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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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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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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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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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Offline interpretation of subject pronouns by native speakers of Spanish

Glossa, 2018
Research on anaphora resolution reveals that speakers’ interpretation of pronominal subjects is often inconsistent, with results differing in terms of the antecedent preferences of these speakers and the factors that affect these preferences. The present
Gloria Chamorro
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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
wiley   +1 more source

A verum focus expletive: The case of Sovramontino lu [PDF]

Italian Journal of Linguistics
This paper investigates the discourse-pragmatic expletive lu in Sovramontino, a conservative Gallo-Italic variety spoken in the northeastern part of Italy.
Simone De Cia
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Disunity of personal taste

Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 252-272, June 2025.
The article argues that, linguistically speaking, there is no uniform class of personal taste predicate. There is an F(un)‐type PPT that takes infinitive complements expressing events. In effect, these PPTs are predicates of events involving participants. There is also a T(asty)‐type that cannot take an infinitive complement and does not enter into the
John Collins
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Expanding the Typology of Absolutive Syntax in Mayan: Evidence From Northern Mam

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
ABSTRACT Past work on Mayan languages has divided the family into two groups based on syntactic ergativity: ‘high‐absolutive’ languages in which objects raise to a position above the ergative subject and enter into Agree with a high probe and ‘low‐absolutive’ languages in which objects remain low and enter into Agree with a low probe.
Willie Myers
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Anaphora resolution in 2L1 Romanian. Evidence from Romanian-Hungarian bilinguals [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018
The paper reports the results of an experimental study on intra-sentential anaphora resolution in 2L1 Romanian, by Romanian-Hungarian bilingual children.
Veronica Tomescu
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