Causal Reasoning and Event Cognition as Evolutionary Determinants of Language Structure. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2021 Gärdenfors P.
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Pronoms indéfinis et grammaticalisation [PDF]
Modèles linguistiques, 2007 1 Introduction Le japonais construit des expressions indefinies et des questions partielles en associant un ‘pronom indetermine’ (ex. dare, nani) avec une particule (ex. ka), comme en [1]-[4] : [1]a John-ga John-Nom nani-ka- o quoi-KA-Acc kat- ta. acheter-Pas (Kuroda 1965 : 97) [1]b John a achete quelque chose. [2]a John-ga John-Nom nani-o QUOI –Acc
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The evolution of a coordinator from a vocative source: the case of the disjunctive ja: in Jordanian Arabic. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Jaradat AA, Jaradat AA, Al-Taher MA.
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Paradigms as triggers of semantic change: Demonstrative adverbs in Catalan and Spanish
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2015 This paper sets out to analyse the development of demonstrative adverbs of place in Catalan and Spanish. The main questions dealt with in this study are the following: (i) why two-term and three-term deictic systems often display a certain lack of ...
Manuel Pérez Saldanya
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Towards reconstructing the numeral classifier system of Proto-Tivoid
Afrika und ÜberseeThe Tivoid subgroup of Bantoid presents an evolving numeral classifier system with restricted lexical coverage, as attested for a number of various subgroups of the Benue Congo languages of Nigeria and Cameroon (Kießling 2018).
Michael Terhemen Angitso +1 more
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Postulêre werkwoorde in Griekwa-Afrikaans – ʼn ondersoek vanuit ʼn grammatikaliseringsperspektief
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2016 Die grammatikale funksie wat liggaamshoudingwerkwoorde, oftewel postulêre werkwoorde (spesifiek die werkwoorde sit, staan, lê en loop) in geskrewe Standaardafrikaans verrig, is taamlik omvattend beskryf in bestaande Afrikaanse taalkundenavorsing.
Breed, Catharina Adriana
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Grammaticalization of discourse markers: views from Jordanian Arabic. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Jaradat A, Jaradat A.
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Epistemic authority and sociolinguistic stance in an Australian Aboriginal language
Open Linguistics, 2019 Murrinhpatha, an Aboriginal language of northern Australia, has an initial k-alternation in verbs that has hitherto been resistant to grammatical analysis.
Mansfield John
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Co-occurrence Strength and Transitivity Effects on Spanish Clitic Case Variation With Reverse-Psychological Predicates. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Guajardo G.
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