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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 +2 more
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The easy-to-please construction in Middle English [PDF]
, 2013 The aim of this article is to follow the changes that took place in the history of easy-to-please constructions. To fully apprehend that, we will begin by looking at Middle English infinitives and the change which affected them.
Bratko-Makaran, Maciej
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Grammaticalisation paths in the rise and development of aside
Research in Corpus Linguistics, 2020 In this paper we analyse the grammaticalisation processes involved in the rise and development of the ‘a-adverbial’ aside from the original combination of the preposition on and the substantive side in Old English. Different aspects of this grammatical change will be discussed in the paper, from morphosyntactic and phonological (coalescence ...
Rodrigo Pérez Lorido +1 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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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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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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Konstrukční auxiliária v hovorové arabštině — případ sloves s významem vstoupit [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní FilologiiThe present study offers an analysis of asyndetic multiverbal constructions consisting of the verb meaning enter and a following lexical verb in a range of colloquial Arabic varieties.
Adam Pospíšil
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Indefinites, negation and Jespersen's Cycle in the history of Low German [PDF]
, 2013 This paper offers a formal account of the diachronic changes in the interaction between indefinites in the scope of negation and the expression of sentential negation in the history of Low German.
Breitbarth, Anne
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 119-150, March 2024.Abstract Degrammaticalisation is an oft‐dismissed category of language change. In this paper evidence is provided for its existence, its triggers, and its conditions. This case study details the development of an understudied Old Italo‐Romance indefinite, covelle, a polarity‐sensitive item roughly translating as ‘anything’ which originated from a Latin
Nicola D’Antuono
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What variational linguistics can learn from Galician [PDF]
, 2008 This short overview reviews, in the first part, some of the most important fields of investigation where studies on Galician have contributed to variational linguistics, including macro- and micro-sociolinguistic studies (sections 1-3).
Kabatek, Johannes
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