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More on pejorative language: insults that go beyond their extension [PDF]
, 2020 Slurs have become a big topic of discussion both in philosophy and in linguistics. Slurs are usually characterised as pejorative terms, co-extensional with other, neutral, terms referring to ethnic or social groups. However, slurs are not the only ethnic/
Castroviejo, Elena +2 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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Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift, 2018 This article analyses the use and non-use in American Danish of the indefinite article in the identifying subject predicate construction with a bare noun as the subject predicate: hun er læge – hun er en læge ‘she is a doctor’.
Jan Heegård Petersen
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 567-593, December 2025.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the putative N‐intervening word order among Numeral (Num), Classifier (Clf), and Noun (N), that is, [Clf N Num], where the numeral is the indigenous one, found in 16 Asian languages, 15 Tai‐Kadai and one Austroasiatic, whose canonical word order is otherwise [Num Clf N].
Zi‐Yun Cao, One‐Soon Her
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Pieces of the be perfect in German and older English [PDF]
, 2008 This paper examines the development of periphrastic constructions involving auxiliary "have" and "be" with a past participle in the history of English, on the basis of parsed electronic corpora.
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Out-of-focus encoding in Gur and Kwa [PDF]
, 2008 This paper investigates the structural properties of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions, focussing on the often neglected non-focal sentence part in African tone languages.
Fiedler, Ines, Schwarz, Anne
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Advances in the Historical Linguistics of Signed Languages
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Scholarship in the field of sign historical linguistics has made important progress in recent years. Here we survey this progress in three areas of research that have received the most attention to date, namely, (i) qualitative approaches to understanding the typical pathways of diachronic change in signed languages, (ii) quantitative ...
Justin M. Power +2 more
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Nominal predication and focus anchoring [PDF]
, 2013 It will be shown that verbs can be missing in predicative sentences by using the data from Chinese. Copula-less sentences in Chinese are subject to 'Generalized Anchoring Principle' (GAP), which requires that every clause be anchored at the interface for
Tang, Sze-Wing
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 517-528, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the contested status of “sign language” in Singapore by exploring deaf people's experiences of the “Mother Tongues”—the state's designation for the official languages of Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil—with a particular focus on the relationships that deaf Chinese Singaporeans have with Mandarin.
Timothy Y. Loh
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