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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
wiley   +1 more source

L’emploi des adjectifs en antéposition, en postposition et en position attributive : le poids des adjectifs dans un corpus d’allophones

open access: yesStrani Jezici
Ce travail porte sur l’acquisition du français (L3) chez des étudiants bosniens de langue et de littérature françaises à la Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines de l’Université de Sarajevo.
Emir Šišić
doaj   +1 more source

Part of Speech Tagging of Marathi Text Using Trigram Method [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this paper we present a Marathi part of speech tagger. It is a morphologically rich language. It is spoken by the native people of Maharashtra. The general approach used for development of tagger is statistical using trigram Method.
Joshi, Nisheeth   +2 more
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Image schematic analysis of Bangla postpositions

open access: yesActa Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2018
  Spatial relationships are fundamental in shaping our interactions with the physical world. They also play a significant role in our construal of abstract ideas in terms of space.
Tanima Bagchi, Rajesh Kumar
doaj   +1 more source

The Position of Negative Adjectives in Aelfric’s Catholic Homilies I [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In Old English, negative adjectives, i.e. incorporating the negative prefix -un, are said to generally come in postposition to nouns (e.g. Fischer, 2001; Sampson, 2010).
Grabski, Maciej
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

An Optimality Theoretic Description on the Characteristics of Postpositions in Mandarin Chinese

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2020
In this paper, we adopt optimality theory to describe some important properties of postpositions. First, they follow the complement in their own projections.
Yu-Ching Tseng
doaj   +1 more source

Knowledge graph analysis of particles in Japanese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The theory of knowledge graphs is a structuralistic theory of language. Its ontology consists of eight types of binary relationships and four types of so-called frames. The relationships connect so-called tokens, that represent semantic units.
Hoede, C.
core   +1 more source

Menpeko perpausetako hitz azentugabeen foku azentuaz [PDF]

open access: yesFontes Linguae Vasconum, 2018
Lan honetan Lekeitioko hizkeran menpeko perpausetako azentu nagusia non kokatzen den aztertzen dugu, asimetria interesgarri bat erakutsiz. -ela perpaus barruan dagoen aditzaren aurreko hitz azentugabeak foku azentua jaso dezakeen bitartean, -en, -enean, -
Arantzazu Elordieta   +2 more
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