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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 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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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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Probing the interaction of language contact and internal innovation

Studies in African Linguistics, 2019
The Bantu language Rangi is spoken at the northern borderlands of Tanzania, where Bantu, Cushitic and Nilotic languages meet. In many regards, Rangi exhibits the morphosyntax typically associated with East African Bantu: SVO word order, an extensive ...
Hannah Gibson, Lutz Marten
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Depicting handshapes for animate referents in Swedish Sign Language

Open Linguistics
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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Making Referents Seen and Heard Across Signed and Spoken Languages: Documenting and Interpreting Cross-Modal Differences in the Use of Enactment. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Vandenitte S.
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How individuals change language. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Blythe RA, Croft W.
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Is the future near or far depending on the verb tense markers used? An experimental investigation into the effects of the grammaticalization of the future. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Jäggi T, Sato S, Gillioz C, Gygax PM.
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On the Formation of Verb Compounds in Early Middle Japanese

Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2013
This paper is dedicated to the formation of verb compounds in Early Middle Japanese, a stage of the Japanese language used in the Heian Period (794–1185). The findings reveal that current verb compounds have come a long way from Old Japanese.
Wenchao LI
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Typologie vs linguistique générale : un essai // Typology vs general linguistics : an essay [PDF]

Svět Literatury, 2015
In this paper, I take up the case of quotative evidentials and their (non-?)existence in Romance languages, in an attempt to illustrate the fact that the dialogue between typological linguistics and general linguistics is essential.
Benjamin Fagard
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