Depicting handshapes for animate referents in Swedish Sign Language
In this article, we explore the distribution of handshapes used in depicting constructions (also known as classifier predicates) representing animate referents in Swedish Sign Language (STS).
Simper-Allen Pia, Börstell Carl
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Intersubjectivity and engagement in Ku Waru
Following Evans et al. (2018a, 2018b), I use “engagement” to refer to grammatical encoding of the relative accessibility of an entity or state of affairs to the speaker and addressee. I refer to what is thereby encoded as the “engagement function”.
Rumsey Alan
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Lexical Retention in Contact Grammaticalisation: Already in Southeast Asian Englishes
Amongst the problems of contact grammaticalisation research in past studies has been, first, the problem of searching for diachronic evidence in relatively 'new' language situations, something which was advocated by Bruyn (2009), amongst others as ...
Ziegeler, Debra, Lee, Sarah
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Co-occurrence Strength and Transitivity Effects on Spanish Clitic Case Variation With Reverse-Psychological Predicates. [PDF]
Guajardo G.
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Grammaticalisation processes in Flemish Sign Language
Following Hopper & Traugott (2003 [1993]: 232), grammaticalisation can be defined as “the change whereby lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions.” Grammaticalisation processes have not been studied very extensively in sign
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Narrow-syntax and post-spellout movements: evidence from the syntax of idiomatic expressions in Arabic varieties. [PDF]
Rayyan M, Jarrah M, Abusalim N.
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Iconicity as the motivation for the signification and locality of deictic grammatical tones in Tal
We present novel evidence for iconicity in core morphophonological grammar by documenting, describing, and analysing two patterns of tonal alternation in Tal (West Chadic, Nigeria).
Michael Bulkaam, Samuel Kayode Akinbo
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Introduction : de la grammaticalisation à la transcatégorialité [PDF]
Présentation de la notion de fonctionnement transcatégoriel ou grammaticalisation synchronique et résumé des articles de l ...
Robert, Stéphane
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Présentation. Les auxiliaires : délimitation, grammaticalisation et analyse
Shyldkrot Hava Bat-Zeev. Présentation. Les auxiliaires : délimitation, grammaticalisation et analyse. In: Langages, 33ᵉ année, n°135, 1999. Les auxiliaires : délimitation, grammaticalisation et analyse, sous la direction de Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot. pp. 3-
Shyldkrot, Hava
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BEASTling: A software tool for linguistic phylogenetics using BEAST 2. [PDF]
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