Causes and effects of Substratum, Superstratum and Adstratum influence, with reference to Tibeto-Burman languages [PDF]
, 2010 Language contact has become a major focus of inquiry in historical and typological linguistics in the last twenty years, spurred in a large part by the publication of Thomason & Kaufman (1988), which tried to make sense of a large amount of language ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Diachronic regularities explaining the tendency towards explicit analytic marking in Balkan syntax [PDF]
, 2018 Peer ...
Lindstedt, Jouko
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Clitic doubling in vernacular medieval Greek [PDF]
, 2013 This article provides the first in-depth study of clitic doubling in vernacular Medieval Greek. First, it is shown that the four-part typology (topicalization; right-dislocation; backgrounding; left-dislocation) recently developed on the basis of Modern ...
Soltic, Jorie
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Niches in derivational morphology: specialisation of suffixes within the formation of Portuguese deverbal nouns [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this paper is to study the specialisation of affixes following the same word-formation rule/schema. The derivational morphology of Portuguese presents a multiplicity of suffixes that create deverbal nouns with the general meaning of ‘event ...
Rodrigues, Alexandra Soares
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Embedded evidentials in bulgarian [PDF]
, 2009 We consider evidentials embedded in complement clauses with new data from Bulgarian. For Tibetan, Garrett has shown that embedded evidentials are always shifted to the perspective of the reported speech.
Sauerland, Uli, Schenner, Mathias
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, 2011 Studi linguistici in onore di Roberto Gusmani. 3 vols. A cura di Raffaella Bombi, Guido Cifoletti, Fabiana Fusco, Lucia Innocente, Vincenzo Orioles. XLVI, VIII, VIII, 1866 pp. Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2006.
Károly, Krisztina +4 more
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A Balkanism in Central Europe? Realis vs. Irrealis in Subordinate Clauses in Prekmurje Slovene [PDF]
, 2013 The paper examines the distinction between realis- and irrealis-marking complementizers (ka vs. da in the Prekmurje (Pannonian) dialect of Slovene and compares the phenomenon to the same distinction observed in Balkan Sprachbund languages (Albanian ...
Greenberg, Marc L.
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Grammatical relations, agreement, and genetic stability [PDF]
, 2010 Languages vary in whether or not primary grammatical relations (PGRs) are sensitive to information from clause-level case or phrase structures. This variation correlates with a difference between verb agreement systems based on feature unification and ...
Bickel, Balthasar
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Linguistic complexity of South Slavic dialects: a new perspective on old data. [PDF]
Linguist Vanguard, 2023 Morozova M, Escher A, Rusakov A.
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Language Revitalization: The case of Judeo-Spanish varieties in Macedonia [PDF]
, 2016 Judeo-Spanish is a secondary dialect of the Spanish language having evolved from the ancient standard Spanish in the course of its expansion southwards. Although the language enjoys a heritage and presence in the Balkans of over five centuries, it is now
Zarghooni-Hoffmann, Esther
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