Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses. [PDF]
Nat Hum BehavVerkerk A +7 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron +2 more
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Replicate Me if You Can: Assessing Measurement Reliability of Individual Differences in Reading Across Measurement Occasions and Methods. [PDF]
Cogn SciHaller P +6 more
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Lexical innovations are rarely passed on during one's lifetime: Epidemiological perspectives on estimating the basic reproductive ratio of words. [PDF]
PLoS OneBaumann A.
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.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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Is Word Order Responsive to Morphology? Disentangling Cause and Effect in Morphosyntactic Change in Five Western European Languages. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Nijs J, Van de Velde F, Cuyckens H.
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Grouping sounds into evolving units for the purpose of historical language comparison. [PDF]
Open Res EurList JM, Hill NW, Blum F, Juárez C.
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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