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Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?

Annals 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, Dina Abdel Salam El‐Dakhs, Leona Polyanskaya   +2 more
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Comparative Analysis of the Functioning of Prepositions / Postpositions and Conjunctions as Means of Expressing the Category of Precedence in the Tatar and Russian Languages

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
This article presents a semantic-syntactic analysis of prepositions / postpositions and conjunctions of the Tatar and Russian languages with the semantics of precedence.
Gulnara F. Lutfullina
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Esquisse de grammaire du dan de l'Est (dialecte de Gouèta)

Mandenkan, 2021
The grammar sketch includes information on the phonology and morphosyntax of the Eastern Dan. In the phonological section, consonantal and vocalic systems are analyzed, together with the tones and the featural feet.
Valentin Vydrin
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 53-90, March 2026.
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe, Adriana Molina‐Muñoz, Antonia Ruppel   +2 more
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Hungarian spatial PPs

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007
Hungarian spatial adpositional phrases exhibit very similar properties to those in other languages in that they can denote places and paths, and their structural ordering is such that path-denoting postpositions are outside place-denoting ones.
Veronika Hegedüs
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 240-256, March 2026.
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
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A study of cases of correspondence of constructions with postpositions to serial verb constructions (based on the material of Mongolian language texts of the 13th, 17th and 20th centuries)

Этническая культура, 2023
The article deals with cases of correspondence of constructions with postpositions to serial verbal constructions, an attempt is made to identify the typological features of verbal serialization in the Mongolian language.
Baiarzhargal Biambazhav
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

Transactions 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
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Directions from the GET-GO. On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010
Directional resultatives show puzzling syntactic restrictions. In Romance, broadly speaking, they do not occur at all with manner-of-motion verbs. In Dutch, directional resultatives with mannerof- motion verbs usually force postpositional order in the ...
Marcel den Dikken
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With or Without a System: How Category‐Specific and System‐Wide Cognitive Biases Shape Word Order

Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 11, November 2025.
Abstract Certain recurrent features of language characterize the way a whole language system is structured. By contrast, others target specific categories of items within those wider systems. For example, languages tend to exhibit consistent order of heads and dependents across different phrases—a system‐wide regularity known as harmony.
Annie Holtz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson   +2 more
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