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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Silent gesture is increasingly used in linguistics to investigate questions that are difficult or impossible to address using natural language data alone, including issues of language emergence, word order, grammatical categorisation, and iconicity. However, the interpretation of silent‐gesture findings remains methodologically complex.
Oksana Tkachman
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, 2021 The aim of this paper is twofold: first, we intend to contribute to the debate on the identification of the features to which syntactic locality expressed in terms of the featural Relativized Minimality/ fRM principle appears to be sensitive (Rizzi 2004;
Belletti, Adriana, Manetti, Claudia
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 574-594, September 2026.Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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Exploring animacy as a mnemonic dimension [PDF]
, 2016 There is a great deal of evidence across cognitive science that animacy, or more generally, the features that make up what it means to be a living thing, is a foundational dimension of human cognition.
VanArsdall, Joshua Edward
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 619-635, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT This is a retrospective case study of an antisemitic lone actor terrorist who completed the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. The analysis through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‐18) finds that 72% of the warning indicators were present, including four proximal warning ...
Molly Amman, Julia Kupper, J. Reid Meloy
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GlossaWe examined the acquisition of third-person accusative clitics (e.g., lo, la, los, las) in L2 Spanish among Brazilian Portuguese (BP) speakers. In BP, the animacy of the referent is the main feature constraining accusative pronoun use while, in Spanish ...
Abril Jimenez +2 more
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The Acquisition of Case in Spanish Pronominal Object Clitics in English-Speaking College-Level L2 Learners [PDF]
, 2013 The Second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish pronominal object clitics (POCs) has been a topic of research with regards to clitic placement (Houston, 1997; Lee, 1987; LoCoco, 1987; VanPatten, 1984; and VanPatten & Houston 1998), acquiring specific ...
Olsen, Michael Kevin
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Animacy in Interrogative Pronouns [Elektronisk resurs]
, 1995 The present paper presents a typological investigation of whether languages make an animacy distinction in their independent nominal interrogative pronouns. The data comprises 24 languages and was taken mainly from grammatical descriptions.
Lindström, Eva,
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Glossa, 2017 This paper builds on the observation that the animacy effects we find in English genitive variation are part of a larger cross-linguistic pattern as reflected in possession splits based on animacy (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001, 2002; Stolz et al.
Anette Rosenbach
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Seeing life in the teeming world: animacy perception in arthropods
Frontiers in PsychologyThe term “animacy perception” describes the ability of animals to detect cues that indicate whether a particular object in the environment is alive or not.
Massimo De Agrò +2 more
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