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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 This paper is part of Peter Svenonius’ Adposition Seminar at the University of Tromsø which was taught in 2005-2006. The main focus was the distinction between locative path and locative place constructions. The aim of this paper is descriptive in nature
Marleen van de Vate
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Some notes on Italian ethnic adjectives
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2017 In this paper, we deal with ethnic adjectives in Italian, arguing against the dichotomy between ‘thematic’ and ‘classificatory’ ethnic adjectives, recently assumed by Alexiadou and Stavrou (2011). Building on Manzini and Savoia (2011), Manzini and Franco
Ludovico Franco
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Kas elliptiline (nimisõnata) kaassõnafraas on olemas?
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 Kokkuvõte. Sõnaliigiliselt on kaassõnade ja määrsõnade klass võrdlemisi erinevad. Kaassõnu on keeles suhteliselt väike ja piiratud hulk, neid tekib aja jooksul küll juurde, kuid kaassõnaks grammatiseerumine muudest sõnaliikidest on pikem protsess ...
Ann Veismann
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Reanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021 This paper presents a new analysis of a class of words previously analyzed as postpositions in the Papuan language Fataluku. Closer examination reveals that these words exhibit verbal characteristics, such as taking verbal morphology and occupying the ...
Tyler M. Heston
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Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures, 2020 This paper investigates the adpositional marking and case marking systems in Lutuv. This investigation finds that the basic adpositional phrase consists of a noun and a simplex or complex postposition. Complex postpositions are often used to convey information about both movement and location, whereas simplex postpositions are usually limited to ...
Haza, Julia, Wagner, Alexis
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Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2017 The main aim of this writing is to formulate the theory of universal grammar. The formulation made is taken form discussion on a close look at the universal grammar which of summary proposed by Greenberg and Hawkins.
Soepomo Peodjosoedarmo
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Russian, Swedish, and Finnish adpositions meaning ‘under’ and ‘over’ in temporal constructions
Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2019 In Russian, Swedish, and Finnish, adpositions with partly overlapping spatial meanings of ‘under’ and ‘over’ / ‘across’ are used with different temporal meanings, which, from a cognitive linguistic point of view, can be interpreted as evidence for ...
Martina Björklund, Johanna Viimaranta
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The evolutionary psychology of syntax
Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 344-364, September 2025.Linguists often characterize syntax in terms of combinatorial rules. But there is also a pragmatics to syntax in which communicators choose and tailor syntactic constructions for different communicative contexts. Great apes exposed to “language” combine elements creatively, but they show no skills in the pragmatics of syntax.
Michael Tomasello
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1537-1546, August 2025.ABSTRACT This study investigates the influence of interpreting mode on learner performance and its practical implications for interpreting training. Utilizing a corpus of learners’ performance in Chinese‐English consecutive interpreting (CI) and simultaneous interpreting (SI), this study applies two entropy‐based measures, namely word entropy and part ...
Lingxi Fan, Andrew K. F. Cheung, Han Xu
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Lexical P or functional Mood? Grammatical categories and mechanisms of clausal adjunction
GlossaThe paper discusses mechanisms of clausal adjunction, that is, transforming a clause into a modifier with a specific interpretation (purpose, temporal, causal, etc.).
Irina Burukina
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