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International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific purposes, 2023
This study examined cross-linguistic variation in relation to a gripping pattern of code-mixing observed in the speech of some Yorùbá-English speakers. It employed a descriptive-qualitative design and analysed 157 sentences of selected Yorùbá-English bilinguals from different age groups in Osun and Oyo States.
Reuben O. Ikotun +2 more
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Cross-linguistic variation in metonymies for PERSON

Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2015
This paper investigates metonymies for person in Chinese and English in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics with an emphasis on cross-linguistic variation. Our central goal is to highlight the important role of cultural elements on the use of metonymy. Three main types of cross-linguistic variation were found at different degrees of granularities of
Weiwei Zhang, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts +2 more
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Measure words, plurality, and cross-linguistic variation

Linguistic Variation, 2015
In the context of Borer’s (2005) theory of nominal classification, the aim of this paper is to explain why measure words in some languages (English, French, Hebrew) necessarily take an -s(two bottles of milkversus*two bottle of milk)while in other languages (Azeri, Persian, Ojibwe) measure words can surface without plural marking (the equivalent oftwo ...
Eric Mathieu, Gita Zareikar
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Little v and cross-linguistic variation

2016
The main claim of this paper is that little v is responsible for a range of grammatical properties of the predicate phrase that it selects for. Bilingual light verb constructions in several code-switching varieties provide strong evidence for this claim.
Tonjes Veenstra, Luis López
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