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Editorial: Demonstratives, Deictic Pointing and the Conceptualization of Space. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Diessel H, Coventry KR, Gudde HB, Capirci O.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses. [PDF]

Nat Hum Behav
Verkerk A, Shcherbakova O, Haynie HJ, Skirgård H, Rzymski C, Atkinson QD, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Demonstratives in Spatial Language and Social Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Review. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2020
Diessel H, Coventry KR.
europepmc   +1 more source

Language: Its Origin and Ongoing Evolution. [PDF]

J Intell, 2023
Markov I, Kharitonova K, Grigorenko EL.
europepmc   +1 more source

James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
wiley   +1 more source

The interpretation of [+distal] in demonstratives and complementizers. [PDF]

Linguistics, 2023
Staps C, Rooryck J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

The contribution of blog-based writing instruction to enhancing writing performance and writing motivation of Chinese EFL learners. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Han S.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source