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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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IsoglossThis 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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Children With ASD Do Not Understand Hidden Emotions Before False Belief Attribution
Autism Research, Volume 19, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT Previous studies concluded that theory of mind (ToM) development is deviant in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Typically developing children's ability to understand that one may hide their emotion would be acquired before false belief understanding in children with ASD (e.g., Peterson and Wellman 2019), but with contradictory results (e.g ...
Morgane Burnel +5 more
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ReChat: A Task‐Based Chatbot for EV Charging Management Optimization
IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.ReChat is a multilingual task‐based chatbot for EV charging management, combining supervised intent classification with a deterministic and safe task‐to‐action mapping. Experiments on six languages and an end‐to‐end Telegram prototype validate its monitoring and control capabilities.
Pablo Donate +5 more
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To the word order of praeterital auxiliary verb in Middle Czech Bibles
Linguistica Brunensia, 2015 The article deals with the development of word-order of the preterit auxiliary in the Early Modern Czech (also Middle Czech) Bibles (Gospel of Matthew). The article builds on the previous analysis examining the phenomenon in Old Czech Bibles.
Pavel Kosek
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On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring
IsoglossThis study investigates the production of clitic pronouns by monolingual Italian children aged 4;9-10;11, using a sentence repetition task including sentences with one or two restructuring verbs.
Anna Cardinaletti +2 more
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