. With corpus data from different discourse types, we challenge claims that German tends to use synthetic means and Dutch is between German and English but more like English in its preference for analytic ones. Our results show that all three languages, and Afrikaans too, favor analytic intensifiers but
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A binary inflectional voice contrast in Mabaan (Western Nilotic) Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Torben Andersen
In Mabaan, a Western Nilotic language, there is a binary inflectional voice contrast in the morphology of verbs. In addition to a morphologically unmarked basic voice, there is a fully productive applicative voice, which is morphologically marked. This applicative voice may be called circumstantial in order to distinguish it from another applicative voice, which is derivational, namely benefactive
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Comparing zero and referential choice in eight languages with a focus on Mandarin Chinese Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Maria Vollmer
Mandarin has a low rate of overtly expressed arguments in all syntactic functions without agreement marking on the verb. It has been claimed that Mandarin exhibits higher rates of zero arguments than other languages. Most previous work has compared Mandarin with English, while comparison with other languages remains a desideratum. This study compares Mandarin with seven languages (Cypriot Greek, English
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Argument indexing in Kamang Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Katherine Walker, Pegah Faghiri, Eva van Lier
Kamang (Alor-Pantar, non-Austronesian/Papuan) has a typologically unusual system of argument indexing, in which the S or P argument can be indexed on the verb by one of several prefix paradigms. Some verbs always show indexing, while others exhibit differential argument indexing (DAI). In DAI, the use of a particular prefix paradigm or zero marking depends on different (combinations of) factors. We
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The psycholinguistic realization of topic in Chinese Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Liulin Zhang
An OSV word order that deviates from the canonical SVO word order is typically viewed as derived through movement. This theory has been widely supported by psycholinguistic studies showing that the displaced constituents are mentally reactivated at the gap positions. However, some cognitive-functionalists have proposed an alternative account: in a topic-prominent language like Chinese, topic is the
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Simulative derivations in crosslinguistic perspective and their diachronic sources Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Guillaume Jacques
This article deals with simulative derivations, meaning ‘pretend (to be) X’, where X stands for a verb or a noun. It shows that these derivations have three main origins: incorporation, denominal derivation and combination of reflexive and causative. It also systematically discusses the corresponding analytic constructions.
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A cross-linguistic syntactic analysis of telicity in motion predicates in Southern Tati, Mandarin, and Ghanaian Student Pidgin Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Pin-Hsi Patrick Chen, Kwaku Owusu Afriyie Osei-Tutu, Neda Taherkhani
This paper proposes an analysis of telicity in motion predicates within the framework of the Exo-Skeletal Model (Borer 2005b). We hypothesize that a motion event is syntactically represented by a Path component, the core of which is a vP that introduces a Figure argument. This Path component is interpreted as quantity in the sense of Borer (2005b) when there is a certain type of morpheme present in
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Variable index placement in Gutob from a typological perspective Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Erika Just, Judith Voß
In Gutob (Munda, India) S/A indexes can attach to other hosts apart from the verb, unconstrained by syntax. Previous studies have described non-verbal index placement in Gutob as exceptional, establishing verbal indexes as the default. This paper presents the first case study on the placement of Gutob indexes based on corpus data. Our analysis shows that although index placement in Gutob is in fact
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Grammar (morphosyntax) and discourse Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Tasaku Tsunoda
The present work attempts to examine the relationship between grammar and discourse. (i) First, it compares Warrongo (an ergative language that has antipassives and an S/O pivot) and English (an accusative language that has passives and an S/A pivot). Despite these polar opposite morphosyntactic characteristics, Warrongo and English behave almost in the same way in discourse – in terms of new mentions
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Towards robust complexity indices in linguistic typology Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Yoon Mi Oh, François Pellegrino
There is high hope that corpus-based approaches to language complexity will contribute to explaining linguistic diversity. Several complexity indices have consequently been proposed to compare different aspects among languages, especially in phonology and morphology. However, their robustness against changes in corpus size and content hasn’t been systematically assessed, thus impeding comparability
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From grammaticalization to Diachronic Construction Grammar Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Spike Gildea, Jóhanna Barðdal
