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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Little research has explored how language dominance may affect the development and ultimate attainment of morphosyntax in a situation of widespread and social bilingualism, where exposure to both languages starts early on and can be sustained over time.
Adriana Soto‐Corominas +2 more
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How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees
Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 391-424, June 2026.Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
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Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1560, Issue 1, June 2026.Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin +2 more
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Clitic doubling in European Portuguese
, 2019 Este artigo investiga a construção de redobro de clítico (RC) em português europeu (PE), que se caracteriza pela dupla expressão de um argumento através de um clítico e de um pronome forte.
Magro, Catarina
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, 1999 The article addresses the properties of object clitics in Macedonian and Bulgarian.Their order constraints are explained on the basis of the sentence structure and its specialized positions for clitic arguments.
FICI, FRANCESCA +2 more
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ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2000 The present study is concerned with Single Clitics, as weil as with Clitic Doubling and Clitic Left Dislocation constructions and will test the Uniformity Hypothesis (Sportiehe 1992), according to which all three constructions involve the same underlying structure.
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
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, 2012 In most languages we find 'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on their own. Instead they have to 'lean on' a neighbouring word, like the 'd, 've and unstressed 'em of Kim'd've helped'em ('Kim would have helped them'). These are clitics, and they are found in most of the world's languages. In English the clitic forms appear
Spencer, Andrew, Luís, Ana
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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The lexical interface: closed class items in south Slavic and English [PDF]
, 1998 This thesis argues for a minimalist theory of dual lexicalization. It presents a unified analysis of South Slavic and English auxiliaries and accounts for the distribution of South Slavic clitic clusters.
Caink, Andrew David
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