Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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Persuasive conversation as a new form of communication in Homo sapiens. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Ferretti F, Adornetti I.
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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Syntactic change in diachrony versus contact-induced change: two sides of the same coin? [PDF]
Linguist RevD'Alessandro R, Putnam MT, Terenghi S.
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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On the socio-cognitive coercion mechanism of the formation of mandarin construction "V+ta(he)+XP". [PDF]
Front PsycholZhang P.
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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Bridging consciousness to our narrative brain: evolutionary insights. [PDF]
Front PsycholBenítez-Burraco A, Ferretti F.
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Simple syntactic rules through rapid synaptic changes
, 2023 Sun L, Manohar SG.
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Corrigendum: Syllable Complexity and Morphological Synthesis: A Well-Motivated Positive Complexity Correlation Across Subdomains. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Easterday S +3 more
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