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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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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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MandenkanWhile a number of Mende grammars have been written (Aginsky 1935; Innes 1967; Spears 1967; Brown 1982), there is no systematic treatment of its adpositional system.
Jason Smith
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Factors Influencing the Emergence of Dependency Length Minimization in Neural Agent Simulations
Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 10, October 2026.Abstract Given various grammatical options, language users prefer the word order choice that reduces the overall length of syntactic dependencies, a principle known as dependency length minimization (DLM). The origins of this preference remain an open question, particularly whether it originates from constraints on efficient information processing ...
Yuqing Zhang +3 more
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The Language Of Space : The Acquisition And Interpretation of Spatial Adpositions In English
, 2011 This thesis by publication presents a study on English adpositions (e.g. to, in, at, from, in frontof, through). It attempts to offer a solution to the following three outstanding problems, whichare presented in each of the three parts making up the ...
Ursini, Francesco-Alessio
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The typology of government by adpositions: towards an understanding of “differential”
GlossaAdpositions may govern case, and there is dramatic variation in the case values found. Different adpositions often govern different cases, which means that we need to partition (or split) the adpositions according to the case(s) they take, as in German ...
Greville G. Corbett
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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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Deictic marking in adpositions
, 2022 Although adpositions commonly show spatiotemporal meanings and uses, it is not common that they include a deictic component in their meaning marking relative distance to a deictic center. However, in a small number of languages it is possible to indicate
Killian, Don
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