The article discusses a fragment of the syntactic subsystem of the Turkic languages, com-plex sentences, from the standpoint of systemic linguistics. Turkic languages have their own features, which often distinguish these languages from the Indo-European
M E Dubrovina
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Seinsverben und Kopulae im Uralischen [Verbs for ’be’ and Copulas in Uralic Languages]; pp. 241-272 [PDF]
Like in Indo-European languages a lot of suppletion is observed in the morphology of âbeâ verbs in the Uralic languages. In both language families those verbs are the main option for a copula, but not the only one.
László Honti
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K jedné kapitole z dějin jazykovědy. Příspěvek k 150. výročí úmrtí srovnávacího jazykovědce Augusta Schleichera | One chapter in the history of linguistics. A note on the 150th anniversary of the death of comparative linguist August Schleicher [PDF]
The article concerns the history of linguistics in the 19th century, in particular August Schleicher’s place in the history of linguistics and his scholarly heritage for linguistics in the 20th century, recalling that he was the founder of a method ...
Lenka Vodrážková
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Mathematical Models of the Distribution and Change of Linguistic Information in Language Communities: a Case of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Chinese Language Communities [PDF]
The paper presents a theoretical analysis and computer simulations of the distribution and changes of the linguistic information in two model language communities: Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Chinese. Simulations show that out of two main hypotheses of
Egorova Maia +2 more
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Questions on the timing and the center of the Indo-European language dispersal are central to debates on the formation of the European and Asian linguistic landscapes and are deeply intertwined with questions on the archaeology and population history of ...
Guus Kroonen +4 more
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The study of 'language contact' has come very much to the fore in sociolinguistics in recent years, and it is not surprising that Romani, a diaspora language, should receive a good share of attention. Since its very departure from India a millennium ago,
Ian Hancock
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Trilled /r/ is associated with roughness, linking sound and touch across spoken languages
Cross-modal integration between sound and texture is important to perception and action. Here we show this has repercussions for the structure of spoken languages.
Bodo Winter +3 more
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GENDER RESOLUTION IN CROATIAN, SLAVIC AND PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN
This paper deals with the origin and development of the gender resolution rule according to which the predicate adjective agrees with the masculine antecedent when there is agreement with a conjunction of subjects at least one of which denotes a male ...
Ranko Matasović
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VISTA CONOSCENZA, PAROLA: LO “SCHEMA DEL CONTENITORE” APPLICATO A UN CASO DI POLISEMIA INDOEUROPEA
View, Knowledge, Word: The Container Image-Schema Applied to a Case of Proto-Indo-European Polysemy. The present discussion aims at reconsidering the theoretical process of knowledge in some ancient Indo-European languages in the light of the ...
Marianna POZZA
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Iconicity in English and Spanish and Its Relation to Lexical Category and Age of Acquisition.
Signed languages exhibit iconicity (resemblance between form and meaning) across their vocabulary, and many non-Indo-European spoken languages feature sizable classes of iconic words known as ideophones.
Lynn K Perry +2 more
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