The term grammaticalization originally denoted a particular outcome of language change (lexis > morphology), then got expanded to practically all studies involving language change, the processes that create such changes, and a theory modeling these. These expansions have been challenged in the literature as conceptually flawed. A usage-based analysis of the evolution of the concept culminates in the
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Multiple construction types for nominal expressions in Australian languages Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Dana Louagie
This paper explores the rich diversity in structural possibilities that are available for (simple) nominal expressions in Australian languages. First, I identify a number of construction types found across a 50 language sample, which may be recognised by using a restricted set of parameters. I show that an important factor is whether a given parameter (such as word order) is generalised or displayed
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The history of the polyfunctional 𗗙 jij1 in Tangut Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Shuya Zhang
This paper focuses on the history of a polyfunctional case marker 𗗙 jij1 in Tangut, an extinct Rgyalrongic language (Sino-Tibetan). This versatile case morpheme is a typological rarity of maximum syncretism among several abstract case functions, including differential object marking, the genitive, and the oblique (which overlaps with the dative). For one thing, accusatives originating from datives
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The linguistics of odour in Semaq Beri and Semelai, two Austroasiatic languages of the Malay Peninsula Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Nicole Kruspe, Asifa Majid
There is a long history presuming smell is not expressible in language, but numerous studies in recent years challenge this presupposition. Large smell lexica have been reported around the world thereby showing high lexical codability in this domain. Psycholinguistic studies likewise find smell can be described with relatively high agreement, demonstrating high efficient codability. Often the two go
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A hitherto unnoticed type of verb-framed construction in Lithuanian and the typology of event conflation Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Axel Holvoet
The article starts out from a Lithuanian construction denoting achievement of an excessive value of some parameter of an incremental event. It is verb-framed, that is, the main-clause verb denotes motion along a path towards a normative value of the parameter involved. Its implications for our understanding of the Talmyan typology of event conflation are discussed. Event conflation in the domains of
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Progressives in present and past Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Ghazaleh Vafaeian
This study investigates the relationship between progressive patterns and present and past time reference. First, it looks at the shared distribution of more than 90 progressives in two parallel corpora and discusses the characteristics of these contexts. It is shown that while progressives are used for dramatic and topical events in the present, they are typically used as backgrounding, supportive
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Copula to negator Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Scott DeLancey
Van der Auwera & Vossen (2017) identify an intriguing shift from a copula to a negative marker in the Tibeto-Burman Kiranti group, and discuss it as a possible example of Jespersen’s Cycle. This paper traces a fuller history of the copula #ni, and presents an account of its association with negation, which is attested in several other Tibeto-Burman languages besides Kiranti. In most Tibeto-Burman languages
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It’s all about the sentential construction Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Israela Becker
Cross-linguistically, very few complete sentences, as opposed to a myriad of phrases, lexicalize to become words. I here offer an account for this skewed distribution, along the lines of Construction Grammar, by analyzing a set of mono-clausal sentences in Hebrew which have indeed become – or are on the verge of becoming – words. I adopt the distinction between categorical and thetic propositions,
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Universal quantifiers, focus, and grammatical relations in Besemah Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Bradley McDonnell
This article describes adverbial universal quantification in Besemah, a little-described Malayic language of southwest Sumatra, and how the syntactic position of the quantifier relates to grammatical relations and information structure. Given previous descriptions of the relationship between quantifiers and grammatical relations, especially in western Austronesian languages (e.g., Kroeger 1993; Musgrave
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Dogon pseudo-subjects with or without true subjects Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Jeffrey Heath, Vadim Dyachkov
Dogon pseudo-subjects are bare meteorological, temporal-environmental, and partonymic nouns of low referentiality/specificity that occur in fixed noun-verb collocations. The pseudo-subject controls the choice of verb in all cases, but it fails to behave like a true subject in linear position, in a quotative-subject construction, or in pronominal-subject agreement. The pseudo-subject is the sole nominal
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Markedness and voicing gaps in stop and fricative inventories Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Sheng-Fu Wang
