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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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, 1999 In this report, I attempt to analyse some of the syntactic and semantic features of the Participle Perception Verb Complement (PPVC). The perception verb selects a participle complement but not a gerund complement.
Nabeya Koji
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Wibana: How Bobonaza Runa and Forest Animals Know and Live With Each Other
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Runa women living along the Bobonaza river in the Ecuadorian Amazon raise captured forest animals, in a practice called wibana. Runa women are attentive to the particular ways the wiba (raised) animals interface with the world, and learn the wibas’ communicative repertoires and are able to “read” what wibas sense in the forest, including ...
James Beveridge
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Serbo-Croat Clitics and Word Grammar [PDF]
, 2007 Serbo-Croat has a complex system of clitics which raise interesting problems for any theory of the interface between syntax and morphology. After summarising the data we review previous analyses (mostly within the generative tradition), all of which are ...
Hudson, Richard, Čamdžić, Amela
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A Guide to Build (ING) GLMM Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 2, Linguistic Factors
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT This second paper in a two‐part methodological guide demonstrates how Generalised Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) tree analysis can be used to explore linguistic conditioning in sociolinguistic variation. Building on Part 1, which introduced the dataset and illustrated how GLMM trees reveal social patterning in (ING) variation, Part 2 focuses on the
Matt Hunt Gardner
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Social Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 286-297, March 2026.ABSTRACT Verbal communication between bureaucrats and citizens crucially determines the dynamics and outcomes of public encounters. However, so far, scholars have not sought to quantitively measure it, which limits our knowledge of the role language plays in shaping interactions between bureaucrats and clients.
Steffen Eckhard, Laurin Friedrich
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, 2008 In this paper we discuss three types of adjectival participles in Greek, ending in -tos and –menos, and provide a further argument for the view that finer distinctions are necessary in the domain of participles (Kratzer 2001, Embick 2004).
Alexiadou, Artemis +1 more
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Lexical relatedness and the lexical entry - a formal unification [PDF]
, 2010 Based on the notion of a lexicon with default inheritance, I address the problem of how to provide a template for lexical representations that allows us to capture the relatedness between inflected word forms and canonically derived lexemes within a ...
Spencer, Andrew
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Perfects, resultatives and auxiliaries in early English [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper, we will argue for a novel analysis of the auxiliary alternation in Early English, its development and subsequent loss which has broader consequences for the way that auxiliary selection is looked at cross-linguistically.
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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Syntactic function of the participle in the croatian language of 15th / 16th century
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2007 This article gives a detailed analysis of the syntactic function of the participle in the old Croatian language. Much attention has been given to the important linguistic change in the Croatian language of that time: transformation of inherited adjective-
Kristina Štrkalj Despot
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