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Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other prehistoric research on the ...
Johanna Nichols
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Adpositions Derived From Nouns In Iranian Languages [PDF]

, 2016
The purpose of this study is to explore the noun-derived adpositions in Persian language and other living Iranian Languages in the light of the relevant literature.
Muhip Özyurt, Güneş
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Analyse sémantique des constructions locatives statiques en koyaga, langue mandé de Côte d’Ivoire [PDF]

Akofena
Résumé :Cette étude analyse non seulement les items verbaux, mais aussi les marqueurs lexicaux de localisation employés par les locuteurs koyaga dans leurs constructions locatives pour exprimer les relations spatiales statiques.
Fréjuss Yafessou KOUAME & Yassine Juliette KAMAGATE
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WE…WITH ANNA: THE INCLUSORY PLURAL PRONOMINAL CONSTRUCTION IN FINNISH AND FENNO‐SWEDISH*

Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 364-398, August 2024.
Abstract This article provides a syntactic analysis of the inclusory plural pronominal construction in Fenno‐Swedish and Finnish. In this construction, a plural pronoun has a singular reading: vi …med Anna (literally “we …with Anna”) means ‘Anna and I’. In addition to the plural pronoun, the construction includes a comitative PP.
Klaus Kurki
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The Problem of English Spatial, Non-spatial and Idiomatic Adpositions in Iranian EFL Environment: A Prototypical Approach [PDF]

Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010
Several studies of L2 learners’ interlanguage have addressed the complexity of the English adpositional system due to several reasons like L1 transfer, lack of knowledge in L2 and the strong collocational relations of prepositions with other elements of ...
Nassim Golaghaei, Firooz Sadighi
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Claude Vandeloise on proximity or the missing piece of a final triptych

Corela, 2017
Once recalled the close ties Claude Vandeloise had with Corela, this introduction focuses on the unpublished work the author dedicated to the expression of proximity in French and in English. This work is put in relation with two other contributions, one
Michel Aurnague, Gilles Col
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Rules as data

Regulation &Governance, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 657-673, July 2024.
Abstract Rules lie at the core of many disciplines beneath regulatory studies. Such a broad interest inevitably comes with fragmented understandings and technical choices that hinder knowledge cumulation and learning. This introduction tackles these limitations through an encompassing analytical blueprint from measurement theory.
Alessia Damonte, Giulia Bazzan
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Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 376-392, June 2024.
Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Mansour Shabani, Sahar Taghipour   +2 more
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On the functions of adpositions - the typological perspective [PDF]

, 2005
This paper tries to examine the functions of adpositions from the typological perspective. Nine different languages including Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, English, German, French, Spanish, and Russian are surveyed for this research.
이기갑
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Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020
Th is paper focuses on the syntax of (argument introducing/valency increasing) serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin languages, providing empirical arguments for the model of grammatical relations advanced in a series of recent works by Manzini and Savoia (2011a,
Ludovico Franco
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