This study investigates the hypothesis that marked sounds are more likely to be gaps in a sound inventory. A gap is defined as an absence of an [α voice] stop or fricative when the [−α voice] counterpart exists. Different formulations of markedness are tested and evaluated on whether they label the gaps as more marked than attested sounds. Results show an overall success of markedness based on typological
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Verbal number in Idi Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Dineke Schokkin
This paper provides a first description of verbal number in Idi, a language of the Pahoturi River family spoken in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Idi shows an intricate system of marking verbal number, evident in verb stems and two sets of suffixes occurring in different positions on the verb, based on a distinction between nonplural (1 or 2) versus plural (more than 2). Verbs also agree in person
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Spatial prepositions min and ʕan in Traditional Negev Arabic Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Roni Henkin, Letizia Cerqueglini
The Arabic prepositions min and ʕan in their prototypical spatial use relate to the Source domain, translating as ‘(away) from’. In many contemporary dialects ʕan is absent or limited to secondary, non-spatial meanings. In Traditional Negev Arabic, however, both prepositions are used complementarily. The proto-scene of ablative min is a Figure (F) exiting from a 3-dimensional Ground (G)-source, with
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Language simplification in endangered languages? Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Alexander Andrason, John Sullivan, Justyna Olko
The present paper examines a hypothetical correlation between language endangerment and the simplification of nominal and verbal inflections. After contrasting the complexities exhibited by two endangered languages (Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl and Wymysorys) with the complexities of their non-endangered predecessors (Older Nahuatl and Middle High German, respectively), the authors conclude that the e
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Nominal reduplication in cross-linguistic perspective Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Simone Mattiola, Alessandra Barotto
This paper aims at investigating the semantics of nominal reduplication cross-linguistically. Nominal reduplication is treated as an iconic morphological device expressing functions that have something to do with plurality. Nevertheless, in the languages of the world, other types of functions are attested as well, which seem to pivot around different notions like conceptual similarity, heterogeneity
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Concessive conditionals beyond Europe Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Tom Bossuyt
The present study is concerned with complex sentences known as concessive conditionals from a functional-typological perspective. It examines the coding strategies used in the protasis of the three subtypes of concessive conditionals – viz. scalar, alternative, and universal concessive conditionals – in a global sample of 17 languages, thus complementing a previous study of their formal properties
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On the status of information structure markers Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Chris Lasse Däbritz
The paper at hand deals with morphological marking of information structural relations from the perspective of North-Western Siberian languages. Given many items (morphemes as well as particles and clitics) which have been analyzed as markers of information structure in these languages, I try to discuss whether they indeed mark information structural relations or whether this supposed marking is rather
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The ‘general fact’ copula in Yolmo and the influence of Tamang Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Lauren Gawne, Thomas Owen-Smith
This paper examines the similarity of the Yolmo ‘general fact’ evidential and the ‘generic fact’ evidential in the Tamang dialect spoken in the valley of the Indrawati Khola. Yolmo òŋge is unlike any evidential attested in other Tibetic languages, but shares features with 1kha-pa in the local dialect of Tamang. Semantically, they both are used for situations that are generally known facts. Structurally
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Manner of motion in Estonian Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Piia Taremaa, Anetta Kopecka
Recent decades have witnessed an increasing interest in motion events resulting in thorough knowledge about expressions of manner. However, the individual dimensions of manner of motion have been investigated less extensively. In this study, we focus on one particular dimension of manner: speed. By analysing the Estonian language and applying corpus methods, we show that speed is one of the core dimensions
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From syntax to morphology Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Yong Wang
Noun-incorporation is a process of word-formation in which a nominal constituent is added to a verbal root, with the resulting construction being both a verb and a single word. The incorporated element may be the object of the verbal element; it may also denote agent, instrument, location, etc. Once incorporated the nominal constituent figures less prominently. The meaning of the resulting new word
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Derivation predicting inflection Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Olivier Bonami, Matteo Pellegrini
In this paper, we investigate the value of derivational information in predicting the inflectional behavior of lexemes. We focus on Latin, for which large-scale data on both inflection and derivation are easily available. We train boosting tree classifiers to predict the inflection class of verbs and nouns with and without different pieces of derivational information. For verbs, we also model inflectional
