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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Cartography and Microparametric variation: Criterial V2 in Swiss Romansh varieties
Revista Linguística, 2019 In this article, I shall provide evidence for a theory of microparametric variation among Swiss Romansh varieties adopting a cartographic notion of parameter in terms of syntactic operations triggered by morphosyntactic features in functional projections.
Giuseppe Samo
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The Plural is Unmarked: Evidence from Turkish, Hungarian and German
Glossa, 2023 Quantity distinctions are morphologically indicated in the majority of languages.However, the marking of these distinctions exhibits a high degree of cross-linguistic variation with respect to the number of quantity categories, their agreement properties,
Artemis Alexiadou +4 more
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2009 Este artigo se debruça sobre o mapeamento entre os Níveis Interpessoal, Representacional e Morfossintático da gramática, o chamado alinhamento, segundo o arcabouço da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional (GDF). Propõe uma tipologia das línguas baseada no que a
Kees Hengeveld, J. Lachlan Mackenzie
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Oral language profiles and associated factors in children after neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke
Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.Abstract Aim To characterize language outcomes at age 7 years after neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke (NAIS) and identify language profiles and determinants. Method This prospective longitudinal cohort study included 70 children (44 males) from a French cohort with NAIS.
Laure Drutel +4 more
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The Ngəmba interrogative verb ghě ‘to what?’
Afrika und Übersee, 2023 While interrogative pronouns, adverbials, and determiners seem to constitute universal word categories (Ultan 1978), interrogative verbs are rather rare worldwide (Hagège 2008).
Solange Mekamgoum, Roland Kießling
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Exploring morphosyntactic variation and change with Distributional Semantic Models
Journal of Historical Syntax, 2022 This paper surveys how computational distributional semantic models (DSMs) have thus far been employed to study morphosyntactic variation and change in Early Modern English. As a case study, this paper homes in on the development of the Early Modern English auxiliary do.
Fonteyn, Lauren +2 more
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Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.Abstract People with Parkinson disease (PD) after surgery for deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN‐DBS) often decline in animal fluency due to impairments in executive functions and/or language. Item‐based measures of animal fluency may shed light on the specific nature of this decline, and into the strategies used when ...
Adrià Rofes +6 more
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