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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2022 The article focuses on current word-formation processes in the Russian language and the role of adverbs and state-of-being words involved. The Runet forum discourse presents a favourable medium for such processes.
Elena Shchenikova
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Observações sobre o uso dos afixos derivacionais em alguns crioulos de base lexical portuguesa e espanhola [PDF]
Linguística, 2009 In the present study, we examine McWhorter’s (1998; 2005) hypothesis according to which the derivational morphology of creole languages is semantically transparent or “compositional”. We have drawn our data from six Iberoromancebased creoles.
Angela Bartens
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A Description of Derivational Affixes in Sarhaddi Balochi of Granchin [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2014 Sarhaddi Balochi dialect, a language variety of Western (Rakhshani) Balochi, employs derivation through affixation as one of its word formation processes.
Abbas Ali Ahangar +2 more
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From compounding to derivation The emergence of derivational affixes through “constructionalization”
Folia Linguistica, 2014 AbstractThe rise of new derivational affixes can be analyzed adequately as a case of “constructionalization” within the framework of Construction Morphology as developed by Booij (2010). We review some aspects and problems of previous accounts that view the emergence of derivational affixes as a case of grammaticalization or as a case of lexicalization,
Hüning, M., Booij, G.E.
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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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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 3, March 2026.Abstract Semantic transparency is a key construct for understanding how complex words are represented and processed, yet it has been conceptualized and operationalized in diverse ways across studies. In this study, we validate whether semantic transparency exhibits multidimensional properties across different measures in Mandarin Chinese.
Jing Chen +3 more
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Derywacja czasowników w rosyjskim slangu młodzieżowym na bazie angielskiego materiału leksykalnego
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2018 The article is devoted to the derivation of verbs in Russian youth slang, based on English lexical material (verbs, nouns, adjectives). By means of Russian's numerous affixes, young people form various expressive and humorous verbs, build derivational ...
Katarzyna Kubecka
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 211-248, March 2026.Abstract Analyses in vocabulary research should avoid the language‐as‐a‐fixed‐effect fallacy, whereby no statistical evidence is provided to support claimed generalizations beyond the words tested in the sample. Although mixed‐effects models are widely adopted in social sciences to avoid this fallacy, second language vocabulary researchers primarily ...
Christopher Nicklin +2 more
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