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Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalisation of bring and take Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Anna Margetts, Katharina Haude, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Dagmar Jung, Sonja Riesberg, Stefan Schnell, Frank Seifart, Harriet Sheppard, Claudia Wegener
This study investigates the linguistic expression of bring and take events and more generally of the semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion (‘directed CAM’) across a sample of eight languages of the Pacific and the Americas. Unlike English, the majority of languages in our sample do not lexicalise directed CAM events by simple verbs, but rather encode the defining meaning components
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Periphrastic causative in West Circassian Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Paul Phelan
This paper looks at a grammaticalized periphrastic causative construction in West Circassian. West Circassian is a polysynthetic language and expresses information largely through morphological means, which makes this construction all the more unusual. As interest in the complexities of polysynthetic languages grows, it is important to look at periphrastic strategies and syntactic operations in these
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Nominal determination in Moroccan Arabic Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Utz Maas, Stephan Procházka
Many studies on Moroccan Arabic presuppose the existence of a determination system organized along the lines of definiteness and indefiniteness. Hence, they postulate a ‘definite article’ with the form /l-/ and an ‘indefinite article’ as its counterpart in the form /waħd.l-/. This study shows that the so-called ‘definite article’ /l-/ is actually a general referential marker that mainly marks a noun
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Possessive inflection in Chichimec inalienable nouns Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Borja Herce
Person and number of a possessor are expressed in Chichimec in one of two ways. Most nouns use possessive classifiers. A smaller class (typically inalienables) inflects for the possessor synthetically. This paper constitutes the first in-depth exploration of this latter class. These nouns are characterized by unparalleled levels of irregularity, with more than 100 different inflection classes and most
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Weather expressions in Basque Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Iñigo Arteatx, Xabier Artiagoitia
We make two claims regarding weather expressions in Basque: first, based on Eriksen et al.’s (2010) typology, we show that Basque tends towards the argument type (and less frequently so to the predicate-argument type) when coding dynamic (precipitation or other) events and to both the argument and the predicate type when coding static events; Basque often has transitive structures (i.e. both transitive
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Conjunctions and clause linkage in Australian languages Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Ellison Luk, Jean-Christophe Verstraete
This study analyses the role of conjunctions in clause linkage in Australian languages. Conjunctions are seemingly straightforward clause-linking devices, but they remain under-studied, both for Australian languages and from a broader typological perspective. In this study, we propose a functional definition of conjunctions, as set against other resources for clause linkage. We show that this captures
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Through space, relations, and thoughts Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 David Felipe Guerrero-Beltran, Katarzyna I. Wojtylak
This paper aims to describe the morphosyntax and semantics of postpositions in Karijona, a Cariban language from Northwest Amazonia. The data, collected in the Karijona settlement of Puerto Nare (Colombia), were analyzed according to Basic Linguistic Theory and Cognitive Semantics. Like other Cariban languages, Karijona has a typologically unusual system of postpositions, which can cross-reference
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Creating versatility in Thai demonstratives Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Shoichi Iwasaki, Parada Dechapratumwan
Beyond their basic function to index exophoric and endophoric referents, Thai demonstratives have a host of pragmatic functions to encode concerns regarding discourse organization, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. Based on a detailed analysis of demonstratives used in conversation, we attempt to uncover the pattern of grammaticalization for this class of words in Thai, and to propose a mechanism
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A cross-linguistic study of emphatic negative coordination Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Iker Salaberri
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed cross-linguistic analysis of so-called emphatic negative coordination (enc). This kind of clause linkage is illustrated by neither and nor in She neither could nor would speak lightly of the accident. On the basis of a 250-language sample, the paper lays out a new typology of enc meant to gain novel insights. It is shown that languages can combine
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Review of Plank (1995): Double case: Agreement by Suffixaufnahme Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
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Review of Harvey & Reid (1997): Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia Studies in Language (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald