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Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 2-20, February 2026.Orthodoxy assumes that the first‐person thoughts of an individual are anchored to a stable object. I challenge this assumption by arguing that “I” is polysemous. The perspectival anchor of a first‐person thought could be the bearer of the thought, the agent, the bearer of perception, or a body, to name just a few options.
Susanna Schellenberg
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African Lambdas I: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Nominal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.Novel innovations in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their ability to generate and analyze literary texts. As a result of intricate semantic layers, metaphors, polyphony, and nonlinear narrative structures present in literary works, their analysis by LLMs demands a deep cognitive and semantic understanding.
Neda Mozaffari +3 more
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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 469-488, December 2025.ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Anaphore possessive et anaphore associative : le cas des noms collectifs [PDF]
Discours, 2015 Cet article est consacré à diff érentes relations anaphoriques pouvant s’établir entre un nomcollectif (ex. régiment , caravane , forêt ) et les noms de ses membres (ex. soldats , chameaux ,arbres , pour les trois noms collectifs précédents) : anaphore associative dans des séquencestelles que un régiment… les soldats , anaphore possessive de la ...
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Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1993 Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Semantic Typology and Semantic Universals (1993)
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Processing references in context: when the polar bear does not meet a polar bear. [PDF]
Cogn Process, 2023 Rolke B +4 more
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Anaphore associative et anaphore possessive
, 2014 Dans la thématique de l’anaphore associative et possessive, Mathilde Salles présente, dans différents types de relations de cohérence, les possibilités d’alternance du défini associatif et du possessif devant les méronymes et les noms de « localisés » des relations locatives.
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