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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
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Influences of Language Functions on Linguistic Features: Multi-Dimensional and Entropy Analyses of Academic and Entertainment Registers. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Hu C, Zhu Y, Yuan L.
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If‐Conditionals as Arguments in Nineteenth‐Century Women's Instructive Writing in English

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article seeks to analyse the if‐conditionals in a corpus of cookery recipes written by women, namely the Corpus of Women's Instructive Texts in English (1800–1899) (CoWITE19). These texts are original texts written by British and American women between 1800 and 1850.
Margarita‐Esther Sánchez‐Cuervo
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How (and why) languages became more complex as we evolved more prosocial: the human self-domestication view. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Benítez-Burraco A.
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Neutral Forms of Be as Default Forms: The Utility of Underspecification and Blocking in a Welsh Morphosyntactic Phenomenon

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
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Language, silence, and logic: Zen, Nishida, and fthe Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in cognitive and cultural perspectives. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Kuang X, He C, Chen Q, Song Y, Song T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Morphology in a Parallel, Distributed, Interactive Architecture of Language Production. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell, 2022
Kapatsinski V.
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Refusing to Listen: Receptive Audiences and the Political Authority of Speech in Hobbes, Locke, and Mill

Constellations, EarlyView.
Thomas Henry Owings
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández, Susagna Tubau   +1 more
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Person vs. locative agreement: Evidence from late learners and language emergence. [PDF]

Sign Lang Linguist, 2020
Kwok L, Berk S, Lillo-Martin D.
europepmc   +1 more source