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Clauses as Semantic Predicates: Difficulties for Possible-Worlds Semantics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The standard view of clauses embedded under attitude verbs or modal predicates is that they act as terms standing for propositions, a view that faces a range of philosophical and linguistic difficulties.
Moltmann, Friederike
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Temporal Phylogenetic Networks and Logic Programming

open access: yes, 2005
The concept of a temporal phylogenetic network is a mathematical model of evolution of a family of natural languages. It takes into account the fact that languages can trade their characteristics with each other when linguistic communities are in contact,
Erdem, Esra   +2 more
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Ecological Theory of Language Acquisition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This poster outlines an Ecological Theory of Language Acquisition (ETLA). The theory views the early phases of the language acquisition process as an emergent consequence of the interaction between the infant and its linguistic environment.
Gustavsson, Lisa   +5 more
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Editorial: Surrogate Languages and the Grammar of Language-Based Music

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
Laura McPherson, Yoad Winter
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The absence of a trade-off between morphological and syntactic complexity

open access: yesFrontiers in Language Sciences
The hypothesis that all languages are equally complex often invokes a trade-off principle, according to which if a language is more complex in one particular domain, it will be simpler in another different domain.
Antonio Benítez-Burraco   +2 more
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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999 [PDF]

open access: green, 2001
Yves D’hulst   +3 more
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Redefining linguistic categories through network theory

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition
Categorization is a dynamic cognitive process that organizes human knowledge. As such, categorization processes are integral of the linguistic system and are primarily manifested in the conceptual categories represented in semantic memory.
Natividad Hernández Muñoz   +2 more
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What is typology? - a short note [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
It is often assumed that the goal of typology is to define the notion ‘possible human language’. This view, which I call the Universalist Typology view is shared, for example, by virtually all contributors to Bynon & Shibatani’s 1995 volume Approaches to
Bickel, Balthasar
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