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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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The Emergence of Accusative Case in Copala Triqui
Linguistic Discovery, 2022 This paper argues that the noun ‘body’, the accusative particle, and dative preposition man are synchronically three different parts of speech in modern Copala Triqui.
George Aaron Broadwell
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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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BERTuit: Understanding Spanish language in Twitter with transformers
Expert Systems, Volume 40, Issue 9, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The appearance of complex attention‐based language models such as BERT, RoBERTa or GPT‐3 has allowed to address highly complex tasks in a plethora of scenarios. However, when applied to specific domains, these models encounter considerable difficulties. This is the case of Social Networks such as Twitter, an ever‐changing stream of information
Javier Huertas‐Tato +2 more
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Lähellä-adposition käyttö 1900-luvun alun suomenkielisessä kaunokirjallisuudessa [PDF]
, 2023 Tämän pro gradu -tutkimukseni aiheena on lähellä-adposition käyttö 1900-luvun alun suomenkielisessä kaunokirjallisuudessa. Tarkoituksenani oli selvittää, millä tavalla, eli millaisissa esiintymissä ja minkälaisten muiden sanojen kanssa lähellä ...
Kanervavuori, Kia
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Adpositions and presuppositions [PDF]
SpringerPlus, 2016 This paper looks at presuppositions of adpositions, a topic which has not been examined much, in spite of the very large body of work on presuppositions. Some earlier assertions about adpositional presuppositions turn out not to be relevant, because (1) they are incorrect (2) presuppose and/or presupposition are not used in a technical sense in them ...
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The Axial Part Phrase in Japanese
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In this paper, I investigate the categorial status of spatial terms in locative/directional expressions in Japanese. I will show that a certain class of spatial terms have a distinct categorial status from both regular postpositions and nouns.
Kaori Takamine
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The Use of Locative Nouns Li, Shang, and Zhong as Mandarin Language Adposition
Lingua Cultura, 2017 The purpose of this study was to analyze locative nouns (li, shang, and zhong) that may function as postpositions and therefore Mandarin language considered to have circumposition. The collected data were sentences taken from Chinese short stories by Lu
Ayu Trihardini
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Disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese
Linguistik Online, 2021 In this paper, I focus on disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese. In the literature, disyllabic post-nominal locatives have traditionally been considered nouns. Recent proposals, however, have offered different analyses.
Pei-Jung Kuo
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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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