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Postpositive Attribute Distributors of the Categories of Professional Leader in the Russian Practice

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2018
The dynamism of changes of lexical system receives reflection in the sphere of compatibility of units, in particular the nominations of persons on professional accessory, a position, a military rank.
Marina A. Solovyova
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The Placement of Attributes in Some Bookish Texts of the Beginning of the XVII century [PDF]

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2015
It is analyzed two historical novels of the XVII century: “The Legend” by Abraham Palitsyn and anonymous “Another legend”. It has been considered the order of words in attributive word combinations and if it could perform stylistic function in the ...
Ulitova Anastasia Sergeevn
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Cross‐Linguistic Variations in Word‐Final Position: The Parametric Hierarchies, Connections and Networks

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Word‐final position is widely recognized as a structurally weak and restricted domain, yet languages differ strikingly in how they regulate segments and clusters at the right edge. While some systems categorically prohibit final consonants, others allow only a subset of segments, and still others impose process‐based adjustments such as final ...
Semra Baturay Meral
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language

open access: yesTransactions 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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Investigating Three Morphemes “-ænæ”, “-æwæ” and “-æɾæ” in Hawrami: Postposition or Case Marker [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2015
In this paper we have investigated three frequent morphemes in Hawrami of Paveh, namely, “-ænæ”, “-æwæ” and “-æɾæ”. The nature of these morphemes is unknown. They are attached to nouns with a meaning like that of adpositions. We aim to explore what these
Fateme Yousefirad   +1 more
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Event Segmentation in Language and Cognition

open access: yesCognitive 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   +2 more
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A Note on –mAdAn (önce)

open access: yesDilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2015
The paper discusses the morphological make-up of the converbial ending –mAdAn in adverbial clauses denoting temporal antecedence (before-clauses) and negative manner (without-clauses).
Martina Gracanin-Yüksek
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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
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Accord et cas : la postposition accordée en hindi

open access: yes, 1996
Montaut Annie. Accord et cas : la postposition accordée en hindi. In: Faits de langues, n°8, Septembre 1996. L'accord. pp.
Montaut, Annie
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Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1560, Issue 1, June 2026.
Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin   +2 more
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