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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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, 2002 Abstract The following chapter is an attempt to solve a particularly troublesome problem in the theory of Transformational Grammar: the problem of ordering and combining clitic pronouns. Perlmutter (1971) shows that the syntax of clitic pronouns in (South-American) Spanish and French cannot be handled by transformations in the ordinary ...
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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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Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2013 This paper analyzes unconventional segmentation of word found in texts of the sixth grade of Elementary School. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis, we describe the prosodic characteristics that may be motivated the hyper and hippossegmentation
Luciani Tenani +1 more
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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 469-488, December 2025.ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
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Explicit information, working memory, and cognitive control in processing instruction
Ampersand, 2023 This exploratory study examines the how individual differences in working memory and cognitive control relate to processing instruction (PI) targeting word order and accusative clitic pronouns in L2 Italian.
Michael J. Leeser, Pietro Pesce
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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Clitic Placement and the Grammaticalization of the Future and the Conditional in Old Catalan
Languages, 2023 The romance future and conditional tenses are the result of the grammaticalization of Latin periphrasis, mainly cantāre habeō. In some medieval Romance languages, including Catalan, two types of forms existed: synthetic forms (faré ‘I will do’) and ...
Aina Torres-Latorre, Andreu Sentí
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Weak function word shift [PDF]
, 2004 The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains.
Vogel, Ralf
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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