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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 53-90, March 2026.
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe, Adriana Molina‐Muñoz, Antonia Ruppel   +2 more
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Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses

Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 103-131, March 2026.
Abstract The current study investigated from a usage‐based perspective how phrasal frequency and collocational strength of verb–preposition collocations influence preposition placement in wh‐relative clauses. Native English speakers and Chinese learners of English as a second language of the intermediate and advanced English proficiencies completed a ...
Henan Duan (she/her), Helen Zhao (she/her), Jonathon Lum (he/him)   +2 more
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Indexing Power Through Self‐Reference: Electoral Margins and the Use of Běnxí Among Taiwanese Parliamentarians

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 56-69, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Taiwanese members of parliament (MPs) deploy self‐referring expressions—specifically, the formal first‐person singular běnxí—to negotiate their institutional standing and project political power. By operationalizing access to objective power using the margin of victory (MoV) as one possible proxy, the research shows ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
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Dominican 'ello' as a non-deleted null expletive

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2014
The Spanish variety spoken in the dominican region of El Cibao (DSEC) has an expletive pronoun ello which is optative and seems to be devoid of any semantic value.
Carlos Muñoz Pérez
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Anaphora resolution and word-order across adulthood: Ageing effects on online listening comprehension

Glossa, 2020
In this visual-world paradigm we investigated the processing and interpretation of two overt subject anaphoric expressions in Greek, a null-subject language with a relatively free word-order, in relation to specific linguistic properties and whether ...
Ana I. Pérez Muñoz, Georgia Fotiadou, Ianthi Maria Tsimpli   +2 more
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Gender‐Conscious Language in Easy‐to‐Read German and L2 German Classrooms: Insights From a Case Study on Epicenes

Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 266-276, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT Language should be inclusive. This implies that it should be accessible for as many people as possible. The concept of easy‐to‐read language (Leichte Sprache, LS) developed for this purpose and primarily for people with learning difficulties is beneficial for L2 learners of German as well.
Aylin Braunewell, Christin Schütze
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Overt pronouns in null subject languages: an experimental investigation of Kashubian, Polish, and Silesian

Linguistics
Interpretive differences between overt subject pronouns relative to null subject pronouns are commonly considered a defining property of Consistent Null Subject Languages (CNSLs), in contradistinction to Partial Null Subject Languages (PNSLs).
Ruda Marta, Huang Nick
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Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Mayan languages show variation in the morphosyntactic distribution of absolutive objects. A now commonly‐adopted analysis ties this variation to differences in object movement and agreement. In so‐called ‘high‐absolutive’ languages, objects consistently raise to a position above the ergative subject, where they are targeted for ϕ $\phi $‐Agree
Justin Royer, Jessica Coon
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Languages Without Tense

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Within formal semantics, languages with no exponent of tense, or with optional tense, have begun to be incorporated into the theory of temporality only in the last couple decades. This article traces the development of their study, identifying empirical arguments that arbitrate between competing analyses of tenselessness.
Maziar Toosarvandani
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