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Book Reviews [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Embedded evidentials in bulgarian [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Causes and effects of Substratum, Superstratum and Adstratum influence, with reference to Tibeto-Burman languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Language classification and manipulation in Romania and Moldova [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Linguistic classification is a scientific methodology for categorizing the languages of the world. However, the tools and methods of linguistic classification have been used to various degrees by political entities to further nationalistic agendas.
Faucheux, Chase
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Grammatical relations, agreement, and genetic stability [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Niches in derivational morphology: specialisation of suffixes within the formation of Portuguese deverbal nouns [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Degrees and segments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
I make two related proposals, one about directed scale segments and the other about the nature of degrees. Bale (2007, 2011) argued that degrees should be analyzed as sets of individuals and that degree arguments are created in the syntax from relational
Schwarzschild, Roger S.
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A Balkanism in Central Europe? Realis vs. Irrealis in Subordinate Clauses in Prekmurje Slovene [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Language Revitalization: The case of Judeo-Spanish varieties in Macedonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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