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Silent Gesture as a Complementary Methodology in (Sign‐Language) Linguistics: Interpretive Possibilities and Limits

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Silent gesture is increasingly used in linguistics to investigate questions that are difficult or impossible to address using natural language data alone, including issues of language emergence, word order, grammatical categorisation, and iconicity. However, the interpretation of silent‐gesture findings remains methodologically complex.
Oksana Tkachman
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 574-594, September 2026.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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The definite article in Votic: the process of grammaticalisation

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015
The paper is devoted to the grammaticalisation of the deictic pronoun se into a definite article in Votic. The author traces this process diachronically demonstrating the results of her studies with the examples of a folktale written down by August ...
Tatiana Agranat
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 426-448, September 2026.
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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Grammaticalisation. 2, Concepts et cas

, 2001
International audienceTextes des communications du quatorzième colloque organisé à l'Université de Rennes 2, juin 2000, par le CERLICO, Cercle linguistique du Centre de l'Ouest.Sommaire :– Daniel Roulland, Préface.– Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot ...
Roulland, Daniel, Col, Gilles
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 314-356, July 2026.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 240-256, March 2026.
Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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Discurso referido, gramaticalización y construcción lingüística del texto

Recherches, 2017
Dans cet article, nous nous proposons, d’abord, de montrer que la syntaxe de la phrase et du discours est nécessaire, mais non suffisante, pour rendre compte du discours rapporté ; ensuite, de mettre en rapport cette construction avec les notions de ...
José Luis Girón Alconchel
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The ‘Bilingualism Factor’ in Language Change: The Consequences of Language Contact Within and Across Bilingual Minds1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 460-478, November 2025.
Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
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Les conjonctions de causalité et leur grammaticalisation [PDF]

, 2012
Dans cet article, nous étudierons d’abord la nature du lien causal entre deux propositions pour regarder ensuite les pistes de grammaticalisation des marqueurs subordonnants de la causalité.
Haßler, Gerda
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