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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In this paper, I outline the Peeling theory of Case (Starke 2005) and apply it to Case phenomena in adpositional phrases. The Peeling theory says that DPs are base generated with a number of Case related functional projections on top of them, and when ...
Pavel Caha
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Lähivõrdlusi, 2010 This paper is an investigation of grammatical relations' marking that combines the advances of monolingual analysis with cross-linguistic comparison. It examines adpositions as grammatical relations' markers and the linguistic change which leads to the ...
Leena Kolehmainen
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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 Recent work in usage-based linguistics stresses the importance of combining corpus-based analyses with experimental studies. A number of studies have compared the performance of a corpus-based statistical model against the behaviour of native speakers in
Jane Klavan, Ann Veismann
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Language patterns in Japanese patients with Alzheimer disease: A machine learning approach. [PDF]
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2023 Aim The authors applied natural language processing and machine learning to explore the disease‐related language patterns that warrant objective measures for assessing language ability in Japanese patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), while most previous studies have used large publicly available data sets in Euro‐American languages.
Momota Y +8 more
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Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolAbstract The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other prehistoric research on the ...
Nichols J.
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Investigating the Components of Word Order in Khorramabad Lori Language [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2021 Khorramabad Lori language is one of the languages of southwest of Iran and like other languages it has its own grammatical and typological features. Today, because of the effect of Persian on Lori, as an endangered language, it goes to disappear and this
Fateme Akoondi, Marziye Sanaati
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With or Without a System: How Category-Specific and System-Wide Cognitive Biases Shape Word Order. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Certain recurrent features of language characterize the way a whole language system is structured. By contrast, others target specific categories of items within those wider systems. For example, languages tend to exhibit consistent order of heads and dependents across different phrases—a system‐wide regularity known as harmony.
Holtz A, Kirby S, Culbertson J.
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’Edessä’ olemisen monet merkitykset: Suomen edessä-adposition polysemiaa
, 2021 Artikkeli tarkastelee suomen kielen edessä-adposition polysemiaa kognitiivisen semantiikan näkökulmasta. Adpositiolla edessä kielennetään perusmerkityksessään spatiaalisia suhteita (talon edessä on omenapuu), mutta sitä käytetään myös yleisesti ...
Teeri-Niknammoghadam, Krista
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Sociolinguistic Typology Meets Historical Corpus Linguistics
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 546-567, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper makes the case for using historical corpora to assess questions of sociolinguistic typology. A full account of any contact‐induced change will need to establish what the linguistic innovation in question was, who was in contact, where and when the contact took place and how the change happened, both at the individual level and at ...
George Walkden +5 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 513-545, November 2023., 2023 Abstract When linguists make inferences about language contact, control data is required for reliable analysis. Historical data or reconstructions are typically used for that purpose. However, historical data is globally mostly unavailable, and reconstructions are laborious if comparing outcomes of language contact in a typological way.
Kaius Sinnemäki, Noora Ahola
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