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The Grammar of Perception: A Case Study of Guambiano (Namtrik) and Duna

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Although the senses provide a common basis for our experience of the world, cross‐linguistic research has revealed substantial diversity across languages in how perceptual experiences are encoded in words. Such variability is also present at the level of grammatical structure, though the project of charting the parameters and limits of cross ...
Elisabeth Norcliffe, Lila San Roque
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A FIRST LOOK AT CHEN (KONYAK) ARGUMENT AND CLAUSE STRUCTURES

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021
Chen (Bodo-Konyak-Jingphaw, Tibeto-Burman) is an undocumented language of the Konyak ethnic group. It is spoken in northeast India and northwest Myanmar. This article provides a first description of the Chen simple argument and clause structures.
Hoipo Konyak
doaj  

When Science Becomes Law: Proficiency, Deficiency, and the Regulation of Literacy

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 1, January/February/March 2027.
This graphic depicts how the “Science of Reading” functions as a legitimizing discourse in the translation of literacy research into policy. As literacy policy is enacted through assessments, interventions, retention policies, and educator evaluation systems, literacy becomes increasingly organized through categories of proficiency and deficiency ...
CoCo Massengale
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Remnant movement and smuggling in some Romance interrogative clauses

Abstract This chapter argues that remnant movement to the HLP and to the LLP coexist in French and the NIDs. To show this it first concentrates on the ill-understood syntax of quoi (what), pourquoi (why), and que (what) in French. It also shows that the syntax of French questions crucially takes into account the fact that most qu ...
Cecilia Poletto, Jean-Yves Pollock
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Human Factors and Investigation Tools: A Sociotechnical‐Legal Framework for Event, Incident, and Accident Analysis in Work Health and Safety

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing &Service Industries, Volume 36, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Safety investigations operate at the intersection of human factors engineering and legal accountability, yet these domains are rarely examined jointly. While human factors methods prioritize system reliability and organizational learning, legal frameworks demand investigations that satisfy statutory thresholds of reasonableness and causation ...
Trajce Cvetkovski, Sara Pazell, Shireen Pit, Sahebeh Mirzaei Ezbarami, Mehrdad Hassani, Peter McGarry, Elise G. C. Crawford   +6 more
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An experimental investigation of wh-dependencies in four island types in Romanian

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This paper gauges the acceptability of wh-extraction from four island types in Romanian, an understudied language in this respect. Linguistic theories predict wh-dependencies to be unacceptable when the gap is located inside adjuncts, complex NPs ...
Gert-Jan Thomas Schoenmakers, Irina Stoica   +1 more
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Street Furniture as an Assetizing Apparatus: Advertising Concessions, Public Maintenance and the Production of Neoliberal Urban Space in Glasgow

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Across British cities, everyday street infrastructure is increasingly sustained through revenue‐generating concessions that detach maintenance from direct municipal budgets. This article examines how street furniture in Glasgow has been incrementally reorganized as an assetizing apparatus under prolonged austerity.
Sinan Wang
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Interrogative and exclamative clauses in a corpus of modern french theatrical plays (1775-1914). Syntactic and textometrical analysis

, 2018
Cette thèse se concentre sur deux groupes bien particuliers de propositions subordonnées dont, à l'heure actuelle, les définitions sont loin de faire consensus parmi les linguistes : les propositions interrogatives et exclamatives indirectes.
Vichos, Kriso
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Multifunctional Affixes in Formal Approaches

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, November/December 2026.
ABSTRACT Multifunctional affixes are affixes that occur in different structural or morphosyntactic environments and are associated with different functions or interpretations in those environments. We begin by presenting the theoretical puzzles raised by such affixes.
Stefan Milosavljević, Petra Mišmaš, Marko Simonovic   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Requests Create Reasons

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 3, Page 582-594, November 2026.
ABSTRACT By issuing requests of one another, we wield what is, on reflection, a remarkable power: to create reasons at will. But how can requesters give us reasons to do what they want, even when they stand in no relation of authority over us? And what would be lost if we saw requests as communicating the existence of pre‐existing reasons, rather than ...
Milan Mossé
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