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Cross-linguistic regularities and learner biases reflect "core" mechanics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Recent research in infant cognition and adult vision suggests that the mechanical object relationships may be more salient and naturally attention grabbing than similar but non-mechanical relationships.
Brent Strickland, Emmanuel Chemla
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An Inquiry into the Polysemy of the Preposition "bær" (on) in the Framework of Cognitive Semantics [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2023 In the Persian language, since Old Persian, /bær/ (on) has been one of the adpositions that grammatically and semantically acts as a preposition. Studying the polysemy of /bær/ (on) as a preposition is the subject of this paper, which is in the cognitive
Arsalan Golfam, Nazanin Darvishi Rokni
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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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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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Two ways of encoding location in Greek: Locative applicatives and prepositions
Glossa, 2016 Cross-linguistically, oblique theta roles such as location can be encoded by both adpositions and applicative morphemes. In this paper we argue that Standard Modern Greek (SMG), a language that encodes location primarily with prepositions, has a set of ...
Evangelia Daskalaki, Marios Mavrogiorgos
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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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Why partitive? Possible motivations for the partitive complement of Finnic adpositions
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse AjakiriAdpositions localize an entity (Figure) with respect to another entity (Ground), designated by the complement of the adposition. Most Finnic adpositions are postpositions with a genitive Ground, while prepositions typically have a partitive Ground ...
Tuomas Huumo
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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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Some Grammatical Innovations in the Development of Estonian and Finnish: Forced Grammaticalization; pp. 241-256 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2011 The term forced grammaticalization (Zwangsgrammatikalisierung) was introduced by Nicole Nau, concerning the inclusion of articles into the grammars and dictionaries of old written Latvian and Estonian. The development of the standard Estonian offers many
Helle Metslang
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Event Segmentation in Language and Cognition
Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 7, July 2026.Abstract A hallmark of human cognition is the ability to segment streams of dynamic stimuli into discrete event units. Currently, most of the evidence about event segmentation comes from English speakers. Could cross‐linguistic differences in how events are encoded affect how speakers of different languages form cognitive event units?
Sarah Hye‐Yeon Lee +2 more
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