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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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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
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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 +2 more
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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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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 +2 more
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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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The secret nominal life of Afrikaans intransitive adpositions
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 Languages like Afrikaans are sometimes said to feature a class of adpositions that can be described as “intransitive” (e.g. binne “inside”, bo “upstairs”, agter “in the back”, buite “outside”, onder “downstairs” voor “in the front”).
Pretorius, Erin
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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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Alzheimer's &Dementia: Translational Research &Clinical Interventions, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2025.Abstract INTRODUCTION Cognitive screening to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia in primary care settings has proven to be a challenging task. The ideal solution would be a brief, yet sensitive, tool appropriate for use with individuals from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds that requires limited time and expertise from ...
Robin C. Hilsabeck +13 more
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Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 2, February 2025.Abstract In spoken languages, children acquire locative terms in a cross‐linguistically stable order. Terms similar in meaning to in and on emerge earlier than those similar to front and behind, followed by left and right. This order has been attributed to the complexity of the relations expressed by different locative terms.
Ercenur Ünal +4 more
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