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The double modal construction in English world wide

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 485-503, September 2026.
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Phraseological characteristics of the sport's column of the daily newspapers Jedinstvo [PDF]

Baština, 2011
The author defines as her research field a widely comprehended concept of phraseology, exacerbated in the corpus of daily newspapers Jedinstvo from November 1998.
Vučetić Jasmina
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Veillée de langues endeuillées. Circonfession (1991) de Jacques Derrida

Recherches & Travaux, 2020
This study aims to enter into the flesh of a text written by Jacques Derrida, Circumfession (1991), dealing with the decay of his aging mother. How do the confusing formal choices adopted by Derrida in this text, which is also part of an autobiographical
Jérémie Majorel
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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 314-356, July 2026.
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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Event Segmentation in Language and Cognition

Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract A hallmark of human cognition is the ability to segment streams of dynamic stimuli into discrete event units. Currently, most of the evidence about event segmentation comes from English speakers. Could cross‐linguistic differences in how events are encoded affect how speakers of different languages form cognitive event units?
Sarah Hye‐Yeon Lee, Ercenur Ünal, Anna Papafragou   +2 more
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Motivated causal judgments and responsibility for civilian casualties in military conflicts

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Causal judgments are ubiquitous in politics and crucial for assigning responsibility and blame. Cognitive science has demonstrated that people are more likely to pick factors as “causal” when they make a difference for the outcome across a range of counterfactual scenarios, with the scenarios sampled based on statistical and prescriptive ...
Dimiter Toshkov, Honorata Mazepus
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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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THIS COMMODITIZING PLURAL (personal periphrasis with the meaning of different groups of Ukraine doers in Russian-language Ukrainian press)

Неофилология, 2016
It is devoted to structural analysis of personal periphrasis denoting different groups of Ukrain doers and functioning in Russian-language Ukrainian press.
Antonina Mikhaylovna Grigorash
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The expression of diminutivity in Central Ring Grassfields Bantu

Afrika und Übersee, 2020
Studies on the expression of diminutivity in Bantoid languages of the Cameroonian Grassfields have tended to focus on the role that noun class derivation plays within the familiar Bantu paradigm. A closer look at individual branches of Bantoid, however,
Pius W. Akumbu, Roland Kießling
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