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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic
Transactions 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
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Transactions 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
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Postpositions et détermination en buamu (langue gur) [PDF]
AkofenaRésumé: Cet article porte sur certaines unités linguistiques du buamu, généralement traités comme des postpositions. Ces unités forment un inventaire fermé de noms simples renvoyant à des parties du corps ou de l’espace.
Roland BICABA & Abel OUEDRAOGO
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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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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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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 +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 874-898, September 2025.Ethics and ontology have become prominent concepts in recent anthropology, informing a variety of research endeavours. Despite their different approaches, agendas, and concerns, they share a central focus on alterity and the relationship between self and other: Who is the other? How should I relate to the other?
Jan David Hauck
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Awareness of Grammatical Variability in Language Contact: The Case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 268-284, September 2025.ABSTRACT This paper contributes to research on the awareness of grammatical variability through a study of variation in reflexivity marking in Mano under the influence of Kpelle, both indigenous languages of Guinea. The speakers of these languages are found to be sensitive to contact‐induced grammatical variation in reflexivity, which manifests via ...
Maria Khachaturyan +2 more
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FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES OF POSTPOSITIONS IN MODERN GERMAN
, 2020 В данной статье рассматриваются лексико-семантические особенности послелогов современного немецкого языка и проблема их функционирования в языке.
Вера Александровна Фролова
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Hybrid Clause Combining Strategies in Turkish Language Contacts
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 391-434, August 2025.Abstract The Turkic contact varieties of the Balkans use two main diametrically opposed subordination strategies: (i) the Turkic template, where typical subordinate clauses are prepositive, nonfinite, contain clause‐final subordinators, etc. and (ii) the Indo‐European (IE) template, where typical subordinate clauses are postpositive, finite, contain ...
Cem Keskin +3 more
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