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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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TEORI TATA BAHASA UNIVERSAL

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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Development of Event Segmentation in Language and Cognition: Evidence From Dwell Times and Eye Movements

Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 4, April 2026.
Abstract To navigate in and communicate about the continuous world we experience, our minds segment this experience into discrete event units. Yet, languages differ in how they package core aspects of events into linguistic units. Here, we ask how event units in language and cognition relate to each other, and how this relation might change during ...
Bilge Tınaz, Ercenur Ünal
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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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
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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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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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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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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
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