Editorial: Demonstratives, Deictic Pointing and the Conceptualization of Space. [PDF]
Diessel H +3 more
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A Study on the Grammatical Features and Phonetic Changes of Chinese Loanwords in Spanish [PDF]
乙婷 熊
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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Bridging consciousness to our narrative brain: evolutionary insights. [PDF]
Benítez-Burraco A, Ferretti F.
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Morphology in a Parallel, Distributed, Interactive Architecture of Language Production. [PDF]
Kapatsinski V.
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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1
Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán Roberts
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Language: Its Origin and Ongoing Evolution. [PDF]
Markov I, Kharitonova K, Grigorenko EL.
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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How (and why) languages became more complex as we evolved more prosocial: the human self-domestication view. [PDF]
Benítez-Burraco A.
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