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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, Dina Abdel Salam El‐Dakhs, Leona Polyanskaya   +2 more
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Inflected Infinitives in Mari: A Cliticization Approach

Catalan Journal of Linguistics
Inflected infinitives in Meadow Mari (Uralic) exhibit apparent subject agreement (INFL). This paper demonstrates that empirically, INFL differs from regular finite agreement in three ways: (1) it is allowed only in a small subset of infinitival clauses;
Irina Burukina
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Kinship‐based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment

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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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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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2026.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 144-167, March 2026.
Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
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There is no need to climb!

Isogloss
This paper explores the correlation between clitic climbing and restructuring. In particular, it offers evidence from Catalan and cross-linguistic data to demonstrate that restructuring is universal and that clitic climbing is a facultative epiphenomenon
Anna Paradís
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The internal structure of a differentially marked DP in Romanian [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2019
This paper starts from the observation that clitic doubling and DOM-pe in Romanian may alternate as differential marking mechanisms for direct objects.
Virginia Hill and Alexandru Mardale
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A Corpus Study of Mexican Spanish Three-Participant Constructions with and without Clitic Doubling

Linguistic Discovery, 2012
In Spanish verbs associated with three participants – Agent, Theme and Recipient – may appear in alternating constructions, where the 3rd person recipient argument is realized as a prepositional phrase (PP) (Pedro envió una carta a Mar ...
Chiyo Nishida
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