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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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

The ‘Bilingualism Factor’ in Language Change: The Consequences of Language Contact Within and Across Bilingual Minds1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
wiley   +1 more source

Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
wiley   +1 more source

Corrigendum: Syllable Complexity and Morphological Synthesis: A Well-Motivated Positive Complexity Correlation Across Subdomains. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Easterday S, Stave M, Allassonnière-Tang M, Seifart F.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
wiley   +1 more source

On the socio-cognitive coercion mechanism of the formation of mandarin construction "V+ta(he)+XP". [PDF]

Front Psychol
Zhang P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Simple syntactic rules through rapid synaptic changes

, 2023
Sun L, Manohar SG.
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