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From juxtaposition to incorporation: an approach to Generic-Specific constructions [PDF]

, 2008
In this paper, we present an analysis of classifier noun incorporation in Gunwinyguan languages from northern Australia, focussing particularly on generic-specific constructions.
Nordlinger, R, Sadler, L
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1

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Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández, Susagna Tubau   +1 more
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

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Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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From structure to meaning: a lexical semantic framework for Urdu compounding

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Urdu, a rich Indo-Aryan language, relies extensively on derivational and inflectional processes for lexical expansion. Compounding, a pivotal word-formation process, has received a limited scholarly focus despite its central role in Urdu’s linguistic ...
Tahir Saleem, Shumaila Ahmad
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Extracting Noun Phrases from Large-Scale Texts: A Hybrid Approach and Its Automatic Evaluation

, 1994
To acquire noun phrases from running texts is useful for many applications, such as word grouping,terminology indexing, etc. The reported literatures adopt pure probabilistic approach, or pure rule-based noun phrases grammar to tackle this problem.
Chen, Hsin-Hsi, Chen, Kuang-hua
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

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Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1

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Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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Application of specific classifiers in the compound numerical adjectives; Bidel’s stylistic feature

Literary Arts, 2016
Bidel Dehlavi is the greatest Persian poet of India that difficulty is the main characteristic of his style. Technical discussions about Bidel’s style and his word difficulties, demands more attention to some syntactic cases that have been remained ...
Elyas Nooraei, Zahra Mansouri
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