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Unitariness and Partial Identification in the Bella Coola Middle Voice
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997 The Bella Coola suffix -m has been analyzed in the literature as two or even three separate morphemes, based on the variable effects it has on the transitivity of its base.
Beck, David
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Sind wir Opfer der Sprache? [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2021 The article is based on a lecture given 3 January 2021 at SWR in Baden-Baden. The presentation style was basically retained for this publication, but it was revised and updated.
Hans Giessen
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Linguistic repercussions of COVID-19: A corpus study on four languages
Open Linguistics, 2022 The global reach of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing localized policy reactions provides a case to uncover how a global crisis translates into linguistic discourse.
Cartier Emmanuel +8 more
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Are some languages more complex than others? On text complexity and how to measure it
Globe, 2021 In this paper, I discuss the concept of linguistic complexity, which has been high on the linguistic agenda during the last few decades (Merlini Barbaresi (ed.) 2003, Sampson et al. (eds.) 2009, Moretti 2018 and many others).
Iørn Korzen
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‘Where’ Questions and Their Responses in Duna (Papua New Guinea)
Open Linguistics, 2016 Despite their central role in question formation, content interrogatives in spontaneous conversation remain relatively under-explored cross-linguistically.
San Roque Lila
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A very unpredictable ‘person’: A corpus-based approach to suppletion in West Polesian
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2022 In Slavic languages, as in many other languages, the noun for person has a suppletive paradigm. Yet, as this study shows, in West Polesian (East Slavic) the noun person is a typological outlier not only within Slavic but also cross-linguistically because
Kristian Roncero
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On the nature of cross-linguistic transfer: A case study of Andean Spanish [PDF]
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012 This paper presents the results of a study on cross-linguistic transfer in Andean Spanish word order. In Andean Spanish the object appears in preverbal position more frequently than in non-Andean Spanish, which has been attributed to an influence from Quechua (a Subject–Object–Verb language).
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Naturalness bias in palatalization: An experimental study
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2016 In the present study, we report on an artificial language learning experiment aiming to test the idea that it is easier to learn palatalization before a front vowel than it is to learn depalatalization in the same context.
Joanna Zaleska, Matías Guzmán Naranjo
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Making the remarkable regular: 'Marked absolutive' in Nias
GlossaThis paper re-examines the unusual ‘marked absolutive’ argument marking pattern in Nias Selatan. While previous works propose that Nias instantiates a ‘marked absolutive’ case pattern (Brown 2001; 2005; Baker 2015), this paper argues against this ...
Robin Jenkins
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A Domain-Function Analysis of (你知道, “You Know”) in Chinese Simultaneous Speech
SAGE Open, 2023 Most theoretical and empirical studies of discourse marker multifunctionality do not approach it using a formal, systematic annotation model. Drawing on a domain-function taxonomy, this study examines 270 tokens of the discourse marker ni zhidao in ...
Yi Shan
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