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Spatial Demonstratives and Perspective Taking in English and Japanese

Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract There is much debate regarding the extent to which languages express the same spatial parameters or whether spatial communication is essentially diverse. In this paper, we explore “perspective taking” in spatial demonstrative systems as a means of exploring between and within language variation.
Harmen B. Gudde, Jacqueline Collier, Kenny R. Coventry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Adpositions In Lutuv

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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With or Without a System: How Category‐Specific and System‐Wide Cognitive Biases Shape Word Order

Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 11, November 2025.
Abstract 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.
Annie Holtz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Interpreting Training: The Impact of Interpreting Mode on Learner Performance Through Entropy‐Based Measures

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
wiley   +1 more source

Lexical P or functional Mood? Grammatical categories and mechanisms of clausal adjunction

Glossa
The 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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Categorizing adpositions in Kîîtharaka

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007
In this paper, I discuss the categorial status of Kîîtharaka adpositions. I demonstrate that there are two main classes of adpositions(to be referred to as Class A and Class B).
Peter Muriungi
doaj   +1 more source

Figure–Ground Spatial Relationships in Finnish Sign Language Discourse

Open Linguistics, 2020
This study is about expressing spatial relationships between Figure and Ground in Finnish Sign Language discourse and shows that the variation in this expression is primarily discourse dependent.
De Weerdt Danny
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