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Lidil, 2012 The Occitan dialects of the alpine region are known for their relative lexical and morphosyntactical unity, but they exhibit some variation and attest different steps of evolution on the phonological and phonetic levels.
Lucie Amaro
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Two Birds with One Stone: The Aerodynamic Voicing Constraint and the Languages of Borneo
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2018 A hallmark of any good scientific theory is its ability to derive two or more superficially unconnected phenomena from a single unifying principle.
Robert Blust
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The acquisition of English L2 prosody by Italian native speakers: experimental data and pedagogical implications [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates Yes-No question intonation patterns in English L2, Italian L1, and English L1. The aim is to test the hypothesis that L2 learners may show different acquisition strategies for different dimensions of intonation, and particularly ...
Busa', Maria Grazia, Stella, A.
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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Mandenkan, 2018 The paper criticially discusses Green’s (this issue) binary typology of replacive tones in Western Mande nominal constructions. Green’s distinction between the two types of replacive tones in Western Mande is based on the existence of Word 2 to Word 2 ...
Maria Konoshenko
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BANJARHARJO IS TRULY SUNDANESE [PDF]
, 2016 This study is aimed to reveal the phenomenon of sundanese in lexical variation and phonological differences in Banjarharjo District which located in borders area between Kuningan and Brebes.
Khotami, Husni Syukri, Sutrisno, Ageng
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, 2003 Editors’ preface Research into Language Typology poses two intriguing and related challenges to the linguist. One the one hand there is the challenge of isolating empirical data that either at long last seem to fill an inexplicable gap in what is commonly thought natural languages should be like, or that conversely call into question hitherto household
Kager, R.W.J., Nespor, M., Zonneveld, W.
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Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 10, October 2025.Abstract This study examines the impact of grammatical gender on memory recall among simultaneous bilinguals with two three‐gendered languages (Ukrainian and Russian). Ukrainian−Russian bilinguals and English monolingual controls were tested on their ability to remember names assigned to objects with either matching or mismatching grammatical genders ...
Oleksandra Osypenko +2 more
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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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