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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This article examines how commodification practices of Ruhrdeutsch, a formerly stigmatized variety, contribute to local language awareness and enregisterment. Following the decline of the Ruhr Area's heavy industry and the shift from the secondary to the tertiary economic sector, companies have discovered the value of local marketing ...
Nantke Pecht
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The prosodification of possessive enclitics in Airola and Boiano
Moderna Språk, 2020 In southern Italian dialects, possessives have an enclitic variant typically associated with kinship nouns (Rohlfs 1967, Sotiri 2007, Ledgeway 2009, D’Alessandro & Migliori 2017) (e.g. [ˈfratə-mə] ˈbrother myˈ).
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How weak are Romanian clitic pronouns?
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022 In traditional linguistics, pronouns are divided into two classes: those that can bear word stress, coined strong, full or tonal, and those that can not, coined weak, clitic, or atonal.
Ciprian-Virgil Gerstenberger
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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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Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT Mayan languages show variation in the morphosyntactic distribution of absolutive objects. A now commonly‐adopted analysis ties this variation to differences in object movement and agreement. In so‐called ‘high‐absolutive’ languages, objects consistently raise to a position above the ergative subject, where they are targeted for ϕ $\phi $‐Agree
Justin Royer, Jessica Coon
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The position of Set B markers in Proto-Mayan
Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México, 2023 This paper discusses the position of Set B pronouns in Proto-Mayan. While previous reconstructions differ from each other with regard to the exact position that Set B pronouns occupied with respect to the predicate (always preceding, always following ...
Momme Holtmann
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Expanding the Typology of Absolutive Syntax in Mayan: Evidence From Northern Mam
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3, May/June 2025.ABSTRACT Past work on Mayan languages has divided the family into two groups based on syntactic ergativity: ‘high‐absolutive’ languages in which objects raise to a position above the ergative subject and enter into Agree with a high probe and ‘low‐absolutive’ languages in which objects remain low and enter into Agree with a low probe.
Willie Myers
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Enclitics in Croatian Language Teaching – Between Ideas and Practice
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2013 This paper deals with the position of enclitics in the context of Croatian language teaching in secondary schools. Given that the written corpus shows considerable deviation from the standard interpretation of the Wackernagel’s law (Peti-Stantić 2007 ...
Ana Kedveš, Ana Werkmann
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639‐3: con) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. This paper presents the first comprehensive overview of the A'ingae phonology, including descriptions of (i) the language's phonemic inventory, (ii) phonotactics and a number of related phonological rules, (iii) nasality and ...
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
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Exploring (Im)Politeness Strategies in Indirect Reports in Persian across Genders
Education Research International, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Politeness and impoliteness strategies create a vital social practice in our daily and professional interactions. Being once an issue in the code of conduct protocols, (im)politeness nowadays marks an interdisciplinary scientific field. Regarding this importance, this study explored the politeness and impoliteness strategies used in changing direct ...
Iman Nikpoo, Hamid Allami, Mehdi Nasri
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