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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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, 2013 Im Kikuyu, einer in Kenia gesprochenen Bantusprache, wird Fokus systematisch durch Wortstellung markiert. In dieser Arbeit werden die verschiedenen Varianten der Markierung von Fokus in Frage-Antwortsequenzen dargestellt. Nach einem Überblick über in der
Schwarz, Florian
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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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From anaphoric pronoun to copula in Zande [PDF]
, 2012 In Zande there is a particle ni which has two syntactic functions. The first one is that of an ana¬phoric pronoun (cf. ex. 1. for its use as a possessive pronoun) which is neutral with regard to gender, number, and syntactic function. The second function
Pasch, Helma
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On feeling relieved that something is over
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 2, Page 496-512, September 2025.Abstract On one way of interpreting it, Arthur Prior's “Thank Goodness That's Over” argument aims to establish the truth of tense realism on the basis of two key assumptions: that tensed relief requires tensed propositions and that tensed propositions require tensed facts.
Giovanni Merlo
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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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Heidegger on the ontological significance of the principle of noncontradiction
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 372-386, September 2025.Abstract The aim of this article is to break down to its principal arguments the abundant material recently published in Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe related to a conference given in December 1932 on the principle of noncontradiction (PNC). I will first highlight the importance in phenomenology of a correct interpretation of the PNC and then explain ...
François Jaran
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Hybrid Clause Combining Strategies in Turkish Language Contacts
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 391-434, August 2025.Abstract The Turkic contact varieties of the Balkans use two main diametrically opposed subordination strategies: (i) the Turkic template, where typical subordinate clauses are prepositive, nonfinite, contain clause‐final subordinators, etc. and (ii) the Indo‐European (IE) template, where typical subordinate clauses are postpositive, finite, contain ...
Cem Keskin +3 more
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Process nominalizations in russian [PDF]
, 2013 Within a minimalist framework of sound-meaning correlation, the present study concentrates on process nominalizations of Russian. It is shown how these constructions are built up syntactically and semantically and in which respects they differ from other
Zimmermann, Ilse
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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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