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The Bantu-Romance-Greek connection revisited: Processing constraints in auxiliary and clitic placement from a cross-linguistic perspective

Glossa, 2017
This paper explores a connection between Romance and Greek on the one hand, and Bantu on the other. More specifically, we look at auxiliary placement in Rangi and clitic placement in Tobler Mussafia languages, with a special emphasis on Cypriot Greek ...
Hannah Gibson, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
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Intensifying adverbs in the English language [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture, 2019
The article provides an analysis of various aspects of intensification in the English language (colloquial and newspaper), intensifying adverbs in particular.
Evgeniya V. Zhiber, Larisa V. Korotina
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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The grammaticalisation of a copula in vernacular Arabic

Glossa, 2019
It is standardly assumed that Arabic copula constructions with present tense interpretation involve either a null copula or a pronominal copula.
Louisa Sadler, Maris Camilleri
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

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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The Role of Play in Language Structure, Acquisition and Evolution

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT Similarly to language, play is an essential component of human behaviour and culture. However, the links between play and language have been underexamined and often neglected beyond the aesthetic uses of language as found in literature. But playing pervades language.
Antonio Benítez‐Burraco, Stefan Hartmann, Michael Pleyer   +2 more
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WE…WITH ANNA: THE INCLUSORY PLURAL PRONOMINAL CONSTRUCTION IN FINNISH AND FENNO‐SWEDISH*

Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 364-398, August 2024.
Abstract This article provides a syntactic analysis of the inclusory plural pronominal construction in Fenno‐Swedish and Finnish. In this construction, a plural pronoun has a singular reading: vi …med Anna (literally “we …with Anna”) means ‘Anna and I’. In addition to the plural pronoun, the construction includes a comitative PP.
Klaus Kurki
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The Quotative System in Spanish and English Youth Talk. A Contrastive Corpus-based Study

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2014
The speech of teenagers is rich in narratives, with the direct reproduction of speech, thoughts, and non-lexical material often introduced through the use of quotatives. This paper aims to compare such quotative markers in English and Spanish.. Findings
Ignacio Miguel Palacios Martínez
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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