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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 +2 more
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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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Postpositions and Word Order Variation in Korean [PDF]
, 2015 The syntax of postpositions in Korean is unique and worth analyzing for the purpose of teaching English to Korean speakers. Korean uses a variety of postpositions that affect the meaning and the structure of sentences.
Schmitt, Emily, Choi, Minhui
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Korean postpositions as weak syntactic heads [PDF]
, 2008 This paper deals with Korean postpositions. They are treated as suffixes in recent lexicalist works. But they differ syntactically from suffixes and we will propose to treat them as clitics, i.e.
Ko, Kil Soo
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Polylinguality and Transcultural PracticesThis paper examines the structural and functional-semantic aspects of specific postpositions in the Nerdvinsky dialect, which belongs to the southern dialect group of the Komi-Perm language.
Alevtina S. Lobanova +1 more
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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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The Axial Part Phrase in Japanese
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In this paper, I investigate the categorial status of spatial terms in locative/directional expressions in Japanese. I will show that a certain class of spatial terms have a distinct categorial status from both regular postpositions and nouns.
Kaori Takamine
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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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Particles and postpositions in Korea
, 2008 International audienceIn Korean, certain postpositions which may be used on their own may be also combined with another postposition, while others are necessarily complex.
Choi-Jonin, Injoo
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