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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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Ways of licensing Hungarian external possessors [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines the status of Hungarian dative noun phrases interpreted as external possessors of a sister constituent. It challenges the widely accepted view put forth by Szabolcsi (1983; 1992, etc.) that external possessors are uniformly assigned a
É. Kiss, Katalin
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City University of New York. Department of Linguistics [PDF]
, 1995 This paper gives reasons to recover the notion of "last resort" found in Chomsky (1991) by examining two uses of the antipassive suffix -ni in Jacaltec, an ergative Mayan language. This suffix is inserted as a last resort where UG makes the assignment of
Ordóñez, Francisco
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Learning Character-level Compositionality with Visual Features
, 2017 Previous work has modeled the compositionality of words by creating character-level models of meaning, reducing problems of sparsity for rare words. However, in many writing systems compositionality has an effect even on the character-level: the meaning ...
Liu, Frederick +3 more
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Diachronic Morphology: an Overview [PDF]
, 1995 A fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies Joint Committee on Eastern ...
Joseph, Brian D.
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Birth, survival and death of languages by Monte Carlo simulation
, 2007 Simulations of physicists for the competition between adult languages since 2003 are reviewed. How many languages are spoken by how many people? How many languages are contained in various language families?
Schulze, C., Stauffer, D., Wichmann, S.
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Putting it All Together: Agreement, Incorporation, Coordination and External Possession in Wubuy (Australia) [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we examine the interaction of a number of grammatical phenomena in Wubuy, a polysynthetic language from northern Australia, and show how they can be given a comprehensive analysis within the framework of LFG. While each of these phenomena ?
Baker, B +3 more
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Morphological and conceptual influences on the real-time comprehension of optional plural marked sentences in Yucatec Maya. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Butler LK.
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 188, Issue 3, November 2025.
Amy L. Rector
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Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges. [PDF]
J Child Lang, 2023 Cristia A +5 more
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