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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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The loss of *g before *m in Proto-Slavic [PDF]
, 2010 This paper proposes a new sound rule for Proto-Slavic, according to which *g (from PIE *g, *gw, *gh, and *gwh) was lost before *m. This development was posterior to Winter’s law and the merger of voiced and aspirated stop in Slavic.
Matasović, Ranko
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Кем был протополит Зоил Херсонский? / Who was protopolit Zoilus from Cherson?
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2016 Несмотря на многовековое исследование, история византийской Таврики все еще не изучена в полной мере. Так, до сих пор идет спор о значении терминов, обозначающих должности.
Stefan Albrecht
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The topic-prominence parameter [PDF]
, 2013 This article aims to recast the properties of topic-prominent languages and their differences from subject-prominent languages as documented in the functionalist literature into the framework of the Principle-and-Parameter approach.
Xu, Liejiong
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Old English lida and the sailors of the North Sea
Filologia GermanicaThe essay examines the words for ‘sailor’ in the Germanic languages, with particular regard to those going under the sobriquet of North Sea Germanic languages. The research begins with the lida of Maxims I and his safe return home.
Patrizia Lendinara
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The diachronic emergence of retroflex segments in three languages [PDF]
, 2009 The present study shows that though retroflex segments can be considered articulatorily marked, there are perceptual reasons why languages introduce this class into their phoneme inventory. This observation is illustrated with the diachronic developments
Hamann, Silke
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Current state of development of Eurocomprehension research [PDF]
, 2001 "Eurocomprehension" is the term used to describe European intercomprehension in Europe’s three major language families, the Romance, the Slavic and the Germanic. The aim of eurocomprehension is to achieve multilingualism conforming to EU language policy
Klein, Horst G.
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